Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Susannah C. Dunbar ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Susannah C. Dunbar
LAST NAME: Dunbar FIRST NAME: Susannah MIDDLE NAME: C. NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Dudley AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mrs. GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 10 Oct 1853 DIED: 28 Dec 1909 BURIED: 29 Dec 1909
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  Silverton, Marion Co., Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
IOOF Register of Burials: Susana Dudley Dunbar, buried Dec. 29, 1909, in Lot 448, age 56 years, 2 months, 18 days, d. in Portland, Oregon.
MARRIAGE - "William R. Dunbar, over 21 & Susie Dudley, over 18, m 9 Jul 1879 at house of L. J. Witcomb; L. J. Minister, M. G., Wit: Laura E. Witcomb & Grace L. Crandall. Aff: Seth R. Hammer #2312 pg 594".
1800 WA CENSUS - W. R. Dunbar, age 41, b. Illinois, occupation farming, is enumerated with Susan, wife, age 26, b. Oregon, William C. Dunbar, and son, age 16, b. Oregon, occupation farming.
Rigdon records, Vol. 1, #166: Mrs. Susan Dunbar, widow of William R. Dunbar, housewife, d. Dec. 28, 1909, age 56 years, 2 months, 18 days in Portland, Oregon, funeral ordered by Ed. Holman Jan 25, 1909.
OBITUARY: 
MRS. SUSIE DUNBAR DIES IN PORTLAND.
County Clerk, R. D. Allen received a telegram from M. H. Dudley, of Portland, yesterday conveying the sad intelligence of the death of his cousin, Mrs. Susie Dunbar, at Portland.
Mrs. Dunbar was the widow of the late W. R. Dunbar, who died at Vancouver, Washington, in 1903, and who was, at the time of his death, register of the United States land office at that place. Mr. Dunbar was a brother of Judge O. Dunbar, of the supreme court of the state of Washington, and was well known throughout the Northwest.
Mrs. Dunbar died in East Portland Tuesday night at 11 o'clock, and interment will be made in the I.O.O.F. cemetery in this city Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Mrs. Dunbar was born and raised at Silverton, Oregon, where she leaves many friends and also relatives. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Malissa Price, of Walla Walla, Wash., a brother, Eugene Dudley, a prominent farmer residing in Athena, Or., and another brother, M. H. Dudley, a mining man in Portland. Funeral from W. T. Ridgon's.
Daily Oregon Statesman 30 Dec 1909
INSCRIPTION: 

Susannah Dunbar
1853 - 1909
At Rest

(shares marker with husband William R.)
SOURCES: 
LR
LD
1880 WA CENSUS (Klickitat Co., Goldendale Pct., pg 346 A)
Marion Co., Oregon Marriage Records, 1874-79, Vol III, pg 50
DAR pg 42
S&H pg 22
Rigdon records, Vol. 1, #166
DOS 30 Dec 1909
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LOT: 448 SPACE: 2 NW N½ LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: 
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