Retired Farmer Of Webb Ridge Dead

Edward B. Paris, 88, retired Webb Ridge farmer, was found dead Monday at 11 a.m. in a chair in the living room of his home on Rock Creek.

His son, Louis B. Paris, with whom he made his home, had gone to Hatwai to feed cattle, leaving at 8 a.m. The father called a daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Forsman, Lewiston, at 10 a.m. and said he was having pain in his back and that he would like her to come to the house. Meanwhile, the son returned and found his father dead.

Coroner Wilfred J. Duclos said death was apparently due to the infirmities of age. He said no autopsy is planned.

Paris was born Feb. 15, 1874, in Iowa. He was married in 1897 in Nebraska to Grace McCoid. She died in 1934.

He had come to the Webb Ridge area to farm in 1902, moving there from Nebraska.

Surviving, besides the son and daughter, are another daughter, Mrs. Ella Hand, Missoula, Mont.; a sister, Mrs. Daisy Stewart, living in Nebraska, six grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.