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Fairfield Cemetery ~ John Skaife
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Skaife, John
LAST: Skaife FIRST: John MID: 
GENDER: M MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE: 
BORN: 3 Mar 1822 DIED: 9 Apr 1892 BURIED: 
OCCUPATION:  Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  England
DEATH PLACE: Fairfield, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
MARRIAGE - John Scafe [sic] married Mary Ette Hiles on 22 Nov 1849 in Dubuque Co., Iowa.
1880 OR CENSUS - John Skaife, age 58, farmer, b. England, is enumerated with Mariette Skaife, age 48, b. Missouri, along with Jasper, age 29, Mary, age 27, Margaret, age 22, and Laura, age 18, all born in Oregon. Also enumerated with the family is James Thompson, age 35, occupation farm laborer, b. Pennsylvania.
BIOGRAPHICAL
(From - Marie Glascock, 4th generation Oregonian and daughter of Edna Marthaler and Reuben Short):
John and Marietta Skaife came from Independence, Missouri, by wagon train from Missouri to Oregon in 1850. Their first child, Jasper, was born at the foot of Mt. Hood. When Marietta was able to travel again, they caught another wagon train over the Barlow Trail. In a Stateman Journal interview, their daughter Margaret Marthaler stated "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."
OBITUARY: 
At the family residence near Fairfield, Saturday, April 9, 1892, John Skaife, aged about 70 years.
Deceased came to Oregon at an early day and was a well-known and highly respected citizen. He was a brother of Mrs. Eugene Breyman, of this city, and Mr. and Mrs. Breyman went to Fairfield yesterday to attend the funeral.
Daily Oregon Statesman 10 Apr 1892 4:4
INSCRIPTION: 
John Skaife
Born
Mar. 3, 1822
Died
Apr. 9, 1892
[shares monument with Marietta]

2nd Marker: "Father"
SOURCES: 
Saucy Survey & Photographs
Iowa Marriages to 1850
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Fairfield, ED 83, pg 81A)
DOS 10 Apr 1892 4:4
BLOCK: 11 LOT:   
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