From Lane Co Oregon

• The Briggs brothers ran the mills smoothly until 1865, at which time they sold the operation to a local consortium of prominent businessmen, led by Byron J. Pengra. The enterprise was renamed the Springfield Manufacturing Company (Clarke 1938:10-27).

Byron J. Pengra's son was buried in the Pioneer Cemetery in Springfield. He was married to a "G.E. Pengra."

Tombstone

On a marble pillar about a foot and a half tall were written these words:

Son of B.J. & G.E.

Pengra

"Suffer little children -[to]- come unto me,

and for -[forbid]- them not, for of -[such]- is the

Kingdom of Heaven"