Amanda (Clement) Spinning
"Pioneer of the West Dies at Holland"
    Mrs. Amanda C. Spinning, aged 78 years and six days, died Thursday morning, February 1, at the home of her son and only child, Frank O. Meeker, at Holland. Mrs. Spinning was the last survivor of a party of immigrants that crossed the plains with ox teams. They reached Puget Sound in the fall of 1854. She was at that time the wife of Oliver P. Meeker, who was drowned when the steamer "Northerner" was sunk off Cape Mendocino in 1861. From that time until the time of her marriage to Frank M. Spinning in 1870, she made her home with the family of her brother-in-law, Ezra Meeker. Since the death of her second husband in 1883, she has lived with her son. She was buried at Kerby.
 
[contributed by an anonymous researcher; newspaper source unknown]
note: Oregon Death Index - Amanda C. Spinning died Feb. 1, 1917; Josephine Co.; cert. #14