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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Augusta Edwards Durkee ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Augusta Edwards Durkee
LAST NAME: Durkee FIRST NAME: Augusta MIDDLE NAME: Edwards NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Behle AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mrs. GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: Jan 1850 DIED: 6 May 1927 BURIED: May 1927
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  Newport, England
DEATH PLACE: Newport, Lincoln Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
OSBH (Lincoln County 1927) #23 - Augusta E. Durkee, female, housewife, married to E. W. Durkee, b. Jan 1851 in Newport, England, d. 6 May 1927 in Newport, Oregon (412 Spruce) at the age of 76 years, parents both born in England, but names not filled in by informant, interment 9 May 1927, undertaker Warren B. Hartley of Newport, informant E. W. Durkee of Newport.
DISCREPANCY - DC gives year of birth as 1851 but marker states 1850.
1910 OR CENSUS - Agusta [Augusta] E. Durkee, age 59, mother of 1 child who is no longer living at the time of the census, b. England, is enumerated with her husband (2nd marriage for both) of 2 years, Edward W., age 71, b. Ohio.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 
Mrs. Edward (Behle) Durkee died at her residence at Newport, OR., May 6. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2:30 p.m. from Webb’s funeral parlors, with Rev. E. S. Bollinger officiating. Interment in I.O.O.F. cemetery. 
Oregon Statesman 8 May 1927 5:8.
INSCRIPTION: 
Augusta Edwards Durkee 
Born Newport, England 1850 
May 6, 1927 
Render who ere thou art, 
One moment, stop and think, 
That we are in eternity 
And thou art on the brink. 
(shares marker with Theophilus Collins)
SOURCES: 
LR 
LD
OSBH (Lincoln County 1927) #23
S&H pg 80 
Saucy marker photo
1910 OR CENSUS (Lincoln Co., Newport, ED 173, sheet
OS 8 May 1927 5:8
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 665 SPACE: 2 NW N½ LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.184' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.918'
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