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Marthaler, Margaret Ann
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| LAST: Marthaler
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FIRST: Margaret
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MID: Ann
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| GENDER: F
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MAIDEN NAME: Skaife
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TITLE: Mrs.
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| BORN: 30 Nov 1857
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DIED: 16 Jul 1941
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BURIED: 18 Jul 1948
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| BIRTH PLACE: Marion Co., Oregon
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| DEATH PLACE: Fairfield, Marion Co., Oregon
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NOTES:
1880 OR CENSUS - Margaret Skaife, age 22, b. Oregon, is enumerated with father John Skaife, age 58, farmer, b. England, and Mariette [Marietta[ Skaife, age 48, b. Missouri, along with siblings Jasper, age 29, Mary, age 27, and Laura, age 18, all born in Oregon. Also enumerated with the family is James Thompson, age 35, occupation farm laborer, b. Pennsylvania.
MARRIAGE - "John Marthaler, over 35 & Maggie Skaife, over 33, m 8 Apr 1891 at house of John Skaife by F. W. Parker, M. G. Aff: J. R. Broyles. Wit: Samuel Phillips & J. R. Broyles. #3992 pg 468/469".
1900 OR CENSUS - Margaret Marthaler, age 42, b. Nov 1857 in Oregon, is enumerated with her husband of 9 years John Marthaler, age 44, b. Jan 1856 in Wisconsin, occupation farmer, along with Edna, age 8, b. Jan 1892 in Oregon, Freeman, age 8, b. Jan 1892 in Oregon, Nellie, age 6, b. Feb 1894 in Oregon, Rita, age 3, b. Jun 1896 in Oregon, and Clara, age 9 m's b. Feb 1900 in Oregon.
BIOGRAPHICAL Statesman Journal (undated newspaper clipping):
Mr. and Mrs. John Marthaler live on their farm home, half a mile from Fairfield, which is not far from the historic old towns of St. Louis, St. Paul and Champoeg. When I talked with Mrs. Marthaler at her home there recently she said:
"This place is known as the old Skaife place. It was taken up by my father John Skaife. I was born here November 30, 1857. I guess you know my brother, Jap, who lives at Salem. He used to have a farm in Spring valley, near Zena. He is the oldest of our family. He was born at the foot of Mt. Hood in the fall of 1850. My parents started across the plains shortly after thier marriage, so the six months trip by ox team and prairie schooner to Oregon was really their wedding trip. My father was born in England and came to America when he was 18. He married Marietta Hiles. They had four children. Jap was their first child. Mary Frances was next. She married Sam Phillips of Spring valley, in Polk county. They live at Salem now. I was the next child, and Laura, who was born in 1861, was the last. She married Jim Broyles. She lives at Salem.
"When my parents came to Oregon in 1850, they spent the first winter at the home of Ben Simpson, father of Sam Simpson, the poet. The next spring they came up to French Prairie. Father bought a squatter's right to a section of land on which the town of Woodburn in now located. Some of the heirs of the man from whom father bought the place wanted more pay. Father saw a Salem lawyer, who advised him not to buy a lawsuit; so father gave up that place and came here to White Oak Praire in 1853 and bought Mt. Mansfield's squatter's right to this place and proved up on it as his donation land claim. I was a student at Willamette University when T. M. Gatch was president. I also went to school at Portland to Professor Warren. I taught at Champoeg, Fairfield, St. Louis, and other districts. I was married April 8, 1891 to John MArthaler. We have five children. Among the oldtime neighbors on French Prairie I remember the best are Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Byrd, the Millsaps, Abraham Ditmars, G. B. Miller, Oliver Arel P. Fershweiler, V. Manning, Father Bartholomew DeLorne, Andre La Chapelle, Simon Gregoire, Henry Wehrum, the Bagleys and the Lawrences. Mrs. Byrd now lives at Salem."
NOTE - Photo of John and Maggie Marthaler, courtesy of Marie Glascock.
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OBITUARY:
Margaret Ann (Maggie) Marthaler, 83, died July 16, 1941. She was born November 30, 1857 at the family farm at Fairfield, which her parents, John and Marietta Skaife, bought from the original settlers their equity in the donation land claim and the place has been in the family ever since. Maggie was educated at Willamette University and taught school for 10 years at Champoeg, St. Louis, and Fairfield, Oregon.
She married John Marthaler in 1891 when she was 33 and they had five children, who survive, including twins Freeman Marthaler and Edna Short, a widow, both living at home; daughters Nellie DuRette, Salem, Rita Mahony, Fairfield, and Margaret Sego, Portland, as well as fourteen grandchildren.
She was a member of the Fairfield Presbyterian Church. Funeral services were held at Ringo Chapel in Woodburn with Rev. George Cromley officiating, followed by interment in the Fairfield Cemetery beside her husband, John Marthaler, who died in 1936.
(Source - Marie Glascock, 4th generation Oregonian and daughter of Edna Marthaler and Reuben Short)
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INSCRIPTION:
Margaret Marthaler
Mother
1857 - 1941
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SOURCES:
Saucy Survey & Photographs
OSBH DC (Marion County 1941) #634
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Fairfield, ED 83, pg 81A)
Marriage Records of Marion Co., Oregon, 1888-1891, Vol. VI, pg 38
1900 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Fairfield Pct., ED 125, sheet 6A)
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