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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Ephraim Cranston ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Ephraim Cranston
LAST NAME: Cranston FIRST NAME: Ephraim MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mr. GENDER: M MILITARY: 
BORN: 15 Dec 1800 DIED: 6 Oct 1873 BURIED: 8 Oct 1873
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  Foster, Prvidence Co., Rhode Island
DEATH PLACE: Silverton, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
IOOF - E. Cranston, age 75, born in Rhode Island, died in Silverton of apoplexy
1860 OR CENSUS - Ephriam Cranston, age 57, farmer born in Rhode Island, is emumerated with wife, R., age 52, born in Mass., and two children, G. W. (male, age 17 - farmer, b. Ohio) and P. A. (female, age 14, b. Ohio)
1870 OR CENSUS - E. Cranston, age 69, farmer, born in Rhode Island, married to R., age 62, born in Massachusetts.

BIOGRAPHICAL
"Ephraim Cranston was born in Rhode Island, 1800. In Champaign county, Illinois, June, 1825, he married Roxanna his wife. He settled on his donation claim in the Waldo Hills, November 15, 1851. Elizabeth Cranston married Quincy Brooks, a pioneer of 1857. Don Cert. No. 1389"
Downs, A HISTORY OF THE SILVERTON COUNTRY, p. 93

"My grandfather was born in Rhode Island in 1800, moved to Illinois, and in the spring of 1825 was married. My grandmother's name was Rosanna Cranston. My grandfather, Ephraim Cranston, and my grandmother, Roxanna Cranston, crossed the plains with my father."
Lockley, Fred, Impressions and Observations of the Journal Man, Oregon Journal, 9 November 1931, from an interview with Charles Knox Cranston
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 
DIED - Ephraim Cranston, an old resident of Marion county, and will known to many of our readers, died yesterday at the house of his son Warren Cranston, in the Waldo Hills at the ripe old age of seventy-three. Mr. Cranston was born in Rhode Island in the year 1800. He removed to Oregon from Ohio, in 1851, and settled on a farm midway between Silverton and Sublimity, where he has resided most of the time since, save a few years when he lived in Salem. He left here, last year, and went with one of his sons to Eastern Oregon, where he lived til about the middle of last July, when he returned to this county. Soon after his arrival here he was stricken with an apoplectic attack under which he gradually sank till yesterday morning when he died. His remains will be buried in the Odd Fellows Rural Cemetery, about two o’clock this afternoon.
Weekly Oregon Statesman 7 October 1873 3:2
INSCRIPTION: 
Sacred to the Memory of
Ephriam Cranston
Late of Ohio
Born
Dec. 15, 1800
Died
Oct. 6, 1873
Here lies a man
who was not afraid
to speak the truth.
He was a friend
to the oppressed
and sought to do
justice to all


marker is broken in half and off of base - as of June 2002)
SOURCES: 
IOOF Register of Burials
LR
LD
1860 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Silverton, Sublimity Pct., pg. 338, #2816)
1870 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., E. Salem Pct., pg 35, FA #296)
DAR pg 73
S&H pg 7
Downs, A History of the Silverton Country, p. 93
Dave's Database at WorldConnect.com: http://wc.rootsweb.com/
OS 9 November 1931
WOS 7 October 1873 3:2
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 431 SPACE: N½ LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.214' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.834'
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