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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ James Knox Polk Cavitt ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Cavitt, James Knox Polk
LAST NAME: Cavitt FIRST NAME: James MIDDLE NAME: Knox Polk NICKNAME: Polk
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 1846 DIED: 30 Dec 1892 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Missouri
DEATH PLACE: Zena, Polk Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

1850 MO CENSUS - James K.P. Cavitt (4y, b Missouri)  enumerated with Hiram F. (42y, b Tennessee, occupation farmer) along with   Martha J. (27y, b Kentucky),  Robert L. (15y, b Tennessee), and George W. (1y, b Missouri)  

1860 MO CENSUS - James K.P. Cavitt (13y, b Missouri)  enumerated with H.F. (53y, b Tennessee, occupation farmer) along with  Martha J. (36y, b Kentucky), George (8y, b Missouri)  Albert (6y, b Missouri), John C.B. (3y, b Missouri) and Babe [Sarah E.] (2m, b Missouri)  

1870 OR CENSUS - James Cavitt, age 23, b. Missouri, is enumerated with Martha, age 48 b. K[entucky?], along with  George, age 20, b. Missouri, Albert, age 16, b. Missouri, John, age 12, b. Missouri,and Sarah, age 10, b. Missouri.
MARRIAGE - J. K. P. Cavitt, & Annie McCown, md 17 Mar 1886 at Res. of W.H.H. Wade by J. H. Wood, M.G. Wit: C. B. Smith & L. F. Marr.

NOTE - widow Annie remarried 30 Apr 1894 in Polk Co to George W.Porter [Polk Co Marriage Records, Vol 4]. They appear in the 1900 census of Eola, Polk Co, Oregon [ED 172, family 138] with 4 Porter children and 4 Cavitt children.

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

N/A

OBITUARY: 

Cavitt.—At his residence near Zena, Polk county, Friday, December 20, 1892, from consumption, J. K. P. Cavitt, aged 47 years. The funeral will be held at Zena today at 11:00 o’clock. 
Weekly Oregon Statesman, Friday, January 13, 1893.

INSCRIPTION: 

Farewell
Polk Cavitt
Died
Dec. 30, 1892
Aged
[47] Y's 11 M's [?] D's

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs

1850 MO CENSUS (Johnson Co, Warrensburg, FA#56)

1860 MO CENSUS (Johnson Co, Warrensburg, FA#1420) 
1870 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Eola, FA #371)
Polk Co., Oregon Marriage Records, Sept. 1879 - Dec. 1888, pg 27
WOS 13 Jan 1893

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