Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Mary Ellen Gibson ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Mary Ellen Gibson
LAST NAME: Gibson FIRST NAME: Mary MIDDLE NAME: Ellen NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Hirons AKA 1: Foreman AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 25 Oct 1837 DIED: 2 Sep 1904 BURIED: 4 Sep 1904
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  Ohio
DEATH PLACE: Rickreal, Polk Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
IOOF - Mrs. Mary E. Gibson, age 65 y's 10 m's 22 d's, died in Polk Co., of paralysis.

1st MARRIAGE - Jeremiah Foreman, circa 1857
1860 CENSUS - M. E. Foreman, age 24, b. Ohio, is enumerated with her husband J. Foreman, age 23, farmer, b. Illinois, along with Asa, age 1, b. Illinois.
2nd MARRIAGE - Mrs. Mary E. Foreman md Samuel D. Gibson 26 Mar 1868 in Pike Co., Illinois.
1880 CENSUS - Mary E. Gibson, age 42, b. Ohio, is enumerated with her husband Samuel D. Gibson, age 43, occupation farmer, b. Illinois, along with Frank Gibson, age 12, b. Oregon, and Asa L. Foreman [identified as step-son of Samuel], age 21, b. Illinois.
DISCREPANCY - Census records give her birthplace as Ohio, DC as Illinois
DISCREPANCY - DC and Marker give year of birth as 1839 - family says she was born in 1837, which is more in line with what is indicated in the census records.

BIOGRAPHICAL from Marlene Hirons: Mary Ellen Gibson was the widow of of Jeremiah Foreman who served in the Civil War; she then was widow of Samuel D. Gibson; she was b. 1837 in Ohio and d. Rickreal, Polk Co., Oregon at age 67; she was a sister to Henry Hirons who is buried in Lot #248.
OBITUARY: 
At Rickreal, on Friday night, September 2, 1904, of a complication of diseases, Mrs. M. E. Gibson, wife of the late S. D. Gibson, aged 58 years. Deceased came to Oregon in 1867, and was married the same year. Her husband died in 1897, and but one son, Frank, Survives her. The funeral will be held on Sunday at 1 o’clock and the remains will be interred in the Rural cemetery. The neighborhood loses a good woman, one held in highest respect by all. 
Capital Journal 3 Sep 1904 4:2 

At the farm of Mr. Frank Gibson, at Rickreal, Polk county, Mrs. M. E. Gibson, relict of the late Hon. S. D. Gibson, aged 58 years. Deceased was Miss M. E. Hirons, and was married in Pike county, Illinois, in 1867, and came to Oregon in the same year. She leaves only one son, Frank Gibson, her husband having died in 1897. The funeral will take place at Rural Cemetery, and the services will be conducted by Rev. David Errett. The cortege will leave the house at 10 o’clock today. 
Oregon Statesman 4 Sept 1904 4:4
INSCRIPTION: 
Mary E. Gibson 
Born 
Oct. 25, 1839 
Died 
Sept. 2, 1904
[west face of monument shared with Samuel, Frank, and Saidee]

Individual:
MEG
SOURCES: 
LR
LD 
IOOF Register of Burials 
DAR pg 65
Saucy Survey & Photographs 
1860 IL CENSUS (Pike Co., Hardin, pg 10)
Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900
1880 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., La Creole Pct., FA #138) 
CJ 3 September 1904 4:2 
OS 4 Sept 1904 4:4
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 796 SPACE: 4 SW LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: 
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