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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Ellis Purvine White ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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White, Ellis Purvine
LAST NAME: White FIRST NAME: Ellis MIDDLE NAME: Purvine NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 24 Dec 1903 DIED: 27 Apr 1963 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Salem, Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Longview, Cowlitz Co, Washington
NOTES: 

Marriage of Parents – [Weston] Jackson White & Edna V. Southwick md 15 Nov 1896, Polk co, Oregon

Parents are buried in City View Cemetery in Salem. Weston was son of James H. & Francina White

1910 OR CENSUS – Ellis White (6y, b Oregon) enumerated with parents William J. (44y, b Oregon, married 13y, occupation farm manager) and Edna V. (32y, b Wisconsin, mother of 4 children) and 3 siblings, all born in Oregon, George D. (12y), Velma (10y) and Ralph (7y)

1920 OR CENSUS – Ellis White (16y, b Oregon) enumerated with parents Jackson W. (53y, b Oregon, occupation city police) and Edna (43y, b Wisconsin) and 2 brothers, George D. (21y, b Oregon) and Ralph E. (17y, b Oregon)

MARRIAGE - Ellis Purvine White md Elta Marie Cannoy 14 Apr 1929 in Polk Co., Oregon.

1930 WA CENSUS – Ellis White (26y, b Oregon, married at age 25y, occupation crane operator) enumerated with wife Elta (26y, b Oregon, married at age 25y)

1940 WA CENSUS – Ellis White (36y, b Oregon, occupation crane operator) enumerated with wife Elta (37y, b Oregon) and 2 children, Donald (7y, b Washington) and Carol (4y, b Washington); family was living in same place in 1935; also with family was lodger Lowell Arington (26y, b North Carolina, occupation laborer, living in Aberdeen, Washington in 1935)

WWII Draft Registration Card Ellis Purvine White, 38, of Rt 1, Box 248A, Longview, Cowlitz co, Washington; b 24 Dec 1903, Salem, Oregon; person who knows address Elta M. White, Rt 1, Box 248A, Longview

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

Washington DC (1963 Cowlitz co) #7145 Ellis P. White, male, crane operator, married; b 24 Dec 1903, Salem, Oregon; father Jack White; mother Edna Southwick; d 27 Apr 1963, Longview hospital, of 514 Hillcrest, Longview, age 59y; bur Zena; informant Mrs Elta M. White, Longview

OBITUARY: 

Longview, Wash – Former Salem resident, Ellis P. White, 59, died in a Longview hospital Saturday. He has lived in Longview for about 30 years, employed by Weyerhaeuser Company. He had been ill for several months. Graveside services will be held at Zena Cemetery near Salem at 3 pm Monday, following services at 10 am Monday at Ditlevsen-Moore Chapel in Kelso, Wash. Survivors include the widow, Elta, and son, Donald, both Longview; daughter, Mrs Carol Scherlie, Medford; two grandchildren; two brothers, George White, Salem, and Ralph White, Altadena, Calif, and a sister, Mrs Velma Beyer, Hoquiam, Wash.

Oregon Statesman, Sunday, April 28, 1963, page 5

INSCRIPTION: 

Ellis P. White
Dec. 2, 1903
Apr. 27, 1963

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs 

Washington DC (1963 Cowlitz co) #7145

Polk Co, Oregon, Marriage Records, Vol 4

1910 OR CENSUS (Marion co, E Salem, ED 207, sheet 3A)

1920 OR CENSUS (Marion co, Salem, ED 343, sheet 7B)

Oregon Marriage Index 1925-1929 (Genealogical Forum of Oregon)

1930 WA CENSUS (Cowlitz co, Longview, ED 6, sheet 4A)

1940 WA CENSUS (Cowlitz co, Hillside Acres, ED 8-48, sheet 8B)

WWII Draft Registration Card (Ancestry.com)

OS 28 Apr 1963, page 5

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