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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Hannah Jane Richardson
~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Hannah Jane Richardson
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| LAST NAME: Richardson
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FIRST NAME: Hannah
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MIDDLE NAME: Jane
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| MAIDEN NAME: Linville
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| TITLE: Mrs.
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GENDER: F
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| BORN: 2 Oct 1845
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DIED: 23 Jan 1936
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BURIED: 25 Jan 1936
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OCCUPATION: Homemaker
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| BIRTH PLACE: Missouri
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| DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
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OSBH DC (Marion County 1936) #70 - Hanna Jane Richardson, female, widow, homekeeper, b. 2 Oct 1845 in Missouri, d. 23 Jan 1936 in Salem, Oregon (755 Union) at the age of 90 y's 2 m's 22 d's, name of father Harrison J. Linville (b. Missouri), maiden name of mother Nancy Bounds (b. Kentucky), interment 25 Jan, undertaker Keeney, informant Mrs. Charles A. Gray of Salem.
BIOGRAPHICAL:
"Mrs. Richardson lived a useful life, reaching back to Oregon slavery days. On Thursday morning last, January 23, Mrs. A. J. Richardson passed to the great beyond, at 755 Union street, Salem, where her home had been for a few years. She had lived a long and useful life, reaching back to slavery days in Missouri and Oregon. Her father, Harrison Linville, led one of the covered wagon companies in the 1846 immigration from Missouri to Oregon. That train arrived over the "southern" or Applegate route.
The Linvilles brought with them two Negro slaves, but, finding the sentiment here in favor of a free soil commonwealth, gave their human chattels their freedom.
The Linvilles took up their donation claim at what was soon to be known as Bloomington, but afterward to be called Parker, after "Lon" Parker, a pioneer settler.
Parker postoffice was established May 25, 1852, with Eli W. Foster the first postmaster. It was three miles west of Buena Vista, Polk county.
Mrs. Richardson was an interesting woman and had led a singularly useful life, through the pioneer period and up to her final sickness. In her community, at Buena Vista, she took the lead in good works, and in being a good neighbor. She sponsored Red Cross drives, ministered to the sick, responded to calls for help of various kinds. This was true of her in after days, when she for a time lived at Independence. She was true to family traditions.
Her father, Harrison Linville, was a cousin of Mrs. Jesse Applegate, who had been Cynthia Ann Parker. Cynthia Ann was the original name of the town that came to be called Dallas. Cynthia Ann, after Cynthia Ann Parker-Applegate. The final name is for Vice President Dallas (1845-9), holding that place during President Polk's administration. Rather appropriate for the county seat of Polk county, which is all right for an Oregon shire, because President Polk did a good deal for the no-man's-land that became in his administration the territory of Oregon -- then all west of the Rockies to the Pacific ocean between parallels 42 and 49." [The article goes on to tell of Harrison Linville, Hannah's father and her husband, Albion Richardson. See Albion Richardson's data for the rest of the article]
Oregon Statesman Jan. 26, 1936 6:4,5; Jan. 28, 1936, 4:4,5
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PIONEER OF BUENA VISTA REGION DIES
Mrs. A. J. Richardson, 91, Came by Covered Wagon in '46
Rites set Mrs. A. J. Richardson died yesterday morning, January 23, 1936, at her home, 755 Union street, Salem, in her 91st year, from disabilities due to her advanced age.
She was born Hannah J. Linville, daughter of Harrison Linville, in Missouri on October 2, 1845. She was brought across the plains with the covered wagon immigration of the next year, 1846, starting when she was only six months old.
The Linville family lived three miles west of Buena Vista, at what was first known as Bloomington, then Parker, Polk county, Oregon.
Harrison Linville was prominent in pioneer days, in many ways. In 1862 Hannah Linville, at 17, was married to A. J. Richardson, who became a large land holder on both sides of the Willamette river in the Buena Vista section, who was for a long time the principal grain dealer and warehouseman of that part of the Willamette valley, and who died a number of years ago.
Funeral Saturday
The funeral will be held at the Keeney undertaking parlors, Independence, at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon, with a Christian Science service, and interment will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery, Salem, by the side of her late husband.
Mrs. Richardson was the last of her immediate family. She was the mother of Mrs. Charles A. Gray, Salem and Corvallis, and the grandmother of George W. Gray, Salem, co-founder of the Gray-Belle restaurant. He was faithfully at the bedside of his grandmother till the last. Mrs. Pentland, widow of Ed. Pentland, Portland, is a half-sister of the deceased, and Dr. Joseph A. Linnville, McMinnville, is a half-brother.
A sketch will appear in the Bits for Breakfast column soon, perhaps on Sunday. [See Notes above]
Oregon Statesman 24 January 1936 16:1
Independence -- Another pioneer of Oregon, is gone
Mrs. A. J. Richardson, formerly Hannah Linville, daughter of the late Harrison J. Linville, who came to Oregon by ox team in 1846.
Mrs. Richardson died January 23 at the home of her daughter in Salem at the age of 90 years. She was born in Missouri October 2, 1845, on the way across the plains from Kentucky, by covered wagon and ox team. Her parents arrived in Oregon the following year and settled in Polk county near the small suburban town of Parker. She was united in marriage to A. J. Richardson at Parker in 1861. He passed away in 1922, and since that time she has lived in Independence, Monmouth and Salem.
Survived by a daughter, Mrs. Charles A. Gray, Salem; grandson, George Gray, a half-brother, Dr. J. A. Linville of McMinnville; a half-sister, Mrs. Dola Pentland of Portland. Funeral services were held from the Keeney funeral home here Saturday at 7:30 o'clock with Mrs. Susie Stanton, Christian Science reader from Monmouth, in charge. Interment was in the IOOF cemetery.
Capital Journal 25 January 1936 10:7
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INSCRIPTION:
Hannah J. Richardson
1845-1936
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OSBH DC (Marion Co., 1936) #70
S&H pg 69
Saucy
1935 Salem Directory
OS 24 January 1936 16:1
CJ 25 January 1936 10:7
OS Jan. 26, 1936 6:4,5
OS Jan. 28, 1936, 4:4,5
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| LOT: 889
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