Category: People

W. Dana McPherren was born September 22, 1896 in Geneva, Nebraska. After Mattie died he remarried. He and his son would often visit Mattie’s relatives at Laverne Ferguson’s house. Dana died on May 9, 1975 at age 78 in Cornelius, Oregon.

Mattie McPherren was born to Noah and Catherine Ferguson on February 16, 1898 in Oregon. She Married W. Dana McPherren. She died young of diabetes on December 19, 1948 in Fall City, Oregon.

Catherine Ferguson was born October 30, 1864 in Fulton County, Ohio to David Kaegi and his wife. (David Kaegi was born in Switzerland). Catherine married Noah Ferguson and moved to Oregon. She died February 10, 1929 at the age of 64 of flu pneumonia in Fall City, Oregon.

Noah Ferguson was born January 25,1863 in Columbus, Ohio to Samuel and Magdalin Ferguson. He married Chatherine Kaegi and moved to Oregon. He died on March 30, 1932 at the age of 69 in Springfield, Oregon.

Susan Maxine Stewart, 23, wife of Walter S. Stewart of Longview, WA. She passed away at Longview Thursday, January 18, a short time after the birth of a baby boy who also failed to survive. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Dickinson of Falls City. Mrs. Stewart was born May 25,1916,…

DALLAS — Minnie Grace Fitzgearlds. 74, died Saturday Oct 3, 1964 in a Dallas nursing home. Mrs. Fitzgearlds lived here since 1963.  She was born June 3, 1890, in Tipton, Iowa, the daughter of James Daniel and Hannah Geeseman Dickinson. She was married to Frank Fitzgearlds Nov. 23, 1920, in Hot Springs, S.D. He died in…

Mrs. Iva Lou Gay, 89, died Sunday at the Dallas hospital. She had made her home at 211 Clay street for the past three years with her sisters, Mrs. Mary E. Maros and Mrs. Minnie Fitzgerald. Mrs. Gay was born August 1,1869, in Cedar county, Iowa, daughter of James G. and Hannah E. Dickinson. She…

Russell Lynn Eggert, 83 of Falls City died January 19 at his home if an apparent heart attack. He was born in South Aurora Nebraska on August 31, 1891. He came to Oregon from Ukiah, CA to the Falls City area and had lived in the Falls City area for many years. He married his…

Shirley Eggert, 84 of 911 S. Pacific No. 21 Kelso died Aug 30, 1977 in a local hospital. She was born April 18,1893 in Pawnee Oklahoma. Grew up in Illinois and homesteaded in Wyoming. She moved to Fall City, OR in 1936. She was employed as a librarian for Fall City. She married James Dickinson…

James G. Dickinson, 84,died at the Bowerman Nursing home on July 20. He was a retired grocery man, having operated the Dickinson Market in Falls City. He had been a resident of that community since 1936. He was married to Shirley Schultz in Gillette Wyo. in 1915. Before coming to Falls City he was a…