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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Mary Elizabeth Retherford ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Mary "Lizzie" Elizabeth Retherford
LAST NAME: Retherford FIRST NAME: Mary MIDDLE NAME: Elizabeth NICKNAME: Lizzie
MAIDEN NAME: Doty AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mrs. GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 1859 DIED: Oct 1895 BURIED: 31 Oct 1895
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  Pennsylvania
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
IOOF - Elizabeth Rutherford [sic], age 36, born in Illinois, died in south Salem of child bed fever, wife of T. C. Rutherford.
MARRIAGE - Mary E. Doty married Thomas C. Retherford 21 Dec 1882 in Champaign Co., Illinois.
1895 Marion Co. CENSUS- Lizzie Retherford, age 35, b. Pennsylvania, 5'4", 130 lbs, is enumerated with Thos., age 35, laborer, b. Illinois, along with Albert, age 11, b. Illinois, Frank, age 9, b. Illinois, George, age 7, b. Illinois, Earl, Walter, age 5, b. Oregon and Earl, age 3, b. Oregon.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 
At the family home in South Salem, Tuesday evening, Oct. 29, 1895, of brain trouble, Lizzie M., wife of T. C. Retherford, aged 36 years. 
Deceased was a native of Pennsylvania, the year of her birth being 1859. In 1861 she moved with her parents to LaSalle county, Ill., and 7 years later to Champaign county, where she was married to Mr. Retherford on December 20, 1882. 
In 1889 they moved to Oregon, coming to Salem where they have since resided. She leaves a husband and six children - boys, the oldest 12 years, the youngest 5 days - to mourn her demise, also a father, mother and one sister in Illinois and a brother, C. T. Doty, of Salem. The funeral will be held at the residence at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon, the service to be conducted by Rev. I. B. Fisher of the Evangelical church. 
Oregon Statesman 31 October 1895 8:3
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LR
IOOF Register of Burials 
Rigdon #17 
Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900 
1895 Marion Co., Census (WVGS Abstract, 1993, Vol 1, pg 118) 
OS 31 October 1895 8:3
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LOT: 374 SPACE: S½ LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: 
 
 

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