Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Matthew W Gleeson ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Matthew W Gleeson
LAST NAME: Gleeson FIRST NAME: Matthew MIDDLE NAME: W NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: M MILITARY: 
BORN: 28 Feb 1851 DIED: 14 Jan 1923 BURIED: Jan 1923
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  Washington D. C.
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

1900 KS CENSUS Matthew W. Gleeson (b Mar 1850, Washington, DC, married 9y, occupation farmer) enumerated with wife Helen (b Aug 1862, Kentucky, mother of 3 children) and 3 children, Julia F. (b Aug 1894, Kansas), Miner E. (b Jan 1897, Kansas) and Annie M. (b Feb 1899, Kansas)

1910 OR CENSUS - Matthew W. Gleeson, age 60, occupation farmer, b. District of Columbia, is enumerated with his wife of 19 years, Elvira, age 48, mother of 8 children, b. Kentucky, along with Miner, age 13, b. Kansas, Mira, age 9, b. Kansas, and Annie, age 7, b. Kansas.
1920 OR CENSUS Matthew Gleeson (69y, b District of Columbia, occupation farmer) enumerated with wife Elvira (57y, b Kentucky) and 2 daughters, Anna (20y, b Kansas) and Myra (19y, b Kansas)

DISCREPANCY - DC gives year of birth as 1850 but marker says 1851
OBITUARY: 

GLEESON--At his home on the Garden road, Jan. 14, Mathew W. Gleeson, at the age of 72 years; husband of Mrs. Elvira Gleeson, father of Mrs. Fances Karn of Parma, Idaho; Miner Gleason of Salem, Annie Gleeson, Salem; Myra Gleeson, Salem. Member of Fraternal Aid society, Masonic Pacific lodge No. 50, Salem; I.O.O.F. lodge of Yates Center, Kansas. Funeral services will be held Thursday, Jan 18, at 2 p.m. from the Rigdon mortuary. Interment will be in the IOOF cemetery.
Daily Oregon Statesman 16 Jan 1923, 3:2
INSCRIPTION: 

Father
Mathew W.
1851 - 1923
SOURCES: 

LR
LD
OSBH DC (Marion 1923) #34
Saucy Survey & Photographs
1900 KS CENSUS (Woodson Co, Center, ED 184, sheet 4A)

1910 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, ED 205, sheet 9B)
1920 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Englewood, ED 321, sheet 13B)

DOS 16 Jan 1923 3:2
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