Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Matilda Ann Kessel ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Matilda Ann Kessel
LAST NAME: Kessel FIRST NAME: Matilda MIDDLE NAME: Ann NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Rayner AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 16 Feb 1855 DIED: 8 May 1929 BURIED: 10 May 1929
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  Arkansas
DEATH PLACE: West Salem, Polk Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

1880 MO CENSUS - Matilda Kessel, age 20, b. Kansas, is enumerated with husband Amborse Kessel, age 24, farmer, b. Virginia, along with Joseph, age 5, Ada, age 2, and 3 month old son, unnamed in census, all born in Missouri.

1900 MO CENSUS Matilda A. Kessel (b Feb 1854, Arkansas, married 22y, mother of 6 children, 6 living) enumerated with husband Ambrose (b Dec 1853, Virginia, farmer) and 5 children, all born in Missouri, Ada (b July 1878), Wesley (b Mar 1880, farm laborer), Nettie (b Aug 1882), Guy (b Mar 1885) and Ruth (b Mar 1894)

1910 MO CENSUS Matilda Kessel (55y, b Arkansas, married 30y, mother of 6 children) enumerated with husband A. Kessel (56y, b Virginia, farmer) and 2 children, W.A. [male] (28y, b Missouri, farm laborer) and Ruth (16y, b Missouri)

1920 OR CENSUS Matilda A. Kessel (63y, b Arkansas) enumerated with husband Ambrose (66y, b West Virginia, laborer) and grandson Emmet A. Dixon [Dickson] (20y, b Missouri, laborer)
OBITUARY: 

Matilda Ann Kessel died Wednesday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles N. Hathaway in West Salem, at the age of 74 years. She is survived by three daughters; Mrs. Hathaway and Mrs. Charles Phillips, of West Salem; and Mrs. Nettie W. Wicker, of Westfield, Indiana, two sons; Guy Kessel of Kansas City, Missouri; and B. F. Dickson of Illinois. Funeral services Friday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at Clough-Huston’s Mortuary. Interment I.O.O.F. cemetery. 
Oregon Statesman 9 May 1929 5:2
INSCRIPTION: 

Kessel
Matilda
1854 - 1929
[shares marker with Ambrose]
SOURCES: 

LR 
LD 
OSBH DC (Polk 1929) #62 
Saucy Survey & Photographs
1880 MO CENSUS (Barton Co., Lamar, ED 261 , pg 412A) 

1900 MO CENSUS (Barton Co, Central, ED 18, sheet 9A)

1910 MO CENSUS (Barton Co, Central, ED 20, sheet 8A)

1920 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, West Salem, ED 366, sheet 5B)

OS 9 May 1929 5:2
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LOT: 853 SPACE: 2 NW N½ LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: 
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