Death Summons Mrs. Annie Ebey.
Last Surviving Member Of Pioneer Judson Family Passes Away In Bellingham Friday.
Mrs. Annie L. Ebey, last surviving member of the pioneer family of the late Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Judson, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. K. Robinson, in Bellingham Friday after a short illness.
Private services were held Monday from a Bellingham mortuary. Cremation followed.
Passing of the last of the sons and daughters of the courageous "Mother of Lynden," as Mrs. Phoebe Judson is affectionately remembered, brought sorrow to pioneer residents of the entire Puget Sound country from Olympia to the Canadian border.
Mrs. Ebey was a tiny child of two years when her parents in the early spring of 1853 left family and friends in the state of Ohio to strike out on the long westward trek that was to end on the shores of Puget Sound and was eventually to bring to the banks of the Nooksack River the family that was destined to become the founders of Lynden.
Leave In 1853
In May, 1853, the Judsons with their little daughter were ready to leave the ridge of western settlements in Kansas and set out across the plains to the little known Pacific coast. The story of that trip over the western prairies formed the theme for chapters of absorbing interest in Mrs. Judsons' memoirs, "A Pioneer's Search for an Ideal Home."
Mrs. Ebey's life was woven closely with the development of the Puget Sound country. She was married to Eason Ebey, member of a prominent Western family and the son of Colonel I. N. Ebey who lost his life in an Indian uprising. Mr. Ebey passed away about forty
years ago.
Mrs. Ebey had been in Bellingham for the last two and a half years, since the death of her brother, the late La Bonta Judson, with whom she formerly made her home. Prior to the time that she moved to Bellingham, she had lived here for several decades.
Was Church Worker
Mrs. Ebey was 86 years old. She was a member, of the Christian Science Church, a charter member of the Chief Whatcom Chapter, D. A. R., and formerly was active in the W. C. T. U.
Surviving relatives aside from Mrs. Robinson are two sons, Allen and Roy L. Ebey, San Francisco; ten grandchildren, ten great-granchildren and ten great-greatgrandchildren.