Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ John Robert Fitzhugh
~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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John Robert Fitzhugh
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| LAST NAME: Fitzhugh
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FIRST NAME: John
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MIDDLE NAME: Robert
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GENDER: M
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| BORN: 15 Sep 1864
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DIED: 18 Jan 1944
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BURIED: Feb 1944
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OCCUPATION: Railroadman; Foundry Helper
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| BIRTH PLACE: Marysville, Clark, Co., Missouri
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| DEATH PLACE: Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon
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NOTES:
Name of father Robert Fitzhugh
Maiden name of mother Johanna Grooms
MARRIAGE - to Minnie (Carter) Hanger, 24 Sep 1902, Columbia Co., Washington
1920 OR CENSUS - John R. Fitzhugh, age 55, b. Missouri, is enumerated with wife Minnie C., age 48, b. Iowa, along with Vera R., age 16, b. Washington, and Veta J., age 15, b. Washington.
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OBITUARY:
Funeral services for John R. Fitzhugh, 79, who died Tuesday after a three-weeks illness, will be held Friday at 11 A.M. at the Peninsula funeral parlors. Interment and graveside services will be held at the Salem I.O.O.F. cemetery at 2:30 P.M.
Born in Marysville, MO., September 15, 1864, Mr. Fitzhugh came west in 1888 to work on the Union Pacific's first Oregon railroad. He married Mrs. Minnie Carter Hanger of Dayton, Wash., in 1902. She died in 1926.
Mr. Fitzhugh was active for many years in the ministry of the Methodist church. He was educated at Valparaiso and Willamette universities. He is survived by two daughter, Mrs. Lloyd G. Moore, Portland, and Mrs. Loren R. White, Salem; two sisters, Mrs. Eliza McClelland, Snyder, Okla., Mrs. C. W. Baumgartner, Corbett, and eight grandchildren.
Oregonian, The (Portland, Oregon) 21 Jan 1944, 7:7
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SOURCES:
J. Plant Register
OSBH DC (Portland 1944) #280
Washington State Digital Archives, Columbia Co. Marriages, 1891-1910
1920 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, ED 349, pg 2B)
Oreg 21 Jan 1944, 7:7
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| LOT: 023
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SPACE: 4 SW
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