[or-roots] Help Please with lookup.

[Cheryl Fitzsimons]

You are welcome!

If you need copies of the census records I can email them to you.  They 
would be in pdf format.  Also, I could scan and email the other information 
if you want.  Just let me know.

Cheryl

>From: Erick G Olofsson <coollugan at sbcglobal.net>
>Reply-To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
>To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
>Subject: RE: [or-roots] Help Please with lookup.
>Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:46:22 -0800 (PST)
>
>Hello Cheryl,
>Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank 
>you, Thank you, Thank you, Your super.
>I appreciate all of tor help.
>Erick
>
>Cheryl Fitzsimons <fitzcf at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Eric,
>
>I spent a few hours at my local FHL looking for your people but didn’t find
>much more than you did. Here is what I have:
>
>Murile Peterson
>If you go to the Skagit Valley Herald newspaper website and search in the
>archives you will find the obituary for Mattie Smith Gasner that appeared 
>on
>March 5, 2004. It has a reference that Mattie “is survived by one daughter,
>Gloria Smith Gould Peterson and spouse Murile Peterson of Coos Bay, OR.” So
>it seems that your Murile is a male and he and his wife were living in the
>Coos Bay area in the spring of 2004.
>
>Olaf Peterson, Sr.
>You already had the 1910 and 1920 census information. I could not find him
>in the 1900 census records.
>
>Olaf Peterson, Jr.
>1930 census – Olaf Peterson, guest, 29 years old, single, born in
>California, parents born in Sweden, a stevedore at the docks, living at the
>Hotel Thomas. San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, ED 10, page
>190B.
>
>Is this Ruth Peterson?
>Ruth Peterson, 16 years old, born in California, father born in Denmark,
>mother born in United States. She lived at the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum
>in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, ED 39, page 272A. Could
>this be the convent remembered in your family stories?
>
>From the California Death Index, 1940-1997: Ruth Lillian Horn, SSN
>571-26-6693, born 8 July 1917 in California, died 31 May 1986 in Fresno
>County, California, mother’s maiden name was Peterson, father’s surname was
>Beasley.
>
>From the California Death Index, 1940-1997: Olaf L. Peterson died 1
>February 1967 in Fresno County, California, born on 12 April 1899 in 
>Oregon,
>mother’s maiden name was Hill, Social Security Number was 567-01-0054.
>
>From the California Death Index, 1940-1997: Chester Howard Holdsclaw, SSN
>551-16-2972, born 25 November 1918 in California, died 30 March 1988 in
>Fresno County, California, mother’s maiden name was Murphy.
>From the Oakhill Cemetery Inscriptions: Chester H. Holdsclaw died 30 March
>1988. The funeral home was Sierra Chapel. He is buried in the Oakhill
>Cemetery in Oakhurst, California in block 7 - row 6 - plot 4. His next of
>kin was Ruth Holdsclaw.
>
>The Murphy line:
>1. 1900 census – Thomas Murphy (head) and Mary (mother), Nancy (daughter),
>Emel (son), Caroline (daughter), Clara (daughter), Thurman (son) and George
>(son). Township 2, Fresno County, California, ED 2, page 242A. Nancy,
>Emel, Caroline, Clara and Thurman have an O for marital status. Not sure
>what that means – other, orphan?
>2. 1910 census – Thurman Murphy, boarder, 21 years old, born in California,
>father born in United States, mother born in California, a chute tender at 
>a
>logging camp. Seven Forest, Maricopa County, California, ED 92, page 122.
>3. 1930 census – Thurman Murphy, head, widowed, 48 years old, mixed blood,
>a woodsman in the forest industry, veteran of WWI. Thurman (son) and Venus
>(daughter) live with him. Township 4, Madera County, California, ED 11,
>page 282A. You had this, I think.
>4. Thurman H. Murphy, SSN 556-09-8832, born 20 December 1889 in California,
>died 23 January 1969 in Sacramento County, California (from the California
>Death Index, 1940-1997). The SSDI lists his last residence in San Andreas,
>Calaveras County, California which does not mean he died there.
>
>From www.vitalsearch-ca.com: Alonzo Holdsclaw died 9 April 1932 in Fresno
>County, California. He was 60 years old.
>
>I hope there is something in all of this that helps you in your research.
>
>Cheryl
>
>
> >From: Erick G Olofsson
> >Reply-To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
> >To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
> >Subject: [or-roots] Help Please with lookup.
> >Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 09:42:06 -0800 (PST)
> >
> >
> >Looking for grandfather Olof Peterson and his son Olaf Peterson and his
> >child Marile Peterson as shown below:
> >
> >OLOF PETERSON born 1855 Denmark
> >
> >Married Lottie Hall born April1868
> >
> >Olaf Petersen, Jr., born 1899 son who died 1967 in Friant, Cal.
> >
> >Olaf Petersen, Jr. had a child:
> >
> >Marile (sp?) Petersen, who lived at last known address 3880 Liberty 
>Street,
> >North Bend, Oregon
> >
> >Would anyone be willing to look up census and or any othjer means to find
> >them and Marile(?)Peterson. Who may have children or is still living.
> >
> >Thank you.
> >
> >Erick Olofsson
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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