Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Thurza W. Conover
~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Thurza W. Conover
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LAST NAME: Conover
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FIRST NAME: Thurza
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MIDDLE NAME: W.
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MAIDEN NAME: Roszel
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GENDER: F
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BORN: Mar 1841
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DIED: 27 Mar 1907
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BURIED: 2 Apr 1907
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OCCUPATION: Housewife
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BIRTH PLACE: Connersville, Fayette Co., Indiana
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DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
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NOTES: 1850 IN CENSUS - Thurza Roszel, age 9, b. Indiana, is enumerated with Richard Stephens, age 46, occupation farmer, b. Ohio, and Nancy Stephens, age 46, b. Kentucky, along with Margaret Roszel, age 24, Eliza H. Roszel, age 21, Mitchael Roszel, age 18, William Roszel, age 13, and Amanda Roszel, age 11, all born in Indiana.
1900 OR CENSUS - Thurza W. Conover, age 58, mother of 4 children 2 of whom are living at the time of the census, b. Indiana, is enumerated with her husband of 40 years, Redding B., age 63, occupation editor, b. May 1837 in Pennsylvania, and his wife of 40 years, along with Lula, age 24, single, occupation music teacher, b. Oregon,
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OBITUARY: ANOTHER PIONEER GONE
Mrs. R. B. Conover Goes to Join the Great Majority of Pathfinders Passed On.
In the death of Mrs. R. B. Conover Wednesday night at her home, 1528 Asylum avenue, another pioneer has ended her long journey. Mrs. Conover, whose maiden name was Therza Rozell, was born March, 1841, near Connersville, Indiana. She was married in 1861 to R. B. Conover who, with two children, Frank of Butte, Montana, and Miss Lula, of this city survive her, one child having died in infancy, and another daughter Daisy, a beautiful girl of 20, dying some seventeen years ago.
In 1872 Mr. and Mrs. Conover came to Oregon, coming to San Francisco and thence northward by sailing vessel. She was a devoted wife and mother, and a loyal member of the Presbyterian Church. She been ailing for some time, but the end came unexpectedly at about 10 o'clock Wednesday night, when she was seized with heart failure, and passed away in a short time. No arrangement have been made for the funeral pending the arrival of her son Frank from Butte, Montana.
Chapman Scrapbook, pg. 134. [Salem newspaper -- hand-written date, Wed. Mar. 28, 1907]
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INSCRIPTION: Thurza W. Conover
1841-1907
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SOURCES: LR
LD
OSBH DC (Marions Co., 1907) #3163
DAR pg 72
Saucy Survey & Photographs
1850 IN CENSUS (Fayette Co., Columbia, FA #45)
1900 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Prospect, ED 127, sheet 1A)
Chapman Scrapbook, pg 134.
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LOT: 845
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SPACE: 1 SW S½
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