Columbia River Sun-September 28, 1911 BLOOD, Edwin A. Died at St. Marys hospital in Astoria, Friday, after an illness of sixteen days. Mr. Blood was taken sick with what was supposed to be a slight attack of intestinal trouble but as it failed to respond to the usual remedies and his condition was becoming critical he was taken to the hospital last Monday. He rapidly became weaker and on Friday morning peacefully passed away. He body was brought to Cathlamet and Saturday afternoon was buried from the home of his sister. Rev Mr. Arnold made a few appropriate remarks, it being the request of relatives that the funeral be as simple as possible. Many friends gathered to pay their last respects to the dead. The deceased was born at Medford, Mass., his parents being of an old colonial and revolutionary family. When a small boy he moved with his parents to Woodstock, N. H., where he lived until 1877, when he came to this coast. He lived at Olympia and White Salmon previous to coming to the Elochoman valley in 1883. He has lived in and about Cathlamet ever since. Mr. Blood was unmarried and his only near relatives are his sister, Mrs. Kimball, and his niece, Mrs. Butler. He had a jovial disposition, though retiring and simple in his ways. He had many friends who remember with pleasure his kindhearted and neighborly ways. Woodmen’s Cemetery (Greenwood)-Cathlamet, Wa. 11 Jul 1838-22 Sep 1911 (As transcribed by the Wahkiakum County Historical Society Museum)