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Morris, Nellie May
LAST NAME: Morris FIRST NAME: Nellie MIDDLE NAME: May NICKNAME: May
MAIDEN NAME: O'Kelley AKA 1: Rueger AKA 2: Turner AKA 3: Allen
GENDER: F TITLE: 
BORN: 25 Feb 1878 DIED: 23 May 1950 BURIED:  ~ English Cemetery
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Polk Co, Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co, Oregon
NOTES: 
1st MARRIAGE - J. [John] A. Rueger & N. May O'Kelley md 7 Oct 1893, Polk Co, Oregon [divorced Feb 1910; Polk Co Circuit Court Case #3742]
1910 OR CENSUS - May N. O'Kelly (31y, b OR, divorced, no children), listed as servant in family of Dorsa N. Turner (36y, b OR, widowed); enumerated with him was dau Verda (11y, b OR), son Donnie (8y, b OR), son Dee C. (2y, b OR)
2nd MARRIAGE - D.N. Turner (of Polk Co, Oregon) & Nellie May O'Kelly (of Polk Co, Oregon) md 8 Jan 1913, Vancouver, Clark Co, Washington [Dorsa d 1 Apr 1922 and is buried in Smith Cemetery]
1920 OR CENSUS - Nellie M. Turner (41y, b OR), enumerated with husband Dorey N. (44y, b OR) and 2 [step]sons, Donald V. (18y, b OR) and Dee C. (11y, b OR)
3rd MARRIAGE - Lincoln Allen [Lincoln d 27 June 1939 and is buried in Kings Valley Cemetery in Benton Co, Oregon]
4th MARRIAGE - Walter Morris & Nellie Allen md 19 Jan 1946, Benton Co, Oregon
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OSBH DC (Marion County 1950) #5170 - Nellie May Morris, female, housewife, married (Walter T.), b. 25 Feb 1887 in Polk Co., Oregon, d. 23 May 1950 in Salem, Oregon (Salem Hospital) at the age of 63 years, name of father William Nimrod [O’Kelley], maiden name of mother Martha Jane Hastings, bur English; informant Walter T. Morris.
OBITUARY: 
Mrs. Mae Morris, 995 North 29th street, died at a Salem hospital Wednesday at the age of 72. She had been a resident of Corvallis for a number of years. She is survived by her husband, Walter Morris, Corvallis; a sister, Mrs. Clara Williams, Independence; a brother, Lee O’Kelley, Hoskins; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at the Walter Smith mortuary, Independence, at 2 p.m. Friday. Interment will be at the Old English cemetery near Monmouth.
Corvallis Gazette Times, Thursday, 25 May 1950, 5:3
INSCRIPTION: 
Nellie May Morris
1878-1950
SOURCES: 
OSBH DC (Marion County 1950) #5170
Polk Co, Oregon, Marriage Records, Vol 4
1910 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Luckiamute, ED 244, sheet 3B)
Washington Digital Archives (Clark Co Marriage Records) 1920 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Luckiamute, ED 371, sheet 1B
Oregon Marriage Index (Ancestry)
CGT 25 May 1950, 5:3
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