Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Charles Edward Morton ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Charles Edward Morton
LAST NAME: Morton FIRST NAME: Charles MIDDLE NAME: Edward NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: M MILITARY: 
BORN: 1850 DIED: 13 Aug 1923 BURIED: 15 Aug 1923
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Bookkeeper
BIRTH PLACE:  New York
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
3rd MARRIAGE - to Martha S. Outhouse, circa 1894
1900 OR CENSUS - C. E. Morton, age 44, occupation bookkeeper, b. Aug 1855 in New York, is enumerated with his wife of 5 years, Martha, age 41, no children, b. Nov 1858 in Illinois, along with Ralph, age 7, b. Mar 1893 in Washington.
1910 OR CENSUS - Chas. E. Morton, age 59, occupation bookkeeper (lumber company), b. New York, is enumerated with his (3rd) wife of 16 years, Martha S., age 54 (her 2nd marriage) mother of 1 child not living at the time of the census, b. Illinois, along with Ralph C. Morton, age 18, b. Washington.
4th MARRIAGE - Charles E. Morton md Clara Belle Hauseman 27 Feb 1918 in Marion Co., Oregon.
DISCREPANCY - 1900 census gives his year of birth as 1855, marker gives his year of birth as 1850
OBITUARY: 
Charles Edward Morton died at his residence, 702 North Fourteenth street, aged 73 years. Survived by his wife Clara Belle Morton, and one son, R. C. Morton of Salem. Funeral services will be held from Webb’s Funeral Parlors today at 2 p.m. Blaine Kirkpatrick officiating. Interment in IOOF cemetery. 
Oregon Statesman 15 Aug 1923 5:3
INSCRIPTION: 
Charles E. Morton
1850 - 1923
SOURCES: 
LR 
LD 
Saucy/Norman Survey & Photographs
1900 OR CENSUS (Multnomah Co., Mt. Tabor, ED 88, sheet 2B)
1910 OR CENSUS (Multnomah Co., Portland, ED 170, sheet 5B)
Oregon Marriage Index (Ancestry.com)
OS 15 Aug 1923 5:3
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LOT: 766 SPACE: 2 NE N½ LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: 
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