NOTES:
IOOF - Felix Davis, age 77, died in Salem of pneumonia.
MARRIAGE Felix R. Davis and Mary E. Berry md 14 Nov 1867, Morgan Co, Ohio
1870 NE CENSUS Felix R. Davis (24y, b Virginia, occupation day laborer) enumerated with Mary E. (26y b Ohio) and Adson N. (1y, b Ohio)
1880 NE CENSUS F.R. Davis (36y, b Virginia, occupation UPRR conductor) enumerated with wife Mary (38y, b Ohio) and 4 children, Freddie (8y, b Ohio), Leicester [Lester] (6y, b Nebraska), Roy (4y, b Nebraska) and Bessie (2y, b Nebraska)
1900 OR CENSUS - Felix R. Davis, age 55, b. Nov 1844 in Virginia, is enumerated with wife of 31 years, Mary E., age 55, mother of 5 children 3 of whom are living at the time of the census, b. Sep 1844 in Ohio, along with Bessie L., age 23, b. Jun 1876 in Nebraska.
1910 OR CENSUS - Felix R. Davis, age 65, widowed, occupation farm laborer, b. Virginia, is enumerated as the father in the home of Lester B. Davis, age 36, occupation newspaper reporter, b. Nebraska, and his wife of 11 years, Georgie, age 31, mother of 1 child, occupation dressmaker, b. Nebraska, along with their daughter, Lolita B., age 9, b. Oregon. Also enumerated in the home is Sarah A. Fisher, age 60, identified as mother-in-law [of Lester], b. Indiana.
2nd enumeration in the 1910 OR CENSUS - Felix R. Davis, age 63, widowed, occupation farmer, b. Virginia, is enumerated in the home of his son-in-law John I. Savage, age 30, occupation shipping clerk, b. Oregon, and his wife of 6 years, Bessie L. Davis, age 29, mother of 1 child, not living by the time of the census, b. Nebraska.
1911 Salem Directory gives occupation as laborer.
DISCREPANCY: DC and 1900 Census have birth year as 1844, but marker gives year of birth as 1845
BIOGRAPHICAL:
Felix R. Davis, who lives North of this city, yesterday received news announcing the death of his son, Fred C. Davis, at Blair, Nebraska, on Tuesday night. Funeral services were conducted at Blair on the following day. On last Friday morning Davis was thrown from the top of a box car, falling upon his head and shoulders and sustaining severe injuries. For a time it was thought he might recover, but the injuries sustained proved of a more serious nature than was at first supposed, and he died as above noted.
From: Oregon Statesman 11 Aug 1899 7:5-6
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SOURCES:
LD
IOOF Register of Burials
OSBH DC (Marion County 1922) #100
S&H pg. 55
Saucy
Salem Directory 1911
Ohio Marriage Records (Ancestry.com)
1870 NE CENSUS (Washington Co, Blair, FA#49)
1880 NE CENSUS (Hall Co, Grand Island, ED 133, FA#193)
1900 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., N. Salem, ED 143, sheet 21B)
1910 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, ED 222, sheet 12A)
1910 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, ED 224, sheet 22A)
OS 9 February 1922 3:5
OS 10 February 1922 5:6
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