From Columbia County, Genealogy, Dayton Memorial Library, Dayton, WA 99328

PIONEER OF INLAND EMPIRE DIES HERE

J. F. Logsdon Located Here in 68--Later in Whitman-Lincoln Cos.

Jesse F. Logsdon, aged resident of Columbia county, who had pioneered not only in the county, but in Whitman and Lincoln counties died sunday night at the home of his son, U. S. Logsdon in this city, after an illness of three weeks with the flu. He would have been 82 years old in August, and had been in excellent health until the past few weeks.

Mr. Logsdon had the true pioneering spirit. He came to this district in 1868, before Columbia county was organized, and purchased a homestead right near Alto, where he lived two years, moving from here to Whitman county, and securing land in the LaCrosse district. He remained in Whitman county until 1876 and was a member of the first board of county commissioners, when he sold his holdings to his son, U. S. Logsdon, and went east to Maine, where he remained for more than a year, coming west again in 1895 and locating in Lincoln county, where he engaged in farming and in carpentering, and where he remained until two years ago, when he came to Dayton to make his home with his son.

Mr. Logsdon married four times his last wife passing away at their home in Lincoln county several years ago. There were 12 children by the first wife, nine of whom are living. Two U. S. Logsdon and Mrs. Jane Koening are residents of Dayton. Others live in Oregon and several in the east. He is survived by one brother J. L. Logsdon of Lincoln county, and four sisters.

The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon from the Hubbard & Rogg chapel. The service was conducted by the Rev. N. E. Franklin, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene, in which Mr. Logsdon had recently made the confession. Interment was in the Dayton cemetery.

Mr. Logsdon was the charter member of Alfred Sulley Post G. A. R., of Dayton. The services at the grave were conducted by the G. A. R. post.

(Note the above brother referred to as J. L. Logsdon is A. L. Logsdon)