Obituary: Laura Etta (Myers) Dias; Medford, Jackson Co., Oregon *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Transcribed and formatted for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Elizabeth ************************************************************************ DIAS, Laura Etta (Myers), Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Tuesday, 23 July 1946 -- Laura E. Dias, 87, Pioneer Woman, Taken By Death With the death of Laura E. Dias Monday, Oregon lost another pioneer resident, for Mrs. Dias, almost 87 years of age, crossed the plains with her parents during the Civil War at the age of five years and resided in Oregon from that time until her death. Funeral services for Mrs. Dias will be held in the Conger-Morris chapel at 2:30 p.m. Thursday with the Rev. D. E. Millard officiating and interment will be in the Trail cemetery. Mrs. Dias's parents first settled in the Willamette valley upon coming west but moved to the Rogue River valley about 1866 and lived in this vicinity the balance of their lives. The family took up a homestead in the upper part of Sam's Valley, near Beagle, where the deceased grew to womanhood. She was married to Levi Dawson on May 28, 1883, at Jacksonville. Five children were born to Levi and Laura Dawson, three of whom survive, these being Rena Gregg, Central Point; Nellie J. Thomason, Drew, Ore. and Elmer Dawson, Prospect. Also surviving are 19 grandchildren and a number of great-grandchildren. Mr. Dawson died October 27, 1908. Later the deceased married Tony Dias, who died in 1935, and since that time she had lived in Central Point. Mrs. Dias will be buried in a cemetery which was donated to Trail by her first husband, first burial in the plot having been made in 1891. The cemetery was a part of the Dawson homestead land near Trail.