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Burch Family Cemetery ~ Catherine Fudge ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Fudge, Catherine
LAST NAME: Fudge FIRST NAME: Catherine MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Whiteaker AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: F TITLE: 
BORN: 4 May 1804 DIED: 26 Aug 1868 BURIED:  ~ Burch Family Cemetery
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Virginia
DEATH PLACE: Oregon
NOTES: 
Name of father Richard Whiteaker
Maiden name of mother Rachel Bentley
1850 OR CENSUS - Catherine Fudge, age 45, b. Virginia, is enumerated with David, age 23, occupation farmer, b. Virginia, Johnm age 19, b. Virginia, Eliz, age 21, b. Virginia, James, age 11, b. Virginia, Wm., age 10, b. Illinois, Julia, age 9, b. Illinois, Susan, age 9, b. Illinois, Amanda, age 7, b. Illinois, and Adam, age 5, b. Oregon.

BIOGRAPHICAL - (Source - Boardman, Joye, "The Descendants of Richard Whitaker, Jr. and Rachel Bentley" (Dec 1994) pp 55-56 - via James G. Pearson):
"About 1840, Adam, Catherine, and their children followed her brother, Benjamin Whitaker, to Illinois. In the fall of 1835 the emigrated to Putnam County, Illinois where they remained until the fall of 1836. They stayed in this area until March 7, 1847, when they joined Benjamin and family and headed west on the Oregon Trail crossing the continent to Polk County, Oregon where Adam secured a farm and engaged in its operation. Mr. Fudge took a donation claim on the Territorial Road between Salem and Corvallis consisting of 640 acres. Their trip west began by crossing the Missouri River at St. Joseph and the proceeded by way of the Platt River, Soda Springs, Green River, Snake River, the Barlow Toll Road through the Cascade Mountains, Grande Ronde Valley, across the Blue Mountains at the present site of Pendleton, and finally arrived in Polk County, Oregon.
In March 1848 Adam went to California as a gold hunter, mining near Sutter's Mill. After saving $1500.00, he started home on a sailing vessel, and was twenty-two days in reaching the mouth of the Columbia River. He died there in an accident on July 4, 1846 and was buried in Astoria. Catherine made the donation claim her home and with the exception of two years spent in Washington, until her death in 1867 spent her time in Oregon. Catherine died at the age of 62 years".

DISCREPANCY - Biographical information gives year of death as 1867, marker gives year of death as 1868.

Note - brother Benjamin Whiteaker is buried at Whiteaker Cemetery. SEE: www.polkcountycemetery.com/whiteaker/
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 
INSCRIPTION: 
Catherine
wife of
A Fudge
Died
Aug. 26, 1868
Aged
64 Y's 3 M's 22 D's
SOURCES: 
Branigar Survey
Saucy Survey & Photographs
Boardman, pp 54-55
James G. Pearson
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