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Ira Smith Hamilton

Birth	:	3 Dec 1863 Leon, Decatur County, Iowa, USA
Death	:	27 Mar 1948 Bridgeport, Douglas County, Washington, USA
Burial	:	Evergreen Home Cemetery, Beatrice, Gage County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.2677994, -96.7052994
Description	:	LAST RITES FOR IRA HAMILTON Ira Hamilton, Bridgeport pioneer, passed away in Bridgeport Saturday evening, March 27 at the age of 84 years, 3 months and 24 days. He leaves a brother Alva J. Hamilton of Garfield and seven sisters, Mrs. Eliza Drake, Kearny, Nebraska; Mrs. Emma Baker, St. John; Mrs. Nora Hopton and Mrs. Alice Lewis, Hillsboro, Oregon; Mrs. Nell Cornelius, Chickasha, Oklahoma; Mrs. Edith White, Kent; Mrs. Rue Pearce, Port Angeles and a large number of nephews and nieces. A sister, Mrs. Anna Gaines of Spokane died several years ago. He was never married. The deceased was born in... Read More	LAST RITES FOR IRA HAMILTON Ira Hamilton, Bridgeport pioneer, passed away in Bridgeport Saturday evening, March 27 at the age of 84 years, 3 months and 24 days. He leaves a brother Alva J. Hamilton of Garfield and seven sisters, Mrs. Eliza Drake, Kearny, Nebraska; Mrs. Emma Baker, St. John; Mrs. Nora Hopton and Mrs. Alice Lewis, Hillsboro, Oregon; Mrs. Nell Cornelius, Chickasha, Oklahoma; Mrs. Edith White, Kent; Mrs. Rue Pearce, Port Angeles and a large number of nephews and nieces. A sister, Mrs. Anna Gaines of Spokane died several years ago. He was never married. The deceased was born in Leon, Iowa, December 3, 1863. He received a common and high school education and worked in a general store before coming west to Pine City, Washingotn, in June 1884. From Pine City he went to Downing Gulch and carried the mail from Colfax to Penewawa on the Snake River. From there he went to Con, no St. John and in the spring of 1888 he came to Waterville and filed a pre-emption claim in Chalk Hills which later the government reserved for school land. He then took up a homestead and went to the Palouse country and bough cattle for the ranch but later sold them and dealt in horses. When he first came to Bridgeport his nearest neighbors were eight miles away on Foster Creek his post office was Barry twenty four miles away and his base of supplies Wilbur. After the sale of his homestead he bought the present home four miles east of Bridgeport. He built a corral in 1900 and his first log cabin there in 1901. In 1929 he built the present log cabin. It took the Lilly Bros., two eyars to catch the matched spruce logs in the Columbia River from which it is built. When Hamilton came to Bridgeport it was a Chinese camp. They were sluicing gold, using plate and rocker. Another camp was at Box Canyon. He helped Deputy Surveyor Baldwin of Conconully survey for mineral claims in 1891. He saw the development in 1890 when the company from Bridgeport, Connecticut, made a railroad survey from Coulee City ad promoted the townsite. Covert, the engineer, named the town Bridgeport for his eastern home town. Hamilton hauled the bricks from which the first schoolhouse was built and for forty years he served on the election board for Hamilton precinct. Funeral services were held by Columbia Lodge No. 193 F&AM at the Methodist church, Tuesday morning March 30. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Lamoreux sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere," and "In The Sweet Bye and Bye," with Mrs. Marie Smith at the piano. Pall bearers were Wade Troutman, L. E. Monroe, S. J. Slade, J. G. Allen, Damond Morris and Harry McAroy. He was also a member of the Order of Eastern Star. Interment was in the Bridgeport Cemetery. Washington Death Certificate Name:Ira Smith Hamilton Death Date:27 Mar 1948 Death Place:Bridgeport, Douglas, Washington Gender:Male Age at Death:82 years 3 months 24 days Estimated Birth Year:1866 Father's Name:Jonathan Powers Hamilton Mother's Name:Mary Jane Smith Film Number:2032684 Digital GS Number:4223275 Image Number:923 Volume/Page/Certificate Number:cn 5764

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Ira Smith Hamilton's memorial is located at: Evergreen Home Cemetery, Beatrice, Gage County, USA.
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Ira Smith Hamilton death on 27 Mar 1948 in Bridgeport, Douglas County, Washington, USA
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Latitude: 40.2677994
Longitude: -96.7052994

Family Members:

Parent

Jonathan Powers Hamilton

(1825 - 1912)

Mary Jane Smith Hamilton

(1839 - 1866)

Siblings

Nancy Jane Hamilton

(1859 - 1866)

Laura Rosetta Hamilton

(1862 - 1866)

Alva Jonathan Hamilton

(1865 - 1955)

Eliza Ann Hamilton Drake

(1868 - 1960)

Emma Leota Hamilton Baker

(1869 - 1966)

Ada Hamilton

(1870 - 1870)

Harriet E “Hattie” Hamilton

(1871 - 1886)

Lucy M. E. Hamilton

(1875 - 1876)

Alice May Hamilton Lewis

(1877 - unknow)

Bertha Hamilton Alexander

(1878 - 1918)

Jonnie P Hamilton

(1881 - 1882)

Laura Edith Hamilton White

(1886 - 1968)

Luie R Hamilton

(1888 - 1888)

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