OBITUARY: Zelmon Wolgamott, Phoenix, Jackson County, Oregon ********************************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE: ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ********************************************************************************* Transcribed and formatted for use in USGenWeb Archives by Elizabeth Corethers 22 Jan 2003 *************************************************************************** Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Thursday, 20 Jan 1944, p. 7 Zelmon Wolgamott, 80, passed away Jan. 18 at his home south of Phoenix. Mr. Wolgamott was born in Missouri, Feb. 6, 1864. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Wolgamott, arrived in this vicinity in 1875, and took up a homestead in the Talent district and Zelmon Wolgamott made his home there for many years. His wife, Mrs. Dora Wolgamott, passed away in 1942. He is survived by four daughters, Hazel and Irene Wolgamott, Mrs. Elsie M. Quinn of Oakland, Calif., Mrs. Ben Thurston, Medford; also four brothers, George Wolgamott of Grant's Pass; Charles Wolgamott of Bakersfield, Calif.; Vance Wolgamott of Gold Hill, and William Wolgamott, Medford; four sisters, Mrs. Mollie Pheris, in Idaho; Mrs. Ida Reynolds, Oakland, Calif.; Mrs. Lizzie Talbott, Grant's Pass, and Mrs. Maggie Erskine, Medford. Funeral services will be conducted from the graveside in Stearns cemetery Friday at 2 p.m., the Rev. G. A. Thompson of the Seventh Day Adventist church officiating. Perl Funeral Home in charge.