Born on the Mohawk to Marvin Lee Hammitt and Kathleen Alice Campbell, the second of three children, Dorcas was a true daughter of the pioneers. Her father was a direct lineal descendent of Solomon and Nancy (Groce) Zumwalt, being the child of their daughter Sarah Francis Zumwalt and Norman Paul Hammitt. Both families, the Zumwalts and Hammitts, had traveled to Oregon over the Oregon Trail. The Hammitt family took their homestead at the old pioneer settlement in the Mohawk Valley, NE of Springfield, Oregon in 1852.
After her mother and father were married her father built the 'Hammett' (sic) General store at the old train stop at Donna near the Hammitt homestead, Mohawk, in 1913 (still in operation after 100 years). A picture in the store shows it at it's opening with her mother, father and oldest brother in the background. Another shows the 4 year-old Dorcas, in white dress, standing in the foreground street outside the new store. The original 'Hammett' sign was a misspelling by the sign-maker!
In 1915 her mother Kathleen contracted tuberculosis and eventually succumbed to that illness in May of that year. Dorcas was only six years old, her older brother Norman 12, her younger brother Jerome not yet 5. Her father soon sold the store to relatives and never remarried.
Dorcas married Elvin Kenneth Stingley of Elmira, OR in 1933. Later, she gave birth to five children: Diane Kathleen, Richard Elvin, Catherine Rose, John Wayne and Elvin Layne (Pete). A son, Richard Elvin, preceded her in death ( by drowning) in 1947, near Junction City, OR. At the time, the family was living in Junction City but later moved to Reedsport. Eventually Dorcas joined her oldest siblings Diane and Catherine to live-out her remaining years in St. Paul, Mn., where she died of colon cancer at the age of 84 in the summer of 1993.
After her mother and father were married her father built the 'Hammett' (sic) General store at the old train stop at Donna near the Hammitt homestead, Mohawk, in 1913 (still in operation after 100 years). A picture in the store shows it at it's opening with her mother, father and oldest brother in the background. Another shows the 4 year-old Dorcas, in white dress, standing in the foreground street outside the new store. The original 'Hammett' sign was a misspelling by the sign-maker!
In 1915 her mother Kathleen contracted tuberculosis and eventually succumbed to that illness in May of that year. Dorcas was only six years old, her older brother Norman 12, her younger brother Jerome not yet 5. Her father soon sold the store to relatives and never remarried.
Dorcas married Elvin Kenneth Stingley of Elmira, OR in 1933. Later, she gave birth to five children: Diane Kathleen, Richard Elvin, Catherine Rose, John Wayne and Elvin Layne (Pete). A son, Richard Elvin, preceded her in death ( by drowning) in 1947, near Junction City, OR. At the time, the family was living in Junction City but later moved to Reedsport. Eventually Dorcas joined her oldest siblings Diane and Catherine to live-out her remaining years in St. Paul, Mn., where she died of colon cancer at the age of 84 in the summer of 1993.
Born on the Mohawk to Marvin Lee Hammitt and Kathleen Alice Campbell, the second of three children, Dorcas was a true daughter of the pioneers. Her father was a direct lineal descendent of Solomon and Nancy (Groce) Zumwalt, being the child of their daughter Sarah Francis Zumwalt and Norman Paul Hammitt. Both families, the Zumwalts and Hammitts, had traveled to Oregon over the Oregon Trail. The Hammitt family took their homestead at the old pioneer settlement in the Mohawk Valley, NE of Springfield, Oregon in 1852.
After her mother and father were married her father built the 'Hammett' (sic) General store at the old train stop at Donna near the Hammitt homestead, Mohawk, in 1913 (still in operation after 100 years). A picture in the store shows it at it's opening with her mother, father and oldest brother in the background. Another shows the 4 year-old Dorcas, in white dress, standing in the foreground street outside the new store. The original 'Hammett' sign was a misspelling by the sign-maker!
In 1915 her mother Kathleen contracted tuberculosis and eventually succumbed to that illness in May of that year. Dorcas was only six years old, her older brother Norman 12, her younger brother Jerome not yet 5. Her father soon sold the store to relatives and never remarried.
Dorcas married Elvin Kenneth Stingley of Elmira, OR in 1933. Later, she gave birth to five children: Diane Kathleen, Richard Elvin, Catherine Rose, John Wayne and Elvin Layne (Pete). A son, Richard Elvin, preceded her in death ( by drowning) in 1947, near Junction City, OR. At the time, the family was living in Junction City but later moved to Reedsport. Eventually Dorcas joined her oldest siblings Diane and Catherine to live-out her remaining years in St. Paul, Mn., where she died of colon cancer at the age of 84 in the summer of 1993.
After her mother and father were married her father built the 'Hammett' (sic) General store at the old train stop at Donna near the Hammitt homestead, Mohawk, in 1913 (still in operation after 100 years). A picture in the store shows it at it's opening with her mother, father and oldest brother in the background. Another shows the 4 year-old Dorcas, in white dress, standing in the foreground street outside the new store. The original 'Hammett' sign was a misspelling by the sign-maker!
In 1915 her mother Kathleen contracted tuberculosis and eventually succumbed to that illness in May of that year. Dorcas was only six years old, her older brother Norman 12, her younger brother Jerome not yet 5. Her father soon sold the store to relatives and never remarried.
Dorcas married Elvin Kenneth Stingley of Elmira, OR in 1933. Later, she gave birth to five children: Diane Kathleen, Richard Elvin, Catherine Rose, John Wayne and Elvin Layne (Pete). A son, Richard Elvin, preceded her in death ( by drowning) in 1947, near Junction City, OR. At the time, the family was living in Junction City but later moved to Reedsport. Eventually Dorcas joined her oldest siblings Diane and Catherine to live-out her remaining years in St. Paul, Mn., where she died of colon cancer at the age of 84 in the summer of 1993.
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