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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Belle Cornforth ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Belle Cornforth
LAST NAME: Cornforth FIRST NAME: Belle MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: West AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 29 Mar 1863 DIED: 7 Feb 1940 BURIED: 9 Feb 1940
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  Wisconsin
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
Name of father Orin West
Maiden name of mother Nancy White
1900 OR CENSUS - Belle West, age 37, single, b. Mar 1863 in Wisconsin, is enumerated with mother Nancy West, age 65, widowed, mother of 9 children 6 of whom are living at the time of the census, b. May 1835 in Illinois.
1920 OR CENSUS - Bell Cornforth, age 49, b. Wisconsin, is enumerated with husband John, age 65, occupation fruit farmer, b. Illinois.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OSBH DC (Marion County 1940) #139 - Belle Cornforth, female, widowed (John Cornforth), b. 29 Mar 1863 in Wisconsin, d. 7 Feb 1940 in Salem, Oregon (Salem General Hospital) at the age of 76 yrs 10 m's 8 d's, name of father Orin West (b. Massachusetts) maiden name of mother Nancy White, interment 9 Feb, undertaker Clough-Barrick, informant Ben West of Box 150 S. Pacific Hwy.
OBITUARY: 
Mrs. Belle Cornforth, 77, at a local hospital February 7. Late resident of route four, survived by a brother, Ben West of Salem; and a sister, Mrs. Lillie A. Brown of Kansas City. Funeral services will be Friday, February 9, at 10:30 a.m. from the Clough-Barrick chapel. Rev. F. C. Stannard will officiate. She was the sister of Ben West of Salem and Mrs. Lillie A. Brown of Kansas City. Mrs. Cornforth, born in Wisconsin in 1863, had lived in and near Salem for the past 50 years. Her husband, John Cornforth, died about three years ago. 
Oregon Statesman 8 Feb 1940 5:3; also 9 Feb 1940 9:3
INSCRIPTION: 
Belle West Cornforth 
1863 - 1940
SOURCES: 
LD 
OSBH DC (Marion County 1940) #139
1900 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, ED 134, sheet 2B)
1920 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem Heights, ED 323, sheet 6B)
OS 8 Feb 1940 5:3
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LOT: 384 SPACE: 3 NE LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: 
 
 

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