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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Charles Walter Dancer ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Dancer, Charles Walter
LAST NAME: Dancer FIRST NAME: Charles MIDDLE NAME: Walter NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 4 Feb 1866 DIED: 28 Sep 1950 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Illinois
DEATH PLACE: Amity, Yamhill Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

1880 IA CENSUS - Charles W. Dancer, age 14, b. Illinois, is enumerated with John, age 47, occupation farmer, b. Ohio, and Amanda, age 36, b. Illinois, along with Ella G., age 15, b. Illinois, Amanda, age 12, b. Illinois, Annetta, age 9, b. Illinois, Rosetta, age 9, b. Illinois, John F., age 4, b. Illinois, Bertha, age 2, b. Iowa, and Monta, age 3 months, b. Feb in Iowa. 

MARRIAGE - Charles Dancer & Grace Hoffman were married October 14, 1888 by Rev D.M. Doty at the house of A.M. Hoffman with A.M. Hoffman and Franklin Taylor as witnesses.

1900 OR CENSUS - Charles W. Dancer (b Feb 1866, Illinois) enumerated with wife of 11 years Grace (b Feb 1871, Missouri, mother of 1 child) and son Leslie (b Dec 1889, Oregon)

DISCREPANCY - DC gives place of birth as Iowa, but birthplace is given as Illinois in the 1880 Iowa census record.

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (Yamhill County 1950) #11569 - Charles Walter Dancer, male, farmer, widowed (Grace Dancer), b. 4 Feb 1866 in Iowa, d. 28 Sep 1950 in Amity, Oregon at the age of 84 years, name of father John Dancer; maiden name of mother Amanda Newton, interment Zenith [Zena]; informant William L. Dancer.

OBITUARY: 

McMinnville – Charles Walter Dancer, at Amity, September 28. Brother of Miles Dancer, Monty Dancer, Mrs Nettie Harpoole, Mrs Rosa Nash, Mrs Bertha Fordnay and Mrs Minnie Wilson. Services will be held Tuesday, October 3, at 1:30 pm at Macy’s chapel, McMinnville. Interment in the Zenith [Zena] cemetery.

Capital Journal, Saturday, September 30, 1950, page 12

INSCRIPTION: 

Dancer
Charles W.
Feb. 4, 1866
Sept. 28, 1950
[shares marker with Grace]

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs
OSBH DC (Yamhill County 1950) #11569
1880 IA CENSUS (Boone Co., Union, ED 12, pg 12D)

Yamhill Co, Oregon, Marriage Records, 1876-1890, page 52

1900 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, McCoy, ED 171, FA#50)

CJ, 30 Sept 1950, page 12 

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