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Staats, Clarence Edwin
LAST NAME: Staats FIRST NAME: Clarence MIDDLE NAME: Edwin NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 23 Feb 1858 DIED: 2 Aug 1947 BURIED:  ~ English Cemetery
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Airlie, Polk Co., Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
MARRIAGE - Clarence E. Staats & Sarah E. Tarter m 10 Nov 1881 at res of Wayne W. Williams by M.S. Pipes, recorder. Wit: W.W. Williams & Robert Tarter Jr
1900 OR CENSUS - Clarence Staats (b Feb 1858, OR), enumerated with wife of 19 years Sarah E. (b Jan 1865, OR; mother of 3 children, all living) and 3 children, Vivian C. (son, b Apr 1883, OR), Eva C. (dau, b Feb 1885, OR) and Vere (son, b Sept 1898, OR)
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OSBH DC (Marion County 1945) #5264 - Clarence E. Staats, male, farming, married ( Sarah E. Staats). b. 23 Feb 1858 at Airlie, Oregon, d. 2 Aug 1945 at OSH, usual residence Dallas, Oregon at the age of 87 years, 5 mos 10 dys, nam,e of  father Isaac Staats (b. New York), maiden name of mother Orlena Williams (b. Tennessee), informant OSH records.
OBITUARY: 

Clarence Edwin Staats, 87, one of the oldest remaining Polk county native sons, passed away Friday in a Salem hospital. Mr. Staats had been in failing health for a number of years, following a stroke suffered some five or six years ago. He was born at Airlie on February 23, 1858, the son of the late Isaac W. and Orlena M. Staats, early Polk county pioneers. He was the last survivor of their family of seven children. Mr. Staats spent his entire life in the county where he was born. He was married to Sarah Emily Tarter at Airlie in 1881. They engaged in farming at Airlie until 1919 when he retired and established his home in Dallas. He served for a number of years as janitor at the elementary school. 
Mr. Staats, prior to his illness, was a familiar figure about the streets and had a wide acquaintance throughout the county. He was one of the warmest boosters for the old Twilight League, never missing a game and accompanying the Dallas teams on all their jaunts to other communities. He was a life member of Jennings Lodge No 9, AF&AM, and for a number of years was clerk of the WOW camp at Airlie. 
He is survived by his wife, who for the past several months has made her home at Carlton, and two sons, Dr. V.C. Staats of Carlton and V.L. Staats of Oceanlake. A daughter Mrs. Eva Clair Ritner, was fatally injured in an automobile collision near Bridgeport on Memorial day 1938. 
Fuenral services were held Monday afternoon at the Henkle & Bollman chapel with Masonic services in charge of Jennings Lodge No 9. Rev. D.V. Poling of Corvallis officiited. Interment was in the pioneer English cemetery, now relocated south of Monmouth.
Itemizer Observer, Thursday, 9 Aug 1945, 4:1

INSCRIPTION: 
Staats
Clarene E.
1858 - 1945
[shares marker with Sarah Emily]
SOURCES: 
OSBH DC (Marion County 1945) #5264
Saucy/Tolle Survey & Photographs
Polk Co, Oregon, Marriage Records, 1879-1888, page 11
1900 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, Luckiamute, ED 176, FA#28)
IO 9 Aug 1945
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