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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ John Purvine ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Purvine, John
LAST NAME: Purvine FIRST NAME: John MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 24 Mar 1799 DIED: 16 Aug 1852 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  Tennessee
DEATH PLACE: Oregon
NOTES: 

1st MARRIAGE – to Mary Long

2nd MARRIAGE – John Pervine [sic] & Miss Rosaline Rincade m 19 Sept 1850; H.M. Waller, Elder

Donation Land Claim #2462, Marion County; John Purvine (Wellington B. Walker guardian for heirs); born 1797, Tennessee; settled claim 15 Oct 1848; married Mary, who died June 1849, leaving 9 children; married 2nd Rosaline 19 Sept 1850 in Polk co, Oregon. He died 16 Aug 1852, leaving one child by second wife and other children by first wife. Rosaline was born 20 Jan 1828 in Bath or Clark co, Kentucky. On 29 Apr 1865 her name is given as Rosaline Goudy. Aff: Geo Graham, Augustus K. Dirnick, John Connor, Samuel Brown

1850 OR CENSUS - John Purvine, age 50, occupation farmer, b. Missouri, is enumerated with William, age 25, occupation farmer, b. Tennessee, Henry, age 23, occupation farmer, b. Tennessee, Andrew J., age 18, b. Tennessee, Nelson, age 16, b. Illinois, Charles, age 14, b. Illinois, Smiley, age 10, b. Illinois, Jno, age 8, b. Illinois, and Rosaline, age 23, b. Illinois. 

PROBATE – Marion Co Probate File 61, John Purvine died 16 Aug 1852, testate. Will dated 7 Aug 1852. Ewing Purvine executor. Heirs: Rosline Purvine, wife, & Mary Ellen, daughter [Samuel Brown named her guardian 26 Oct 1855]. Refers to 11 heirs to John Purvine estate to share in lands of donation land claim. Andrew Jackson Purvine paid to the following: Rosline Goudy of Marion co; Claiborne C. Walker & Wellington B. Walker, both of Polk co; Nelson Purvine, Charles Purvine, Smiley Purvine, Joshua Purvine, James K.P. Graham and William Purvine

NOTE – John’s widow Rosaline remarried to William H. Goudy and settled at Woodburn, Marion co, Oregon, where she appears with her second husband in 1860, 1870 and 1880 census. She died in 1911 and was buried in Belle Passi Cemetery at Woodburn

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

N/A

OBITUARY: 
INSCRIPTION: 

John Purvine
Died
Aug. 16, 1852
Aged 
53 Y's 4 M's 23 D's
[shares side with Mary; monument with Wm Purvine, Celia Purvine Graham, and Walker children]

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs 

Genealogical Material in Oregon Donation Land Claims, Vol 1, page 102

Polk Co, Oregon, Marriage Records, 1849-1879, page 2

1850 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., FA #47)

Marion Co, Oregon, Probate Records, Vol 2, page 206 

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