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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Esther May Benoit ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Esther May Benoit
LAST NAME: Benoit FIRST NAME: Esther MIDDLE NAME: May NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Miss GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: abt 1903 DIED: Jul 1914 BURIED: 
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  
DEATH PLACE: Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

Name of father Adelard Benoit
Name of mother Ellen Catherine [maiden name unknown]

DISCREPANCY - Esther was recorded in the buial register ffor this cemetery, by the cemetery sexton, James Plant, and $5.00 was paid for her plot.  However, she is noted as having been buried at the "Catholic Cemetery" in her obituary, below.  It seems that she is, in actual fact, buried at St. Barbara's Cemetery in Salem.  There is a marker found for her on Find-A-Grave, in their online burial list for St. Barbara's.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
Not found in Oregon Death Index
OBITUARY: 
BENOIT -- In Portland, July 8, 1914, Esther May Benoit, aged 11 years.  Funeral services will be held this morning at 8:30 o'clock at Sacred Heart church in Portland.  The burial will take place in the Catholic cemetery in Salem.  The funeral party will arrive in this city on the Oregon Electric train at 1 p.m. and go directly to Rigdon and Richardson's undertaking parlors where another service will be held.  Rev. A. A. Moore will officiate.
The parents of the deceased are known in Salem.  They are Mr. and Mrs. Adalord [Adelard]  Benoit of 836 East Twenty-ninth street, Portland. 
Oregon Statesman 11 Jul 1914, 5:4.
INSCRIPTION: 
No marker
[actually buried at St. Barbara's Cemetery, Salem, Oregon]
SOURCES: 
LR
J. Plant Register
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 749 SPACE: 2 NW LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: 
 
 

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