Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Mary Grace Wait ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Wait, Mary Grace
LAST: Wait FIRST: Mary MID: Grace
GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE: 
BORN: 29 Apr 1877 DIED: 4 Mar 1951 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Polk Co, Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Marion Co, Oregon
NOTES: 

1880 OR CENSUS – Mary Wait (3y, b Oregon) enumerated with parents George (46y, b Kentucky, occupation farmer) and Rebecca (44y, b Missouri) and 5 siblings, all born in Oregon, Ellen (16y), Oliver (13y), Otis (10y), George (9y) and Frank (6y)

1900 OR CENSUS - Mary G. Wait (b Apr 1877, OR single), enumerated with her parents George T. Wait (b Feb 1833, KY, married 38y), and Rebecca K. (b June 1836, MO, married 38y, mother of 9 children, 7 living at time of census)

1910 OR CENSUS – Mary G. Wait (33y, b Oregon, single) enumerated with mother Rebecca K. (73y, b Missouri, widowed, mother of 7 children, 6 living at tiem of census) and Eugene W. Southwick [grandson of Rebecca] (10y, b Oregon)

1920 OR CENSUS – Mary Wait (42y, b Oregon, single); with her was a boarder Estelle Kaylor (46y, b Iowa, single, occupation clerk in post office)

1930 OR CENSUS – Mary Waite (52y, b Oregon) enumerated with her sister Ellen M. Southwick (66y, b Oregon, married at age 28y) and her husband Burnham (66y, b Iowa, married at age 28y, occupation farmer)

1940 OR CENSUS (- Mary Wait (62y, b Oregon, occupation farm work) enumerated with sister Ellen Southwick (76y, b Oregon, widowed) and Dorothy Southwick [granddaughter of Ellen] (22y, b Oregon, occupation berry picking); family was living in same house in 1935
OBITUARY: 

Mary Grace Wait, lifelong resident of the Salem area, died Sunday at her residence in Fruitland district where she had lived for two years. She was 73. Miss Wait was born near Popcorn school in Polk county on April 29, 1877. She spent most of her life in Salem and the Orchard Heights district. Surviving are several nieces and nephews including E.W. Southwick, Salem, Ralph and Herschel Wait, both of Rickreall. Services will be held at 2 pm Wednesday at the Virgil T. Golden chapel. Interment will be at Zena cemetery.

Oregon Statesman, Monday, March 5, 1951, page 5
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SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
OSBH DC (Marion County 1951) #3068

1880 OR CENSUS (Polk co, Bethel, ED 102, FA#84)

1900 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Prospect, ED 127, sheet 1B)

1910 OR CENSUS (Marion co, Salem, ED 226, sheet 10A)

1920 OR CENSUS (Marion co, Salem, ED 350, sheet 11B)

1930 OR CENSUS (Polk co, West Salem, ED 21, sheet 2B)

1940 OR CENSUS (Polk co, West Salem, ED 27-47, sheet 6B)

OS, 5 Mar 1951, page 5
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ROW: II 3 A6