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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
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LAST NAME: Durkee
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FIRST NAME: Augusta
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MIDDLE NAME: Edwards
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NICKNAME:
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MAIDEN NAME: Behle
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AKA 3:
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TITLE: Mrs.
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GENDER: F
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BORN: Jan 1850
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DIED: 6 May 1927
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BURIED: May 1927
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ETHNICITY:
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OCCUPATION: Housewife
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BIRTH PLACE: Newport, England
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DEATH PLACE: Newport, Lincoln Co., Oregon
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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.
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DEATH CERTIFICATE:
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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.
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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)
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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
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LOT: 665
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SPACE: 2 NW N½
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LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.184'
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LATITUDE: W 123° 02.918'
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