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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ John Savage
~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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John Savage
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| LAST NAME: Savage
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FIRST NAME: John
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| BORN: 18 Sep 1826
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DIED: 23 Jan 1908
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BURIED: 25 Jan 1908
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OCCUPATION: Farmer
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| BIRTH PLACE: Ohio
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| DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
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IOOF - John Savage, Sr., age 81, born in Ohio, died in Salem of dropsy, was an old settler here.
OSBH (Marion County 1908) #5707 - John Savage, Sr., male, married, b. Ohio, d. 23 Jan 1908 in Salem, Oregon at the age of 81 years, father born in Ohio (name hard to read), interment IOOF 25 Jan 1908, undertaker A. M. Clough, no informant listed.
1st MARRIAGE - Rhoda Presley
2nd MARRIAGE - Eleanor Tarrant
1870 OR CENSUS - John Savage, age 43, farmer, b. Ohio, is enumerated with Morgan L. (18, teacher, b. Oregon), Ellen (9, b. Oregon), Alice (6, b. Oregon), George O. (12, b. Oregon) and Etta (5, b. Oregon).
BIOGRAPHICAL:
"John Savage, subject of this sketch, was born September 16, 1826, in Ohio and with his father, Towner Savage, and the rest of the family, moved to Schoolcraft, Michigan, where they lived a few years and from there immigrated to Oregon in 1846. A more extended account of Towner Savage and his genealogy appears elsewhere in this volume. John Savage was but twenty years of age when he crossed the plains and no doubt drove an ox team or herded the loose stock, to do his bit. In their immigrant train were Sidney, Tom and Asa Smith, a family by name of Walker and others. Oscar Williams was captain of the train. Four years after his arrival in the Willamette Valley he married Rhoda Presley, daughter of David Presley. They were married at the old Presley home, just west of the Oregon state fairgrounds, in 1850, and went to live on their donation land claim four miles northeast of Salem, on the Silverton road, in a log house he had built several years before. After Rhoda's death, John Savage married Eleanor Tarrant.
As to his religious belief, John Savage was a Universalist and a democrat as to politics. He learned the trade of blacksmith from John Bash, one of the first men of that trade in Salem, Oregon. At the time they moved on their claim, Mr. Savage said the native grass was so high that when his oxen laid down it was very hard to find them, and the nearest flour mill at the time they came to Oregon was below Oregon City, and it took two days by ox team to make the trip one way. The children of John Savage and Rhoda Presley were: Morgan, who died 1879, unmarried. Letitia, who married W. G. Evans. Eliza, who married J. W. Brooks. George 0, who married Sarah Walker. Ella, who married Prince Byrne. Hannah, died aged 3 years, in 1866. Alice, who married William Martin. Etta, who married L. P. Gleason."
From: Steeves, Sarha Hunt, BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE OF MARION COUNTY, OREGON, PIONEERS 1840 - 1860, Portland, Oregon, The Berncliff Press, 1927 (Source: G. O. Savage, Salem, Oregon, 1926) pp 67-68.
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OBITUARY:
FUNERAL of JOHN SAVAGE TOMORROW --
Special Dispatch to The Journal -- Salem, Or., Jan. 24 --
One of the most picturesque characters in Oregon. John Savage Sr., who died at his home near the fair grounds, will be buried Saturday at 11 am. He came as a pioneer in 1846 and settled upon a donation land claim near this city, which he has occupied continuously to his death, which occurred in his eighty-second year. He leaves a large estate and five children living: Mrs. W. G. Evans and Mrs. Eliza Kepppinger of Brooks, G. O. Savage and Mrs. Ella Byrne of Salem, and Mrs. L. T. Gleason of Gervais. A second wife by whom he had no children, formerly Mrs. Eleanor Herrin, survives him.
Oregon Journal 24 Jan 1908 7:2.
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INSCRIPTION:
Our Father
John Savage
Born
Sept. 18, 1826
Died
Jan. 23, 1908
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SOURCES:
IOOF Register of Burials
OSBH (Marion County 1908) #5707
1870 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., North Salem Pct., FA #565)
Steeves, BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE, pp 67-68
OJ 24 Jan 1908 7:2.
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