Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Valentine Fisher ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Valentine Fisher
LAST NAME: Fisher FIRST NAME: Valentine MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Sr. GENDER: M MILITARY: 
BORN: 1 Mar 1862 DIED: 11 Mar 1941 BURIED: 13 Mar 1941
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  Lonsburg, Ohio or Indiana
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

Marion County Burial

1870 IN CENSUS Valentin Fischer (10y, b Indiana) enumerated with Valentin (50y, b Bavaria, farmer), Mary (36y, b Indiana), Margrethe (15y, b Indiana), Joseph (9y, b Indiana), Josephina (6y, b Indiana), Martin (3y, b Indiana) and Anna (b Dec 1869, Indiana)

MARRIAGE Val W. Fisher and Cora E. Timmons md 13 Sept 1888, Tippecanoe Co, Indiana

1900 IN CENSUS Valentine Fisher (b Mar 1878 [sic], Indiana, age 38y, married 12y, farm laborer) enumerated with wife Cora E. (b Sept 1872, Indiana, mother of 3 children, 2 living at time of census) 2 children, Valentine J. (b Dec 1893, Indiana) and Mary (b Feb 1895, Indiana) and aunt Elenor Johns (b Dec 1831, Kentucky, widowed)

1910 OR CENSUS Valentine Fisher (48y, b Indiana, married 21y, teamster) enumerated with wife Cora E. (42y, b Indiana, mother of 5 children, 3 living at time of census) and 3 children, Valentine J. (17y, b Indiana), Bessie J. (8y, b Illinois) and Emma M. (4y, b Illinois); also with family was nephew John Johnson (24y, b Indiana)

1920 OR CENSUS Valentine Fisher (57y, b Ohio, teamster) enumerated with wife Cora E.  (57y, b Indiana) and 4 children, Valentine J. (27y, b Indiana, laborer), Bessa J. (17y, b Illinois), Emma M. (14y, b Illinois) and Buetta C. (8y, b Oregon)

1930 OR CENSUS Valentine Fisher (68y, b Ohio, married at age 25y, retired) enumerated with wife Cora 63y, b Indiana, married at age 20y)

1940 OR CENSUS Valentine Fisher (78y, b Indiana) enumerated with wife Cora (72y, b Indiana); family was living in rural Marion co in 1935

NOTE wife Cora died 28 May 1950 in Salem and was buried in City View cemetery [OSBH DC 1950 Marion Co #5177]

OBITUARY: 

Valentine Fisher, 79, late resident of 588 Hickory street, at a local hospital March 11. Survived by wife, Mrs. Cora Fisher; children Valentine Fisher, Jr., of Grand Ronde, Mrs. Bessie Brown of Tillamook, Mrs. Emma Woods of Salem and Mrs. Cleo Richards of Reedsport. Funeral cortege will leave Walker & Howell funeral parlors at 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Graveside services in IOOF cemetery, Rev. S. Raynor Smith officiating.

Oregon Statesman 12 Mar 1941 5:4

INSCRIPTION: 

Valentine Fisher 1862 - 1941

SOURCES: 

LR LD S&H pg 19

1870 IN CENSUS (Dearborn Co, York, FA#151)

Indiana Marriage Index (Ancestry.com)

1900 IN CENSUS (Tippecanoe Co, Wayne, ED 116, sheet 2B)

1910 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, Dallas, ED 240, sheet 7B)

1920 OR CENSUS (Tillamook Co, Beaver, ED 388, sheet 3B)

1930 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Salem, ED 62, sheet 9B)

1940 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Salem, ED 24-67, sheet 11A)

OS 12 Mar 1941 5:4

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