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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Harriett M. Strand ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Strand, Harriett M.
LAST NAME: Strand FIRST NAME: Harriett MIDDLE NAME: M. NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Higgins AKA 1: Ford AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: F TITLE: 
BORN: 19 Apr 1886 DIED: 18 Sep 1962 BURIED: 21 Sept 1962 (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  Teacher
BIRTH PLACE:  Wakelee, Cass Co, Michigan
DEATH PLACE: Milwaukie, Clackamas Co, Oregon
NOTES: 

Marriage of Parents - Benjamin F. Higgins (33y, b Michigan) & Lucy H. Patrick (16y, b Minnesota) md 4 July 1871, Marcellus, Cass co, Michigan

NOTE – Lucy Higgins died 29 Oct 1896 at Penn, Cass co, Michigan [Michigan death records, Ancestry.com]

1900 OR CENSUS – Hattie M. Higgins (b Apr 1886, Michigan) enumerated with grandparents Christopher Patrick (b July 1828, New York married 49y, occupation farmer) and Harriet Patrick (b Nov 1832, Ohio, mother of 12 children, 6 living at time of census); also with family was boarder Joseph Reins (b 1860, Kentucky, occupation day laborer)

1st MARRIAGE – Earl G. Ford & Harriett M. Higgins md 7 May 1908, Marion co, Oregon

1910 OR CENSUS – Harriet H. Ford (24y, b Michigan, married 1y, no children) enumerated with husband Earl G. (33y, b Kansas, occupation city marshal), her brother Grover Higgins (20y, b Michigan, occupation book agent) and a roomer Anna B. Shirk (29y, b Iowa, occupation teacher)

2nd MARRIAGE – John Henrick Strand & Harriett M. Ford md 27 June 1922, Yamhill co, Oregon

1930 OR CENSUS – Harriett M. Strand (43y, b Michigan, married at age 35y, occupation teacher) enumerated with husband John (46y, b Norway, immigrated 1904, naturalized, occupation sawmill yard foreman)

1940 OR CENSUS – Harriet M. Strand (53y, b Michigan, occupation case worker) enumerated with husband John H. (56y, b Norway, occupation mill yard foreman); family was living in same house in 1935  

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (1962 Clackamas co) #11311 Harriett M. Strand, female, teacher, married, spouse John H. Strand; b 18 Apr 1886, Wakelee, Cass co, Mich; father Benjamin Higgins; mother Lucy Patrick; d 18 Sept 1962, 13505 SE River Road, Portland, age 76y; lived in town 2y; bur Zena; informant John H. Strand, husband

OBITUARY: 

Mrs Harriet Strand, a resident of the Zena community northwest of Salem in her youth, died Tuesday at Milwaukie at the age of 76. Born in Michigan, Mrs Strand came to Salem at an early age to live with her grandparents, Mr and Mrs Christopher Patrick. She attended Zena school and Willamette University and taught for a time at Popcorn School west of Salem. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Benjamin Higgins. She leaves a widower, John H. Strand, Milwaukie; three sisters, Mrs Winnie Hume, Molalla, Mrs Irene Alleman, Long Island, NY, and Mrs Kate Arnold, Battle Creek, Mich; two brothers, J. Thomas Higgins, Zena, and Grover B. Higgins, Pompano Beach, Fla. Services will be 2 pm Friday in Barrick chapel. Burial will be in Zena Cemetery.

Oregon Statesman, Wednesday, September 19, 1962, page 5

INSCRIPTION: 

Harriett M. Strand
Apr. 19, 1888 - Sept 18, 1962

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs

OSBH DC (1962 Clackamas co) #11311

Michigan Marriage Records (Ancestry.com)

1900 OR CENSUS (Polk co, Spring Valley, ED 172, FA#59)

Oregon Marriage Index

1910 OR CENSUS (Tillamook co, Hoquarton, ED 260, sheet 16A)

1930 OR CENSUS (Yamhill co, Willamina, ED 50, sheet 1B)

1940 OR CENSUS (Polk co, Gold Creek, ED 27-16, sheet 7B)

OS, 19 Sept 1962, page 5

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