The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., May 30, 1919, page 1

MRS. R.C KREPS PASSES AWAY
Was one of the Best Known Pioneers of Western Klickitat County

     Rhoda Catherine See was born March 19, 1833 in Hardy county, West Virginia. Her parents moved to Indiana and afterward moved to Missouri when she was a small child, living there until her marriage to S.P. Kreps on Sept. 6th, 1855. To this union were born seven children, two dying in infancy.
     In the year 1869 they moved to California where they resided until the year 1874.
     She then moved with her husband and five children to the State of Oregon, and in the spring of 1885 they moved to Laurel, Wash., where they took up a homestead on which she lived until the death of her husband, August 11, 1913. Since that time she has made her home with her son George at Husum, Wash.
     Grandma Kreps as she was familiarly called, was the oldest member of the Camas Prairie Pioneer Association, in which she took great interest, being a generous, kind, and benevolent disposition.
     She leaves to mourn her loss the following children, Oliver P. Kreps of Laurel, Wash., George Kreps, Husum, Wash., R.M. Kreps, White Salmon, Wash., Mrs. Orpah Johnson, Scappoose, Oregon, also ten grandchildren and a host of friends.
     Mrs. Kreps died at Husum, Wash., on May 23rd, 1919, at the age of 86 years, two months and four days.
     The funeral was held from the Kreps home at Husum and was one of the largest ever held in Western Klickitat County, large numbers of friends and pioneers coming to pay last tribute to the deceased from Glenwood, Trout Lake, White Salmon and other places. Burial took place in the Grange Cemetery at Glenwood where the body of her husband rests.

Card Of Thanks

We wish to thank the many friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted during the illness and death of our mother, Mrs. R.C. Kreps.

                                                                          O.P. Kreps
                                                                              George Kreps
                                                                           R.M. Kreps
                                                                               Orpah Johnson
                                                                          Mollie Cole

The Klickitat County Agriculturist, Goldendale, WA., June 6, 1919, page 2

OLD TIME PIONEER HAS PASSED AWAY

     Mrs. S.P. Kreps, one of the oldest pioneers in Klickitat county, passed away, at her home at Husum, on May 23rd, 1919, in the 87th year of her age. She was born in 1833, in West Virginia. When she was a small child her parents moved to Indiana, and later to Missouri. In this state she was married, on September 6, 1855, to S.P. Kreps. To this union were born seven children, two dying in infancy. In 1869 they moved to California, living there till 1874, when they moved to Oregon, with their five children.
     In the spring of 1885 they came to Laurel, in western Klickitat, where they took up a homestead, and where she lived until the death of Mr. Kreps, August 11, 1913. Since that time she has made her home with her son, George Kreps, at Husum.
     She leaves to mourn her loss the following children: Oliver P. Kreps of Laurel; George Kreps of Husum; R.M. Kreps of White Salmon; Mrs. Orpha Johnson of Scappoose, Oregon. There are also ten grandchildren. The funeral was held from the home of George Kreps, at Husum, and was one of the largest attended in many years in western Klickitat. Friends were present from Trout Lake, Glenwood, White Salmon, and other places. The interment was in the Grange cemetery at Glenwood, where the body of her husband rests.
     Mrs. S.P. Kreps was the oldest member of the Camas Prairie Pioneer's association, and in which she took great interest.

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