Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Preston Hamilton ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Preston Hamilton
LAST NAME: Hamilton FIRST NAME: Preston MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mr. GENDER: M MILITARY: 
BORN: Abt 1819 DIED: 8 May 1888 BURIED: 9 May 1888
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Saloon Keeper
BIRTH PLACE:  Kentucky
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
IOOF - Preston Hamilton, age 69, died in Salem.
1880 CENSUS - Preston Hamilton, age 60, b. Kentucky, occupation saloon keeper, is enumerated within the household of O. H. P. and Viola Cornelius.
OBITUARY: 
At 1:30 p.m., May 8, 1888, at the residence of Richard Kays on East State street, Preston Hamilton. Deceased was 69 years of age, and had lived in Oregon since 1863. He was the father of ten children, among them Mrs. Richard Kays and Mrs. Wm. Anderson, of Salem. The funeral will proceed from the house at 2 o'clock p.m. today (Wednesday), then to the I.O.O.F. cemetery. 
Daily Oregon Statesman, May ?, 1888, pg. ?
INSCRIPTION: 
No marker found as of March 2002
SOURCES: 
LR IOOF Register of Burials 1880 Oregon Census (Marion Co., Turner Pct., pg 129A) DOS ? May 1888 ?:? OS 4 Jan 1889 (Necrological listing)
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 636 SPACE: N½ LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.178' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.908'