Benjamin Boon Carlin
BENJAMIN BOON CARLIN, son of CORA EVELYN PARSLOW and JAMES CARLIN, was born May 27, 1918 in Melstone, Musselshell, Montana,7113 and died October 30, 1981 in Lebanon Community Hospital, Linn County, Oregon.7114
He married (1) FRANCES C. RIDER on May 1, 1939 in Vancouver, Clark, Washington.6624 She was born in 1922 in Mill City, Oregon.
He married (2) GENEVIEVE on December 27, 1947.7114
Personal Information
- Benjamin Boon Carlin was a member of the Highway 20 Church of Christ, Sweet Home, Linn, Oregon. 7114
Work History
- Benjamin Boon Carlin was a log truck driver for Wes Strubhar and Titus Trucking Co.7114
Newspaper Articles
Capital Journal, November 30, 19287109
2 Lads Lost 15 Hours On Dark Island
Stayton, Nov. 30—Fifteen hours on a dark island in the rain was the experience of two young Stayton lads who were lost Thanksgiving afternoon and night.
Jimmie and Bennie Carlon, 13 and 11 respectively, accompanied their step-father, George Wooden, on a hunting expedition. Wooden shot a duck and it fell on the island. Thinking it was on the other side of the Santiam river, Wooded sent the boys after the duck. Before they could start back darkness overtook the boys and they were frightened over the aspect of a strip of black water. Wooden, it is said, did not know that the boys were on the island though he has lived here for several years.
When the boys failed to show up Wooden gave the alarm, and searching parties with lanterns spent the entire night looking for the lost boys who, it was feared, might have been drowned. The two little fellows built a partial shelter from the rain and the noise of a nearby spillway prevented them hearing th shouts and calls of the searching party. Lanterns carried by the searchers were thought by the boys to be the lights of Stayton.
Early Friday morning Willard Goodman went across to the river and found the boys. Jimmie returned by means of an improvised raft while the other boy was brought back by Goodman. The boys were suffering from the exposure and fright but were otherwise uninjured and today were apparently little the worse for their experience. The mother was nearly frantic throughout the night.
Obituaries
Albany Democrat-Herald, November 3, 19817114
Ben Carlin
SWEET HOME — Funeral for Ben B. Carlin, 63, 1516 N. Ninth St., who died Friday at Lebanon Community Hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Highway 20 Church of Christ. Earl Chambers will officiate and burial will follow at Gilliland Cemetery. Steckly-Tracewell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
He was born May 27, 1918, in Musselshell, Mon., and moved to Portland as a small child. He received his elementary education in Stayton.
He was a log truck driver for Wes Strubhar and Titus Trucking Co. until 1972, when he was disabled. He was a member of the Highway 20 Church of Christ.
He and his wife, Genevieve, were married on Dec. 27, 1947, at Vancouver, Wash. She survives.
Other survivors include four daughters, Patricia Lee, Linda Blackford, and Bernadette Carlin, all of Sweet Home, and Deborah Dallas, of Salem; four son, James, Portland, Daniel and Michael, both of Sweet Home, and Benny Ray, Olympia, Wash.; one step-daughter, Sylvia Minshull, Sweet Home, two stepsons, Jack Jenkins, Sweet Home.
Census Records
| Date | Location | Enumerated Names |
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| April 12, 19207104 | School District 1, Musselshell, Montana |
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| April 16, 19305505 | Stayton, Marion, Oregon |
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| April 18, 19405506 | East Stayton, Marion, Oregon |
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