FRED ADAMS DIES WEDNESDAY; LIVED HERE SINCE 1902.
     Fred Adams died March 19, 1952 at Daly Memorial Hospital in Hamilton. He died exactly 52 years to the day that his family arrived in Hamilton. Services will be held Friday morning at nine o'clock at St. Francis church for Fred Adams, long time resident of Hamilton. Rosary services will be this evening at 7:30 with Father Donohue officiating. Pallbearers will be: Theodore Reinbold, Bill Young, Carl Johnson, Bob Holt, Dick Hogue, and Pete Parpolia. Burial will be in Riverview cemetery where some of the other members of his family are buried. Mr. Adams was born in Bell Prairie, Minnesota on July 4, 1879, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Adams.
Abstract from: The Western News, March 20, 1952                                                                                                                                                                                                    
DEATH CLAIMS MRS. AHRENS.
     Mrs. Olive Ahrens of Florence died at St. Patricks Hospital in Missoula at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, following a stroke of paralysis which she suffered about three weeks ago.
     Mrs. Ahrens was 58 years of age and has been a resident of the valley for many years. She leaves an adopted son, Harry Ahrens, who is pursuing academic studies at Boulder. Besides this son, a brother, William Buck, who resides in Ely, Nevada, and a sister, Mrs. L.P. Trump of Missoula survive her.
     Yesterday afternoon the Missoula lodge of Eastern Star held ritualistic services over the remains after which she was shipped to Florence. The    funeral was held at 10 o'clock this morning from the home at Florence under the auspices of the Eastern Star lodge of this place of which Mrs. Ahrens was a member, and the remains laid to rest in the Carlton cemetery beside those of her husband, who died several years ago.
     Among those of the local lodge here who attended the funeral this morning were: Mr. and Mrs. George Kinneman, Mr. and Mrs. Ewan Lockridge; Mesdames B.F. Plummer, John A. Smith, Perry Foust, and J.R. Faulds, and Messrs F.W. Wilson, G.F. Johnson, and Henry Buck. They made the trip to Florence in the touring car of John Emhoff.
Northwest Tribune, December 16, 1910

MARSHALL ANDERSON, CLERK OF COURT, TAKEN; FUNERAL SERVICES TODAY.
     Edward Marshall Anderson, one of the Bitter Root's best known and beloved public officials, died early Monday morning, March 3, 1952  in Daly hospital in Hamilton. Services were held this afternoon in the Hamilton Masonic temple, where he gave much of his time and energy through the years. Rev. William c. Stearns of the Federated church officiated and the burial was in Riverview cemetery with graveside services by the Stevensville Masonic lodge. Pallbearers were: Don McKenna, Doug Galbraith, Milton Byrd, Anthony Hork, Ray Severns, and William Gray. Honorary pallbearers were: Cyrus Franks, Fred Fehrenkamp, C.D. Haynes, Judges C.E. Comer and Albert Besancon, Miles Romney, James Oliva, C.E. Hartley, Fay Burrell, Kelly Robbins, Roy Tillman, Claude Johnson, and Walter Poindexter.
    Survivors include the widow, two sons, Ben of Victor and Robert of Hamilton; a granddaughter, Glenda Rae, 8, of Victor; grandson, Marshall of Hamilton, 16 months; two half-sisters, Mrs. R.L. Kitt, Great Falls and Mrs. Jack Weedman, Billings; half-brother, William Frisby of Missoula.
    Marshall was born January 5, 1885 at Covington, Kentucky, received early education at Covington and graduated from high school at Big Stone Gap, Virginia. He married Lenore Shockley in 1912 in Missoula. They lived in the Three Mile area east of Stevensville until 1922 the moved to Hamilton. Lenore died in 1940. He married Silva Briner in 1941 in Anaconda.
Abstract from: The Western News, March 6, 1952

