JNB Gerking Line

From the Jonathan Napoleon Bonaparte (aka Jont, Jhont, J.N.B.) Gerking Line


Fannie Fay "Fay" Gerking (12-8-8)
James Arthur "Arthur" Scott (12-11-3)
Fannie Fay Gerking was born 15 Apr 1883 at Gerking Flat near Centerville (now Athena), Umatilla Co., OR, to Jonathan Napoleon Bonaparte Fannie Fay Gerkingand Lucy (Pottorff) Gerking. She was married 25 Jan 1916 in Tumalo, Deschutes Co., OR, to Theodore G. Becker. She died 15 Oct 1972 in Hermiston, Umatilla Co., OR, and is buried at Greenwood Memorial Cemetery, Bend, Deschutes Co., OR. No issue.

Ceridwen does not know when this picture was taken but feels it possibly is a graduation picture or perhaps a wedding picture.

James Arthur Scott was born 10 Apr 1873 at Gerking Flat near Centerville (now Athena), Umatilla Co., OR, to William Henry Harrison and Mary Margaret (Gerking)James Arthur Scott Scott. He died 6 Jun 1936 at Enterprise, Wallowa Co., OR of cancer. He married Daisy Loretta Bryson 9 Jul 1902 in Athena, OR. She was the daughter of Charles K. and Armilda Catherine (_______) Bryson and was born 28 Aug 1876 and died in 1967. They had four children.
Pictures courtesy of Ceridwen Atwood
Information is from The Gerking Family in America, 3rd ed., 1990, compiled by Florence Chappell Bowe. Pages 309 and 310..

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