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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Elizabeth A. Mellen ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Elizabeth A. Mellen
LAST NAME: Mellen FIRST NAME: Elizabeth MIDDLE NAME: A. NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Statts AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 21 Jan 1849 DIED: 8 Oct 1914 BURIED: 10 Oct 1914
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Orenco, Washington Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
IOOF Register of Burials gives age at death as 65
Widow
Funeral ordered by Mrs. MacDonald
1910 OR CENSUS - Elizabeth A. Mellen, age 61, widow, mother of 1 child, b. Oregon, is enumerated with daughter Alma M., age 42, single, b. Oregon.  Also enumerated with the family is Mary Ireland, identified as maid in private service, age 40, b. Indiana.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
Not found in Oregon Death index
OBITUARY: 
MRS. F. A. MELLEN DIES
Passes Away at Orenco--Lived Here Long Time
Orenco, Or., Oct. 8--Mrs. E. A. Mellen, a daughter of the late Hon. Stephen Statts, died here last evening. Mrs. Mellen was born in Portland, January 21, 1849, her parents having come to Oregon in 1844, settling first in Portland and later moving to Independence, Polk county.  At an early age she married W. A. K. Mellen of Salem. There were four children born to them--two girls and two boys. Mrs. M. McDonald of Orenco is the only one of the children living.
Mrs. Mellen was one of the first white children born in Oregon. She has been an invalid for eighteen years from rheumatism.  While a great sufferer she was always smiling and of cheerful disposition.
She is survived by two brothers and two sisters, W. K. Statts of Bend, Or.; C. S. Statts of Toppenish, Wash.; Mrs. J. E. Hubbard of Independence, and Mrs Balf Johnson of San Francisco. The funeral services will be held in the First congregational church at Salem on Saturday, October 10, at 2 p.m. Interment in I.O.O.F. cemetery at that place

The above will be read with sincere sorrow by all old Salem residents. Mrs. Mellen was for a generation a resident of Salem, where she was interested in all good works here, up to the time when she was stricken and became a bed-ridden invalid. And she did not even then lose interest in anything the had received her more activce sympathy when she was in bodily health. She kept her old cheerfulness, and her brain and her hands were active, even up to the last.
Her optimism was nothing short of miraculous. Never was there a more cheerful and patient friend.
And never was there a more devoted daughter to a stricken mother than has been Mrs. McDonald. All Salem will extend sympathy to her and the other members of the bereaved family.
Oregon Statesman 9 Oct 1914 1:4

MELLEN FUNERAL AT TWO
The funeral of the late Mrs. E. A. Mellen will be held at the First Congregational church this afternoon at two o'clock. The funeral sermon will be preached by Rev. W. C. Kantner, her former pastor, who for so long occupied the pulpit of this church. Interment will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery.
Oregon Statesman 10 Oct 1914 5:4
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No marker

SOURCES: 
LR
J. Plant Register
IOOF Register of Burials 
Rigdon Vol 6 #497 
Saucy Survey
1910 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, ED 222, sheet 3A)
OS Oct 1914 1:4
OS 10 Octr 1914 5:4
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 501 SPACE: 3 NW LONGITUDE: N 44 ° 55.184' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.861'
 
 

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