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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Vesta Belle Lewis ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Lewis, Vesta Belle
LAST NAME: Lewis FIRST NAME: Vesta MIDDLE NAME: Belle NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Clements AKA 1: Goodfellow AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: F TITLE: 
BORN: 16 Apr 1878 DIED: 2 May 1972 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Wisconsin
DEATH PLACE: Seaside, Clatsop Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

Marriage of Parents - Robert F. Clements & Lucy Annetta Jones md 11 June 1871, Waupaca Co, Wisconsin

1880 WI CENSUS - Vesta Clements (2y, b Wisconsin) enumerated with parents Robert (30y, b Ohio, occupation farmer) and Armetta (27y, b Canada) and sister Ivy (6y, b Wisconsin)

1st MARRIAGE - Howard D. Goodfellow & Vesta B. Clements md 28 Aug 1900, Wallace, Shoshone Co, Idaho 
1910 AK CENSUS - Vesta B. Goodfellow, age 31, no children, b. Apr 1878 in Wisconsin, is enumerated with her husband of 9 years, Howard D., age 31, occupation proprietor of a boarding home, b. Jun 1878 in Wisconsin.

1920 OR CENSUS - Vesta B. Goodfellow (38y, b Wisconsin) enumerated with husband  Howard D. (40y, b Wisconsin, occupation manager of motion picture theater)    
1930 OR CENSUS - Vesta B. Goodfellow, age 51, b. Wisconsin, is enumerated with her husband of 21 years, Howard D., age 51, occupation farmer, b. Wisconsin.
2nd MARRIAGE (Application) - Webb C. Lewis (79y, of Rickreall, Oregon, farmer, widowed, born in Oregon, son of James Webb & Sarah A. Riggs) and Vesta B. Goodfellow (72, of Salem, Oregon, widowed, born in Wisconsin, daughter of Robert F. Clements & Lucy A. Jones) marriage application 15 Sept 1950, Clark Co, Washington

2nd MARRIAGE - Webb C. Lewis (of Polk Co, Oregon) & Vesta Goodfellow (of Polk Co, Oregon) md 21 Sept 1950, Battle Ground, Clark Co, Washington 
[2nd husband Webb C. Lewis d 10 Aug 1959 and is buried in Etna Cemetery]

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (1972 Clatsop co) #6955 Vesta Belle Lewis, female, widowed, spouse Webb; b 16 Apr 1878, Wisconsin; d 2 May 1972, 1809 N Prom, Seaside, age 94y; remains sent to Salem [Zena cem]; informant Marie J. Stewart, cousin

OBITUARY: 

Services were Monday at Virgil T. Golden mortuary for Vesta Belle Lewis, 94, a former longtime Salem resident living in Seaside, who died Tuesday at her home. Born at Prairie City, she lived in Salem 60 years and taught at school in Oregon, Montana and Wisconsin. She moved to Seaside three years ago. Surviving are stepsons Fred Lewis, Salem; stepdaughters Irene Rowland, Salem, and Helen Dietrick, in California. Interment was in Zena Cemetery. 

Oregon Statesman, Saturday, May 6, 1972, 18:2

INSCRIPTION: 

Goodfellow
Vesta B.
1878 - 1972
[shares marker with Howard]

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs

OSBH DC (1972 Clatsop co) #6955

Wisconsin Marriage Records (Wisconsin Historical Society)

1880 WI CENSUS (Waupaca Co, St Lawrence, ED 177, FA#65)

Western States Marriage Index
1910 AK CENSUS (Div. 2, Fairbanks, Garner Island, sheet 1B)

1920 OR CENSUS (Wallowa Co, Enterprise, ED 197, sheet 15B)
1930 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Spring Valley, ED 4, sheet 1B)

Clark Co, Washington Marriage Applications (Ancestry.com)

Washington Digital Archives

OS, 6 May 1972, 18:2

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