Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Maria M. Polley ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Maria M. Polley
LAST NAME: Polley FIRST NAME: Maria MIDDLE NAME: M. NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Miller AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mrs. GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 13 Dec 1851 DIED: 8 Jan 1913 BURIED: 9 Jan 1913
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  Indiana
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
MARRIAGE - "L. W. Crump & Maria Miller, m (no date) Lic. Dated 12 June 1872. Rec. 13 June 1872; W. D. Owen M. G. Wit: Emily Cox & Sis Brown #1450 pg 23".
MARRIAGE - "W. J. Polly (Palley), over 21 & Maria Crump, over 18, m 11 Apr 1881 at house of Lewis Johnson; S. C. Adams, M. G. Wit: Mrs. Lewis Johnson & Jay W. Cox & wife. Aff. J. A. Baker #2548 pg 200"; OSBH DC (Marion County 1913) #191 - Maria M. Polley, female, widow, b. 13 Dec 1851 in Indiana, d. 8 Jan 1913 in Salem, Oregon (Winter & Chemeketa Sts.) at the age of 51 y's and 26 d's, name of father James Miller (b. Illinois), maiden name of mother Mary Yost (b. Pennsylvania), interment IOOF 9 Jan, undertaker Rigdon & Richardson, informant not named.
Funeral ordered by J. W. Cox - Chester O. Cox
OBITUARY: 
Mrs. Polley Buried. 
Funeral services were held at the home of J. W. Cox, 312 North Winter street yesterday at 2 o'clock p. m. for Mrs. Maria M. Polley, who died Wednesday. The officiating clergyman was Rev. W. J. Elliot, pastor of the Unitarian church in Portland. Mrs. Polley was a former parishoner of his years ago and he spoke remembering her in her good works at that time. Two selections, one of them being Auld Lang Syne, were sung by a mixed quartet consisting of Mrs. A. M. Dairymple, Mrs. Milton Meyers, Wm. McGilchrist,, Sr., and Dr. R. E. Lee Steiner. Burial was in the I. O. O. F. cemetery. The pall bearers were Stephen McFadden, Gideon Stoltz, Henry Fletcher, G. Steiner, J. P. Frizzell, and C. S. Hamilton. 
Daily Oregon Statesman 10 Jun 1913 5:4.
INSCRIPTION: 
Maria M. Polley 
1851 - 1913
SOURCES: 
LR 
Rigdon records Vol. 6 # 173 S&H p. 79 
OSBH DC (Marion County 1913) #191 DOS 10 Jun 1913 5:4
Marion Co., Oregon Marriage Records 1871-74, Vol II, pg 5
Marion Co., Oregon Marriage Records 1879-84, Vol IV, pg 17
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 754 SPACE: 2 SW LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: