[or-roots] Oregon death index lookup

[Kith-n-Kin]

FYI to all

 

Genealogybank.com has the following newspapers (not all of them, of course, but a whole bunch).

 

Eugene, the Oregon State Journal, 1864-1880

Lakeview, the State Line Herald, 1879-1880

Portland, The Democratic Standard, 1854-1859, New Age, 1900 and Portland New Age, 1900-1907, Oregonian, 1861-1987, 

 

I did look for Verna Hardwick, Dale, but didn’t find anything like that.

 

I also looked her up in the Ancestry.com site. No results there either. We know there was an influenza epidemic (the “Spanish flu”) around 1918, but that’s a little late for what you’re talking about.

 

>From GenealogyBank, I find that there was a Typhoid epidemic in Centralia in 1914, and a measles epidemic at Warm Springs.  Diphtheria “raged” at Brooks, and in Washington County. In 1916 there was a fear of a Diphtheria epidemic in Baker. In 1916 also, there was great concern about “infantile paralysis” (Polio).  (and for the next fifty years!)

 

I have a whole bunch who died around 1878, in Marion County, of Diphtheria, within a week of each other.  

 

Pat

In Tucson

 

From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Dale Harguess
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 3:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [or-roots] Oregon death index lookup

 

Since I don't know the exact year or date of my aunt's death but know that it was sometime around 1914 or 1915 and she was a child.  Is there anyway of knowing if there was some sort of epidemic in that time frame in Portland?  I know she is buried in the old pioneer cemetery in Portland and I have contacted them but they only have a record of her being buried there with two of her siblings and a step mother (all in the same area).

I would really like to know the date of her death and what she died from but can't find a death record.

Her name was Verna Marie Hardwick and her parents were Noah Hardwick and Venus Howell.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dale in California

 

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