Smith Cemetery ~ Arius Prose ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Prose, Arius
LAST: Prose FIRST: Arius MID: 
GENDER: M MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE: 
BORN: 13 Mar 1831 DIED: 4 Nov 1903 BURIED:  (Smith Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  Ohio
DEATH PLACE: Oregon
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MARRIAGE - Arius Prose & Barbary E. Norman md 23 Jan 1855, Gallia Co, Ohio 1860 OH CENSUS - Arius Prose (29y, b Ohio, occupation farmer) enumerated with Ellen (24y, b Ohio), Elizabeth (4y, b Ohio) & Samuel (2y, b Ohio) 1870 OR CENSUS - A. Prose (40y, b Ohio, occupation farmer) enumerated with Ellen (34y, b Ohio), Elizabeth A. (14y, b Ohio), Samuel A. (12y, b Ohio), Martha E. (10y, b Ohio), Mary F. (7y, b Ohio), Catherine E. (4y, b Oregon) & James H. (1y, b Oregon) 1880 WA CENSUS - A. Prose (49y, b Ohio, occupation farming) enumerated with wife Ellen (43y, b Ohio) & 6 children Samuel A. (22y, b Ohio), Mary (17y, b Ohio), Katie (14y, b Oregon), James (10y, b Oregon), William (7y, b Oregon) & Albert N. (1y, b Oregon, entry crossed out with notation "died") 1900 OR CENSUS - Arius Prose (b Mar 1831, Ohio) enumerated with wife of 45 years Ellen (b Mar 1837, Ohio, mother of 9 children, 7 living at time of census) NOTE - Father of Martha Haptonstall & Katherine Burns who are also buried at Smith cemetery
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INSCRIPTION: 
Arius Prose Mar. 13, 1831 Nov. 4, 1903
SOURCES: 
Gallia Co, Ohio, Marriage Records (indexed on Ancestry & FamilySearch) 1860 OH CENSUS (Gallia Co, Perry, FA#899) 1870 OR CENSUS (Benton Co, FA#551) 1880 WA CENSUS (Whitman Co, Farmington, ED 56, FA#273) 1900 OR CENSUS (Crook Co, McKay, ED 11, FA#221)
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