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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Edward H. Piper
~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Edward H. Piper
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LAST NAME: Piper
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FIRST NAME: Edward
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MIDDLE NAME: H.
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TITLE:
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GENDER: M
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MILITARY: Indian Wars
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BORN: 16 Feb 1831
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DIED: 26 Jan 1899
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BURIED: 27 Jan 1899
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ETHNICITY:
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OCCUPATION: Teamster
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BIRTH PLACE: Illinois
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DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
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NOTES: IOOF - E. H. Piper, age 66, died S. Commercial St., of paralysis, a pioneer.
1860 OR CENSUS - Edward H. Piper, age 30, occupation farmer, b. Indiana, is enumerated with wife Almira [Elmira], age 22, b. Pennsylvania.
1870 OR CENSUS - Edward Piper, age 40, farmer, b. Illinois, is enumerated with wife Sarah, age 32, b. Pennsylvania, and Florence, age 8, b. Oregon.
1880 OR CENSUS - E. H. Piper, age 50, teamster, b. Illinois, is enumerated with wife, E. E., age 45, b. Pa., and son E. age 5, b. Oregon.
DISCREPANCY - contrary to other census records and obit, the 1860 census gives his place of birth as Indiana.
DISCREPANCY - Obit gives year of birth as 1832, marker as 1831
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DEATH CERTIFICATE: N/A
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OBITUARY: At the family home in South Salem Oregon, Thursday, January 26, l899, at l: 30 a.m., E. H. Piper, aged 67 years.
Deceased was born in Illinois, on February l6, l832, and came to Oregon in l852, coming across the plains with a Presbyterian colony. He fought in the Indian wars in l855-56. For the past twenty-five years he has been a resident of Salem. The funeral will be conducted from the Leslie M.E. church in South Salem at 3 o’clock this afternoon, Rev. H.A. Ketchum, D.D. officiating.
Oregon Statesman 27 Jan l899 8:4
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INSCRIPTION: Piper
Edward H.
1831 - 1899
[shares west side of monument with Elmira and May F.]
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SOURCES: LR
LD
IOOF Register of Burials
1860 OR CENSUS (Benton Co., Butte, FA #303)
1870 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Lincoln Pct., pg 223)
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., South Salem Pct., ED 79, pg 14C)
Rigdon #32
DAR pg 81
Saucy Survey & Photographs
OS 27 Jan l899 8:4
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CONTACTS:
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LOT: 593
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SPACE: 2 SW S½
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LONGITUDE: N 44 55.201'
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LATITUDE: W 123° 02.893'
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