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Hart, Thomas
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FIRST NAME: Thomas
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| BORN: 1788
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DIED: 3 Feb 1874
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BURIED: (Hart-Riggs Cemetery)
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| BIRTH PLACE: Orange Co., North Carolina
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| DEATH PLACE: Polk Co., Oregon
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1st MARRIAGE - Thomas first married Nancy Bain, Jan. 1812 in Orange Co., North Carolina
2nd MARRIAGE - Mary Thompson, May 14, 1829 in Orange Co., North Carolina
DLC #4354 - Thomas Hart and wife, filed Claim No. 4354 in Oregon City for 639.13 acres of land located in Township 8 South, Range 6 West, in Sections 24, 25, 30 and 36. Affiants were: John Nichols and Nicholas Lee.
1850 OR TERRITORY CENSUS - Thomas Hart, age 60, b. North Carolina, is enumerated with Mary F., age 10, b. Missouri, Sarah J., age 8, b. Missouri, Thomas B., age 6, b. Missouri, John P., age 4, b. Missouri, and Harrison B., age 28, b. North Carolina.
3rd MARRIAGE - Rachael [unknown] Riggs, widow of [Reuben ?] Riggs, Nov. 20, 1851 in Clackamas County, Oregon Territory.
1860 OR CENSUS - Thomas Hart, age 78, occupation farmer, b. N. Carolina, is enumerated with Rachel, age 47, b. Missouri, along with Thomas B., age 14, b. Missouri, and J.P., (male), age 12, b. Missouri. Also enumerated with the family is G. W. Riggs, age 18, occupation laborer, b. Missouri.
1870 OR CENSUS - Thomas Hart, age 85, b. North Carolina, is enumerated with Rachel, age 60, b. Missouri, along with Thomas, age 26, b. Missouri, and John P., age 23, b. Missouri. Also enumerated with the family is Mary Lewis, age 40, b. Missouri.
BIOGRAPHICAL:
HART, Thomas settled in Polk County, soon after arriving [1845] in Oregon. For 30 years he resided on his farm, amassing a considerable fortune. He was 95 years old at the time of his death, in February 1874, and until 5 years before he had continued to labor upon his farm, doing the work of a man in his prime. He served in the War of 1812, being then 33 years of age. Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, February 14, 1874.
Bancroft's HISTORY of OREGON, Vol. I, pg. 530.
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OBITUARY:
Thomas Hart, who died at his residence in Polk county last week, was one of the old pioneers of this country. He came to Oregon in 1845, and settled on the place on which he died, having resided there contantly for near thirty years. Until within the last four or five years he made a regular hand on his farm, but since that time he has been quite decrepit, and so childish that his reason had almost departed, so much so that he could not tell his own age, over which there has been considerable difference of opinion, some claiming that he was a hundred, others ninety years old, but from the best information that can be gathered from his relatives, is that he enlisted in the war of 1812 when he was thirty-three [sic] years old, which would make him ninety-five [sic] at the time of his death. He amassed qute a fortune in his long residence in this State, and at one time he had 2,000 bushels of wheat for which he was offered $5 a bushel.
Oregonian, The (Portland, Oregon) 9 Feb 1874
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INSCRIPTION:
Thomas Hart
Died Febrary 3, 1874
Aged 86 years
For more marker photographs and pictures showcasing the restoration work at Hart-Riggs Cemetery, please see: http://polkcemeterysavers.org/Home_Page.php
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Branigar Survey
Saucy Survey & Photographs
Sibley (DAR) 1931
GEN MATERIAL in OR DLC's, Gen. Forum of OR, Vol. 1, #4354
1850 OR TERRITORY CENSUS (Polk Co., #22)
Clackamas Co., Oregon Marriages
1860 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Bridgeport, FA #495)
1870 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Luckiamute, FA #650)
Oreg 9 Feb 1874
Oreg 14 Feb 1874
Bancroft's HISTORY of OREGON, Vol. I, pg. 530
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