Mrs. Sarah Dixon Shaver is to be Buried Today.

PIONEER 64 YEARS OLD

Born in Indiana, Woman Crossed Plains in Early Days – She Married George W. Shaver, Born in Kentucky in 1832.

Sarah Dixon Shaver, a well-known Oregon pioneer and wife of the late George W. Shaver died Monday afternoon at her home, 348 Crosby street. The funeral will be held today at 10:20 A.M. from the residence. Dr. T. L. Eliot will officiate and the burial will be in the Riverview Cemetery.

Mrs. Shaver was the daughter of James and Susan Dixon. She was born in Indiana, August 30, 1836, and was one of a family of 13 children, only four of whom now survive.

James Dixon, her father, was born in Ovid, Seneca County, New York, in 1803. In 1816 he moved with his father to Indian and for several years rafted lumber on the Alleghany River. On April 5, 1824, he was married to Susan Copple who was born in Clark County, Indiana, November 17, 1806. They settle on a farm in Shelby County, Indiana, on the Blue River, where they lived for 20 years, then moving to Andrew County, Missouri, where they lived for eight years. And from there he crossed the plains in 1851, with his wife and three of his oldest children, arriving in Portland in November of that year.

Thomas, one of the brothers of Mrs. Shaver, was killed in the Bannock war in 1879, near Stein Mountain.

On February 2, 1854, Sarah Dixon was married to George W. Shaver, another pioneer who crossed the plains in 1851, after leaving Kentucky, where he was born March 1, 1832.

Mr. and Mrs. Shaver settled in Marion County among the Waldo Hills. In 1860 they moved, with their family to Portland and settled on the East Side of the river, where what is now known as Elizabeth Irving Addition, and where the old homestead still stands, between Crosby and Larabee streets and Cherry and Broadway. Here six children were born unto Mr. and Mrs. Shaver, making a family of ten children. Seven of the children are living, four sons and three daughters as follows: James E., George M., Delmar and Lincoln; and Mary Alice, wife of H. Wittenberg; Susan, wife of Albert Heintz, and Pearl, wife of George W. Hoyt.

[The Morning Oregonian – February 9, 1910 pg. 9]

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