Clara Emma Blevans (Beith)

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Birth: Apr. 16, 1869 - Waseca County, Minnesota, USA

Death: May 25, 1954 - Marion County, Oregon, USA

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Wallowa County Chieftain Newspaper, Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon, dated (Thursday) April 1, 1954.

Mrs. J.A. Blevens passes, by Arlene Reams:

Funeral services for Mrs. J.A. Blevans of Woodburn, Oregon were held at the Methodist church at Joseph, Oregon, Sunday, March 28, 1954, with Rev. Lyle J. Haines officiating.

Two hymns, "The Old Rugged Cross," and "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere", were sung by Mrs. Lyle Haines and Mrs. Orville Wilcox, with Mrs. Lauris Barton as pianist. Members of the Silver Lake Rebekah lodge were in chrage of committal services in the Prairie Creek Cemetery. Pall bearers were Earl Warnock, Elmer Warnock, Sam Shinn, Grady Miller, W.O. Graham and Frank Shevlin.

Those attending the services from out of the county were Mr. and Mrs. Russell Blevans and daughter, Barbara, of Woodburn, Oregon and Mr. and Mrs. Lenau Tucker and children, Lance, Sandra, Johnny and Debra form Elgin.

Clara Emma Beith was born April 6, 1869, in Waseca, Minnesota, the seventh of eight children born to Robert and Emma Beith. When she was three years old the family moved by ox team to the raw frontier of Kansas where they endured many hardship, including a prairie fire, the draughts, and "the grasshopper year".

In 1882, the family, with the exception of two married daughters, moved again, this time to Oregon, in two covered wagons in a 25 wagon train, which was three months en route. The Beith family settled on upper Prairie Creek. Clara Beith attended school in the Prairie Creek school house, which still stands, her teachers being the late L.J. Rouse, and her future father-in-law, J.J. Blevans.

She taught school two years. June 6, 1888, she was married to John Austin Blevans. They moved to the Divide where they lived for a number of years. A son, Merle, was born there. He died at the age of four of diptheria during an epidemic of that disease.

In 1892, they moved to the Imnaha River where they took up a homestead in the Park district. Their children, Hazel and Russell, were born there. Mr. Blevans was engaged in stock raising for 14 years before moving to Joseph, where they made their home until his death in 1942. Thereafter, Mrs. Blevans made her home with her son, Russell, at Woodburn, Oregon, spending the summer months at the home of her niece, Mrs. Robert Reams, in Enterprise.

Surviving are one daughter, Hazel Reams of Seattle, one son, Russell Blevans of Woodburn, Oregon, one sister, Jennie Blevans also of Woodburn, three grandchildren and six great grandchildren, besides a number of nieces and nephews.

She was a member of the Methodist Church, and had been a member of the Silver Lake Rebekah Lodge of Joseph, Oregon, for almost 50 years.

Having the privilege of calling Mrs. Blevans "Aunt," and as one who feels the loss of this loved one very keenly, I wish to pay tribute to a truly lovely lady, a devoted wife and mother, a generous neighbor who gave of her time and substance whenever and wherever needed. Her unfailing kindness has made my life, and I am sure that of many others, a much happier one. She had a most delightful sense of humor, and a spontaneous, ready wit that made her a favorite of each of her wide circle of friends.

The following verse from my mother's scrapbook seems a most fitting remembrance to so gracious and lovely a person:

• There are stars that go out in the darkness,
• But whose silvery light shineth on;
• There are roses whose perfume still lingers
• When the blossoms are faded and gone
• There are lives full of light and sweetness
• Where no longer their life current flows,
• Still their goodness lives on with the living
• Like the souls of the star and the rose.

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Parents:

• Emma Sarah French Beith (1831 - 1886)

Spouse:

• Johh Austin Blevans (1862 - 1942)

Children:

• Merle D. Blevans (1889 - 1893)
• Hazel Elizabeth Blevans Reams (1899 - 1969)
• Russell Wayne Blevans (1902 - 1974)

Burial: Joseph Cemetery, Joseph, Wallowa County, Oregon, USA

Maintained by: Bonnie

• Originally Created by: Lorie
• Record added: Apr 30, 2009
• Find A Grave Memorial# 36587418