Bevens, Mary Ellen LAST: Bevens FIRST: Mary MID: Ellen GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME: Grant TITLE:  BORN: Aug 1847 DIED: 14 Jul 1924 BURIED: 16 Jul 1924 (Womer Cemetery) OCCUPATION:   BIRTH PLACE:  Missouri DEATH PLACE: Polk Co., Oregon NOTES:  MARRIAGE - Truman O. Bevens & Mary Ellen Grant, md 30 Dec 1864 at house of R. J. Grant; Isaac Staats, J. P. Wit: R. J. Grant & Charles Lewis. Aff. R. J. Grant. 1900 OR CENSUS - Mary Bevens, age 52, mother of 8 children 5 of whom are living at the time of the census, b. Aug 1847 in Missouri, is enumerated with her husband of 36 years, Truman, age 58, occupation farmer, b. Jun 1841 in Missouri, along with Manly W., age 21, b. Feb 1879 in Oregon, and Martha, identified as daughter-in-law, age 20, b. Sep 1879 in Oregon. 1920 OR CENSUS - Mary E. Bevens, age 72, b. Missouri, is enumerated with Truman O., age 78, occupation farmer, b. Missouri. DISCREPANCY - her maiden name is given as Jackson on her DC, but the DC of her her son Gilbert J. Beven gives his mother's maiden name as Grant, as does a bio of her husband in History of the Willamette Valley (See his record in this database) OBITUARY:  INSCRIPTION:  Bevens Mary E. 1847 - 1924 [shares marker with Truman] SOURCES:  Saucy Survey & Photographs OSBH DC (Polk County 1924) #93 Polk Co., OR Marriage Records, 1849-1879, pg 29 1900 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Luckiamute, ED 176, sheet 6A) 1920 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Pedee, ED 374, sheet 1B) CONTACTS:  ROW:    IMAGES: