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Womer Cemetery ~ Mary Ellen Bevens ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Bevens, Mary Ellen
LAST NAME: Bevens FIRST NAME: Mary MIDDLE NAME: Ellen NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Grant AKA 1: Jackson AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: F 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)
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OSBH DC (Polk County 1924) #93 - Mary E. Bevens, female, married (T.O.), b. Aug 1847 in Missouri, d. 14 Jul 1924 in Pedee, Oregon at the age of 76 y's 11 m's, name of father Jackson, born Missouri, maiden name of mother Williams, born Kentucky, interment 16 Jul 1924, undertaker Chapman & Henkle, informant Mr. T.O. Bevens of Pedee, Oregon.
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)
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