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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Melissa Jane Pike ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Pike, Melissa Jane
LAST NAME: Pike FIRST NAME: Melissa MIDDLE NAME: Jane NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Baxter AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: F TITLE: 
BORN: 1854 DIED: 19 Apr 1878 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Bethel, Polk Co., Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Polk Co, Oregon
NOTES: 

Name of Father: William T. Baxter

Maiden Name of Mother: Margaret Hicklin

1860 OR CENSUS – M.J. Banister [sic; Baxter] (6y, b Oregon) enumerated with W.T. [William] (28y, b Indiana, occupation farmer), Margaret (25y, b Indiana), M.E. [Martha] (4y, b Oregon) and J.A. [James] (2y, b Oregon)

MARRIAGE - W. A Pike & M. J. Baxter md 27 May 1870 at house of Wm. J. Baxter; E. E. Cooper, M. G. Wit: A. H. Denny & John E. Phillips.
1870 OR CENSUS - Melissa Pike, age 16, b. Oregon, is enumerated with William Pike, age 27, occupation farmer, b. England. Also enumerated in the home are Wm. Smith, age 15, b. Oregon, and Geo. Philips, age 21, b. Oregon. 

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

N/A

OBITUARY: 

Died Friday morning, April 19, 1878, near Zena, Mrs Wm Pike. She leaves a husband and a family of six children.

Itemizer, Friday, April 26, 1878, as transcribed by Clara Foster and Justine Jones

INSCRIPTION: 

Pike
Melissa J.
1854 - 1878
[shares marker with William]

SOURCES: 

 Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs

1860 OR CENSUS (Polk co, FA#263)

Polk Co., Oregon Marriage Records 1849-1879, pg 49
1870 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Lincoln, pg 48)

1878 Itemizer Newspaper Extracts, by Clara Foster & Justine Jones, page 23 

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