<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Hi Denise-<br><br>I don't know if this will be of help to you or not, but I ran across this brief obituary in our local paper here. I don't know if the Coos Bay papers might have had a bigger obituary, but it is certainly possible. <br><br>Isaac Landrith, a highly esteemed citizen of Marshfield and well known over the county, died Oct. 14, 1904, age 45 years.<br><span style="font-style: italic;">Myrtle Point Enterprise, Oct. 21, 1904</span><br><div> </div>Robyn<br><br><font color="#bf005f" face="bookman old style, new york, times, serif" size="2">Interested in Oregon History? Check out my webpages at<br>coquillevalley.org or genealogytrails.com (Coos & Curry Counties)</font><div><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new
roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Denise Sproed <denisesproed@onlinenw.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> or-roots mail list <or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, August 4, 2009 9:41:06 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [or-roots] Adoption Records<br></font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial">Many times in years gone by adoptions were not
"formalized". My great-grandfather was "adopted" and raised by the
Little's who moved from Kansas to CA and then Coquille, Oregon. All
of his school records say Novia Little. When he went to get married they
told him he might want to go by his birth name, Novia Landreth
(1876-1961). Actually they had changed his first name but he kept the name
he grew up with for a first name. He was never formally adopted. I
have not yet been able to learn if his sister (Floy Little b. 1881 Oregon) was
adopted or whatever became of Floy. Anyone with clues or ideas is welcome
to make suggestions. I have a photo of the Thomas & Annie Little
Family from the 1890's. Thomas P. Little is the father who has been
illusive to find after 1900.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">I have another friend who was "adopted" in the 1940's I
believe - it was never formal either. He was never told he was adopted and
didn't find out until he was in his 50's. I think that will be less common
in that time period.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Just tonight I was working on the family of Frederick W.
Folsom and he has an "Adopted daughter" Nellie C. b Mar 1876 Oregon. She
is clearly listed in census as an orphan (1880), adopted dau (1900), adopted dau
(1910) but I doubt I'll ever find any legal papers for the
adoption.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Denise</font><br></div></div></div></div><br>
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