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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ George Albert Purvine ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Purvine, George Albert
LAST NAME: Purvine FIRST NAME: George MIDDLE NAME: Albert NICKNAME: Bert
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 24 May 1872 DIED: 6 Dec 1944 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

1880 OR CENSUS - George A. Pervine [Pruvine], age 8, b. Oregon, is enumerated with Andrew J., age 46, occupation farmer, b. Illinois, and Pauline, age 44, b. Germany, along with Jordan, age 21, occupation farm laborer, b. Oregon, Syrus, age 18, occupation farm laborer, b. Oregon, Ida F., age 9, b. Oregon, Emily, age 6, b. Oregon, Gerty, age 4, b. Oregon, Arthur, age 2, b. Oregon, and John F., age 10 months, b. August in Oregon. 

1900 OR CENSUS – Albert Purvine (b May 1872, Oregon) enumerated with parents Andrew J. (b Nov 1833, Ill, married 30y) and Pauline (b Oct 1839, Pennsylvania, mother of 6 children, all living) and 3 siblings, Emma (b Apr 1873, Oregon), John F. (b June 1879, Oregon) and Ida Willis (b Feb 1871, Oregon, married 9y but husband not with family)

MARRIAGE – to Violet Anderson, 1904

1910 OR CENSUS - Albert Pruvine, age 26, occupation farmer, b. Oregon, is enumerated with his wife of 6 years, Violet A., age 33, b. Oregon. They have no children.
[divorced in 1911 - OR Historical Records Index, Div. Case #10160] 

NOTE – Violet was daughter of Andrew & Jennie Anderson. She appears with her mother and step-father John McCrow in 1900 census of McCoy, Polk co, Oregon [ED 171, FA#63]. After her divorce she remarried to Will H. Ward and settled in Goldendale, Klickitat co, Washington, where she died 12 Oct 1957 [Washington death records, Ancestry.com]

1920 OR CENSUS – George A. Purvine (47y, b Oregon, single, occupation attendant at state asylum farm)

1930 OR CENSUS – Berty G. Albert Purvine (57y, b Oregon, divorced, married at age 31y, occupation farm laborer) boarder with Worth & Effie Henry

1940 OR CENSUS – Albert Purvine (67y, b Oregon, divorced) enumerated with brother A. Monroe (62y, b Oregon, occupation farmer) and Monroe’s wife Luella M. (54y, b Michigan); family was living in same house in 1935

DISCREPANCY - Marker and census give year of birth as 1872; DC gives year of birth as 1871

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (Marion County 1944) #1063 - George A. Purvine, male, farmer, divorced, b. 24 May 1871 in Oregon, d. 6 Dec 1944 in Salem, Oregon (Oregon State Hospital -usual residence 1064 Oak St.) at the age of 73 years, 6 mos, 12 days, name of father Andrew Jackson (b. Illinois), maiden name of mother Paulina Steiger (b. Germany), interment Zena; informant OSH records.

OBITUARY: 
INSCRIPTION: 

G. Albert Purvine
1872 - 1944

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs
OSBH DC (Marion County 1944) #1063
1880 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Bethel, ED 102, pg 441C) 

1900 OR CENSUS (Polk co, Spring Valley, ED 172, FA#21)

1910 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Spring Valley, ED 252, sheet 2B)
OR Historical Records Index (Oregon State Archives)

1920 OR CENSUS (Marion co, Salem, ED 351, sheet 21A)

1930 OR CENSUS (Polk co, Spring Valley, ED 4, sheet 1B)

1940 OR CENSUS (Polk co, Spring Valley, ED 27-42, sheet 4A)

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