Priscilla Musser LAST NAME: Musser FIRST NAME: Priscilla MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME:  MAIDEN NAME: Dobson AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE: Mrs. GENDER: F MILITARY:  BORN: abt 1844 DIED: 10 Oct 1899 BURIED: 10 Oct 1899 ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife BIRTH PLACE:  Pennsylvania DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon NOTES:  IOOF - Mrs. George Musser, died of smallpox, buried at midnight; Her husband, George, is in the GAR Circle in City View Cemetery; 1880 Census - P. Musser, wife, age 34, b. Pa., is enumerated with Geo A., age 41, farmer, b. Pa., along with children - dau. M. M., age 16, b. Pa., dau. A. E., age 14, b. Pa., son C. J., age 11, b. Pa., son G. E., age 9, b. Pa., and dau. G. E., age 9, b. Pa.; 1895 Census - Percilla Musser, b. PA, 5'7'', 140#, dark, housekeeper, Prto., f, 48; OBITUARY:  MRS. MUSSER DEAD--Mrs. Priscilla Musser, mother of Elmer Musser, who died from the effects of what is said to be smallpox on Tuesday Night, also succumbed to the scourge at 8:45 last evening. The woman was 55 years old. The remains of mother and son were last night taken out and buried under the direction of the city authorities. The young man is said to have been addicted to the use of opium, which fact is probably partially responsible for the fatal effects of the scourge in his case. Mrs. Musser died on the second anniversary of the demise of her husband, and the eighth of the death of a daughter. There are two more patients afflicted with the dread disease in the Musser home--Susie Hersley, aged 13 years, a niece of Mrs. Wm. Battersby, and the latter's baby, but the city physician, who is in charge of the cases has hopes of saving both, unless complications set in. Mrs. Mary Hersley, of Portland, a daughter of Mrs. Musser and mother of the sick girl, Susie, came to Salem immediately upon the first news of the sickness of her sister, Mrs. Battersby, and has been untiring in her efforts in behalf of the...  Oregon Statesman 12 October 1899 2:5-6. INSCRIPTION:  SOURCES:  IOOF Register of Burials  1880 Oregon Census (Marion Co., South Salem Pct., FA #149)  1895 Marion CO. Census (WVGS, Vol I, pg 46)  OS 12 Oct 1899 2:5-6 CONTACTS:  LOT: 258 SPACE: NE N½ LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: