Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Robert Sylvester Clark ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Robert Sylvester Clark
LAST NAME: Clark FIRST NAME: Robert MIDDLE NAME: Sylvester NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: M MILITARY: 
BORN: Oct 1860 DIED: 1 Jun 1929 BURIED: 4 Jun 1929
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Laborer
BIRTH PLACE:  Illinois
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

Marriage of Parents Benjamin F. Clark & Mary A. Foster md 27 Aug 1857, Grundy Co, Illinois

Remarriage of Father B.F. Clark & Susan Wenger md 20 Feb 1865, Grundy Co, Illinois

1870 MO CENSUS Robert S. Clark (10y, b Illinois) enumerated with Benjamin F. (34y, b Virginia, farmer), Susan (25y, b Virginia), Alonzo E. (12y, b Illinois), Henrietta (3y, b Missouri) and Isaac F. (1y, b Missouri)

NOTE Benjamin & Susan Clark are buried in Belle Passi cemetery at Woodburn

1st MARRIAGE to Isabelle

DIVORCE R.S. & Isabelle Clark divorced 1896, Polk co, Oregon

2nd MARRIAGE ca 1897 to Harriet A. Rider Kellogg
1900 OR CENSUS - Robert Sylvester Clark, age 39, occupation farmer, b. Oct 1860 in Illinois, is enumerated with his wife of 3 years, Hatte Aurelia, age 34, mother of 6, b. Jul 1865 in Oregon, along with [step-sons of Robert] Orin W. Kellogg, age 14, b. Mar 1886 in Oregon, Harvey Ray Kellogg, age 12, b. Feb 1889 in Oregon, Eugene E Kellogg, age 9, b. Feb 1891 in Oregon, Artmus N., age 6, b. Oct 1893 in Oregon, and daughter Etta May Clark, age 1, b. Jul 1898 in Oregon.
1910 OR CENSUS  - Robert Clark, age 49, occupation hardware salesman, b. Illinois, is enumerated with his wife (2nd marriage) of 13 years, Hattie, age 45, her 2nd marriage, mother of 6 children, b.  Iowa, along with Etta, age 11, b. Oregon, Eugene Kellog, identified as step-son [of Robert], age 18, b. Oregon, and Arthur Kellog, identified as step-son [of Robert], age 16, b. Oregon.

DIVORCE Harriet A. vs R.S. Clark, divorced 1917 Marion co, Oregon

3rd MARRIAGE Robert S. Clark (55y, of Logan, b Springfield, Illinois, son of Franklin Clark & Susan Wenger) and Melissa Boomer (55y, of Logan, b Coal Chester, Canada, dau of John DeArmon & Ruby Cottom) md 3 Nov 1919, Bozeman, Gallatin Co, Montana

NOTE Melissa DeArmon was born in Nova Scotia and m1 in 1883 to Robert Henry Boomer. They were divorced in 1917 in Gallatin co, Montana [Montana divorce records, Ancestry.com]

1920 MT CENSUS Robert S. Clark (55y, b Illinois, laborer) enumerated with wife Melissa (56y, b Canada, immigrated 1886, naturalized); also with family was a roomer Evelyn Brown (20y, b California, single, waitress)

Marion County Burial.

Died on hwy near Painter's Woods [a fir forest on the east side of what is now known as River road in Keizer].

OBITUARY: 

No obituary found in Oregon Statesman

INSCRIPTION: 

No marker

SOURCES: 

LR 
OSBH DC (Marion County 1929) #454

Illinois Statewide Marriage Index

1870 MO CENSUS (Saline Co, Salt Pond, FA#62)

Polk Co, Oregon Divorce Records, Case 2914 (Oregon State Archives)

1900 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Independence, ED 175, sheet 13A)
1910 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Salem, ED 225, sheet 2A)

Marion Co, Oregon, Divorce Records, Case 13651 (Oregon State Archives)

Montana Marriage Records (Ancestry.com)

1920 MT CENSUS (Gallatin Co, Logan, ED 54, sheet 6A) 

CONTACTS: 
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