Minnie Belle Rickey LAST NAME: Rickey FIRST NAME: Minnie MIDDLE NAME: Belle NICKNAME:  MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE: Miss GENDER: F MILITARY:  BORN: 21 Feb 1859 DIED: 12 Aug 1863 BURIED: Aug 1863 ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:   BIRTH PLACE:  Salem, Marion Co., Oregon DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon NOTES:  Minnie Belle Rickey died of scarlet fever. She was the daughter of Thomas Benton Rickey and Rosina Stanton.  1860 OR CENSUS - M. B. Rickey, female, age 1, b. Oregon, is enumerated withT. B, male, age 27, occupation farmer, b. Ohio, and R., female, age 25, b. Iowa, along with B. D., male, age 6, b. Oregon. OBITUARY:  DIED--In Salem, 12 inst., of scarlet fever, Minnie Belle, only daughter of T. B. and R. A. Rickey, aged 4 years, 5 months and 21 days. "Yet again we hope to meet thee, When the day of life is fled; Then in heaven with joy to greet thee, Where no farewell tear is shed." Cox.  Weekly Oregon Statesman 17 Aug 1863 3:3. INSCRIPTION:  Our Minnie Belle Dau of T. B. & R. A. Rickey  Died  August 12, 1863  Aged 4 Y's 5 M's 22 D's   Asleep in Jesus GRAVEMARKERS BEARING STONECUTTER’S IDENTIFICATION Curvilinear crested marble headstone of Minne Belle Rickey (1859-1863), daughter of Thomas B. and Rosina (Stanton) Rickey. Space 2 NW from NW corner. On the west, epitaph face of the die, lower left (see also Sarah Kenyon, Christian Clark headstones), is the carver’s mark: “I. Gruber, Portlnd [sic], O.” SOURCES:  LR  LD  1860 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, FA #3006) S&H pg 9  DAR pg 41  WOS 17 Aug 1863, 3:3 CONTACTS:  LOT: 037 SPACE:  LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: