Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Frances Sowers Purvine ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Purvine, Frances Sowers
LAST: Purvine FIRST: Frances MID: Sowers
GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME: Reid TITLE: 
BORN: 4 July 1873 DIED: 17 Sept 1945 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Salem, Marion Co, Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

Marriage of Parents – Robert Reed Jr & Frances Sowers md 7 May 1862, Will co, Illinois

Parents are buried in Salem Pioneer Cemetery

1880 OR CENSUS – Anna S. Reed (7y, b Oregon) enumerated with parents Robert (47y, b Ohio, occupation farmer) and Francis A. (40y, b Ohio) and 7 siblings, Arthur N. (19y, b Ohio), Edna L. (17y, b Ohio), Jackson C. (15y, b Iowa),Robert A. (12y, b Iowa), George S. (9y, b Iowa), Ralph R. (3y, b Oregon) and C. Roy (b Jan 1880, Oregon)

MARRIAGE – C.M. Purvine & Fannie Reed md 6 Nov 1895, Polk co, Oregon

1900 OR CENSUS - Fannie S. Purvine, age 26, mother of 2 children, b. Jul 1873 in Oregon, is enumerated with her husband of 4 years Charles M., age 37, occupation farmer, b. Jul 1862 in Oregon, along with Walker R., age 3, b. Nov 1896 in Oregon, and Margarette, age 1, b. Dec 1898 in Oregon.

1910 OR CENSUS – Frances Purvine (35y, b Oregon, married 14y, mother of 3 children) enumerated with husband Charles (46y, b Oregon, occupation engineer), 3 children, Walker (15y, b Oregon), Margaret (11y, b Oregon) and Byron (2y, b Oregon), and aunt [of Charles] Louisa Walker (79y, b Illinois, widowed)

1920 OR CENSUS – Frances Purvine (45y, b Oregon) enumerated with husband Charles M. (56y, b Oregon, occupation engineer), 2 children, Margaret (21y, b Oregon) and Byron (12y, b Oregon); and aunt [of Charles] Louisa Walker (87y, b Illinois, widowed)

1930 OR CENSUS – Frances S. Purvine (56y, b Oregon, married at age 22y) enumerated with husband Charles M. (66y, b Oregon, married at age 32y, occupation farmer) and son Byron J. (22y, b Oregon, occupation farm laborer); also with family was boarder Herman Sawatzky (22y, b Oklahoma, occupation farm laborer)

1940 OR CENSUS – Frances Purvine (66y, b Oregon) enumerated with husband Charles (76y, b Oregon, occupation farmer); family was living in same house in 1935; also with family was lodger John J. Cook (36y, b Missouri, occupation farm laborer, living in Amity, Yamhill co, Oregon in 1935)

OBITUARY: 

Mrs Frances Purvine, at a Portland hospital, September 17. Survived by daughter, Miss Margaret Purvine of Salem. Services will be held from the Clough-Barrick chapel Thursday at 2 pm.

Oregon Statesman, Tuesday, September 18, 1945, page 5

INSCRIPTION: 

Purvine
Frances Reid
1873 - 1945

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs
ODSBH DC (1945 Multnomah co) #3276

Illinois Statewide Marriage Index

1880 OR CENSUS (Marion co, Marion, ED 86, FA#30)

Polk co, Oregon, Marriage Records, Vol 4

1900 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Spring Valley, ED 172, sheet 1B)

1910 OR CENSUS (Multnomah co, Portland, ED 230, sheet 6A)

1920 OR CENSUS (Multnomah co, Portland, ED 158, sheet 2A)

1930 OR CENSUS (Polk co, Spring Valley, ED 4, sheet 11B)

1940 OR CENSUS (Polk co, Spring Valley, ED 27-42, sheet 4A)

OS, 18 Sept 1945, page 5 

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