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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Frances H. Kays ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Frances H. Kays
LAST NAME: Kays FIRST NAME: Frances MIDDLE NAME: H. NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Hendricks AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mrs. GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 1816 DIED: 27 Oct 1901 BURIED: 28 Oct 1901
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  Bath Co., Kentucky
DEATH PLACE: Howell Prairie, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
IOOF - Mrs. Frances Kays, age 84, died at Howell Prairie.
Funeral ordered by A. J. Kays.
1880 OR CENSUS - Frances Kays, age 64, b. Kentucky, is enumerated with husband John, age 74, farmer, b. Kentucky, along with Angeline Kays, age 26, b. Oregon, and Andrew J., age 21, b. Oregon.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 
THE PASSING AWAY OF A PIONEER WOMAN.
Mrs. Frances Hendricks Kays, Whose Death Occurred on the Kays Homestead on Howell Prairie
Came to Oregon in 1852 
Like ripe sheaves the brave-hearted old pioneers are fast being gathered into their eternal home. One by one they are crossing with "the boatman, silent and pale;" another name is stricken from the record of those who so fearlessly endured the dangers and hardships incident to pioneer life in this beautiful distant Western land. 
On October 27th another pioneer answered the last roll call and Mrs. Frances Hendricks Kays passed to her final rest. She was born in Bath county, Kentucky, in 1816. Later on she with her parents moved to Indiana. In 1840 they moved to Iowa, where she was married the same year to John Kays, of Knox county, Illinois, to which place she went with her husband and his six little children, to whom she was a faithful affectionate mother. In 1852 they crossed the plains to Oregon, securing a home on Howell Prairie, seven miles east of Salem, where they resided until death claimed them, "Uncle Johnnie" Kays, as he was affectionately called, dying in 1884. 
Mrs. Kays belonged to that generous hospitable, industrious class of hardy pioneer women who so nobly braved the long, tedious journey across the plains and the many hardships and privations of early pioneer days in Oregon. She was most tenderly and faithfully cared for by her children during her long illness, and she bore her suffering with that patient resignation and fortitude that sustained her during all the trials of life. She left seven children, fifteen grand children and eight great grand children to cherish her memory. 
Her children are Mrs. D. C. Howard, Mrs. Ira Allen, Miss Angeline Kays, Mrs. S. W. Howard, Martin V. Kays, T. H. B. Kays and S. J. Kays. Of her step children only four survive her – James and William Kays, Mrs. Isaac Durbin, of Howell Prairie, and Mrs. H. Steeproe, of Alsea, Oregon. 
Oregon Statesman 12 November 1901 3:3
INSCRIPTION: 
Frances H. Kays 
1817 - 1901
SOURCES: 
LR 
LD 
IOOF Register of Burials Rigdon #20 
1880 OR CENSUS(Marion Co., Howell Prairie, ED 87, pg 147A) 
DAR pg 73 
S&H pg 69
Saucy 
OS 12 November 1901 3:3
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LOT: 859 SPACE: 1 NW LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: 
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