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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Rosetta Johnson ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Rosetta "Rosa" Johnson
LAST NAME: Johnson FIRST NAME: Rosetta MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: Rosa
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1: Bonter AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 8 Jan 1879 DIED: 28 Dec 1889 BURIED: Dec 1889
ETHNICITY:  African American OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

Name of father Jackson Bonter

Maiden name of mother Mary Parks

NOTE - Salem Pioneer Cemetery Black Pioneer Omnibus Memorial was dedicated by the Oregon Northwest Pioneers on 1 Feb 2007.

1870 OR CENSUS - Rosa, age 5 months, b. Oregon, is enumerated with Wm. Johnson, age 50, occupation painter, b. North Carolina, and with E., age 35, b. Missouri.

ADOPTION - Rosetta was the natural daughter of Jackson and Mary Parks Bonter. Her mother died when she was five months old. The adoption by the Johnsons was sought by both adoptive parents and natural father and validated in Marion County Court in January 1872.

Bonter, Jackson: Marion County Commissioners Court Journal, January term of 1872, pg. 599:
In the matter of adopting a child: Now on this day W. P. Johnson and Elizabeth his wife present their Petition to this Court Showing that they are residents in said Marion County and also show to the Court that Rosetta Bonter is a child of the age of one year, Eleven months that her mother is dead and ask that they may adopt said child and have her name change to Rosetta Johnson. -- And. Jackson Bonter also files his affidavit herein Showing that he is the father of Said Rosetta Bonter, And also asks the Court that said W. P. [and] Elizabeth Johnson may adopt Said Child and have her name changed to Rosetta Johnson. It is therefore ordered by the Courts that the Prayer of the Petitions herein be granted And that Said Child adopted by said W. P. Johnson [and] wife and that she hereafter bear the name of Rosetta Johnson -- All of which is now here done.

1880 OR CENSUS - Rosa Bonts [Rosa Bonter], age 10, b. Oregon, is enumerated with [adoptive step-father] William Waterford, age 64, occupation laborer, b. Tennessee, along with Elizabeth [adoptive mother], age 47, b. Missouri. Also enumerated are Eldridge Waterford, age 23, b. Canada, and Rufus Waterford, age 19, b. Canada.

 

 

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

N/A

OBITUARY: 

No obituary found in Weekly Oregon Statesman or Daily Oregon Statesman.

INSCRIPTION: 

Rosetta Bonter
Adopted dau. of
W. P. & E. Johnson
Died
Dec. 28, 1889
Aged 10 yrs. 11 mos. 20 ds

Budded on earth

To bloom in Heaven

[East face of monument is inscribed]

SOURCES: 

DAR pg 4

1870 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., E. Salem, FA #318)

Marion Co., Commissioners Court Journal, Jan term of 1872, pg 599

1880 OR CENSUS (Multnomah Co., Portland, ED 99, pg 14D)

Perseverance: A History of African Americans in Oregon's Marion and Polk Counties (Salem, Oregon: Oregon Northwest Black Pioneers, 2011) pp 22, 32, 34, 35, 37

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