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- TURNER, Eliza: m1. EYRE, Miles; m2. 1847 CAMPBELL, James; m3. 1853 HOBSON, William; after death of husband the family was transported from the Snake River to Whitman's Mission where they remained through the winter; May 1845 transported to Oregon City and from there to Marion Co; during 1846-47 her girls were placed in a boarding school; in 1847 Eliza applies for a land claim in Champoeg (later Marion) county; probate on Mile Eyre was filed in Marion Co and the administrator was named as James Campbell who later became the second husband of Eliza; they had two children before Eliza divorced James Campbell; Eliza later married William Hobson who had also been on the 1843 train and resided at Astoria, Clatsop Co, OR
source: Stephenie Flora, comp. "Emigrants to Oregon in 1843," 2004, http://www.oregonpioneers.com/1843.htm
- A PIONEER WOMAN:
Death of Mrs. Eliza Hobson – Sketch of Her Career.
Mrs. Eliza Hobson, who departed this life in this city, December 14, 1893, was born in Newark, England, in 1805. She was the daughter of Thomas Turner, a gentleman of means, and was tenderly reared and educated. At the age of 21 she was married to Miles Eyre, a member of a famous cutlery firm. She came from England to St. Louis, Mo., in 1842. Mr. Eyre had preceded his family and established himself in business there, but he caught the Oregon fever, and with his family joined the immigration of 1843. He was drowned at the second crossing of Snake river. This was a severe blow to Mrs. Eyre, who was left with four children and with only limited means, as all of Mr. Eyre’s available funds were in paper money in a belt around his waist. His body was never recovered. After searching as long as they could, they were compelled to push on, as the rest of the train had gone ahead. They wintered at Whitman’s. in the spring of 1844, Dr. McLoughlin, hearing of them through Captain Grant, of Fort Hall, who knew Mr. Eyre in St. Louis, sent three batteaux to bring them to Fort Vancouver, where everything was done for their comfort. Mrs. Eyre afterward located in the Waldo hills, where she lived until 1848, when she and her family went to California. In 1849, in company with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Sinclair, she returned East. Mr. Sinclair died the day before they arrived in New Orleans. After residing with her daughter in Boston for about a year, she, in company with her two sons and youngest daughter, again crossed the plains to Oregon in 1850. Some years later she was married to Mr. William Hobson, of Clatsop, who died in 1879. Five children survive her, Mrs. Mary Sinclair-Davis, of Boston, Mass.; Thomas T. Eyre, of Myers, Fla.; Mrs. Eliza Shepherd, of Portland, Or.; Mrs. C. F. Ray, of Ray’s Landing; and John S. Campbell, a son of her second husband (she having been married three times), also of Ray’s Landing, Or. There are many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. After enduring all the hardships incident to pioneer life, Mrs. Hobson lived to see Oregon one of the finest states, and Portland, which was only a forest when she first ascended the Willamette river, the metropolis of the Northwest. Possessed of more than ordinary intelligence, and thoroughly imbued with a sweetness of disposition and regard for others, Mrs. Hobson endeared herself to all with whom she was associated, and was greatly beloved by her own family, who sincerely mourn her loss. Of her it can truly be said, “She hath done what she could.”
source: Obituary of Eliza Hobson. Portland, OR: The Sunday Oregonian, 31 Dec 1893, p. 9.
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1806 - 1893 (87 years)
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