John Albert Jefferson LAST NAME: Jefferson FIRST NAME: John MIDDLE NAME: Albert NICKNAME:  MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE: Mr. GENDER: M MILITARY:  BORN: 13 April 1863 DIED: 23 Nov 1948 BURIED: 26 Nov 1948 ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Merchant; Salem council member BIRTH PLACE:  Salem, Marion Co., Oregon DEATH PLACE: Oswego, Clackamas Co., Oregon NOTES:  OSBH DC (Clackamas 1948) #12119 - John Albert Jefferson, male, widowed (Emily Jane), retired merchant, b. 13 Apr 1862 in Salem, Oregon, d. 23 Nov 1948 in Oswego, Oregon (754 4th St) at the age of 86 y's 7 m's 10 d's, resident of community for 7 years, of Oregon for life, name of father Deloss Jefferson (b. Ohio), maiden name of mother Matilda Appeson, interment 26 Nov, undertaker Holman-Hankins-Rilance, informant Mrs. Charles Austin of 754 4th St. 1870 OR CENSUS - John Jeffreson, age 6, b. Oregon, is enumerated with father Delos Jefferson, 46 farmer, born in NY and Matilda, 39, b. in Tennessee, along with siblings Julia A. 18, Harriett 17, Willard 12, Susan 11, Edward 5, and Annie 2, all born in Oregon. OBITUARY:  J. A. Jefferson Rites Friday  Funeral services will be held Friday at 3 p.m. in the Clough-Barrick chapel for John A. Jefferson, native of Oregon, who died Tuesday at the home of his daughter in Oswego at the age of 86 years. Concluding services will be held in the IOOF cemetery. Jefferson, onetime member of the Salem council, was born of a pioneer Oregon family in Salem, April 13, 1863. Hisd father and mother were the first couple to be married in the Portland Methodist church. Jefferson's wife, Emma J., died in 1917. Survivors are daughters, Mrs. Kate Fletcher Vent, Salem, and Mrs. Charles E. Austin, Oswego; son, William L. Jefferson, Newport; sister, Mrs. Hattie M. Lacey, Salem, and five grandchildren.  Oregon Statesman 25 November 1948 12:3 INSCRIPTION:  SOURCES:  LR  OSBH DC (Clackamas 1948) #12119  1870 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., N. Salem Pct., FA #541)  OS 25 November 1948 12:3 CONTACTS:  LOT: 322 SPACE: 1 SW LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: