Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Rosetta Burr ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Rosetta Burr
LAST NAME: Burr FIRST NAME: Rosetta MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Simpkins AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mrs. GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 11 Nov 1864 DIED: 21 Feb 1933 BURIED: 1 Mar 1933
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  Illinois
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

1880 KS CENSUS Rosetta Simpkins (13y, b Illinois) enumerated with parents Noah (47y, b Illinois, occupation farmer) and Rebecca B. (37y, b Illinois) and 3 siblings, Horatio F. (15y, b Illinois), Emma G. (4y, b Kansas) and Lottie A. (2y, b Arkansas)

MARRIAGE Samuel Burr and Rosetta Simkins md 12 Aug 1882, Vernon co, Missouri

1900 MO CENSUS - Rosaetta Burr, age 34, mother of 9, b. Nov 1865 in Illinois, is enumerated with her husband of 18 years, Samuel H., age 41, occupation farm laborer, b. Aug 1858 in Iowa, along with Robert, age 14, b. Mar 1886 in Missouri, Charles, age 12, b. Sep 1887 in Missouri, Samuel A., age 10, b. Aug 1889 in Missouri, Celia A., age 8, b. 1891 in Missouri, Otis B., age 7, b. Mul 1892 in Missouri, Daniel F., age 4, b. Mun 1895 in Missouri, Alvis, age 2, b. Mar 1898 in Missouri, and Alvin,m age 2, b. MAr 1898 in Missouri, and Levatta A. Vansickle, age 16, identified as daughter (of Samuel), widowed, b. Jan 1884 in Missouri.

1910 OR CENSUS Rosetta Burr (49y, b Illinois, married 27y, mother of 14 children, 10 living at time of census) enumerated with husband S.H. (59y, b Iowa, occupation farmer) and 7 children, Charles F. (22y, b Missouri), Otis B. (16y, b Missouri), Don (14y, b Missouri), Alvis (11y, b Missouri), Alvin (11y, b Missouri), Ida (7y, b Kansas) and Theodore (5y, b Kansas); also with the family were 3 boarders

1920 OR CENSUS Rosetta Burr (57y, b Illinois, occupation cook, married but husband not with family) enumerated with 2 sons, Alvis (21y, b Missouri, occupation laborer) and Theodore (15y, b Kansas)
OBITUARY: 

At a local hospital February 21, Rosetta Burr, at the age of 68 years. Survived by widower, Samuel Burr of Monmouth; one sister, Mrs. Lottie Van Dorn of Yakima, Wash.; daughter, Mrs. Levety Scott of Breckenridge, Mo.; six sons, Don P. of Monmouth, Robert and Theodore of Toledo, Alvin of Albany, Alvis of Hillsboro and Charles of Salem; 29 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren also survive. Funeral services will be held from the chapel of the Clough-Barrick company Wednesday, March 1, at 11 a.m. Interment I.O.O.F. cemetery.
Oregon Statesman 22 February 1933 5:2
INSCRIPTION: 

No marker
SOURCES: 

OSBH DC (Marion County 1933) #146

1880 KS CENSUS (Linn Co, Sheridan, ED 132, sheet 167)

Missouri Marriage Records (Ancestry.com)

1900 MO CENSUS (Caldwell Co., Gomer, ED 4, sheet 5A)

1910 OR CENSUS (Josephine Co, Merlin, ED 121, sheet 6A)

1920 OR CENSUS (Coos Co, Coquille, ED 126, sheet 10A)

OS 22 February 1933 5:2
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