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Brown, Wallace Taber
LAST NAME: Brown FIRST NAME: Wallace MIDDLE NAME: Taber NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 20 June 1872 DIED: 13 Jan 1938 BURIED: 16 Jan 1938 ~ Smith Cemetery
OCCUPATION:  Saw Mill owner
BIRTH PLACE:  Visalia, California
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
1900 OR CENSUS - Wallace Brown (b June 1872, California) listed as adopted son of John J. Brown (b Jan 1827, NY, married 34y) and Nancy Brown (b Jan 1844, MO; mother of no children)
2nd MARRIAGE - Wallace T. Brown & Grace Hulburt md 11 Jan 1917, Polk Co, Oregon
[2nd husband of Grace Powell Hulburt Brown Bronson]
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OSBH DC (Marion County 1938) #35 - Walace [sic] T. Brown, male, married (Grace), occupation sawmill owner, b. 20 Jun 1872 in California, d. 13 Jan 1938 in Salem, Oregon (Salem General Hospital - usual residence Monmouth) at the age of 65 yrs 6 mos 23 days, name of father J. Brown, maiden name of mother Nora Hous, undertkaer Henkle & Bollman, bur Smith cemetery, informant Grace Brown,
OBITUARY: 
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Henkle & Bollman chapel for Wallace Taber Brown of McTimmonds Valley, with Rev. O. D. Harris, pastor of the Dallas Christian church, officiating. 
Mr. Brown was born June 20, 1872, in Visalia, Calif, but had resided in Polk county since early childhood. He was active in the lumber mill business for many years. M.r Brown passed away last Thursday in a Salem hospital. He was married January 14, 1917, to Grace Powell, who survives. He also leaves a brother, Charles Taber of San Francisco and two sisters, Mrs. G.
A. Cobb and Mrs. W. G. Case, both of Oakland, Calif.
The following out-of-county friends were in Dallas for the services: L. D. Baldwin and Mrs. Blanche Martin, Tenino, Wn.; Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Purdy, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Crune and Cleve Powell, Cheshire; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Culver, Ed Schmidt and J. E. Pagett, Portland; M.r and Mrs. C .E. Powell, Juanita and Wayne, Oregon City.
Itemizer Observer (Thursday) 20 Jan 1938, 4:3
INSCRIPTION: 
Brown
Wallace T.
1872-1938
[shares marker with Grace Bronson]
SOURCES: 
OSBH DC (Marion County 1938) #35
1900 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, Luckiamute, ED 176, FA#80)
Oregon Marriage Index (Ancestry.com)
IO 20 Jan 1938, 4:3
CONTACTS: 
ROW: 45-3  

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