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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ G. W. Hagans
~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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G. W. Hagans
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| LAST NAME: Hagans
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FIRST NAME: G.
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MIDDLE NAME: W.
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| BORN: Abt 1834
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DIED: May 1889
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BURIED: 10 May 1889
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OCCUPATION: Farmer
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| BIRTH PLACE: Ohio
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| DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
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IOOF - G. W. Hagans, died in Salem of heart disease, died while sitting at table eating; 1880 Census - G. W. Hagen, age 46, occupation farmer, b. Ohio, is enumerated withing the household of William Anderson;
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OBITUARY:
SUDDEN DEATH -- G. W. Hagan Feels the Hand of Death at the Dinner Table and Soon Expires. The guests at Cook’s hotel were somewhat startled yesterday at the dinner hour by an entirely unexpected event of a fatal character. G. W. Hagan, an old gentleman stopping there, had sat down to the table and taken a spoon with which to help himself to the first course, when he suddenly fell back on his chair and would have fallen to the floor, but was caught by two gentlemen sitting on either side, who carried him to the sitting room, where he immediately expired, after a few gasps.
The body was laid out in the sitting room and the authorities notified. By order of County Judge Shaw it was taken to the undertaking rooms of A. M. Clough, and that gentleman was instructed to see that the remains were suitably interred. The clothing were examined under the direction of sheriff Croisan and only a few personal effects found therein. He had a purse containing a $5 gold piece and 35 cents in small coin, also two duplicate certificates of deposit, one for $70 in the Capital National bank of this city, dated August 11th, 1888, and one for $50 in the First National bank of Prineville, dated April 16th, 1888. It was ascertained afterward from Cashier Albert, of the Capital, that Hagan had drawn out the $70 at intervals in small sums.
WHO HE WAS. The deceased had stopped at Cook’s hotel quite often since December last, and previously since about a year ago at the Chemeketa, always registering simply G. W. Hagan, without any address, and as he was quiet and talked very little, no one around the hotel knew anything about him, but thought he was a stranger. A reporter, however, soon dug up several persons who knew him. J. A. Huffman, Patrick Foley, J. M. Payne and several others around the city, had seen him a great deal during the past year and speak of him as an upright, gentlemanly man of good language and address. Alonzo Gesner also (the reporter, having seen the name Gessner in the man’s pocket-book) was interviewed and put the news gatherer on the right track. Mr. Gesner knew him twenty-three or four years ago; that he used to make his home with J. M. Munkers, a few miles east of Salem and that Mr. Munkers and family would take care of the body if informed of the death and would give full particulars of the deceased.
FURTHER PARTICULARS A message was immediately sent to Mr. Munkers’ and that gentleman being away from home, his nephew, John Estes, came to the city forthwith, took charge of the body and it will receive every attention it could have among the most loving relatives. From Mr. Estes, the STATESMAN gleaned the following facts: Mr. Hagan was born in Ohio in 1830, and came to California during the gold excitement in 1850, where he tried his fortune in the mines and received a hurt in some manner, from which he suffered more or less ever since. He lived in California until about 1865, when he came to Oregon and remained in this county about five years. J. M. Munkers then took him east of the mountains and put him in charge of a lot of stock in the Ochoco country, where he remained about 14 years, coming back to the valley four or five years ago. He then had about $1700, but he has been sick most of the time and paid out a great deal for medical assistance, so that he had little of the worldÂ’s wealth remaining, a team, harness, watch and gun constituting his belongings. These are at Mr. MunkersÂ’, and the deceased has been for some time urging Mr. M. to try and sell them for any price, so as to get them into money. Mr. Hagan was unmarried and has no relatives on this coast that Mr. Estes knows of, but has some brothers in Ohio, from one of whom he received a letter not long since. Mr. Estes says the deceased was one of the most upright, honest and conscientious men he ever met, always kind and inoffensive, though eccentric in his ways and wholly uncommunicative about himself. The funeral will take place to-day at 2 oÂ’clock p.m., and Mr. Clough has orders to place the body in a excellent casket and have a most respectable burial in all respects. Daily Oregon Statesman 10 May 1889 4:2
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Register of Burials
1880 Oregon Census (Wasco Co., Camp Creek, pg 306C)
DOS 10 May 1889 4:2
OS 3 Jan 1890 (Necrology)
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