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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Samuel Ramp
~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Samuel Ramp
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| LAST NAME: Ramp
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FIRST NAME: Samuel
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GENDER: M
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| BORN: 12 May 1825
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DIED: 8 Jul 1898
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BURIED: 10 Jul 1898
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OCCUPATION: Farmer
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| BIRTH PLACE: Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania
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| DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
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NOTES:
1880 OR CENSUS - Samuel Ramp, age 58, farmer, b. Canada [sic], is enumerated with wife Sarah, age 47, b. Missouri, along with son Geo., age 15, b. Oregon.
BIOGRAPHICAL: Samuel and Mary crossed the plains to Oregon in 1853, with an ox team. Two children were born at the start of the trip, and a third was born on the trip at the River of the Sweet Water. Success in farming furnished them wit the means to purchase the large tract of land from Harvey Smith, where the Homestead was built, on the highway known as 99E, or the Stage Coach Road from Portland to Salem. At one time, they owned 11 large Willamette Valley farms averaging about 300 acres each.
Neva Rusk-McCrea in Pioneers of Lake Labish, p. 80-81
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DEATH CERTIFICATE:
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OBITUARY:
DEMISE OF SAMUEL RAMP
The Venerable Citizen Meets The Inevitable, Passed Away at His Home Early last Night
At 8:30 o'clock last evening death came to the release of Samuel Ramp, the aged and respected citizen of Salem, whose illness from paralysis constituted the only note of sadness in the record of joy on Monday last, at his home, No. 405 Capitol street. He never regained consciousness, growing gradually worse hour by hour, and sand to the final rest peacefully, and apparently unknowingly.
For nearly half a century he was identified with the destinies of Oregon, and at no point in his career die he enjoy more of the genuine esteem of his fellow citizens that in the last years of his life.
Decedent was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, on May 12, 1825, which made him at the time of his death just 73 years, 1 month and 26 days of age. He went to Illinois in 1848 and in the following year, on June 3d, became the husband of Miss Mary Hammer. In 1853 he started from Knox county for Oregon, by ox team, the journey occupying six full months. Here, as in his former home, he lived the life of a farmer, until the access of fortune left him free to retire from the work-a-day world and settle down, which he did here in the Capital City.
Five of seven children survive him and, with the venerable mother, mourn his death, namely: B. F. Ramp, of Albany; S. D. Ramp, of Brooks; Mrs. S. L. Johnson of Prineville; Mrs. R. A. Sturgis, of Perrydale, and Mrs. I. D. Driver Jr., of this city.
Weekly Oregon Statesman 15 Jul 1898 5:2
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INSCRIPTION:
Father
Samuel Ramp
Born
in Pennsylvania
May 12, 1825
Died
July 8, 1898
Absent But Not Forgotten
(shares marker with wife, Mary A.)
Also: loose footstone SR
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SOURCES:
LR
LD
DAR pg 77
Saucy Survey & Photographs
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co. East Salem Pct., FA #268)
Pioneers of Lake Labish, p. 80-81
WOS 15 Jul 1898 5:2
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| LOT: 954
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SPACE: 2 NW
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LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.208'
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LATITUDE: W 123° 03.019'
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