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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Jasper Reuben Olmsted ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Jasper "Reuben" Reuben Olmsted
LAST NAME: Olmsted FIRST NAME: Jasper MIDDLE NAME: Reuben NICKNAME: Reuben
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mr. GENDER: M MILITARY: 
BORN: 8 May 1867 DIED: 1 Aug 1954 BURIED: 4 Aug 1954
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Carpenter
BIRTH PLACE:  Quincy, Adams Co., Illinois
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
Name of father Henry Olmsted
Maiden name of mother Sarah/Sara Ellen Chandler
[parents MARRIAGE - Henry Olmstead [Olmsted], md Sarah Ellen Chandler 24 Jul 1866 in Adams Co., Illinois. Source - Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900]
OSBH DC (Marion County 1954) #9063 - Jasper Reuben Olmsted, male, widowed, carpenter, b. 8 May 1867 in Quincy, Illinois, d. 1 Aug 1954 in Salem, Oregon (1155 Colonial St.) at the age of 87 years, name of father Henry Olmsted, maiden name of mother Sara Ellen Chandler, interment 4 Aug at Pioneer, undertaker Clough-Barrick, informant Louis H. Olmsted.
1870 IL CENSUS - Reuben Olmsted, age 3, b. Illinois, is enumerated with Henry, age 22, occupation farmer, b. Illinois, and Sarah, age 24, b. Illinois, along with James, age 1, b. Illinois.
1880 OR CENSUS - Jasper R. Olmstead [Olmsted], age 13, b. Illinois, is enumerated with Henry, age 32, occupation farmer, b. Illinois, and Sarah E., age 32, b. Illinois, along with James N., age 11, b. Illinois, Oren O., age 7, b. Oregon, Walter M., age 4, b. Oregon, Fred, age 1, b. Oregon, and Clarence, age 4 months, b. Oregon. 
1900 OR CENSUS - Jasper R. Olmsted, age 33, occupation farmer, b. May 1867 in Illinois, is enumerated with his wife of 8 years, Mary, age 26, b. Sep 1872 in Ohio.  [Note - they are living next door to his parents, Henry and Sarah]. 
1910 OR CENSUS - Jasper R. Olmsted, age 42, occupation carpenter, b. Illinois, is enumerated with his wife of 17 years, Cecelia M., age 36, b. Ohio, along with son (by adoption), Louie H., age 2, b. Oregon. 
1920 OR CENSUS - Jasper R. Olmstead [Olmsted], age 52, occupation carpenter, b. Illinois, is enumerated with wife Mary C., age 46, b. Ohio, along with Louis H., age 11, b. Oregon. 
1930 OR CENSUS - Jasper R. Olmsted, age 56, married at age 24, occupation carpenter, b. Illinois, is enumertated with wife Mary C. Olmsted, age 56, married at age 18, b. Ohio.

PHOTOGRAPH NOTES:
The picture of Jasper Reuben "Reuben" and Mary Celia "Celia", taken at the time of their 50th wedding anniversary on April 26, 1942, is courtesy of Sharon E. Waters.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 
Reuben Olmstead Rites August 4. 
Funeral services will be held at the Clough-Barrick chapel Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock for Reuben Olmstead, retired carpenter, who died at his home at 1155 Colonial street. Interment is to be in the Pioneer cemetery. Dale March will officiate. Olmstead, a Salem resident for the past 40 years, was born at Quincy, Illinois, May 8, 1867. 
Survivors include a son, Louis Olmstead of Salem; two brothers, Walter Olmstead of Centralia, Washington; and Clarence H. Olmstead of Dallas, Oregon; grandchildren, Mrs. Margaret Marsh of Sandy, Oregon, Mrs. Mary Warden, Lawrence Olmstead and Leonard Olmstead, all of Salem; and two great-grandchildren.
Capital Journal 3 Aug 1954.
INSCRIPTION: 
Reuben 
1867 -1954
SOURCES: 
LR 
LD
OSBH DC (Marion County 1954) #9063
S&H pg 16
Saucy 
1870 IL CENSUS (Adams Co., Richfield, FA #171)
1880 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Jackson, ED 103, pg 452A)
1900 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Dallas, ED 170, sheet 4A)
1910 OR CENSUS (Yamhill Co., Elgin, ED 291, sheet 3A)
1920 OR CENSUS (Clatsop Co., Astoria, ED 67, sheet 4B)
1930 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Donald, ED 14, sheet 4A)
CJ 3 Aug 1954
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 927 SPACE: 3 NE N½ LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.218' LATITUDE: W 123° 03.007'
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