After frequent
intervals of painful illness, covering a long period of time, Mrs. Alice
Glendora Templin, wife of James Templin, of this city, and one of Roseburg’s
most charitable and best-known residents, passed peacefully away on the night
of Saturday, August 19.
She was born in
Flournoy Valley in this county June 24, 1854, and was the pioneer daughter of
pioneer parents, John M. and Emily Wright, who arrived in Oregon and settled in
Flournoy Valley in 1852, later moving to the “French settlement” and then to
Roseburg, where both died a number of years ago.
Mrs. Templin had been
previously married to John Van Buren, a popular sheriff of this county in the
early years. Of the four children of this marriage, only one survives, that
being Mrs. B. H. Moore, of
Of the immediate
other surviving relatives, there are Mrs. Rowena I. Jones, of Spokane city,
Washington; Mrs. L. T. Thompson, of Roseburg, and Mrs. Emily M. West, of
Monrovia, California; her sisters and Calvin W. Wright and Lee S. Wright, of
Portland, Oregon, her brothers, the late William T. Wright, who died recently
at Long Beach, California, was also a brother. Mr. Wright, whose death was
deeply regretted, served for years as cashier in the Roseburg Nation Bank, and
previously in the old First National Bank, and he also held several county
positions as well as high places in fraternal orders.
The funeral of Mrs.
Templin will be on Tuesday afternoon at
