Mary "Lizzie" Elizabeth Retherford LAST NAME: Retherford FIRST NAME: Mary MIDDLE NAME: Elizabeth NICKNAME: Lizzie MAIDEN NAME: Doty AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE: Mrs. GENDER: F MILITARY:  BORN: 1859 DIED: Oct 1895 BURIED: 31 Oct 1895 ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife BIRTH PLACE:  Pennsylvania DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon NOTES:  IOOF - Elizabeth Rutherford [sic], age 36, born in Illinois, died in south Salem of child bed fever, wife of T. C. Rutherford. MARRIAGE - Mary E. Doty married Thomas C. Retherford 21 Dec 1882 in Champaign Co., Illinois. 1895 Marion Co. CENSUS- Lizzie Retherford, age 35, b. Pennsylvania, 5'4", 130 lbs, is enumerated with Thos., age 35, laborer, b. Illinois, along with Albert, age 11, b. Illinois, Frank, age 9, b. Illinois, George, age 7, b. Illinois, Earl, Walter, age 5, b. Oregon and Earl, age 3, b. Oregon. OBITUARY:  At the family home in South Salem, Tuesday evening, Oct. 29, 1895, of brain trouble, Lizzie M., wife of T. C. Retherford, aged 36 years.  Deceased was a native of Pennsylvania, the year of her birth being 1859. In 1861 she moved with her parents to LaSalle county, Ill., and 7 years later to Champaign county, where she was married to Mr. Retherford on December 20, 1882.  In 1889 they moved to Oregon, coming to Salem where they have since resided. She leaves a husband and six children - boys, the oldest 12 years, the youngest 5 days - to mourn her demise, also a father, mother and one sister in Illinois and a brother, C. T. Doty, of Salem. The funeral will be held at the residence at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon, the service to be conducted by Rev. I. B. Fisher of the Evangelical church.  Oregon Statesman 31 October 1895 8:3 INSCRIPTION:  SOURCES:  LR IOOF Register of Burials  Rigdon #17  Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900  1895 Marion Co., Census (WVGS Abstract, 1993, Vol 1, pg 118)  OS 31 October 1895 8:3 CONTACTS:  LOT: 374 SPACE: S½ LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: