Smith Cemetery ~ Orleana Mariah Graves ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Graves, Orleana Mariah
LAST: Graves FIRST: Orleana MID: Mariah
GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME: Lewis TITLE: 
BORN: 21 Jun 1855 DIED: 8 Feb 1933 BURIED: 14 Feb 1933 (Smith Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Lewisville, Polk Co, Oregon
DEATH PLACE: West Salem, Polk Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
Name of father David R. Lewis
Maiden name of mother Mary R. Redden
MARRIAGE - Charles A. Graves & Orlena M. Lewis md 7 Oct 1880, Wasco Co, Oregon
DIVORCE - Lena M. vs Charles A. Graves, filed 22 Oct 1887; they married Oct 1880 in Wasco co, Ore; they have one living child, Owen F. Graves, age 7 years; Charles left her in Dec 1883 and went to eastern Oregon near Prineville 
NOTE - husband Charles was born ca 1856 in Oregon, son of James A. & Melvina (Pyburn) Graves who are buried in Salem Pioneer cemetery. He appears with his parents in 1870 census of Corvallis, Benton Co, Ore, and 1880 census of Independence, Polk Co, Ore. He settled near Prineville in Crook Co, Ore, where he appears in 1900 census with a new wife, and in 1910 census living alone, twice married and divorced. He probably died before Oct 1918 when he was not listed in his father's obituary (Oregonian 14 Oct 1918, pg 12)
1900 OR CENSUS - Lena Graves (b June 1855, OR, widowed, mother of 2 children, 1 living at time of census) enumerated with son Owen F. Graves (b Oct 1880, OR)
OBITUARY: 
Mrs Lena Graves, aged 78, passed away Wednesday night at the home of her nephew W.P. Lewis of West Salem. The body was brought to Dallas by Henkle & Thomas and funeral arrangements are pending. Mrs Graves had been in her usual health but was stricken with a heart attack shortly after retiring and was dead before Mr Lewis reached her room after she called him. Mrs Graves was a member of the pioneer Lewis family which settled in the Lewisville community in 1845. A son, Owen C. Graves, resides in St Louis, Mo. Mrs T.B. Hooker of Dallas is a niece.
Itemizer Observer, Thursday, February 9, 1933, 8:5
INSCRIPTION: 
Orleana Graves
June 21, 1855 - Feb. 7, 1933
SOURCES: 

PCHS
OSBH DC (Polk County 1933) #18
Wasco Co, Oregon, Marriage Records 
Polk County Divorce Case 1701, Oregon State Archives
1900 OR CENSUS (Lincoln Co, Newport, ED 31, sheet 1B)

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