Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Mary Ellen Pearce ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Mary Ellen Pearce
LAST NAME: Pearce FIRST NAME: Mary MIDDLE NAME: Ellen NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Riely AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mrs. GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 6 May 1859 DIED: 19 Dec 1942 BURIED: 22 Dec 1942
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  Salem, Marion Co, Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

1870 OR CENSUS M.E. Riely (11y, b Oregon) enumerated with S.A. [Sarah] (28y, b Iowa, occupation housekeeper), Cora (8y, b Oregon), Charles (6y, b Oregon) and Lizzie (4y, b Oregon)

1880 OR CENSUS Nellie Riley [sic] (21y, b Oregon, occupation printer) enumerated with mother Sarah (37y, b Iowa, widowed, occupation keeping boarding house), 3 siblings, Cora (18y, b Oregon), Charles (16y, b Oregon) and Lizzie (13y, b Oregon) and Cynthia Strang [mother of Sarah] (72y, b Tennessee, widowed)

Marriage - George J. Pearce, over 35, and Mary E. Reily, over 29, m 26 Sep 1888 at house of Mrs. A. J. Riely by Rev. H. A. Newell, M. G. Aff: Arthur S. Brasfield. Wit: Eugene Willis & A. E. Strang. #3549 pg 21".

1910 OR CENSUS Mary E. Pearce (50y, b Oregon, married 22y, mother of 2 children, both living) enumerated with husband George J. (56y, b Oregon, occupation merchant), 2 daughters, Helen (19y, b Oregon) and Dorothy (17y, b Oregon) and Sarah E. Small [mother-in-law of George, mother of Mary] (68y, b Iowa, widowed, mother of 3 children, 2 living at time of census)

1920 OR CENSUS Mary E. Pierce [sic] (66y, b Oregon, widowed) enumerated with daughter Dorothy (27y, b Oregon, occupation musician), mother Sarah E. Small (78y, b Iowa, widowed) and a boarder Genneine Phillips (18y, b Illinois)

1930 OR CENSUS Mary E. Pearce (71y, b Oregon, widowed) enumerated with daughters Dorothy (36y, b Oregon, occupation music teacher) and Helen (38y, b Oregon, occupation school teacher) and Magda Jacobsen (30y, b Denmark, immigrated 1906, naturalized, occupation maid)

1940 OR CENSUS Mary E. Pearce (80y, b Oregon, widowed) enumerated with 2 daughters, Helen (48y, b Oregon, occupation school teacher) and Dorothy (47y, b Oregon, occupation music teacher); family was living in same house in 1935; also with the family was housekeeper Kate Boice (47y, b England, single, living at Ashland, Jackson co, Oregon in 1935)

DISCREPANCY - Spelling variations - Riley; Riely

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INSCRIPTION: 
SOURCES: 

OSBH DC (Marion County 1942) #1192

1870 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, E Salem, FA#270)

1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, E Salem, ED 80, FA#9)

Marriage Records of Marion Co. Oregon, 1888-91, Vol VI, pg 2

1910 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Salem, ED 222, sheet 21B)

1920 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Salem, ED 343, sheet 2B)

1930 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Salem, ED 56, sheet 6B)

1940 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Salem, ED 24-58, sheet 4A)

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