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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Elizabeth Ruggles ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Elizabeth Ruggles
LAST NAME: Ruggles FIRST NAME: Elizabeth MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Brown AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 9 Oct 1859 DIED: 19 Feb 1954 BURIED: 22 Feb 1954
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  Stevens Point, Portage Co., Wisconsin
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
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1900 ND CENSUS Elizabeth Ruggles, age 40, mother of 5 children, b. Oct 1859 in Wisconsin, is enumerated with her husband of 13 years, M. L. Ruggles, age 43, occupation farmer, b. Jul 1856 in Ohio, along with Delbert M., age 12, b. Mar 1888 in North Dakota, Wilber B., age 10, b. Jan 1890 in Wisconsin [?], Charles M., age 7, b. Jun 1892 in North Dakota, Sherman S., age 2, b. Mar 1898 in North Dakota, and Raymond M., age 5, b. Sep 1894 in North Dakota.

1910 OR CENSUS Elizabeth Ruggles (50y, b Wisconsin, widowed, mother of 7 children, 6 living at time of census) enumerated with 6 children Adelbert M. (22y, b North Dakota, occupation partner in furnace factory), Wilbur B. (19y, b Missouri, occupation messenger), Charles M. (17y, b North Dakota), Raymond R. (15y, b North Dakota), Sherman S. (12y, b North Dakota) and Alice E. (4y, b Oregon)

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Services for Mrs. Ruggles, 94, Monday--Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Ruggles, 94, resident of the Salem area since 1905, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday in the Clough-Barrick Chapel. She died in a Salem hospital Friday.
Born at Stephens Point, Wis., Oct. 9, 1859, she moved to Mt. Leonard, Mo., as a young girl. In 1880 she moved to North Dakota where her brother and his family homesteaded. While there she was married to Marion L. Ruggles who preceded her in death in 1909.
The couple moved to Oregon in 1905 and settled on a farm in the Liberty District. Mrs. Ruggles lived there until 1932 when she moved to Four Corners to live with a son, Raymond R. Ruggles. She is survived by five sons, Delbert M. Ruggles, Chicago, Wilbur B. Ruggles, Portland, Charles N. and Raymond R. Ruggles both of Salem, and Sherman S. Ruggles, Dallas; daughter, Mrs. Alice E. Schaffer, Portland; sister, Mrs. Mabel Benedict, Marshall, Mo; and brother Charles S. Brown, Marshall, Mo.; eight grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren, and five great-great grandchildren.
Concluding services will be held at the Pioneer Cemetery with the Rev. Paul Barnett officiating. Mrs. Ruggles was a member of the Highland Avenue Friends Church.
[newspaper clipping, not cited]

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Ruggles
Elizabeth
1859 - 1954

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LR
LD
Saucy Survey & Photographs
1900 ND CENSUS (Griggs, Co., Cooperstown, ED 76, sheet 1B)

1910 OR CENSUS (Marion co, Salem, ED 225, sheet 11B)

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LOT: 401 SPACE: 2 SW S½ LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.160' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.803'
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