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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Caroline Louisa Gerth ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Gerth, Caroline Louisa
LAST NAME: Gerth FIRST NAME: Caroline MIDDLE NAME: Louisa NICKNAME: Louisa
MAIDEN NAME: Beverly AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: F TITLE: 
BORN: 13 Oct 1855 DIED: 25 Jan 1936 BURIED: 27 Jan 1936 (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Wayne Co, Indiana
DEATH PLACE: Toledo, Lincoln 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 - Caroline L. Gerth, age 44, mother of three children, b. Oct 1855 in Indiana, is enumerated with her husband of 19 years, Clemens age 59, occupation blacksmith, b. Nov 1840 in Germany, 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 (1936 Lincoln co) #11 Louisa Gerth, female, housewife, widowed; b 13 Oct 1855, Wain [Wayne] co, Ind; father Beverly; d 25 Jan 1936, Toledo, age 80y 3m 12d; lived in town 6y; bur Zena; informant Walter Gerth, Salem, Ore 

OBITUARY: 

Louisa Gerth passed away at Toledo, Ore., January 25, at the age of 81 years. Survived by a son, Walter B. Gerth, of West Salem, and two daughters, Mrs. Lillie Anderson and Mrs. Mamie Perry of Oak Point, Ore.; eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren also survive. Services will be held from the Clough-Barrick chapel Monday, Jan. 27 at 2 p.m. Interment at Zena, Dr. W. C. Kantner officiating.
Oregon Statesman, (Salem, Oregon) January 26, 1936

INSCRIPTION: 

Gerth
Louisa
1855 - 1936
[shares marker with Clemens]

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs
OSBH DC (1936 Lincoln co) #11  

Iowa Marriage Records (Ancestry.com)
1900 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Spring Valley, ED 172, sheet 4A)
OS 26 Jan 1936

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