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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ John Newton McDonald
~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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John Newton McDonald
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| LAST NAME: McDonald
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FIRST NAME: John
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MIDDLE NAME: Newton
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GENDER: M
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| BORN: 17 Jan 1826
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DIED: 29 May 1855
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BURIED: May 1855
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| DEATH PLACE: San Francisco, San Francisco Co., California
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NOTES:
J. M. McDonald arrives in Portland, Oregon Territory, via the steamer COLUMBIA.
Oregon Statesman, 25 Sept 1852, 3:4.
J. N. McDonald was on board the GAZELLE on it's first trip to Corvallis.
Oregon Statesman, 28 March 1854, 2:5.
PROBATE - Marion Co. Probate file for John Newton McDonald, late of Salem, shows that a will was presented, dated 24 May 1855 in San Francisco, California. J. N. McDonald died there on 29 May 1855. Executors: J. H. Moores and Mary Jane McDonald. Only heir: Mary Jane McDonald, wife of Salem. No issue. John H. Moores surviving partner in firm Moores & McDonald. Several letters in packet including one written in New York addressing J. H. Moores as "cousin." Mary Jane McDonald was appointed adminstratrix of estate of J. N. McDonald.
Advertisement appearing in the Oregon Statesman, 23 June to 14 July 1855. Cemetery -- Near Salem, has been selected for burial on one of the most beautiful spots in the country, and Art has added much to the rich adornments of Nature. There are already erected there a number of costly and elegant monuments. Messrs, Moores have, the past week, been placing one over the remains of their deceased partner, J. N. McDonald, sent here by his widow, now residing in the Atlantic states. It is of Italian marble, surmounted with a beautiful wreath of roses, wrought with a sculptor's chisel, encircliing the words, "My husband." Its cost could not have been less than one thousand dollars.
Oregon Statesman March 18, 1861, 2:4.
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DEATH CERTIFICATE:
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OBITUARY:
Died -- In San Francisco, on the 20th of May, Mr. J. N. McDonald of the firm of Moores & McDonald, Salem, O. T., aged 29. He had been on a visit to Indiana, his native state where he was married and was returning with his bride. He was a young man of worth and merit.
Oregon Statesman 30 Jun 1855, 3:1.
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INSCRIPTION:
My Husband
J. Newton McDonald
Died
May 29, 1855
Aged
29 Years, 4 Mos. & 12 Days
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SOURCES:
DAR pg 33
S&H pg 24
Marion Co. Probate File #114
OS 30 Jun 1858, 3:1
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| LOT: 016
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SPACE: 1 SW
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