This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dixon, Dutton, Stetson, Hardesty, Kees, Hodgin, Lexton, Goodman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zZB.2ACE/136 Message Board Post: Walla Walla Bulletin (Feb 16, 1921) Mrs. Mary A. Hardesty The funeral of Mrs. Mary A. Hardesty will be held at 11 o-clock Thursday morning from the Cookerly chapel. Rev. R.W. Lane will officate and burial will be in the family plot in Odd Fellows cemetery. Mrs. Hardesty died at her home on the Tumalum Monday morning after a long illness. She was born near Springfield, Ill., on July 16, 1838 and was married to John G. Dutton in 1848 and four years later crossed the plains with ox teams. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Dutton. Mrs. James Sturrock of Seattle and Mrs. Etta Goodman of Walla Walla. Mr. Dutton died soon after reaching Walla Walla and his widow married Clinton Stetson. They settled on the homesead where she lived until her death. The four children of this marriage are Mrs. A.O. Lexton of Wenatchee; Mrs. Harve Hodgin of Stateline; Mrs. A.F. Kees of Walla Walla, and O.C. Stetson, who lives on the farm. After Mr. Stetson's death in 1872, Mrs. Hardesty married William Hardesty in 1877. Mr. Hardesty and a son, W.D. Hardesty of Freewater, survive. When she was a girl, Mrs. Hardesty joined the Methodist church and has been an active worker in the church since that time.