Hiram Young Dakan , West VA , Oregon & Washington
Hiram Young Dakan was born probably in West Virginia or Virginia.His head stone at Durkee Oregon say 1816 to 1906.In checking cenus records his birth was listed between 1826 and 1830. The 19000 census for LaGrande, Union County Oregon enumerates him living alone, and born in 1828 in West Virginia.He was most likely the one to give the information.I can not find his death date.His head stone has 1906 but I found a deed in the Union County Court Records where it was signed and witnessed on 26 January 1907.
When I visited the cemetery at Durkee, the age of the stone looks more like the stone of his daughter, Emma Cady, who died in 1963 or her husband who died in 1952.I can't find his death in either the Oregon digital death records nor in Washington where his wife Mariah Shaw Dakan lived and died.
When I checked obituaries in the Baker City Library I couldn't find anything listed for him.He was alive in January 1907 and his wife was listed a widow when she died in 1910.I would like to find his death record or an obituary and some clue to his parents.I would be happy to share information on this family.