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From: Todd Kepple <>
Subject: Re: [ORKLAMAT] RE:None list person needs help
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 08:15:14 -0700


FYI,
I scanned the Oregon death index and found nothing on WORLEY or WEHRLE that
seemed to be a match. I also scanned through the Klamath Falls Evening Herald
for November and December 1923, and found nothing (although by chance the
search did turn up a rather obscure news story that another Klamath researcher
was hoping to find someday).
Hilt, I believe, is located on the old Southern Pacific line between Yreka,
Calif., and Ashland, Ore. (Jackson County). Have you inquired in that county?
Perhaps something would turn up in the Ashland (Ore.) Daily Tidings archives.
Todd in Klamath Falls

Dan wrote:

> I would like to check with people of Klamath County to see if they remember
> any of the following: Alfred Leslie WORLEY aka Leslie Ray WEHRLE was living
> in Hilt CA in 1923, He had a son born in Hilt November 8th, 1923.
> Alfred/Leslie committed suicide about three weeks later. This person was
> my grandfather. He was a telegrapher/station agent and had been all over
> the
> country. To me he was Leslie Ray WEHRLE. It was reported to my grandmother
> (Bessie Edith ROBINSON WEHRLE) in 1923-24 that he had committed suicide by
> hanging in December of 1923 in or close to Hilt, CA. Nothing on death has
> been found in Hilt or CA, it was suggested checking Klamath Co because of
> the
> close proximity. The name Alfred Leslie Worley enters in just recently.
> It is apparent now that Leslie Wehrle abandoned his family of wife and
> 5-1/2
> children in Florida in spring or summer of 1920 (they made it back to Iowa
> where his sixth child was born). Leslie probably went on to be station
> agent in Yulee, FL, met and married Katherine Casey in September of 1920,
> they went to Montana, to Coos Bay Oregon had a child there and then to Hilt
> and had a child in November of 1923. Is there anyone researching possibly
> Klamath newspapers, cemeteries?? Are there any railroad records archived
> somewhere there? I am at a loss of what to ask for being this far away -
> in
> Iowa. Thank you for your help.
>
> Marilyn Collins

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