Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Josephine L. Munkers ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Josephine "Josie" L. Munkers
LAST NAME: Munkers FIRST NAME: Josephine MIDDLE NAME: L. NICKNAME: Josie
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: Sep 1879 DIED: 22 Sep 1954 BURIED: 25 Sep 1954
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Salem, Marion Co, Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Lincoln Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

1880 OR CENSUS Josephine Munkers (b Sept 1879, Oregon) enumerated with parents James (37y, b Missouri, occupation farmer) and Romelia (26y, b Oregon) and 3 sisters, Lulu M. (13y, b Oregon), Winnie (10y, b Oregon) and Jessie W. (2y, b Oregon)
1900 OR CENSUS - Josephine Munkers, age 20, b. Sep 1879, in Oregon, is enumerated with James M., age 58, occupation farmer, b. Dec 1841 in Missouri, and his wife of 23 years, Romalia, age 50, mother of 6 children 4 of whom are living at the time of the census, b. Mar 1850 in Oregon, along with Jessie M., age 22, b. Oct 1877 in Oregon, Jerry O., age 18, b. Nov. 1881 in Oregon, and Gordon, age 8, b. Jun 1891 in Oregon.

1910 OR CENSUS Josephine Munkers (32y, b Oregon) enumerated with parents J.M. (68y, b Missouri, married 33y) and Romelia (56y, b Oregon, mother of 5 children, 4 living at time of census) and 3 siblings, Jessie (32y, b Oregon), Josephine (30y, b Oregon), J.O. [Jerry] (28y, b Oregon) and Gordon (18y, b Oregon, occupation farmer)

1920 OR CENSUS Josie Munkers (39y, b Oregon) enumerated with mother Romelia (65y, b Oregon, widowed) and 2 siblings, Jerry (37y, b Oregon, occupation farm laborer) and Gordon (28y, b Oregon, occupation laborer)

1930 OR CENSUS Josie Munkers (50y, b Oregon, single, occupation seamstress); listed as roomer with Robert G. Miller family

1940 OR CENSUS Josephine Munkers (59y, b Oregon, single, occupation attestation in department store; living in same place in 1935) enumerated with brother Gordon Munkers (48y, b Oregon, married but wife not with family, living in rural Linn Co, Oregon in 1935)

DISCREPANCY - marker gives year of birth as 1880, 1880 and 1900 census gives year of birth as 1879.
Photograph of Rickey School shows a Josie Munkers.

OBITUARY: 
INSCRIPTION: 

Munkers
Josephine
1880 - 1954
[shares marker with Gordon E. and Jerry O.]

SOURCES: 

LR
LD
ODI
Saucy Survey & Photographs

1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, E Salem, ED 80, FA#329)
1900 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., E. Salem, ED 127, sheet 7B)

1910 OR CENSUS (Linn Co, S Brownsville, ED 193, sheet 4A)

1920 OR CENSUS (Linn Co, N Brownsville, ED 301, sheet 6B)

1930 OR CENSUS (Marion co, Salem, ED 54, sheet 8A)

1940 OR CENSUS (Marion co, Salem, ED 24-60A, sheet 2A)

CONTACTS: 
LOT: 651 SPACE: 4 SW LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.186' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.911'
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