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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Felix R. Davis ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Felix R. Davis
LAST NAME: Davis FIRST NAME: Felix MIDDLE NAME: R. NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mr. GENDER: M MILITARY: 
BORN: 9 Nov 1845 DIED: 8 Feb 1922 BURIED: 10 Feb 1922
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Laborer
BIRTH PLACE:  Richmond, Virginia
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

IOOF - Felix Davis, age 77, died in Salem of pneumonia.

MARRIAGE Felix R. Davis and Mary E. Berry md 14 Nov 1867, Morgan Co, Ohio

1870 NE CENSUS Felix R. Davis (24y, b Virginia, occupation day laborer) enumerated with Mary E. (26y b Ohio) and Adson N. (1y, b Ohio)

1880 NE CENSUS F.R. Davis (36y, b Virginia, occupation UPRR conductor) enumerated with wife Mary (38y, b Ohio) and 4 children, Freddie (8y, b Ohio), Leicester [Lester] (6y, b Nebraska), Roy (4y, b Nebraska) and Bessie (2y, b Nebraska)

1900 OR CENSUS - Felix R. Davis, age 55, b. Nov 1844 in Virginia, is enumerated with wife of 31 years, Mary E., age 55, mother of 5 children 3 of whom are living at the time of the census, b. Sep 1844 in Ohio, along with Bessie L., age 23, b. Jun 1876 in Nebraska.
1910 OR CENSUS - Felix R. Davis, age 65, widowed, occupation farm laborer, b. Virginia, is enumerated as the father in the home of Lester B. Davis, age 36, occupation newspaper reporter, b. Nebraska, and his wife of 11 years, Georgie, age 31, mother of 1 child, occupation dressmaker, b. Nebraska, along with their daughter, Lolita B., age 9, b. Oregon. Also enumerated in the home is Sarah A. Fisher, age 60, identified as mother-in-law [of Lester], b. Indiana.
2nd enumeration in the 1910 OR CENSUS - Felix R. Davis, age 63, widowed, occupation farmer, b. Virginia, is enumerated in the home of his son-in-law John I. Savage, age 30, occupation shipping clerk, b. Oregon, and his wife of 6 years, Bessie L. Davis, age 29, mother of 1 child, not living by the time of the census, b. Nebraska.
1911 Salem Directory gives occupation as laborer.
DISCREPANCY: DC and 1900 Census have birth year as 1844, but marker gives year of birth as 1845
BIOGRAPHICAL:
Felix R. Davis, who lives North of this city, yesterday received news announcing the death of his son, Fred C. Davis, at Blair, Nebraska, on Tuesday night. Funeral services were conducted at Blair on the following day. On last Friday morning Davis was thrown from the top of a box car, falling upon his head and shoulders and sustaining severe injuries. For a time it was thought he might recover, but the injuries sustained proved of a more serious nature than was at first supposed, and he died as above noted.
From: Oregon Statesman 11 Aug 1899 7:5-6

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (Marion County 1922) #100 - Feliz R. Davis, male, widowed, b. 9 Nov 1844 in Richmond, Virginia, d. 8 Feb 1922 in Salem, Oregon (523 N. Cottage) at the age of 77 y's 2 m's 29 d's, interment 10 Feb, undertaker Rigdon, informant L. B. Davis of 523 Cottage St., Salem.

OBITUARY: 

At the residence, 523 N. Cottage street, Wednesday, February 8, Felix R. Davis, age 77 years, father of Lester B. Davis of Salem, F. Roy Davis of Medford and Mrs. John J. Savage of Portland. Prominent member of the local Masonic fraternity. Announcement of funeral will be made later by Rigdon mortuary.
Oregon Statesman 9 February 1922 3:5

Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Rigdon chapel, the Rev. Mr. Kirkpatrick officiating. Interment will be made in the Odd Fellows cemetery with Salem Masons officiating at the grave.
Oregon Statesman 10 February 1922 5:6

INSCRIPTION: 

Felix R. Davis
1845 - 1922
(shares marker with Ivan and Mary)

SOURCES: 

LD
IOOF Register of Burials
OSBH DC (Marion County 1922) #100
S&H pg. 55
Saucy
Salem Directory 1911

Ohio Marriage Records (Ancestry.com)

1870 NE CENSUS (Washington Co, Blair, FA#49)

1880 NE CENSUS (Hall Co, Grand Island, ED 133, FA#193)

1900 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., N. Salem, ED 143, sheet 21B)
1910 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, ED 222, sheet 12A)
1910 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, ED 224, sheet 22A)
OS 9 February 1922 3:5
OS 10 February 1922 5:6

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