Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Wilbur Edwin McCourt ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon

Wilbur Edwin McCourt

LAST NAME: McCourt	FIRST NAME: Wilbur	MIDDLE NAME: Edwin	NICKNAME:

MAIDEN NAME:	AKA 1:	AKA 2:	AKA 3:

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BORN: 27 Aug 1906	DIED: 12 Jul 1910	BURIED: Jul 1910

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BIRTH PLACE: Oregon

DEATH PLACE: Denver, Denver Co., Colorado

NOTES: Name of father John McCourt Maiden name of mother Veva Boothby 1910 OR CENSUS Wilbur E. McCourt (3y, b Oregon) enumerated with parents John (36y, b Canada, immigrated 1876, naturalized 1882, married 11y, occupation judge and attorney) and Vera (30y, b Oregon, mother of 2 children) and brother John B. (10y, b Oregon); also with family was servant Ilvera Rossnags (17y, b Oregon)

OBITUARY: Wilbur McCourt, son of United States District Attorney John McCourt, died in Denver on Tuesday having been taken ill from spinal meningitis while on the train as his parents were returning from a visit in the east. The remains arrived in the city yesterday at 1 o’clock, and were to have been buried from the Boothby home this afternoon, but with the death of the grandmother [Mrs. W. F. Boothby] a double funeral will be held on Monday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock in the Presbyterian church. [Taken from obituary for grandmother, Mrs. W. F. Boothby] Chapman Scrapbook, pg. 143 [newspaper not given, but July 16, 1910 is handwritten on clipping]

INSCRIPTION: McCourt Wilbur Edwin Aug. 27, 1906 July 12, 1910

SOURCES: S&H pg 36 Saucy Survey & Photographs Barrick Records pg 60 Chapman Scrapbook pg 143 1910 OR CENSUS (Multnomah Co, Portland, ED 216, sheet 13A)

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LOT: 200	SPACE: 2 NE	LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.218'	LATITUDE: W 123° 02.733'

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