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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Martin VanBuren Mann ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Mann, Martin VanBuren
LAST NAME: Mann FIRST NAME: Martin MIDDLE NAME: VanBuren NICKNAME: Van
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 18 Jan 1837 DIED: 24 Nov 1902 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  Indiana
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

MARRIAGE – Martin V. Mann & Ann Cooper md 25 Mar 1860, Lawrence co, Missouri

1870 OR CENSUS -Martin V. Mann, age 33, occupation farmer, b. Indiana, is enumerated with Elizabeth, age 32, b. Tennessee, along with Lorence, age 5, b. Oregon, Elbert, age 3, b. Oregon, and Nancy, age 1, b. Oregon. Also enumerated with the family is Cady Linus, age 51, farm laborer, b. Vermont.
1880 OR CENSUS -  Martin V. Mann, age 43, occupation farmer, b. Indiana, is enumerated with L [Lincoln?] L., male, age 15, b. Oregon, Elbert S., age 13, b. Oregon, Nancy, age 11, b. Oregon, Julia V., age 9, b. Oregon, Balm, age 6, b. Oregon, and Ann, age 1, b. Oregon.

1900 OR CENSUS – Martin V. Mann (b Jan 1837, Indiana, widowed) enumerated as boarder with family of Peter P. Clark

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

N/A

OBITUARY: 

MANN- At the Salem Hospital, in this city, Monday, November 24, 1902, Martin Van Buren Mann aged 65, after a long illness.
The deceased was born near Terre Haute, Indiana, on January 18, 1837. In 1860 he married Elizabeth Cooper, now deceased, and crossed the plains to California, where they lived for two years and them removed to Oregon, locating on a large farm near Zena, Where Mr. Mann lived for over 40 years. The deceased is survived by five of the eight children that blessed the union. They are Lincoln L. Mann and Dr. Elbert A. Mann of Pendelton; Miss Frances Mann, of Boise, Idaho; Mrs. Balm Mann-Hodgson, of San Francisco, and Miss Anna Mann of Unalaska.
The Daily Journal 25 Nov 1902, 8:3

PASSING OF OLD PIONEER
Martin Van Buren Mann Dies in a Salem Hospital.
Martin Van Buren Mann, who died in a Salem hospital November 24, was born near Terre Haute, Ind., January 18, 1837. When he was 3 years old his parents removed to Missouri, where he spent his boyhood and youth. In 1860 he was married to Elizabeth Cooper. Seven brothers and two sisters, all of whom are pioneers and prominent citizens of Oregon, survive him. Miss Cooper’s father, Rev. E. W. Cooper, was for 40 years a Baptist minister in Missouri and Oregon.
On April 16, 1860, Mr. Mann and his bride started out on their long honeymoon, a trip across the plains and mountains to California, where they arrived September 6, 1860.
After about three years’ residence in California, chiefly at Watsonville. Mr. and Mrs. Mann and their two little girls, born in California, came to Oregon to join Mrs. Mann’s parents, brothers and sisters in a land where crops were more certain and titles more secure than under Mexican land grants.
They settled on a farm in the Eola Hills, near Zena, upon which Mr. Mann lived continuously for 40 years. There were born to these happy parents six daughters and two sons, as follows: Clementine, the first born, and Louisa both of whom died soon after the arrival in Oregon; Lincoln L., and Dr. Elbert A. of Pendleton; Miss Frances, of Boise, Idaho; Miss Viola, deceased in 1899; Mrs. Balm Mann Hodgson, of San Francisco and Miss Ann Mann, of Unalaska.
Mr. Mann’s last illness, which was of long standing, was borne with the fortitude and patience of the pioneer.
The funeral took place Tuesday at 2 o’clock at Spring Valley meeting-house, at Zena, and was attended by all his old friends and neighbors.
Oregonian, (Portland, Oregon), November 30, 1902.

INSCRIPTION: 

Father
Martin
VanBuren
Mann
Born
Jan. 18, 1837
Died
Nov. 24, 1902

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photgoraphs

Missouri Marriage Records (Ancestry.com) 
1870 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Eola, FA 3275)
1880 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Bethel, ED 102, pg 8B)

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

DJ 25 Nov 1902, 8:3
Oreg. 30 Nov 1902

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