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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Towner Harrison Savage ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Towner Harrison Savage
LAST NAME: Savage FIRST NAME: Towner MIDDLE NAME: Harrison NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: M MILITARY: 
BORN: 19 Nov 1867 DIED: 28 Mar 1938 BURIED: 30 Mar 1938
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Farm Laborer
BIRTH PLACE:  Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Lebanon, Linn Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
Name of father Mortimer R. Savage
Maiden name of mother Sarah E. Murphy
Name of spouse - Clara Browning
OSBH DC (Linn County 1938) #85
1880 CENSUS - Towner Savage, age 12, b. Oregon, is enumerated with Mortimer R. Savage, age 42, occupation farmer, b. Michigan, and Sarah E., age 33, b. Indiana, along with Ina E., age 13, James, age 10, Teresa, age 8, Myrtle, age 6, Douglas J., age 4, Dean S., age 2, and Cora A., age 1, all born in Oregon. Also enumerated with the family is a farm laborer, Samuel Johnson, age 30, b. Canada, and farm laborer Louis Capsel, age 34, b. Illinois. 
1900 OR CENSUS - Towner Savage, age 33, single, occupation farm laborer, b. Nov 1877 in Oregon, is enumerated with father Mort, age 62, occupation farmer, b. Feb 1838 in Michigan, and his wife of 35 years, Sarah, age 54, mother of 10 children 8 of whom are living at the time of the census, b. Apr 1846 in Indiana, along with James C., age 30, single, occupation farm laborer, b. Feb 1870 in Oregon, Cora, age 21, b. Apr 1879 in Oregon, Dean, age 23, b. Jun 1876 in Oregon, Frank, age 18, b. Dec 1881 in Oregon, and Lloyd, age 17, b. Jun 1882 in Oregon.
1930 OR CENSUS - Towner H. Savage, age 63, first married at age 33, occupation farm laborer, b. Oregon, is enumerated with wife Clara, age 34, first married at age 17, b. Oregon, along with Douglas G., age 53, identified as brother [of Towner], b. Oregon, Myrtle L., age 15, b. California, Mable M., age 13, b. California, and Towner H., Jr., age 7, b. Oregon.
DISCREPANCY - 1900 census gives year of birth as 1866, inscription at gravesite as 1867, obituary 1865.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 
Towner Harrison Savage
LEBANON - Towner Harrison Savage, born at Salem November 19, 1865, and a resident of this state for almost his entire life, died at his home near Lebanon early Monday morning.  Survivors include the widow, Clara; five daughters, Mrs. Rose Short of Sublimity, Miss Myrtle Savage of Lebanon, Miss Mable Savage of Waldport, Mrsa. Dorothy Harpst of McClay and Mrs. Cornetta Short of Waldport, and two sons, Ted and Junior Savage of Lebanon.  Funeral services were held at 1:30 Wednesday afternoon at the How funeral chapel with interment at a Salem cemetery, Rev. LeRoy Crossley officiating.
Capital Journal 30 March 1938 10:8
INSCRIPTION: 
Towner
1867 - 1938
[stamped into curb]
SOURCES: 
LD
ODI
Saucy
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Howell Prairie, ED 87, pg 143B) 
1900 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Howell Prairie, ED 138, sheet 6A)
1930 OR CENSUS (Linn Co., Lacomb, ED 26, sheet 1A)
CJ 30 March 1938 10:8
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