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Note: Pioneers and Incidents of the Upper Coquille Valley 1890-1940 by Alice H. Wooldridge Pg. 355 Mary Elizabeth Wagner, 80, resident of Myrtle Point, died Sunday, Feb. 26, 1933. Born at Elkville, North Carolina Oct. 28, 1852, she spent her girlhood there. Married John Wagner at 19 and started for Oregon a few days after her marriage, came to Red Bluff, Calif. and from there by wagon train. The colony the Wagners came west with consisted of about 80 persons, among them R.H. Mast, Coquille; Lark Mast, McKinley; Hayes famiy who settled what is now Powers; Whittington family who settled near Broadbent; the late C. E. Housers family; the L.L. Harmon family; B.C. Shull; Nute Banner. Mr. Wagner's father came to Oregon in 1870. Mr. Wagner owned at the time of his death in 1917, all the land where Powers now stands. Survivors: 3 brothers: Millard Horton, Chico, Calif. and 2 in the East. To them was born 10 children, 8 of whom are living: Charles and Glenn, Myrtle Point; Mrs. Dolly Barre, Petaluma, Calif.; Mrs. Alice Evernden, Bancroft; Mrs. Nellie McClees, Salem; Mrs. George Crunk, Phoenix, Ariz.; and Wilbur Wagner, address unknown. She was an aunt of Mrs. J. H. McCloskey, Mrs. E. W. Hermann of Bridge and Mrs. J. C. Lett of Norway. Buried at Myrtle Point. -- Myrtle Point Herald, Mar. 2, 1933
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