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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Michael Morgan ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Michael Morgan
LAST NAME: Morgan FIRST NAME: Michael MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1: Wilkes AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: M MILITARY: 
BORN: abt 1870 DIED: 13 Dec 1912 BURIED: 9 Jan 1913
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Minnesota
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
Marion County Burial
Not found in Oregon Death Index
IOOF Register of Burials: Mike Morgan, male, d. by hanging at Pen. and was buried on Jan. 9, 1913 in Lot #735. 
Catholic interments: Michael Morgan, b. Minnesota, d. 13 Dec. 1912, executed, age 42, burial in Odd Fellows' cemetery. The 1905 Census listing of inmates in the Penitentiary shows a J. M. Morgan was committed from Multnomah Co. 
OSP Execution LIST - Mike Morgan, [age not given], male, Army Deserter, Murder-Robery, Hanging, Dec. 13, 1912
(Source - Woodford-Beals, Susan & Beals, Carl, Oregon State Prison, The Shepards of State Street 1864-2009, pg 133) 
DISCREPANCY - Apparently his body was never sent to his mother in Illinois because it is listed in the IOOF Register of Burials as being buried here by the county in lot 735.
ALIAS - According to an Oregonian newspaper article Mike Morgan had an alias: ..."In the same cell is Halley Wilkes, alias Mike Morgan, who is held upon a charge of murdering John E. York.
Oregonian, The (Portland, Oregon) 21 Jul 1911, pg 2
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 
Hanged Men Buried 
The funeral of the three men, Garrison, Roberts, and Faulder, who were hanged Friday was held yesterday at the undertaking parlors of Lehman and Clough. The services which were conducted by Rev. Philip Bauer and Rev. W. G. McLaren, were very simple, consisting of a scripture reading and prayers. Norman Faulder, brother of Noble Faulder, was present. The body of Mike Morgan, which was taken charge of by Father Moore will be sent to Mount Caramel, Illinois, where the mother of the deceased lives. 
Oregon Statesman 14 December 1912 5:6

"...Morgan protested his innocence to the minister who ccompanied him to the death chamber."
"...Morgan, in July 1911, murdered his employer, John Yorke, a Rogue River Rancher."
The Adrian Daily Telegram (Adrian, Michigan) 14 Dec 1912, pg 10
INSCRIPTION: 
No marker
SOURCES: 
LR 
IOOF Register of Burials 
RECORDS OF INTERMENTS (1889 - 1933) ST. JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH. 
1905 Census of Marion Co., Oregon, Vol. 1, pg. 49 
OS 14 December 1912 5:6
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LOT: 735 SPACE: 2 NW LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: 
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