"John A. Stoughton, one of the last of the celebrated band of immigrants that crossed the plains to Oregon in 1843, died at the Spokane County Infirmary, at Spangle, on July 1, 1924. He was nearly ninety years old at his death… Mr. Stoughton wrote a brief account of his recollections of the journey across the plains. From the original, Professor Edmond S. Meany, in 1906, made the following copy..."
