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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>I recently was delighted to find a unique census for Marion County, on Ancestry.com, dated 1895.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2467/">https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2467/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is an abstract, in two volumes, of the state census, created by the Willamette Valley Genealogical Society, abstracted by Jean Custer, Ann Hochspeier, Vergene Lowter, Connie Henderson, Betty Perry, produced by Helen Blair, Sherrill A Hochspeier, (Vol I, Vol. 1 Salem and Oregon State Penitentiary) and Jean Custer, Ann Hochspeier, Sherrill A Hochspeier, produced by Sherrill A Hochspeier (Vol II. other towns in Marion County.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As seen in the sample below, there is significant information that does not appear in any federal census. Height, weight, complexion, age, religious preference, voter, physical issues.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This grouping includes my great-granduncle, Marion and his family, as well as my second great-grandmother, Catherine Nowlin (Graves) Palmer, born Virginia. She was…5’8” and weighted 190#. Here is her photo, probably about the same time. Fits the description. But who would have known about the height.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=104 height=141 style='width:1.0833in;height:1.4722in' id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D64C91.5FCA9850"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=554 height=142 style='width:5.7708in;height:1.4791in' src="cid:image006.jpg@01D64C91.5FCA9850" align=left hspace=12 v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1"><![endif]><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Hard to find her brother, John Pinkard Graves, turns out to be abstracted as “G P Graves” and sandwiched between Carl Gronke and C K Graybill, p 213.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Not sure who gave the information, but he’s listed as born in Missouri (moved there from Virginia c 1830) 5’10” 170#, dark complexion, Silverton PO, farmer, protestant, voter, married, 72. Wife Mary (Maria) Glover Graves, b MO, 5’4” 180# dark, protestant, age 69 and two of their eleven children are in the household. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>NOW, of course, I want more. So, the question is. What happened to the counties other than Marion? On the OR Archives website I found an index with Multnomah and Morrow, but not my other “counties of interest.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Does anyone have information on this particular census? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Pat Dunford<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Tucson<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>