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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ James Smith White ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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White, James Smith
LAST NAME: White FIRST NAME: James MIDDLE NAME: Smith NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 1857 DIED: 12 June 1886 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Missouri
DEATH PLACE: MarionCo, Oregon
NOTES: 

Name of father James Henry White
Maiden name of mother Francina Edgar
1860 MO CENSUS – James White (2y, b Missouri) enumerated with J.H. (46y, b Virginia, occupation farmer), Francina (32y, b Virginia), W.W. [William] (18y, b Missouri), Benjamin S. (15y, b Missouri), Francis E. (11y, b Missouri), Margaret (10y, b Missouri), Millard F. (6y, b Missouri), Susan A. (3y, b Missouri), Sophia Roberts (25y, b Virginia), Hester Z. Redding (3y, b Missouri) and Crenshaw White (74y, b Virginia, insane)

1870 OR CENSUS - James White, age 11, b. Missouri, is enumerated with James H., age 56, occupation farmer, b. Virginia, and Francinia, age 42, b. Virginia, along with Francis, age 21, b. Missouri, Margret, age 20, b. missouri, Williard [Millard?], age 16, b. Missouri, Susan, age 13, b. Missouri, Ben S., age 24, occupation farmer, b. Missouri, and Westina, age 3, b. Oregon.

1880 OR CENSUS – James White (22y, b Missouri) enumerated with Claiborn C. Walker (61y, b Virginia, occupation farmer) and his wife Louisa Walker (49y, b Illinois)

MARRIAGE – James S. White of Polk Co, over 21 & Isabel M. Prescott, over 18, m 23 Oct 1883 at house of A. Prescott; Wm S. Harrington, MG. Wit: A. & Cora L. Prescott. Aff: W.J. White

PROBATE – James S. White, file 993. Intestate. Died 12 June 1886. Adm: J.C. White, brother, & Isabel White, widow, 30 July 1886. Heirs: Isabel M. White, 25, widow, Salem & one child, Eulena, 1y, Salem. Property in Polk County.

NOTE – Isabel was daughter of August & Matilda Prescott of Salem, and appears with her parents and daughter Corabelle Eulena White in 1900 and 1910 census of Salem. Isabel died 12 Sept 1947 in Marion co and was buried in City View cemetery. Eulena (1885-1959) married Thomas J. Shipler and is also buried in City View cemetery

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 
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James S. White
1857 - 1886

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs

1860 MO CENSUS (Linn co, FA#250)

1870 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Eola, FA #396)

1880 OR CENSUS (Polk co, Bethel, ED 102, FA#38)

Marion Co, Oregon, Marriage Records, Vol 4 (1879-1884), page 44

Marion Co, Oregon, Probate Records, Vol 3 (R-Z), page 275 

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