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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Mary Frances Lawrence
~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Mary Frances Lawrence
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LAST NAME: Lawrence
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FIRST NAME: Mary
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MIDDLE NAME: Frances
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TITLE: Miss
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GENDER: F
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BORN: 14 Dec 1844
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DIED: 26 Aug 1927
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BURIED: 29 Aug 1927
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OCCUPATION: Teacher
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BIRTH PLACE: Davis Co., Iowa
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DEATH PLACE: Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon
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NOTES: BIOGRAPHICAL:
Came to Oregon as a child from Iowa, retired school teacher; taught in Astoria, Salem and Portland for almost half a century. Her teacher's certificate was issued in 1884. She left an estate of $100,000 to be spent for a home for women. She had 3 sisters: Mrs. Ella Newman of San Francisco, Mrs. J. R. Bray of L. A., and Mrs. Anna Haskins of Portland. Her brother was C. G. Lawrence of Portland.
source - Chapman Scrapbook.
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DEATH CERTIFICATE: OSBH DC (Portland 1927) #2272 - Mary E. Lawrence, female, single, occupation teacher, b. 14 Dec 1844 in Davis Co., Iowa, d. 25 Aug 1927 in Portland, Oregon (1585 E. Yamhill St.) at the age of 82 y's 8 m's 11 d's, name of father William Lawrence (b. Lexington, Kentucy), maiden name of mother Mills (b. Kentucky), interment 29 Aug, undertaker J. P. Finley.
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OBITUARY: SCHOOL TEACHER LEAVES FUND TO BEFRIEND LONELY WOMEN.
Miss Lawrence Bequeaths Four-Fifths of $100,000 Estate for the Erection of Comfortable Refuge for Homeless.
Fifty-six years ago this month, September, 1871, Mary Frances Lawrence, a young self-educated school-teacher started her teaching career in Salem, Or. She received what was then the high salary of $25 a month. When her will was filed for probate August 21, 1927, it revealed that Miss Lawrence had accumulated an estate of approximately $100,000. Four-fifths of this amount she set aside for the erection and furnishing of a home for homeless self-supporting working women. The motive back of this gift, friends of Miss Lawrence declare, is not hard to discover. She herself was homeless. If having no husband and no children of her own constitutes homelessness. Although she had sisters, brothers, nephews and nieces, Miss Lawrence is said to have been too self-reliant, too independent, to lean on them, even in her later years.
Girls Find Friend
Miss Lawrence, however, had many children--literally hundreds of the--whom whe had watched from the time they entered their first grade of school in pigtails and ginghams, or hickory shirts and denim, until they became gray-haired grandmothers and grandfathers, clubwomen and business-men, social leaders and figures…..
Chapman Scrapbook, pg 260
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INSCRIPTION: Mary Frances
Lawrence
1844 - 1927
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SOURCES: LR
LD
Saucy Survey & Photographs
OSBH DC (Portland 1927) #2272
Chapman Scrapbook pg 259
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LOT: 662
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SPACE: 2 NW S½
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LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.167'
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LATITUDE: W 123° 02.916'
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