Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Oren Carver Brewster ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Oren Carver Brewster
LAST NAME: Brewster FIRST NAME: Oren MIDDLE NAME: Carver NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mr. GENDER: M MILITARY: 
BORN: 26 Jan 1829 DIED: 7 Jan 1912 BURIED: 8 Jan 1912
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  Dresden, New York
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
OSBH DC (Marion County 1912) #104 - O. C. Brewster, male, widower, b. June 1828, d. in Salem, Oregon 7 Jan 1912 at the age of 84 years, occupation - merchant, interment IOOF 9 Jan 1918, undertaker Lehman & Clough.
MARRIAGE - Owen C. Brewster md Julia E. Baker 24 Feb 1858 in McHenry Co., Illinois. 
1860 IL CENSUS - Carver Brewster, age 30, occupation farmer, b. New York, is enumerated with Julia, age 25, b. New York, along with Edith, age 1, b. Illinois. 
1870 IL CENSUS - Carver Bruster [Brewster], age 40, occupation farmer, b. New York, is enumerated with Julia, age 34, b. New York, along with Edith, age 12, b. Illinois, and Frank, age 6, b. Illinois. 
1900 OR CENSUS - Oren C. Brewster, age 71, b. Jan 1829 in New York, is enumerated with his wife of 42 years, Julia, age 65, mother of 3 children 2 of whom are living at the time of the census, b. May 1835 in New York.
DISCREPANCY - Marriage record gives his name as Owen, 1900 CENSUS gives his name as Oren, obit as Olan.
OBITUARY: 
"BREWSTER--In Salem, Oregon, January 7, 1912. Olan Carver Brewster, aged 82 years. Deceased was born in Dresden, NY, June 26, 1829, but has been a resident of Salem for many years. A son, Frank, of Augusta, Kan., and a daughter, Mrs. D. A. White, of this city, survive him. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon from the Lehman & Clough undertaking parlors." 
Weekly Oregon Statesman 9 Jan. 1912 7:3.
INSCRIPTION: 
O. C. Brewster 
Born Jan. 29, 1829 
Died Jan. 10, 1912 
(W. side of monument shared with Julia Brewster and Nellie White)
SOURCES: 
LR 
LD 
OSBH DC (Marion Co., 1912) #104 
Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900 
1860 IL CENSUS (LaSalle Co., Waltham, FA #906)
1870 IL CENSUS (Woodford Co., El Paso, FA #81)
1900 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., N. Salem, ED 143, sheet 17A)
WOS 9 Jan 1912 7:3
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LOT: 646 SPACE: 2 NW LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.161' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.915'
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