Obituary

Patrick Dunn

PASSES JULY 29^TH

Settled on Railroad Land in 1877 and Received Patent Later

Patrick Dunn, a pioneer of the Paradise district and Clarke county, passed away at his home Tuesday afternoon, July 29, 1924, at the age of 78 years, the cause of death is given as Bright’s disease coupled with old age.  Funeral services will be held in the Swank chapel this afternoon at two o’clock and interment will be made in the Fern Prairie cemetery.

All of the older settlers in this part of Clarke county knew Mr. Dunn.  He came to this community and settled on the place where he resided forty-seven years ago.  His father and mother, both dead now for many years and one brother, John, a resident of Camas, and a sister, now Mrs. Maggie Bessett, of Portland, first came from New Glasgow, Quebec, Canada, and settled at Cascades in November, 1869.  In 1877 Patrick and John came to this community and took up 160-acre claim on railroad land in the Paradise district and afterward received patents from the government on the land.  His brother, John, moved into Camas two years ago, but Patrick remained a resident of the old home up to the time of his death.  Besides his brother, John, of Camas, and sister Margaret Bessett, of East Portland, his wife and six children survive him, five sons and one daughter. They are Thomas, of Gresham, Oregon; Joe, now in the hotel business in Marshfield, Oregon; Paul, The Dalles, Oregon; Frank and Peter, who with their mother, reside on the old home place, and Margaret now of Alberta Canada.

 Mr. Dunn was a thrifty, honest, clean living and good citizen and his passing away is another reminder that those who came to this community in the early days and hewed out the trails and roadways,cleared a patch of ground and made their living from the products of their lands when markets were few and hard to reach in the favorable seasons of the years—making it possible for those who follow to keep pace with a new age, are becoming, scarce in our community.  Peace be to their ashes.

 Sources & Notes:

Post Record   Camas-Washougal, WA           01 Aug 1924

Death Certificate

Straub’s Funeral Records, including Swank’s Funeral Records.