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The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., March 19, 1937, page 1

C.S. BANCROFT PASSES AWAY

The passing of another early-day resident of the White Salmon valley was reported this week when Charles Summer Bancroft, 72 years, 2 months and 14 days old, passed away Sunday, March 14 at 2 p.m. at his home on Locke Hill, popularly known as "The Top of The World Farm."
Cause of death, following a post mortem examination by physicians, was due to a dilated heart.
Mr. Bancroft came to the White Salmon valley in 1893. He owned one of the early grocery stores in White Salmon. After building the old Zumwalt building, since wrecked, he started a store, now the Heaman Bros. Store. Heaman Bros. bought out his business.
He also started the first barber shop in that town, and later operated a cleaning and pressing establishment.
He had been in poor health for years, and came to this territory for his health and to take over his brother's homestead.
His brother, Benjamin, previously passed away years ago in Portland, Oregon, do to typhoid.
Charles Bancroft is the last of the Bancrofts, as his sister also passed on as did her children some years back. His brother had no children.
The only living relatives are two cousins in Providence, R.I.
Mr. Bancroft was born in 1865, December 27, in East Machia, Maine. He was married to Edith S. Marshall in 1913.
He was the youngest son of a family of three. His father, Christopher Bancroft, was a well-known sea captain during early-day shipping in the east.
Funeral services were conducted by Gardner's Service of White Salmon, with Rev. Wilbur Stark, officiating, and burial followed in the I.O.O.F cemetery, White Salmon.
Pall bearers where: Alex and Vernon Zimmerman, Guy Needham, Jeff Owen, Joseph Courtney, and Edward Jewett.
It will be remembered, Mrs. Edith S. Bancroft, his widow, was the person to select the name and win the big contest last summer when the Mt. Adams Sun was selected as a new mast head for the old West Klickitat News.

The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., March 19, 1937, page 1

CHAS. BANCROFT OF LOCKE HILL CALLED

LOCKE HILL, Mar. 17. (Special) - One of our early day residents passed away last Sunday when Chas. S. Bancroft, who had been in poor health for several years, died at his home in this section. He leaves to mourn his loss his widow, Mrs. Edith Bancroft and many friends and neighbors. The funeral was held Wednesday from Gardner's Funeral home in White Salmon.
Mr. Bancroft was an early resident, coming here in 1892 and lived for some time on a homestead near town. He built a building in White Salmon and operated a meat market for a few years. He was 72 years of age.