Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-10-18
FUNERAL Of GENERAL
STEVENS WEDNESDAY
LEADING NORTHWEST PIONEERS
ATTEND SERVICES AT
CLOVERFIELDS FARM.

Many northwest pioneers, includ-
ing nearly the entire membership of
the Thurston County Pioneer & His
torical Society, in which he had long
been an active leader. and also Off
cials of the State Historical Society,"
of which he was vice-president, as
we'll as many other friends, attended
the funeral of General Hazard Stevens
at Cloverfields Farm Wednesday
afternoon.
Rev. r. Franklin Hart, rector of
St. Johns Episcopal church, conduct
ed the services, the eulogy being de-
livered by Professor Edmond S.
Meany of the University of Washing
ton. Professor Meany also was one
of the active pall-bearers, the others
being: P. P. Ferry of Seattle, son Of
the states first governor, Elisha P
Ferry; w. P. Bonney of Tacoma. sec
retary of the State Historical Society:
Major Stevens Eskridge, p NJ. Troy
and L. B. Faulkner.
Members of the local chapter Of
the Sons of the American Revolution
and the local Pioneers Society were
honorary pall-bearers: I. M. Howell,
Walter J. Milroy, J. M. Hit, Clark v.
Savidge, H. B. McElroy and Chester
Eels.
The body was shipped to Newport.
r. l.. for burial beside his father and
mother.
General Stevens died at Golden
dale last Friday night from a stroke
of paralysis that he suffered the
previous Monday after speaking at
the unveiling of pioneer monument
there Sunday. He was unconscious
until Thursday, when he was able to
recognize his sister, and it was hoped
he would recover. He became un-
conscious again. however. Friday
noon and remained so until he passed
away that night.
General Stevens suffered severe
injury to the head three months ago
in falling down the stairs of the
Olympia Light & Power company's s
office, and had failed in strength
since. He was IS years old and is
survived by a sister.
Son of First Territorial Governor.
Although a rather small-sized man,
quietly polite and unostentatious,
General Hazard Stevens life from
early boyhood was marked with ac-
tivity. In this he was constantly in
spired by companionship with his
father, General Isaac ingalls, Stevens,
first territorial governor of Washing
ton territory, both in Pacific Coast
pioneering and on the deadliest open
ing battlefields of the Civil War.
Hazard Stevens was born at New
port. r. L., on June 8, 1912. At the
age of ~, in 1854, he arrived with
his mother and sisters at Olympia 70
coast the previous year to assume Of
flee as territorial governor of Wash,
ington. So readily did the boy adapt
himself to pioneer dangers and hard
fathers companion on long and peril
GUS expeditions among the Indian
tribes.
On one such trip extending over
5000 miles and lasting nine months,
young Stevens crossed the Rocky
mountains twice, once in midwinter.
He was with the party when it forced
its way through hostile tribes to res
cue miners, and at the age of 13 he
rode $50 miles through the noun
tain wilderness in 80 hours to carry
important messages from his father
to the Gros Ventres tribe. He also
accompanied party of Blackfeet
Indians to hunt for buffalo when the
expedition was badly in need of food.
Enlisted at Age of 10.
When not yet 5 years old Stevens
enlisted for the Indian war of 1866,
where he developed and displayed to
a high degree his native powers of
self-reliance and quickness of de-
cision.
In 1857, when General Isaac Stew
ems returned east as territorial dele
gate, he took his family with him and
Hazard was placed in Chauncey Hall
school at Boston. He completed his
freshman year at Harvard in 1860.
but enlisted for the Civil War in
1861 at the age of 10, with the 10th
Highlanders, New York volunteers.
which his father commanded Here