Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Lewis Westacott ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Lewis Westacott
LAST NAME: Westacott FIRST NAME: Lewis MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: M MILITARY: 
BORN: 27 Feb 1812 DIED: 25 May 1889 BURIED: 28 May 1889
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Cabinet Maker, Mariner
BIRTH PLACE:  Barnstable, England
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
IOOF - Lewis Westacott, age 77 y's 2 m's 28 d's, died in Salem of old age, was an old pioneer of Salem.
1870 OR CENSUS - Lewis Westacott, age 49, b. Prince Edward Island, occupation mariner, is enumerated with Mary Westacott, age 39, b. New York, along with Josephine, age 19, b. Iowa, William, age 14, b. Oregon, Richard, age 10, b. Oregon, Ada, age 8, b. Oregon, and John, age 4, b. Oregon.
OBITUARY: 
At the home of his daughter, Mrs. Amos Strong, this city, Saturday evening, May 25th, 1889, Lewis Westacott. The deceased was born in Barnstable, England, February 27th, 1812, and moved to Prince Edward’s island with the family when a small boy. He became a cabinet maker and afterward took the seas as a ship carpenter, going out from Boston. He was engaged on the Rio Grande river when the goad excitement broke out and assisted in manning a vessel there for California, landing at San Francisco the 1st of May, 1849. He came to Oregon overland, ate his first meal in the state at Jessee Applegate’s in Southern Oregon arriving in Salem on the 1st day of March 1851. He made the furniture for the legislative assembly hall in its first session in this city and conducted a cabinet shop here for several years. Mrs. Westacott, to whom he was married in 1854, died the 10th of December, 1879, and the children of the union are William G., Richard, John, Louis, Mrs. Stapleton and Mrs. Amos Strong, all residents of this city except Louis, who has been in San Francisco a few days and will be home to-morrow morning. The funeral will occur to-morrow (Monday) at 2 o’clock p.m., services to be conducted at the residence of Mr. Strong, and interment in the Odd Fellows’ cemetery. Mr. Westacott was a good, honest man, and raised a family of boys and girls all of whom are a great credit to his memory. Aside from his old residence there are many ties that will hold him in pleasant recollection among Salem’s people. He was a member of the first hook and ladder company and of the first band in the city, and the old settlers cannot forget his old-time efforts to keep Salem abreast with the times. Mr. Westacott had reached a good old age, but there were none who expected to part with his familiar countenance from the streets so soon. Peace be to him. Daily Statesman 26 May 1889 4:3.
INSCRIPTION: 
Louis Westacott 
Feb 29, 1812 
May 25, 1889
SOURCES: 
IOOF Register of Burials 
1870 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., East Salem Pct., FA #614) 
DAR pg 23 
DOS 26 May 1889 4:3 
OS 3 Jan 1890 (Necrological listing)
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 105 SPACE:  LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: