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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ James Edwin Loose ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Loose, James Edwin
LAST NAME: Loose FIRST NAME: James MIDDLE NAME: Edwin NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 5 May 1868 DIED: 19 Dec 1946 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
DEATH PLACE: McMinnville, Yamhill Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

1870 OR CENSUS – Edwin Loose (2y, b Oregon) enumerated with Fred (39y, b New York), Emily (29y, b Iowa), Cora (7y, b Oregon), Charles (5y, b Oregon)

1880 OR CENSUS- Edward Loose (11y, b Oregon) enumerated with parents Frederick (50y, b New York, occupation farmer) and Emily (39y, b Iowa) and 6 siblings, all born in Oregon, Cora (17y),Charles F. (15y), Annie (9y), Minnie E. (7y), Wesley H. (4y) and an unnamed son (b May 1880)

1900 OR CENSUS – Edwin Loose (b May 1868, Oregon, married 7y) enumerated with wife Hattie (b Mar 1875, Minnesota, mother of 1 child, deceased at time of census) and boarder Waller Permine (b Oct 1880, Minnesota)

1910 OR CENSUS - James E. Loose, age 41, occupation farmer, b. Oregon, is enumerated with his wife of 18 years, Hattie A., age 35, mother of 4 children 3 of whom are living at the time of the census, b. Minnesota, along with Emile, age 9, b. Oregon, Voorhis, age 5, b. Oregon, and Carol A., age 5 months, b. Oregon.  Also enumerated with the family are Fred Loose, identified as father [of James], age 78, widowed, b. New York, and Jaocob Schnebeli, identified as a hired hand, age 51, single, occupation farm laborer, Switz-German.

1920 OR CENSUS – Edwin J. Loose (50y, b Oregon) enumerated with wife Hattie A. (45y, b Minnesota), 3 children, Emily (19y, b Oregon), Voorhees (15y, b Oregon) and Carol A. (10y, b Oregon) and [brother-in-law] Dow V. Harris (47y, b Minnesota, widowed) 

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (Yamhill County 1946) #8931 - James Edwin Loose, male, retired farmer, widowed (Hattie A.), b. 5 May 1868 at Salem, Oregon, d. 19 Dec 1946 at McMinnville, Oregon (McMinnville Hospital) at the age of 78 yrs 7 mos 14 days, name of father Fred Loose, interment Zena; informant Jack DeJong of Sheridan, Oregon.

OBITUARY: 

James E. Loose died in McMinnville, Ore, Thursday, December 19, at the age of 78 years. Father of Mrs Carol De Jong of Sheridan, Mrs Emily Van Santen of Salem, V.F. Loose of Eugene; brother of Mrs Cora Walling of Lincoln, Mrs Minnie Root of Portland, W.H. Loose of Stayton. Services will be held Monday, December 23, at 2 pm from Clough-Barrick chapel with interment at Zena cemetery. 

Capital Journal, Friday, December 20, 1946, page 19

INSCRIPTION: 

James Edwin
Loose
1868 - 1946

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs
OSBH DC (Yamhill County 1946) #8931 

1870 OR CENSUS (Polk co, FA#397)

1880 OR CENSUS (Polk co, Eola, ED 104, FA#94)

1900 OR CENSUS (Polk co, Eola, ED 172, FA#120)

1910 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Eola, ED 241, sheet 2B)

1920 OR CENSUS (Polk co, Brush College, ED 365, sheet 5B) 

CJ, 20 Dec 1946, page 19 

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