[or-roots] Hawthorne Asylum and Lone Fir Cemetery

[Paulette]

Yes, thanks, that's him. I have seen this, but didn't notice the "divorced" designation. He is listed just as "single" on the death cert.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Susie <rgust at netwtc.net>
>Sent: Sep 26, 2009 6:02 AM
>To: Paulette <pswitzertatum at peoplepc.com>, or-roots mail list <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
>Subject: Re: [or-roots] Hawthorne Asylum and Lone Fir Cemetery
>
>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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