OBITUARY: Huldah Colver, Phoenix, Jackson County, Oregon 

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Jacksonville (Oregon) Post, Saturday, 24 Aug 1907, p. 4

Mrs. Huldah Colver, one of the pioneers of Jackson county, died at Phoenix
Monday morning at the age of 84 years, 7 months and 18 days. Deceased was a
native of Ohio. Early in 1850, she and her husband, Samuel Colver, and two
children, Louie and Isabelle, started across the plains with ox teams,
arriving at The Dalles during the following summer. In the spring of 1851
they came to Jackson county, locating on the old donation claim upon which
the townsite of "Gasburg" or Phoenix, as it is now called, was laid out,
and this place was ever afterward their home. 

Mrs. Colver was a woman of great energy and most notable worth and many,
many of the early pioneers shared the hospitality for which her home was
well known, and appreciated the welcome which was always received at her
table. Although she passed through more than the usual measure of trials
and hardships incident to pioneer life, she was always cheerful and
uncomplaining. Her end was as peaceful as her life was noble.

She is survived by two sisters, Alice Callender Johnson, living in Clinton,
Ill., aged 91 years, and Katherine Callender, of Ohio, aged 82 years,
besides seven grandchildren, as follows: Artie Caraleta Colver Furrey, of
Phoenix; Frank Lloyd Colver of Phoenix; Louie Othello Colver of Phoenix;
Effie Luella Rose Taylor of Medford; Ella Maybell Rose Newbury of this
city; Lewis Arthur Rose and Bertha May Rose of Phoenix.

The deceased pioneer was laid to rest beside her late husband, in the
Phoenix cemetery, Tuesday, August 20th. Services were held at her late home
at 2 o'clock p.m., by Rev. Robt. Ennis of this city.