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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Niles Roger Holland ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Holland, Niles Roger
LAST NAME: Holland FIRST NAME: Niles MIDDLE NAME: Roger NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 14 Oct 1878 DIED: 3 Sept 1955 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  Michigan
DEATH PLACE: McMinnville, Yamhill Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

1880 MI CENSUS - Rogers Holland (1y b Michigan) enumerated with parents   Elias (25y, b Michigan, occupation farmer) and Flora E. (24y, b Michigan) and sister Flora (4y, b Michigan)

1910 OR CENSUS - Niles R. Holland (30y, b Michigan, single, occupation laborer) listed as boarder in home of David Cruickshank

1st MARRIAGE - Miles Holland and Miss Edna Wilcox of Laurel were united in marriage by Rev Duke, Jan 27, 1915, at the home of the officiating minister in Hillsboro. [Hillsboro Argus, Thursday, January 28, 1915, 7:4]
1920 OR CENSUS - Niles Holland, age 41, widowed, occupation farmer, b. Michigan, is enumerated with LaVerne, age 3 yrs 1 mo, b. Oregon, and Lila, age 1 yr 11 mos, b. Oregon.

2nd MARRIAGE - Lora Myrtle Looney on 15 Jun 1920 in Marion Co., Oregon.

1930 OR CENSUS - Niles R. Holland  (53y, b Michigan, first married at age 37y occupation farmer) enumerated with  wife Myrtle L. (35y, b Oregon, first married at age 25y) and daughter Laverne A. (13y, b Oregon)   
DISCREPANCY - Name given as Miles on DC;  Miles on 1st wife's DC; Niles on marker and in census records.

NOTE - 2nd wife Laura Myrtle Looney was born 9 Jan 1895 in Clackamas Co, Oregon, daughter of Robertus Alonzo Looney & Mary Jane Bowen. She remarried 5 Sept 1959 in Lincoln Co, Oregon [Oregon Marriage Index] to Thomas Whitsell. She died 11 Apr 1973 in Lane Co, Oregon [ODI]

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (Yamhill County 1955) #11318 - Miles Rodger Holland, male, farmer, married (Myrtle), b. 14 Oct 1878, Waterville [Watervliet?], Michigan, d. 3 Sep 1955 in McMinnville, Oregon (McMinnville Hospital - usual residence Box 175, Amity) at the age of 76 yrs 10 mos 19 days, name of father Rodger Holland, maiden name of mother Flora Hinkley, interment Zena; informant Mrs. Myrtle Holland.

OBITUARY: 
INSCRIPTION: 

Niles R. Holland
1878 - 1955

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs

1880 MI CENSUS (Charlevoix Co, Boyne Valley, ED 56, FA#270)

1910 OR CENSUS (Washington Co, Gaston, ED 273, sheet 7A)

Hillsboro Argus, 28 Jan 1915, 7:4
1920 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Spring Valley, ED 365, sheet 4B)
Oregon Marriages 1906-1920 (Ancestry.com)

1930 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, Spring Valley, ED 4, sheet 1A)

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