Susan "Virgie" Virginia Byrd LAST NAME: Byrd FIRST NAME: Susan MIDDLE NAME: Virginia NICKNAME: Virgie MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE: Miss GENDER: F MILITARY:  BORN: 24 Feb 1867 DIED: 29 Jul 1951 BURIED: 31 Jul 1951 ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Stenographer BIRTH PLACE:  Fairfield, Marion Co., Oregon DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon NOTES:  Name of father Lorenzo Dow Byrd Maiden name of mother Martha Crawford Savage 1880 OR CENSUS - Virgie Bird [sic], age 13, b. Oregon, is enumerated with her father L. A., age 57, farmer, b. Arkansas, and Martha, age 44, b. Missouri, along with Calvin, age 23, Corda, age 20, Austin, age 17, Edgar, age 8, and Bertha, age 6, all born in Oregon. 1900 OR CENSUS - Susan V. Byrd, age 33, single, occupation bank clerk, b. Feb 1867 in Oregon, is enumerated with father Lorenzo, age 77, occupation farmer, b. Dec 1822 in Arkansas, and his wife of 46 years, Martha, age 64, mother of 8 children, b. Dec 1835 in Missouri, along with Bertha C., age 26, single, occupation public school teacher, b. Dec 1873 in Oregon, and Roy D., age 19, single, b. Mar 1891 in Oregon. 1930 OR CENSUS - Virginia Byrd, age 63, single, occupation post office clerk, b. Oregon, is enumerated as a cousin in the home of Walter F. and Alice P. Pruden. BIOGRAPHICAL (By her nephew Dean Byrd 13 Nov 2003): "She went by the name of Virginia ("Virgie" to the family). She left home at age 18 from Fairfield and was a stenographer for the land offices and post offices. She was dismissed from the P. O. about 1932 as a cost cutting measure, lived rent free in Agate Beach in her brother Roy's vacation cottage for a year before moving to her parent's home at 643 Union St. Bertha (Byrd) McMahon was her sister." OBITUARY:  INSCRIPTION:  Virginia Byrd  1867 - 1951  [shares marker with Edgar F. Byrd] SOURCES:  LR  LD  OSBH DC (Marion Co., 1951) #7968 Saucy Survey & Photographs 1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Fairfield, ED 83, pg 80D 1900 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, ED 128, sheet 1B))  1930 OR CENSUS (Multnomoah Co., Portland, ED 395, sheet 3A)  CONTACTS:  LOT: 857 SPACE: 2 NW LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE:  IMAGES: