James McDonald LAST NAME: McDonald FIRST NAME: James MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME:  MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE:  GENDER: M MILITARY:  BORN: Abt 1832 DIED: 21 Mar 1886 BURIED: 23 Mar 1886 ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:   BIRTH PLACE:   DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon NOTES:  IOOF - James McDonald, age 57, died near Salem, death caused by a fall - "deceased was on a scaffold cutting down a tree from which he died the next day" OBITUARY:  SHOCKING ACCIDENT; James McDonald Loses his Life by Falling from a Tree South of Salem A very shocking accident occurred on the farm of G. H. Croisan, three miles south of this city, on Monday, which resulted in the death of James McDonald. McDonald had been chopping wood for Mr. Croisan for some time, and Monday he started to fell a tree. The tree was rough and knotty around the butt, and McDonald climbed up among the first branches, laid some poles from one set of limbs to another and started to cut the tree by standing on the poles, He was chopping away when one of the poles slipped and he fell heavily to the ground, a distance of about twelve feet, striking with his full weight on his back and shoulders. The fall dislocated his spine, and he was at once paralyzed from the shoulders down. He lived, however, until 2 o'clock yesterday morning.  The accident occurred at about 1 p.m. on Monday. McDonald was about 54 years of age and came here about the first of September last from Olequa, Washington Territory, where he has a married daughter living. He leaves no property with the exception of about enough to pay expenses of laying his body in its last resting place.  Oregon Statesman 24 March 1886 2:2 INSCRIPTION:  SOURCES:  IOOF Register of Burials  OS 24 March 1886 2:2  OS 7 Jan 1887 (Necrological listing) CONTACTS:  LOT: ? SPACE:  LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: