|
|
|
|
|
Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Charles Benson
~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Print Friendly Version |
|
Charles Benson
|
|
| LAST NAME: Benson
|
FIRST NAME: Charles
|
MIDDLE NAME:
|
NICKNAME:
|
|
| MAIDEN NAME:
|
AKA 1:
|
AKA 2:
|
AKA 3:
|
|
| TITLE: Mr.
|
GENDER: M
|
MILITARY:
|
|
| BORN: abt 1820
|
DIED: 8 May 1902
|
BURIED: May 1902
|
|
| ETHNICITY:
|
OCCUPATION:
|
|
| BIRTH PLACE: Missouri
|
|
| DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon [Salem Hospital]
|
|
NOTES:
DLC near Sublimity;
BIOGRAPHICAL:
"...and most every Saturday there would be a lawsuit with jury trial.. ..So interesting were these cases that people would come for miles.. .. Charley Benson and a Mr. Sears were two old mountaineers who lived in the hills east of Sublimity. Benson would entertain the crowds with with racecourse comic antics, dressed out in buckskin suit, he was a picturesque figure.''
From: Steeves, Sarah Hunt, BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE OF MARION COUNTY, OREGON, PIONEERS 1840 - 1860, Portland, Oregon, The Berncliff Press, 1927, (The Dim Past, Source: James T. Hunt, Eugene, Oregon, 1926), pg. 108;
|
|
DEATH CERTIFICATE:
|
|
OBITUARY:
BENSON-- At the Salem Hospital, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, May 8, 1902, at 4 o'clock p.m., Charles Benson, aged 82 years, of infrimaties attending old age. Deceased was an early Oregon pioneer, having migrated to this country from Missouri, his native state, early in the '40s taking up a donation land claim in the hills near Sublimity upon which he has live over since. Three children survive him tow of which are daughters, one married and residing in Eastern Washington, and the other daughter and the son, Henry Benson, reside at the old home near Sublimity. His wife died several years ago. "Uncle Charley" Benson, as he was familiarly called, was known by all the early settlers as a sturdy, honest old soul, a mighty hunter in his youger days, a good neighbor and a true friend, and his demise though expected, will be mourned by many hundreds who knew him in life.
Oregon Statesman, May 9, 1902, 6:2.
|
|
INSCRIPTION:
|
|
SOURCES:
Steeves, BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE, pg 108
OS, May 9, 1902, 6:2.
|
|
CONTACTS:
|
|
| LOT: ?
|
SPACE:
|
LONGITUDE:
|
LATITUDE:
|
|
|
|
|
