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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ James Rickey ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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James Rickey
LAST NAME: Rickey FIRST NAME: James MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mr. GENDER: M MILITARY: 
BORN: 1802 DIED: 24 Jan 1875 BURIED: 26 Jan 1875
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  Jefferson Co., Ohio
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
Family tradition applied the L. for Lytle. This is probably in error since the Lytle name came from a daughter-in-law much later. James Rickey was the son of Thomas Rickey and Sarah Laughery. He married Delila Nickols in 1826. James sold 2 parcels of land and a tavern stand in Dubuque Co., Iowa for $1700 in Feb. of 1850. He then took his family over the Oregon Trail by covered wagon in 1850. He settled in an area east of Salem taking up Donation Land Claim #2512. In 1852 a log cabin school house was built on his property and named Rickey School. In 1867, a larger building was erected about one mile north at what is now (1993) 4855 Macleay Road. It was replaced in 1928 by a new two-room school, which continued to be known as Rickey School until 1957, when it ceased to function with annexation to the City of Salem and inclusion in the Salem Public School system. The surrounding unincorporated area was early known as the community of RICKEY, until being incorporated into the present city limits in the 1950's. 
I.O.O.F. Register of Burials shows that T. B. Rickey purchased Lot #514 in 1875. 
Marion Co., PROBATE File #533: Intestate. James Rickey died 25 Jan 1875 and James M. Rickey was appointed administrator. Heirs were: Delilah Rickey, widow age 71 of Marion Co.; Thomas B. Rickey age 42 of Marion Co.; Henry Rickey age 40 of Nevada; James M. Rickey age 31 of Marion Co.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 
DEATH of JAMES RICKEY 
The many friends of James Rickey will be pained to learn of his sudden death, which occurred Sunday night about twelve o'clock at his residence four miles southeast of Salem, where he resided for a number of years. He had complained some during the winter but the day previous to his death he had been feeling unusually well. About midnight he complained of great suffering and when his son, who lived with him on the farm proposed to go for a doctor, he answered that it would do no good as he would be dead before they could get back. Those were his last words as he died in fifteen minutes afterwards and within an hour of the first attack. 
Mr. Rickey was born near Pittsburg, Pa., March 6th, in the year 1802, and would have been 73 years of age in a few weeks. The family removed to Ohio in his early youth, thence to Iowa, from which State Mr. Rickey removed to Oregon with his family in 1850, having resided since that time in this vicinity. He was a member of the M.E. Church for the last thirty years of his life and was esteemed as an excellent citizen and good neighbor. The funeral will take place to-day from his late residence, at 10 o'clock a.m., and the body will be laid in the Odd Fellows cemetery. 
Oregon Statesman 26 January 1875 3:1
INSCRIPTION: 
James L. Rickey 
1802 - 24 Jan. 1875 

(shares Rickey memorial marker with James M., Josephine R., Lavonia K. and Baby James)
SOURCES: 
LD 
IOOF Register of Burials 
Marion Co., Probate File #533
Saucy marker photo  
OS 26 January 1875 3:1
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 514 SPACE:  LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.175' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.864'
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