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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Mary A. Bonter ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Mary A. Bonter
LAST NAME: Bonter FIRST NAME: Mary MIDDLE NAME: A. NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Parks AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 13 Sep 1850 DIED: 28 Feb 1870 BURIED: 1 Mar 1870
ETHNICITY:  African American OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  Missouri
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

IOOF - Mrs. Mary A. Bonter, age 23 y's, 3 m's 22 d's, died in Salem of consumption.

MARRIAGE - "Mr. Jackson Bonter & Mary Parks, m 29 Dec 1865; O. Dickenson, M. G. Wit: Wm. Johnson & Jones, the barber #831 pg 284".
1870 OR CENSUS - Mary Bonter, age 21, black, b. Missouri, is enumerated in the home of J. Williams, black, age 70, Gardner, b. Va., and Nancy Williams, black, age 65, b. Kentucky, along with husband Jack, black, age 25, occupation painter, b. Kentucky and Wm., black, age 4, b. Oregon, and George, black, age 2, b. Oregon.

Mary Parks twin brother, Marion Parks (13 Sep 1850 - 5 Dec 1868), is buried in the same lot (191)

Mary Parks married Jackson Bonter in Salem in 1865. The Rev. Obed Dickinson, pastor of the Congregational Church, officiated. She was the mother of three of children: William, who died in 1877 at the age of nine years and ten months; George, who lived to maturity; and Rosetta, who died in 1880 at the age of ten years and eleven months. Mary died of tuberculosis in 1870. (Perseverance, 32-33). West-facing epitaphs.

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

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

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OBITUARY: 

DIED At Salem, Sunday, Feb. 26th, Mary Bonter (colored) 20 years of age. She leaves three children. The funeral was numerously attended by friends and relatives, on Tuesday March 1st.
Oregon Statesman 4 March 1870 3:2

INSCRIPTION: 

Mary
Wife of
J. Bontor
Born
Sept 13, 1850
Died
Feb. 28, 1870

SOURCES: 

LD
IOOF Register of Burials
Marion County Oregon Marriage Records, 1849-1871, Vol. I, pg 52
1870 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem Pct., pg 24)
DAR pg 10
DOS 4 March 1870 3:2

Elisabeth Walton Potter

Perseverance: A History of African Americans in Oregon’s Marion and Polk Counties (Salem, Oregon: Oregon Northwest Black Pioneers, 2011).

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LOT: 191 SPACE: 2 SE LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: 
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