Smith Cemetery ~ Katie Burns ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Burns, Katie
LAST: Burns FIRST: Katie MID: 
GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME: Prose TITLE: 
BORN: 16 Jul 1866 DIED: 2 Sep 1934 BURIED: 5 Sep 1934 (Smith Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Peoria, Linn Co., Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Monmouth, Polk Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
1880 OR CENSUS - Katie Prose, age 14, b. Oregon, is enumerated with father A., age 49, occupation farmer, b. Ohio, and Ellen, age 43, bo Ohio, along with Samuel, age 22, b. Ohio, Mary, age 17, b. Ohio, James, age 10, b. Oregon, and William, age 7, b. Oregon. [notation names another child, Albert N., age 1, b. Oregon who died in May.]
1st MARRIAGE - to --- Mann
2nd MARRIAGE - to J. L. Burns & Mrs Katie Mann md 9 Nov 1893, Polk Co., Oregon
1900 OR CENSUS - Kittie Burns (b July 1866, OR, mother of 2 children, 1 living at time of census) enumerated with husband of 7 years Johnnie Burns (b Sept 1866, OR) and stepson [of John] Charley E. Mann (b Aug 1889, Idaho)
1920 OR CENSUS - Kattie P. Burns, age 53, b. Oregon, is enumerated with John L., age 53, occupation minster, b. Oregon, along with Harold D., age 19, single, occupation farm laborer, b. Oregon.
OBITUARY: 
Services Held Wednesday For Katie Burns, Elkins.
Funeral services were held from the Monmouth Evangelical church Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock for Katie Prose Burns, 68, who passed awsay at her home in Elkins Sunday evening. Katie Prose was born July 16, 1866 at Peoria, Oregon, and lived much of her life in Polk and Benton counties. For 12 years she resided at Farmington, Wn. 
The wife of Rev. John L. Burns, who survives her, Mrs. Burns has been active in the affairs of the Evangelical church for the past 32 years. 
Surviving are Rev. Burns and two sons, H. D. Burns of Salem and Charles E. Burns of San Francisco; two brothers, J .H. Prose of John Day and W. H. Prose of Eugene; sister, Mrs. Martha Haptonstall. Funeral services were directed by the Keeney funeral home of Indepdndence. Interment followed in Smith cemetery near Lewisville. 
Her former pastor, the Rev. A. L. Lonsberry of Corvallis, officiaited at the service assisted by the Rev H.R. Scheuerman. Music was furnished by a quartet from the Dallas Evangelical church.
Independence Enterprise (Friday) 7 Sep 1934, 4:1
INSCRIPTION: 
Katie P.
Burns
1866-1934
[shares marker with John L. Burns]
SOURCES: 
OSBH DC (Polk County 1934) #105
1880 WA CENSUS (Whitman Co., Farmington, ED 56, pg 24D)
Polk Co, Oregon, Marriage Records, Vol 4
1900 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, Luckiamute, ED 176, FA#21)
1920 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Quinaby, ED 339, sheet 8B)
IE 7 Sep 1934, 4:1
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ROW: 46-2