This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Vore, Baughn, Beck, Walgren, Gibbs, Shields, Letson, Bowen Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0k.2ADE/3172 Message Board Post: The Logan Observer Thursday, Feb. 16, 1928 CAME HERE IN 1856 Mrs. Elvira Vore, a Long Time Resident of Harrison County Died Sunday Another of the older settlers of this county - -one of the pioneer women passed away Sunday, February 12, at the age of 84, when Mrs. William F. Vore died in Council Bluffs. Elvira A. Baughn was born near Cincinnati, Ohio, July 8, 1844. She came to this county with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Baughn, in 1856, and most of her life was spent here. She was married April 19, 1861, to William F. Vore, who came to this county and settled in Harris Grove in 1855. She was the mother of ten children, only two of whom, Mrs. Fannie Beck of Logan and Mrs. Maude Walgren of Yankton, South Dakota, survive. For many years the Vore family lived on a farm in Harris Grove, where she took her full share in the building of the home and the community. She was a kind and helphful neighbor in those days when neighborliness meant so much and without which communities could not have survived. Mr. and Mrs. Vore moved to Logan about 30 years ago, where Mr. Vore died December 12, 1900. Fo! r the past few years, Mrs. Vore has made her home with her granddaughter, Mrs. W. A. Shields, in Council Bluffs. Mrs. Vore leaves as survivng relatives, besides her daughters, two sisters, Mrs. George Gibbs of San Diego, California, and Mrs. Warren Letson of Ocean Park, California, three grandchildren, Mrs. W. A. Shields and Dr. W. E. Bowen of Council Bluffs, and W. E. Walgren ofYankton, South Dakota, and three great grandchildren, Billie Shields and Donald and Robert Bowen of Council Bluffs. Mrs. Vore has been a member of Logan Chapter, 195, O. E. S., almost since its organization. The funeral service was held at the Yeaman Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon, February 14, at 2 o'clock conducted by W. N. Graves. The interment was in the family lot in Logan cemetery.