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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Richard L. McGee ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Richard L. McGee
LAST NAME: McGee FIRST NAME: Richard MIDDLE NAME: L. NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: M MILITARY: 
BORN: Abt 1845 DIED: 1 Dec 1893 BURIED: 4 Dec 1893
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Logger
BIRTH PLACE:  Greene Co, Missouri
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

IOOF - Richard McGee, age 48, died in Salem from "the effects of drink", at Bill Anderson's saloon.

1850 IL CENSUS – Richard McGee (5y, b Greene co, Mo) enumerated with Harding (33y, b Breckenridge co, Ky, occupation farmer), Elizabeth (32y, b Cabell co, Va); Sarah J. (9y, b Edgar co, Ill), William H. (b Edgar co, Ill) and Mary C. (b Greene co, Mo)

1860 MN CENSUS – Richard McGee (15y, b Missouri) enumerated with John Salmon (62y, b New York, occupation farmer), Ruth Salmon (64y, b New Hampshire), William H. McGee (18y, b Illinois) and Mary C. McGee (13y, b Missouri)

Civil War Service – Co B & F, First Minnesota Infantry

1st MARRIAGE – Richard McGee (24y) and Mary E. Dixon (21y) md 1 Nov 1868, Nemaha Co, Kansas

1870 KS CENSUS – Richard McGee (26y, b Missouri, occupation farmer) enumerated with Mary E. McGee (22y, b Indiana), Susan Poston (50y, b Indiana), Libby Poston (19y, b Indiana) and Emma Poston (16y, b Indiana)

Mary E. McGee died 20 Jan 1880 and was buried in Nemaha Co, Kansas

2nd MARRIAGE – Richard McGee (35y) and Ruby P. Carter (25y) md 27 Aug 1882, Nemaha Co, Kansas

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 

TOO MUCH EGG-NOG. 
A Logger, Named McGee, Now Dead From Its Effects. 
The Coroner’s Inquest and Verdict - A Wife and Six Small Children are Destitute. 
R. L. McGee went into the Elk Head saloon on Thanksgiving day in company of several others and indulged quietly in drinking free egg-nog. He remained at the saloon during all the afternoon and by night time was, to use the common expression, "paralyzed" with liquor, which resulted in his death early yesterday morning. 
About 6:30 p.m. Thursday Policeman Jos. Jones happened into this saloon and noticed a man answering McGee’s description sitting in a chair with his hat drawn over his eyes and apparently asleep. The officer did not give the fellow’s condition much attention, supposing that he was sleeping off the effects of liquor. Time passed on until about midnight when he noticed that the saloon had been closed. Then he wondered what had become of the man he first saw as he was most positive that he had not come out of the saloon by the front door. Janes then went around to the rear of the establishment and looked into a room known as the kitchen to the saloon and also a place to wash bottles and other utensils. Striking a match he peered into the room through a hole in the door and there he saw the same man (McGee) and "Stuttering Tom" Lowrey. The former was lying on the floor and the latter sitting on a box with his head on a table. Mr. Janes then went away. Later he met Officer "Doc" Gibson and the two in their walk happened around to the kitchen. They went in and saw that McGee was lying with the front of his face resting upon his right arm and he was breathing heavily. The officers concluded that if he were left in such a position many hours death would certainly follow from the effects of smothering. They raised his head a little and turned it upward slightly and getting a burlap sack and a couple of sticks of wood a pillow was improvised and placed under it. It was noticed that McGee then breathed easier and the officers left. About 4:30 a.m. in the morning Officer Janes made another visit to the place in company of Officer Latourette. After striking a light it was soon found that McGee’s condition had changed and a hurried examination was given; his face bore the death color and the hands were cold. Officer Latourette saw that there was no pulse and after a hurried consultation with Officer Janes he went for the nearest physician, James remaining with the body. Dr. J. N. Smith was called up and he proceeded to the place. Finding the condition of the body beyond the reach of medical aid—or, in other words, dead, the justice of the peace and city marshal were at once notified. A. M. Clough, the undertaker, was also sent for and upon his arrival the body of McGee was removed to his establishment on State street. The officers then took "Stuttering Tom" to the city jail and placed him therein. 
During the forenoon, Judge Ed. N. Edes acting under authority of Coroner Stott of Gervais concluded to hold a coroner’s inquest over McGee’s body and a jury composed of D. J. Holmes, R. G. Keene, F. B. Southwick, G. W. Johnson, J. M. Forsythe, and R. A. Crossan was impanelled. This jury at once proceeded to business and the testimony of W. C. Judson, W. H. May, Wm. Anderson, Newt. Farrell, Benj. Dice, "Stuttering Tom" Lowrey, and Drs. J. N. Smith, W. A. Cusick and W. B. Morse was taken. Their verdict was rendered about 5 p.m. and in substance was that McGee came to his death by alcoholic or other poison to them unknown. 
McGee has been occupied in the logging business for the St. Earle camp. He leaves a wife and six small children. Their home has been in the house at one time occupied by J. Quinn Thornton, and family, situated on Church street near the deaf mute school. The family are perfectly destitute and the city board of charities and other charitable persons can do needful work by looking after their immediate wants. [article abbreviated] 
Daily Oregon Statesman 2 December 1893 4:2-3

INSCRIPTION: 

No marker found as of Sept 2002

SOURCES: 

LR 
IOOF Register of Burials 

1850 IL CENSUS (Edgar Co, Dist 19, FA#122)

1860 MN CENSUS (Goodhue Co, Twp 109, Range 15, FA#759)

Civil War Pension Index

Kansas Marriage Records (Ancestry.com)

1870 KS CENSUS (Jackson Co, Franklin, FA#148)

DOS 2 December 1893 4:2-3

CONTACTS: 
LOT: 288 SPACE:  LONGITUDE: N 44 ° 55.234' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.721'
 
 

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