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William C. Brown Cemetery ~ Ira Perry Smith ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Smith, Ira Perry
LAST NAME: Smith FIRST NAME: Ira MIDDLE NAME: Perry NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 5 Oct 1823 DIED: 27 Aug 1905 BURIED: 29 Aug 1905 (William C. Brown Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Jackson Co., Missouri
DEATH PLACE: Portland, Multnomah Co, Oregon
NOTES: 
1st MARRIAGE - Achsa Kimsey
1850 OR TERR CENSUS (Polk Co., FA #133)
Perry Smith, age 26, occupation farmer, b. Missouri, is enumerated with Axy, age 30, b. Missouri, along with Edney, age 2, b. Oregon Territory.  Also enumerated with the family is James Robinson, age 31, occupation farmer, b. Oregon. 
2nd MARRIAGE - Ira P. Smith & Elizabeth Price, md 23 Dec 1860; Elijah Flannery, J.P. Wit: Simon Garrison & James Townsend.
 
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 
Uncle Perry Smith Gone. 
He was born in Jackson county, Missouri, in 1823 and in 1847 crossed the plains with his brothers, Dick, George and Absalom, and his sisters, Mrs. Plummer and Mrs. Townsend. In the same train came Judge Kimsey and others who settled in this county. He married a daughter of Judge Kimsey and for many years she and five of their children have been sleeping in the Brown cemetery. His original homestead includes the ground on which that cemetery is located and he gave the land for it. After the death of his first wife he married a Miss Price, of Perrydale, she being a sister of Mrs. W.W. Williams of Airlie. About the close of the war they went to Eastern Washington where he remained for some years and was at one time county commissioner of Whitman county. Some twenty years ago he came back to this county and lived around Dallas until a few years ago he went to live with his daughter, Mrs. Minnie Mason, in Portland. Only two others of his nine children are alive they being Mrs. Nellie Warmouth of Portland, and Green Smith of Colfax, Wash. He was the last one of a family of eleven children. He died last Sunday at the home of Dr. Mason in Portland and was brought on the train Monday evening to the home of his nephew, Sam Smith, at Smithfield. Tuesday noon a large number of kindred and friends gathered at the Brown cemetery to pay their last respects to his memory, the funeral services being conducted by Rev J.B. Thompson of the Dallas Baptist church of which the deceased had long been a member. He raised Mrs. Dan Richardson and they loved each other dearly. Years ago he, Micajah Morrison and James Morrison ran a mill up on the Pedee. Polk County Itemizer (Fri) 1 Sep 1905, 2:4

WAS PIONEER OF 1847
Ira Perry Smith Passes Away at His Home in Portland After Long Illness.
Ira Perry Smith died Sunday morning at the home of his son-in-law, Dr. I.T. Mason, at 798 Kerby street, Portland. He had been in failing health for several years. 
Mr. Smith was one of the early pioneers, having come to Oregon with the James Kimsey party in 1847. Mr. Smith was born in Missouri, October 5, 1823. His first wife died soon after arriving in Oregon, and their four children died within a few years of the death of their mother. Upon his arrival in Oregon, he settled on a farm in Polk county, where he resided for about 20 years and where he married Elizabeth Price, a member of one of the best known of the early Oregon families. 
About 1865 the family moved to Colfax, Wash. While in Washington, Mr. Smith served one term as County Commissioner of Whitman County. In the early 90s they returned to Polk County, where he resided up to a few [years] ago, when he went to Portland. 
There were nine children in the family, of whom three are now living, Mrs. I.T. Mason and Mrs. Nellie Warmoth of Portland, and Green Smith of Colfax, Wash. Mr. Smith, himself, was the only living member of a family of 11 children. He united with the Baptist church in 1854 and remained a faithful member to the time of his death. 
The body was brought to the home of his nephew, Samuel Smith, of Smithfield, Polk county, Monday evening, and burial took place in the family cemetery Tuesday afternoon. A brief but impressive sermon was preached by Rev J.B. Thompson, pastor of the Baptist church of Dallas. Many pioneers and old-time friends of the family attended the funeral.
Polk County Observer (Fri) 1 Sep 1905, 1:6
INSCRIPTION: 
No marker
SOURCES: 
Branigar Survey
PCI 1 Sept 1905
PCI 1 Sept 1905
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