Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Jennie Forsythe ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Jennie Forsythe
LAST NAME: Forsythe FIRST NAME: Jennie MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Starkey AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mrs. GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 15 Dec 1853 DIED: 19 Nov 1888 BURIED: 21 Nov 1888
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
IOOF - Mrs. Jennie Forsythe, age 24, died in Salem of consumption.
1880 CENSUS - Jennie Forsythe, age 16, b. Oregon, is enumerated with her widowed mother, M. J., age 46, b. Ohio, along with siblings Tilley, age 22, Fanney, age 20, Millie, age 18, and Lizzie, age 11, all born in Oregon, also enumerated with the family is O. R. Barker, (identified as the brother-in-law of M. J.), age 50, wid'r, b. Missouri, occupation bartender.
MARRIAGE - "James M. Forsythe, over 25 & Jennie Starkey, over 20, m 04 Jan 1885 at house of J. F. Staiger: E. J. Thompson, M. G. Aff: W. F. Boothby. Wit: Wm. Forsythe & A. H. Wilson #3054 pg 78"; Daughter of Amos A. and Mary Jane (Durbin) Starkey;
OBITUARY: 
At her home on Court street, Salem, Monday evening, Nov. 19, 1888, of consumption. Mrs. Jennie Forsythe (nee Starkey), wife of James Forsythe, aged 24 years. The funeral will take place from the family residence at 2 o’clock this (Wednesday) afternoon. Interment at the IOOF cemetery. 
Oregon Statesman 21 Nov 1888
INSCRIPTION: 
Jennie Starkey 
Wife of 
J. M. Forsythe 
Dec. 15, 1863 Nov. 19, 1888
SOURCES: 
LR 
IOOF Register of Burials 
DAR pg 76 
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem Pct., FA #213) 
Marion Co. Oregon Marriage Records, 1884-88, Vol V, pg 7 
OS 21 Nov 1888 
OS 4 Jan 1889 [Necrological listing]
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 904 SPACE: 1 SW LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.178' LATITUDE: W 123° 03.003'
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