[or-roots] Hawthorne Asylum and Lone Fir Cemetery

[Susie]

Is this your Moses Drake in 1900 County Hospital and poor farm?
Name: Moses Drake
Home in 1900: Sylvan, Multnomah, Oregon
Age: 67
Birth Date: Oct 1832
Birthplace: Maine
Race: White
Ethnicity: American
Gender: Male
Father's Birthplace: Maine
Mother's Birthplace: Maine
Marital Status: Divorced
Residence : Linnton and Sylvan Precincts 76 and 77, Multnomah, Oregon
Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Sylvan, Multnomah, Oregon; Roll 
T623_1351; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 97

Susie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paulette" <pswitzertatum at peoplepc.com>
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Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Hawthorne Asylum and Lone Fir Cemetery


> Hi Chris and Bill!
>
> Thanks for this message. Yes, I do have this from Terry, but I appreciate 
> your sending it. Sometimes when I re-read something, some new item pops 
> out that I did not really SEE before...
>
> I have not looked as much as I should in Pierce Co., WA for obits. and/or 
> funeral, burial information for Moses F. Drake because he died in Portland 
> in 1905, and there was no family informant at all on the death cert. #317. 
> He is identified as "single." He had lived in Oregon for 12 years.
>
> He was married in 1858 IL, and divorced from Phoebe Halstead Drake in 1890 
> WA. I got the divorce papers from WA State Library, and they are so sad; 
> he sounds very confused, denies all allegations of "abandonment" and does 
> not want to be divorced. The "Hillside" poor farm record at Mult. Co. has 
> some medical records that they won't release to me, so I do not know what 
> his problem was other than that he died of "senility."
>
> My husband knew nothing about his great grandmother Melissa Adelia "Della" 
> Drake Reed, a daughter of Moses and Phoebe, until this summer. The two 
> descendants of their son Ira Chandler Drake (Melissa's older brother) that 
> I correspond with have no information on Moses F. Drake. He is not in the 
> family group sheets, and one of them only knew of him as M.F. or F.M. 
> Drake. After 1890 in WA, he like disappeared...
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Paulette
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Chris & Bill Strickland <lechevrier at earthlink.net>
>>Sent: Sep 25, 2009 10:56 AM
>>To: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
>>Subject: Re: [or-roots] Hawthorne Asylum and Lone Fir Cemetery
>>
>>Paulette
>>
>>In between Maine and Portland, Looks like Moses F Drake homesteaded near
>>Arline, Pierce County, WA -- 
>>http://files.usgwarchives.net/wa/pierce/history/arline.txt, but I think
>>you already know this
>>
>>Wonder if you should be looking in Pierce County for a burial or obit ...
>>
>>Bill
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