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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Agnes Martin ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Agnes Martin
LAST NAME: Martin FIRST NAME: Agnes MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Kittson AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mrs. GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 8 Jun 1895 DIED: 18 Oct 1930 BURIED: 20 Oct 1930
ETHNICITY:  Native American OCCUPATION:  Fruit Cannery Worker
BIRTH PLACE:  Pendleton, Umatilla Co., Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Dallas, Polk Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
1900 OR CENSUS - Agnis [Agnes] Kittson, age 4, b. Jun 1895 in Oregon, is enumerated with Ned, age 41, b. Aug 1868 in Oregon, and his wife of 6 years, Virginia, mother of 2 children, b. Aug 1876 in Oregon, along with Frank, age 1, b. Dec 1898 in Washington. Also enumerated with the family are Peter Kittson, age 70, identified as father [of Ned], b. Washington, and his wife of 43 years, Angeline [???], age 60, mother of 12 children 2 of whom are living at the time of the census, b. Mar 1840 in Washington. [Attached to this enumeration under the heading SPECIAL INQUIRIES RELATING TO INDIANS - the Kittson family are all enumerated as members of the Walla Walla Tribe. Agnis [Agnes] is 3/4 Walla Walla Indian, and her parents are both enumerated as 3/4 Walla Walla Indian, with the grandparents, Peter and Angeline both enumerated as 1/2 Walla Walla Indian]
1930 OR CENSUS - Agnes Martin, age 35, b. Oregon, occupation fruit cannery worker, is enumerated with her husband James H. Martin, age 39, b. Iowa, occupation laborer, and their two sons, David H., age 15, b. Oregon and William O., age 14, b. Oregon, along with a niece, Virginia Porter, age 6, b. Oregon.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OSBH DC (Polk County 1930) #116 - Agnes Martin, female, married (James H. Martin), fruit cannery worker, b. 8 Jun 1895 in Pendleton, Oregon, d. 18 Oct 1930 in Dallas, Oregon (Dallas Hospital) at the age of 35 y's 4 m's 10 d's, name of father Ned Kittson (b. St. Paul, Oregon), maiden name of mother Virginia Breeon (b. St. Paul, Oregon), interment 20 Oct IOOF, undertaker Henkle & Thomas, informant Norman Kittson of West Salem, Oregon.
OBITUARY: 
MARTIN DEATH FOLLOWS SOON AFTER WIFE’S.
West Salem Couple, Separately are Victims of Double Tragedy.
Man Shoots Wife then Self; Will be Buried Monday in Same Cemetery.
Monday at 2 p.m. in a cemetery at Dallas, the remains of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Martin will be buried with a simple ceremony.
Suicide and murderer, Martin will rest beside his wife whom shortly before noon Saturday, he shot in his home at West Salem. A few moments later, he had turned the single-shot shotgun with which he had fatally wounded his wife, into his mouth and pulling the trigger, had shot himself.
Mrs. Martin died a few minutes after she was received at a Dallas hospital. Martin died at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
Two sons, Orville, 15, and David, 16, orphans, survive their parents.
No inquest Will Be Held, Decided.
While the Polk county coroner will make a report on the tragedy there will be no inquest as the facts of the tragedy are well established.
The Martins separated early this summer when Mrs. Martin came to Salem to stay with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Bill Martin.
Yesterday forenoon she went to West Salem to do some washing for her husband and her two sons.
According to her son David, who saw the shooting, his father inquired of his mother if she intended to return to live with him. When she replied in the negative, Martin took his old shotgun and fired at his wife, the charge entering her left temple.
Martin then went into the front room of his house, reloaded his gun, placed the muzzle in his mouth, and pulled the trigger.
When Mrs. Martin was found she was lying on her back with her head under the washing machine. Martin’s face was partly torn away by the shot.
Woman’s Sister Slightly Wounded.
The two sons, David and Orville, gave the alarm. Deputy Sheriff Walter Gerth of Marion county, arriving at the house a few minutes after the tragedy. He secured Dr. Wolcott Buren, who said both Martin and his wife were fatally injured. They both lived until they reached the Dallas hospital.
Mrs. Christina Porter, sister of Mrs. Martin, was in the kitchen of the house when her sister was shot. She was slightly wounded in the forehead when several stray shots from the shotgun scattered. She fled to the home of Ned Kitts, her father, who lived near the Martin home.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin moved to West Salem three years ago. His work was to cut wood and to drive a freight truck.
Oregon Statesman 19 Oct 1930 1:1
INSCRIPTION: 
No marker found as of June 2002
SOURCES: 
OSBH DC (Polk County 1930) #116
1900 OR CENSUS (Umatilla Co., Reservation, Indian Population, ED 182, sheet 10A)
1930 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., West Salem Pct., ED 27-20, pg 8B)
OS 19 Oct 1930 1:1
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 419 SPACE: 2 SW S½ LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.232' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.826'
 
 

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