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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Clemens Gerth ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Gerth, Clemens
LAST NAME: Gerth FIRST NAME: Clemens MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 20 Nov 1840 DIED: 1 Jan 1915 BURIED: 3 Jan 1915 (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  Blacksmith
BIRTH PLACE:  Germany
DEATH PLACE: Yamhill Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

MARRIAGE - Clemens Gerth (31y, b Germany, of Mt Pleasant, Iowa, occupation blacksmith) & Lou C. Beverly (26y, b Indiana, of Des Moines, Iowa, daughter of Seth W. Beverly & Letitia Osborne) md 23 Jan 1881, North Des Moines, Polk Co, Iowa 

1900 OR CENSUS - Clemens Gerth, age 59, occupation blacksmith, b. Nov 1840 in Germany, is enumerated with his wife of 19 years, Caroline L., age 44, mother of three children, b. Oct 1855 in Indiana, along with Walter B., age 17, b. Mar 1883 in Oregon, Lillie A., age 14, b. Nov 1885 in Oregon, and Mamie S., age 9, b. Sep 1890 in Oregon.

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (1915 Yamhill co) #299 Clemens Gerth, male, blacksmith, married; b 20 Nov 1840, Germany; d 1 Jan 1915, ca 6 mi S of Dayton, age 74y 2m 11d; bur Zena; informant Mrs W. Gerth, West Salem

 

  

OBITUARY: 

DIED
GERTH—Friday morning, January 1, 1915, at the home of his daughter near Dayton, Or., C. Gerth, a blacksmith from Lincoln age 71 years.
Capital Journal, January 2, 1915

INSCRIPTION: 

Gerth
Clemens
1840 - 1915
[shares marker with Louisa]

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs

OSBH DC (1915 Yamhill co) #299  

Iowa Marriage Records (Ancestry.com)
1900 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Spring Valley, ED 172, sheet 4A)
CJ 02 Jan 1915

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