Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Claiborne Lockley Shepard ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Shepard, Claiborne Lockley
LAST: Shepard FIRST: Claiborne MID: Lockley
GENDER: M MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE: 
BORN: 17 Nov 1883 DIED: 4 Dec 1906 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  YMCA staff
BIRTH PLACE:  Zena, Polk Co., Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Spring Valley, Polk Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

1900 OR CENSUS - Claiborne L. Shepard, age 16, b. Nov 1883 in Oregon, is enumerated with James, age 45, occupation farmer, b. Jul 1854 in Missouri, and Josephine, age 46, mother of 10 children 9 of whom are living at the time of the census, b. Jun 1853 in New York, along with Agnes E., age 21, b. Nov 1878 in Utah, Alice G., age 13, b. Apr 1887 in Oregon, Robert J., age 11, b. Jul 1888 in Oregon, Frederick G., age 8, b. Jan 1893 in Oregon, and Ruth J., age 5, b. Nov 1894 in Oregon.

OBITUARY: 

H. W. Stone, general secretary of the Portland Y. M. C. A. is in the city. He will assist in the funeral services of the late C. L. Shepard, who is to be buried at Zena today.
Daily Capital Journal 6 Dec 1906 8:5

Victim of Tuberculosis

Clay Shepard Dies at His Zena Home After Long Illness

Claiborn Lockley Shepard, son of Mr and Mrs J.R. Shepard, died of tuberculosis at the family home near Zena, on Tuesday, December 4, aged 23 years and 17 days. The young man was a graduate of the Oregon Agricultural college and afterward spent two years there as secretary of the college YMCA. He was highly esteemed by the people of Corvallis and was looked upon as one of the coming YMCA leaders in the Northwest. The funeral was held at the Spring Valey Presbyterian church yesterday morning and was largely attended. Secretary H.W. Stone of the Portland YMCA conducted the services. A delegation of students from Corvallis were present to honor their former associate. Many people were also present from Salem and the Spring Valley neighborhood. 

Polk County Observer, Friday, December 7, 1906, 2:2 

INSCRIPTION: 

Claiborne L.
1883 - 1906

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs
OSBH DC (Polk County 1906) #2511
1900 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Spring Valley, ED 172, sheet 1B)
DCJ 6 Dec 1906 8:5

PCO, 7 Dec 1906, 2:2 

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