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Emma Duncan Dempsey Allgood

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October 4, 1877 - July 17, 1937

Mrs. Allgood Stricken by Heart Attack

Death Comes Suddenly When Condition Appeared Improved;

Services To Be Held Friday At 2:00 P.M. At Chapel.

Mrs. John R. Allgood, descendant of one of the earliest Polk county pioneer families, passed away suddenly at her home in Dallas Wednesday night. She had been ill about two weeks with intestinal flu and was apparently improving when she suffered a heart attack.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 2:00 p.m. at the Henkle & Bollman chapel. Burial will be in the Embree family cemetery on the old Embree donation land claim about a mile and a half west of Rickreall. Private services will be held at the grave.

Mrs. Allgood was the daughter of James A. and Alice I. Dempsey and was born at Rickreall on October 4, 1877. Her mother was Alice I. Embree, a daughter of Cary D. Embree, who was born en route to Oregon in 1844. The company reached The Dalles in November, worn out and almost without funds, but struggled on in bitter weather. They arrived at Oregon City the day before Christmas and remained there until February when they came south to near Rickreall where Mr. Embree took up a donation land claim. His was the sixth white family to settle in Polk county and there were no settlers south of the LaCreole to the California line.

Mrs. Allgood's parents resided for a time at Monmouth and she attended the Christian college there. Later they came to Dallas and she completed her schooling at LaCreole academy. She learned the trade of hand compositor and worked for a number of years on the Observer for J.C. Hayter.

She married Mr. Allgood on October 29, 1911, and had spent the remainder of her life in Dallas.

Mrs. Allgood was a charter member of the Sarah Childress Polk Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, later merged with the Chemeketa chapter of Salem. She had been a very active member of the Dallas Woman's club since its organization. Mrs. Allgood was a member of the South Methodist church, but after the discontinuance of the church here had worked with the Presbyterian and Methodist church organizations.

She is survived by her husband, two sons, John Robert, 22, and James Dempsey, 19, both students at Oregon State college. She also leaves six sisters and one brother. They are Mrs. A.H. Boyd, Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. J.N. Hart, Portland; Mrs. W.B. Cobb, Portland; Miss Frances Dempsey, Dallas; Mrs. R.Y. Morrison, Dallas; C.C. Dempsey, Portland, and Mrs. J.R. Sibley, Dallas. One sister, Mrs. Willis Simonton, passed away a few years ago in Dallas.

Published in the Itemizer-Observer of Dallas, Oregon on Thursday, July 15th, 1937.

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Mrs. Allgood Is Called at Dallas

Funeral Services Will Be Held This

Afternoon at 2 O'clock

DALLAS, July 15. -Mrs. John R. Allgood, descendant of one of Polk County's early pioneer families, died suddenly Wednesday night. She had been Ill about two weeks but was apparently greatly improved before she suffered the attack Wednesday.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m., at the Henkle and Bollman parlors here, and private services will follow at the Embree family cemetery near here.

Prominent Club Worker

Mrs. Allgood, prominent in activities of the Dallas Woman's club and the Chemeketa chapter of the D.A.R., was the daughter of James A, and Alice Dempsey, pioneers of 1844.

She was born at Rickreall on October 4, 1877. She attended Monmouth Christian college and LaCreole academy and on October 29, 1929, was married to John R. Allgood and they have since resided at Dallas.

Surviving are the widower; two sons, John Robert. and James, both students at O.S.C. (now O.S.U.); six, sisters and a brother; Mrs. J. R. Sibley, Miss Frances Dempsey, Mrs. R. Y. Morrison, all of Dallas; Mrs. A. H. Boyd of Seattle; Mrs. J. N, Hart, Mrs. W. B. Cobb and C. C. Dempsey, all of Portland.

Published in the Statesman Journal of Salem, Oregon on Friday, July 16th, 1937 • Page 16.