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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ James K. Sears ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Sears, James K.
LAST NAME: Sears FIRST NAME: James MIDDLE NAME: K. NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 15 Sep 1847 DIED: 14 Dec 1929 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  Teacher; Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  Fairfield, Jefferson Co., Iowa
DEATH PLACE: Hillsboro, Washington Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

MARRIAGE - James K. Sears & Ladusky Walker m 10 Jan 1878 at house of W.M. Walker; Paul A. Smith, MG. Witnesses: Cranston Higgins & B. Duncan 

1900 OR CENSUS - James K. Sears (b Sept 1846, Iowa, married 21 years) enumerated with wife Laduska (b May 1857, Oregon, mother of 5 children, all living) and 5 children, all born in Oregon, Maud (b Nov 1879), Dora (b May 1882), Winnetta (b May 1884), Burnest (b Aug 1885) and Earl (b Sept 1888); also with the family was servant John Allen (b Apr 1869, Oregon)

1910 OR CENSUS - James K. Sears (widowed, b Iowa) enumerated with daughter  Maude V. Gorsline (30y, b Oregon, married 4 years, mother of 2 children, both living), her husband William D. Gorsline (29y, b Oregon) and their 2 children, Helen B. (3y, b Oregon) and Lois D. (2y, b Oregon); also with family was employee Albert Werner (31y, widowed, b Michigan) 

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (1929 Washington co) #272 James K. Sears, male, widowed, spouse Laduska Walker; b 15 Sept 1847, Iowa; father b Iowa; d 14 Dec 1929, 1352 3rd, Hillsboro, age 82y 2m 29d; lived in town 1y; bur Zena; informant W.E. Sears, Portland, Ore

  

OBITUARY: 

James K. Sears, 82, prominent member of the state grange and in political life in Polk county, Oregon, did at the home of his daughter Mrs. Charles L. Walker, Hillsboro, Or., yesterday. He had been ill for a short time.
Mr. Sears was born in Fairfield, Jefferson county, Iowa, September 15, 1847. He came to Oregon at about the age of 20 years and taught school at Perrydale for a time. He helped organize the farmer’s co-operative warehouse at McCoy, Or., when the railway was built through that region and continued in the grain business for many years. It was while there that he became interested in the state grange and in local politics.
Surviving him are five children: Mrs. W. D. Gorsline, Salem; Mrs. George W. Kinman, Coton, Cal.; Mrs. Chales L. Walker, Hillsboro; Mrs. J. W. Smuck, Seattle, Wash., and W. Earle Sears, Portland.
Funeral services will be held at Rigdon & Son chapel in Salem at 1 P.M. tomorrow and interment will be in Spring Valley cemetery near Zena.
Oregonian, The (Portland, Oregon) 15 Dec 1929, 34:1

INSCRIPTION: 

James K.
Sears
Born
Sept. 15, 1847
Died
14 Dec 1929
Aged 82 Years
2 Mos 29 Days
[shares monument with Laduska]
The Hands That Help
Are Better Far,
Than Lips That Pray;
Love Is The Ever
Gleaming Star.

That Leads The Way.

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs

OSBH DC (Washington County 1929) #272

Polk Co, Oregon, Marriage Records, 1849-1879, page 76

1900 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, McCoy, ED 171, FA#57)

1910 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, McCoy, ED 245, page 277A) 
Oreg 15 Dec 1929, 34:1

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