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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Sarah Elmira Piper ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Sarah "Elmira" Elmira Piper
LAST NAME: Piper FIRST NAME: Sarah MIDDLE NAME: Elmira NICKNAME: Elmira
MAIDEN NAME: Grubbs AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 25 Jun 1838 DIED: 30 Apr 1908 BURIED: 4 May 1908
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Pennsylvania
DEATH PLACE: Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
IOOF - Sarah E. Piper, age 67 y's 10 m's died in Portland of cancer, she was formerly in Salem; Funeral ordered by E. C. Piper.
Name of father John Grubbs
Maiden name of mother Susan Austin
MARRIAGE - to Edward H. Piper 31 Dec 1856 in Benton Co., Oregon.
1860 OR CENSUS - Almira [Elmira] Piper, age 22, b. Pennsylvania, is enumerated with Edward H., age 30, occupation farmer, b. Indiana. 
1870 CENSUS - Sarah Piper, age 32, b. Pennsylvania, is enumerated with husband Edward Piper, age 40, farmer, b. Illinois, and Florence, age 8, b. Oregon.
1880 OR CENSUS - E. E. Piper, age 45, b. Pa., is enumerated with husband E. H. Piper, age 50, teamster, b. Illinois, and son E. age 5, b. Oregon.
1900 CENSUS - Sarah Piper, age 59, b. June 1840 in Pennsylvania.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 
PIPER - At the Good Samaritan hospital in Portland, Oregon, April 30, 1908, of cancer of the stomach, Mrs. Sarah E. Piper, aged 67 years.
Mrs. Piper has been for the past 33 years a resident of South Salem and she has a large circle of friends in this city who will regret to hear that she has passed away. Her husband, E. H. Piper, died at the family home on South Commercial street about nine years ago. One son, Ernest C. Piper, and a brother, Frank H. Grubbs, of Portland, Oregon; one brother, T. M. Grubbs of Pleasant Hill, Oregon, and two sisters, Mrs. Odell of Eugene, and Mrs. Harding of Boise, Idaho, are left to mourn her loss. The funeral will be conducted from the Leslie M. E. church in South Salem, by Rev. H. T. Babcock, on Monday, May 4th, at 2 o'clock p.m.
Daily Capital Journal 2 May 1908, 11:4
INSCRIPTION: 
Piper 
Elmira 
1838 - 1908 
[shares west side of monument with Edward H. and May F.]
SOURCES: 
LR 
LD 
DAR pg 81 
Saucy Survey & Photographs
1860 OR CENSUS (Benton Co., Butte, FA #303)
1870 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Lincoln Pct., pg 223) 
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., South Salem Pct., FA #38)
1900 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., S. Salem, ED 144, sheet 3A) 
DCJ 2 May 1908, 11:4
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LOT: 593 SPACE: 1 SE S½ LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.213' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.892'
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