1850 IN CENSUS - Felix L. Raymond, age 44, occupation tavern keeper, b. Indiana, and Margaret, age 45, b. New York, along with David C., age 17, occupation tavern keeper, b. Iowa, Samuel K., age 16, teamster, b. Iowa, Eliza J., age 11, b. Iowa, Mary A., age 7, b. Iowa, Juliette, age 5, b. Iowa, and Perry H., age 2, b. Iowa.  Also enumerated with the family are eight others.  
1860 OR CENSUS - F. L. Raymond, age 56, farmer, b. Iowa, is enumerated with M., age 49, female, b. N.Y., along with S. (male age 25, farmer), M. A. (female, age 18), J. (female, age 16), and P. (male, age 12), all born in Iowa, and T. McDonald, (male, age 5, b. Oregon);

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Felix L. Raymond died Aug. 26th, 1862 in Marion Co., age 53 years and 9 months. 
Oregon Statesman 1 Sep 1862, 3:2.

Felix L. Raymond 

Died

Aug. 26, 1862

aged 52 years

9 months,

23 days

And though after my skin

worms destroy this body, yet

in my flesh shall I see God

[King James version, Book of Job, Chapter 19, verse 26]

GRAVEMARKERS BEARING STONECUTTER’S IDENTIFICATION
Tall straight-topped marble headstone of Felix L. Raymond (1809-1862), tavern keeper and farmer, whose widow Margaret died three years later at residence “near Salem” and was interred in same plot along with the couple’s several adult children. Example of the finest local carving of the early 1860s, including the Weeping Willow motif in sunken relief. Space 3 NW from the NW corner. On west, epitaph face of the die, lower right, is the carver’s mark: “P. Miller/ Albany.”

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1850 IN CENSUS (Lawrence Co., Shawswick, FA #898) 
1860 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., South Salem Pct., pg 405) 
DAR pg 34 OS 1 Sep 1862 3:2