• General Notes

  CHARLES M. HEISLER, one of the enterprising, public-spirited young men of Wasco county, is a farmer living one mile southwest of Dufur. He is a native Oregonian, having been born in Prineville, June 3, 1879. His parents, sketches of whom will be found elsewhere in this work, were Monroe and Cynthia L. (White) Heisler.
  
  Our subject attended district school two years in Prineville, and also the Dufur and Lagrande graded schools, and this education was supplemented by a year at Albany College, Albany, Oregon. Returning home he remained with his parents engaged in farm work and stock-raising, which business he has since followed successfully. In 1897 he purchased an interest in the property from "Grandpa" Heisler, and later purchased two hundred acres adjoining his land. They cultivate four hundred acres of wheat and barley, which averages forty bushels to the acre. They winter about one hundred head of cattle, and the same number of hogs. Our subject has a substantial story and a half frame house, supplied with the first barb-wire telephone in Wasco county, connecting at Dufur with long distance telephone.
  
  Mr. Heisler was married August 26, 1900, to Eva L. Powell, born near Dufur, July 13, 1883, the daughter of Isaac J. and Adelia E. (Colver) Powell, the father a native of Illinois and the mother of Marshfield, Coos county, Oregon. Her father came to Oregon when a small boy, and is now a farmer at Tygh Valley. Mrs. Heisler has three brothers and four sisters. Our subject and his estimable wife have lost one daughter, Blanch Agatha, who died August 26, 1903, at the home, aged two years, one month and two days.
  
  Fraternally Mr. Heisler is a member of Ridge-ly Lodge, No. 71, I.O.O.F., and W.O.W. Both are members of Star Lodge No. 23, Rebekahs, and Mrs. Heisler is a devoted member of the United Brethren church.
  
  An Illustrated History of Central Oregon, Western Historical Publishing Company, Spokane, WA. 1905
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  Wasco Co., Oregon The Dalles Chronicle, Wednesday, September 4, 1957 page 2
  
  Charles Heisler Taken by Death
  
  Charles Monroe Heilser, 78, who was born at Prineville when that town was still part of Old Wasco county, died yesterday at a local hospital.
  
  Mr. Heisler was born June 3, 1879, and moved to the Dufur area in 1898 to join his father in farming. Charles Heisler operated a ranch there for 22 years. He was married to Miss Eva Lois Lowell at Dufur on Aug. 26, 1900. In 1947 they moved to The Dalles.
  
  He was a member of the First Methodist church, the Masonic lodge at Dufur and the Old Wasco County Pioneer association.
  
  Mr. Heisler leaves his widow, Eva; two sons, Kenneth G. Heisler of Boyd, Md.; and Donald E. Heisler of The Dalles; three brothers, Clarence of Dufur, Claude of Gervais and Harold Heisler of Portland; eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.
  
  Funeral services will be held at Spencer & Libby Memorial Chapel at 2 p.m. Friday with the Rev. Revelle Roach officiating. Interment will be in the IOOF cemetery at Dufur.
  

Details of Charles' family with Eva Lois Powell