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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>I am looking for an obit or write up on the death of
Daniel Ryan - my grandfather's uncle.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>I received the following from a lady in Baker City and
would like to follow up on it:</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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size=3><STRONG>The Weekly Bedrock Democrat<BR>Monday, June 1, 1896<BR>page
6<BR>Baker Co. Library microfilm collection, reel # 312<BR><BR>Died at Grants
Pass<BR><BR>The intelligence has been received here of the death of Daniel
Ryan, a former resident of Baker City, whose demise occurred a few days ago at
the town of Grant's Pass, Southern Oregon. Mr. Ryan at one time owned some
suburban property here.<BR><BR></STRONG></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>Daniel died 21, May 1896. The story my grandfather
told what that Daniel had been set upon by thieves and murders while hauling
freight. However, he said it happened in Baker Co. This is apparently wrong
according to the above excerpt,</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>I would appreciate help from anyone having access to
old newspapers files in Grants Pass that could look this up. I live in Medford
but can no longer drive to Grants Pass or I would come over and do the research
myself.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>Thank you</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>Carroll (Cooper)
Summers</FONT></STRONG></DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>