OBITUARY: HIRAM ANDREW HOOTON, Medford, Jackson Co., Oregon ********************************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE: ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ********************************************************************************* Transcribed by Ron Adams and formatted for use in USGenWeb Archives by Elizabeth Corethers 17 Nov 2002 ********************************************************************************* HIRAM ANDREW HOOTON, Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Monday, December 27, 1943, Page. 4:HIRAM A. HOOTON, PIONEER, PASSES Hiram Andrew Hooton, 89, known to all his friends as "Andy," passed away at the home of his nephew, Ernest Lyman, Gold Hill, Sunday. He had lived on the same farm for 74 years. He was born in Indiana on August 20, 1854. At the age of 12, with his mother, a Civil war widow, and his brother and two sisters, he went to New York City where they took a boat for Portland. For the next two years they made their home in Brownsville, Oregon. Two years later, with his mother and step- father, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Douden, they moved to Sam's Valley. A year later, 1869, they moved to what is now known as the "Douden place" and here he resided for the rest of his life. He was a farmer and a placer miner, having mined for many years around Gold Hill. In the early [18]80's he helped survey the railroad from Grant's Pass to the other side of the Siskiyou mountains. In 1912 he joined the I.O.O.F. lodge in Gold Hill and was a member there at his death. He leaves four nephews and three nieces; Ernest Lyman and Earl Pankey of Gold Hill; Joe and Theron Pankey of Anchorage, Alaska; Mrs. Katie Shearer, Forks, Wn., Mrs. Earl Ham, Medford, and Mrs. Ernest Hartman, The Dalles, Oregon. I.O.O.F. services will be held at the graveside in Gold Hill cemetery Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. Arrangements are in care of the Conger Funeral Parlors.