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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Peter Franklin Clark ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Clark, Peter Franklin
LAST NAME: Clark FIRST NAME: Peter MIDDLE NAME: Franklin NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 27 Jan 1829 DIED: 19 Jun 1919 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  Illinois
DEATH PLACE: Zena, Polk Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

1st MARRIAGE - Margaret Jane Marsh

1860 MO CENSUS - P.F. Clark (31y, b Illinois, occupation farmer) enumerated with Margaret J. (29y, b Tennessee), Margaret E. (6y, b Missouri), and Henrietta (5y, b Missouri); also with family were Lucretia Pennington (16y, b Missouri) and Ephraim Pennington (14y, b Missouri) who were listed as "inmates"

1870 MO CENSUS - Peter F. Clark (40y, b Illinois, occupation farmer) enumerated with Margaret J. (39y, b Tennessee), Margaret E. (16y, b Missouri), Annetta C. (14y, b Missouri), John F. (9y, b Missouri) and Adda (4y, b Missouri)

1880 OR CENSUS - Peter F. Clark (51y, b Illinois, occupation farmer) enumerated with wife Margaret J. (49y, b Tennessee) and 2 children, John F. (19y, b Missouri) and Ada (14y, b Missouri)

1900 OR CENSUS - Peter P. Clark (b Jan 1829, Illinois, widowed) enumerated with daughter Addie (b Aug 1865, Missouri), grandson Vivian Cochran (b Feb 1880, Oregon), and 2 boarders, Mattie Boyd (b Aug 1832, Indiana, married 20y, mother of 5 children, all living) and Martin V. Mann (b Jan 1837, Indiana, widowed)
2nd MARRIAGE - Elvira Eliza McCord Poindexter

1910 OR CENSUS - P.F. Clark (81y, b Illinois, married 5y, second marriage) enumerated with wife Eliza (69y, b New York, married 5y, second marriage, mother of 10 children, 6 living at time of census), also with family was boarder Sydney F. Cochran (34y, b Oregon)

NOTE - 2nd wife Elvira or Eliza was the widow of James Newton Poindexter who died 20 March 1903 at Prineville, Crook Co, Oregon. She appears in the 1920 census of Eugene, Lane Co, Oregon, living with her son Frank Poindexter. She died 10 March 1923 in Crook Co, Oregon [OSBH DC 1923 Crook co #14] and was buried with her first husband in the Juniper Haven cemetery at Prineville

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (Polk County 1919) #78 - Peter Frank Clark, male, farmer, married (Elvira), b. 27 Jan 1829 in Tennesse, d. 19 Jun 1919 in Zena, Oregon (lived in town 74 yrs) at the age of 90 y's 4 m's 2 d's, name of father C.H. Clark (b. Virginia), maiden name of mother Elizabeth Bell (b. Tennessee), interment Zena; informant Elvira Clark of Rt 1, Salem, Oregon.

OBITUARY: 

P. F. Clark, Veteran of Civil War, Passes Away
Peter Frank Clark, veteran of the Civil War, aged 90 years, 4 months, and 22 days, died at his home in Zena Thursday, June 19, at 7 a.m. He leaves a wife, one son and two daughters, one of the daughters makes her home at Zena. The funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Zena church with the Rev. McKinley conducting them. Burial will be in the cemetery at Zena with the Webb & Clough company in charge.
Oregon Statesman, (Salem, Oregon) June 20, 1919

INSCRIPTION: 

Clark
Peter Franklin
1829 - 1919
If Not On Earth, Then In Heaven[shares marker with Margaret J.]

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs
OSBH DC (Polk County 1919) #78

1860 MO CENSUS (Lawrence Co, Mt Vernon, FA#1227)

1870 MO CENSUS (Lawrence Co, Ozark, FA#310)

1880 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, Bethel, ED 102, FA#44)

1900 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, Spring Valley, ED 172, FA#16)

1910 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, Spring Valley, ED 252, sheet 4B)
OS 20 Jun 1919

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