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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Ella Bennett ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Ella Bennett
LAST NAME: Bennett FIRST NAME: Ella MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Howard AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mrs. GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: Abt 1858 DIED: 28 May 1888 BURIED: 29 May 1888
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  Ohio
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
IOOF - Mrs. Ella Bennett, age 30, died in Salem of Bright's disease; 1880 Census - "Elba Bennette", age 22, b. Ohio, is enumerated with husband Elbert, age 24, laborer, b. Pennsylvania, along with children Oliver E, age 5, b. Nebraska, Lottie, age 3, b. Oregon, and Jessie, (male), age 6 mo's, b. Oregon; BIOGRAPHICAL: Daughter of Capt. D. C. Howard, widow of Elbert Bennett. Husband "killed 6 years ago by a falling tree" Has twin sister, Mrs. John Phillips of Newport.
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In East Salem, on Monday, May 18, 1888, at 7 o’clock, a.m. Mrs. Ella Bennett, aged 30 years of Bright’s disease. The deceased was the daughter of Capt. D. C. Howard and widow of Elbert Bennett, who was killed six years ago by a falling tree. She leaves two children, a boy of 11 and a girl of 9 years, to mourn their orphaned condition. She had been suffering for a long time and her death was not entirely unexpected. Her twin sister, Mrs. John Philips, arrived here from Newport yesterday too late to see her alive. Funeral services will be held at the M.E. church this afternoon at 2 o’clock, and the remains will be interred in the I.O.O.F. cemetery under direction of the Sedgwick Relief Corps, of which she was a faithful member. Daily Oregon Statesman 28 May 1888 3:3
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Ella Bennett
SOURCES: 
LR IOOF Register of Burials S&H pg 51 1880 Oregon Census (Yamhill Co., Dayton Pct., pg 431D) DOS 28 May 1888 3:3 OS 4 Jan 1889 [necrological list]
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LOT: 624 SPACE: S½ LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.209' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.898'
 
 

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