Susan Ann (Turner) Starr
Jan. 18, 1917; Oregonian, p 11  (photo)
"Pioneer Woman Dies"

   Susan Ann Starr, who died January 6 at the age of 92 years, at Monroe, was buried in the old Belknap Cemetery at that place, where so many of the old pioneers lie sleeping.  Rev. Mr. Moore, pastor of the Methodist Church, read the burial service and E. H. Belknap delivered an address.

   Mrs. Starr was born in Maryland, August 8, 1825.  Her parents moved to Indiana when she was a small child and later to Iowa, where she was married to Rev. Noah A. Starr in 1847.  They crossed the plains to California in 1850 and came to Oregon in 1851, taking up a donation land claim at Starr's Point, now Monroe.

   The settlement at that time consisted mostly of members of the Starr, Belknap and Hawley families.  The community was remarkable for the number of college graduates and prominent men who came from it.  Five of Mrs. Starr's children were classical graduates.

   In 1854 Rev. Mr. Starr joined the Oregon conference of the Methodist Church and Mrs. Starr shared the hardships and privations of a pioneer preacher's life until the time of his death in 1881.  She was a widow for 35 years.

   She was the mother of nine children, two of whom died in infancy.  The following survive her:  M. Clay Starr, Miles T. Starr and S. Asbury Starr, of Portland; Mrs. Clara A. Richey, of Barton; Wilbur F. Starr, of Monroe; Mrs. Mary C. Waltz, of Salem, and J. Benson Starr, of Pasadena.

   Four brothers also survive, James and Enoch Turner, of Stockton, Cal.; Theodore Turner, of Modesto, Cal., and Thomas Turner, of Tulare, Cal.