     Another old resident of the Bitter Root valley has passed away. John M. Applebury, who came to this country more than a quarter of a century ago, died at the home of his son, James M. Applebury, Jr., three miles east of Corvallis, last Friday. He had reached the advanced age of 76 years, 3 months, and 26 days.
      He was born in Virginia, and came to the Bitter Root valley March 11, 1884, where he resided ever since. Before coming here, he made his home for a few years in Missouri.
      The deceased is survived by three sons, T.E. Applebury and J.M. Applebury of Corvallis, and J.P. Applebury of Chesaw, Washington, and one daughter, Mrs. G.A. Million of Corvallis, and seventeen grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
     Rev. Bascom Waters of Corvallis conducted the funeral Sunday and the body was interred in the cemetery near Corvallis.
Mr. Applebury's death was due to old age. He had been in feeble health for several years and death was no unexpected.
Ravalli Republican, December 30, 1910
J.M. APPLEBURY PIONEER OF THE BITTER ROOT DIES. FUNERAL FRIDAY
    James Marshall Applebury, pioneer settler who came to the Bitter Root with his parents in 1884, died peacefully in his sleep at the family home in the Coal Pit area east of Corvallis sometime Tuesday morning, March 16.
    Funeral services will be held at the Dowling chapel in Hamilton at 2 p.m. Friday afternoon, March 19, with Rev. William C. Stearns officiating. Burial will be made in the family plot in Corvallis cemetery where the pioneer parents of Mr. Applebury are also at rest, the mother having died in December 1897 and the father in December 1910. Pallbearers at the Marshall Applebury funeral will be O.C. Lockwood, William Jenkins, Vernon Jenkins, Charles Slocum, Charles Reader, and Ernest Levandoske.
    James Marshall Applebury was born November 8, 1872 in Shelbyville, Missouri, the youngest of 6 children of James Marshall and Elizabeth Ritter Applebury. The family moved to the Bitter Root valley in 1884 and lived on a homestead east of Corvallis.
    Marshall Applebury and Nannie May Glassley were united in marriage January 1, 1901 in Corvallis.
    J.M. Applebury is survived by his widow and their three children: Lawrence of Hamilton, Loyd of Corvallis, and Mrs. George A. Nelson of Hill City, South Dakota. Others who survive are five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. The grandchildren are Rex, Jay, and Denis Applebury of Corvallis, Mrs. Emil Nord of Spokane and Mrs. Lester West of Hayward, California.
Abstract from: The Western News, March 18, 1954

James T. AppleburyTaken by Death
    James T, Applebury, 62, Corvallis, who was stricken with a heart attack while working in the field Wednesday, died about 10 o’clock Thursday evening. Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon in the Dowling Chapel.He was born July 26, 1884, in Shelbyville, Mo., and moved to the Corvallis district, where he has since made his home, in 1898.  He had always followed farming and in late years he also employed by the Gold Medal Dairies and for the last couple of years as a fireman at the Bitterroot Cannery.
    Daughter, Mrs. Everett Flint, Corvallis; son, Ned, Hamilton; sister, Mrs. Leslie Snell, Corvallis, and one in Yakima Wash.; brothers, Clarence, Seattle, Wash., and Eli, Corvallis, and three grandchildren, survive.
Contributed by Corvallis Community Heritage Project

     
Pastor Rex James Applebury, 54. of Stevensville, died Saturday at St. Patricks Hospital.
He was born September 30, 1936, in Hamilton to Loyd and Ruth taber Applebury. He resided in Corvallis and received his education and graduated from Corvallis Highschool in the class of 1955. He attended the Multomah School of the Bible in Portland, oregon, and Calvary Bible College in Kansas City, Kansas, and received is B.A. and M.A. he had a pastorship in Independece, Missouri; Augusta, Montana; first Baptist Church at Stevensville; Evangelical Church in Stevensville; and presently at Jesus Community Church in Stevensville.
    Rex worked and was a registered land surveyor working in the Northwest. He served in the U.S. Army from 1957-1959. On July 25, 1959, he married Janice Wildey in Hamilton. He was a miner-prospector, wrote songs and was a loving husband, father and grandfather and a friend to everyone.
    He is survived by his wife, Janice, of Stevensville; one son, Brad Applebury of Stevensville; two daughters, Julie Ralston of Darby and Joni Koch of Hamilton; two brothers, Jay Applebury of Anchorage, Alaska, and Denis of Corvallis, Montana; three granddaughters and two grandsons.
    Memorial services will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Catholic Family Center with a reception to follow at the Jesus Community Church. The Whitesitt Funeral Home of Stevensville is in charge of arrangements.
Ravalli Republic, May 6, 1991
Contributed by Corvallis Class of 1955