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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Adda Ruth Allen ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Adda "Addie" Ruth Allen
LAST NAME: Allen FIRST NAME: Adda MIDDLE NAME: Ruth NICKNAME: Addie
MAIDEN NAME: Bowersox AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 15 Dec 1869 DIED: 25 Nov 1949 BURIED: 29 Nov 1949
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  York, York County, Pennsylvania
DEATH PLACE: Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
MARRIAGE - Ira E. Allen, over 21 of Multnomah Co., & Addie R. Bowersox, over 18, md 12 Oct 1892 at house of Rev. J. Bowersox by C. C. Poling, M. G. Aff: A. W. Bowersox. Wit: A. W. Bowersox & Anna Allen.
1910 OR CENSUS - Adda R. Allen, age 40, mother of 2 children, b. Pennsylvania, is enumerated with her husband of 17 years, Ira E. Allen, age 42, occupation book keeper, b. Oregon, along with Mildred, age 16, b. Oregon, and Gaylord, age 14, b. Oregon.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OSBH DC (Portland 25 Nov 1949) #12457 - Addie Bowersox Allen, female, married (Ira Allen), occupation housewife, b. 15 Dec 1869 in York Pennsylvania, d. 25 Nov 1949 in Portland, Oregon (Lombard Nursing Home) at the age of 79 years, name of father Josiah Bowersox, maiden name of mother Mary Orwig, interment 29 Nov, undertaker Peninsula Funeral Home, informant Mrs. W. T. Jeffery.
OBITUARY: 
Addie B. Allen, Former Salem Woman, Passes. 
Funeral service for Addie Bowersox Allen, former Salem resident and daughter of an Oregon territory circuit-riding minister, will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Mikeworth's Penunsula Funeral home in Portland. Interment will be at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Salem IOOF cemetery. 
Word of her death was learned in Salem Sunday. 
Mrs. Allen was born at York, Pa., on Dec. 15, 1869, and the family lived in Albany and Corvallis as well as Salem. Her father was the late Rev. Josiah Bowersox. Surviving are the widower, Ira E. Allen; a daughter, Mrs. Mildred Jeffery of Medford; a son, Harold B. Allen of Portland; a brother, Dr. Fred Bowersox of Monmouth; one grandchild and one great-grandchild. 
Oregon Statesman 28 Nov 1949 3:3
INSCRIPTION: 
ALLEN 
Addie Ruth 
1869 - 1949 
[shares marker with Ira Emery Allen, along with a blank space left for a third name]
SOURCES: 
OSBH DC (Portland 25 Nov 1949) #12457
Marriage Records of Marion County Oregon, Vol. VII, 1891-94, pg 17  
1910 OR CENSUS (Multnomah Co., Pct. 97, ED 115, sheet 1B) 
OS 28 Nov 1849 3:3
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LOT: 016 SPACE: 2 SE N½ LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: 
 
 

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