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Sconce, Margaret S.
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| LAST: Sconce
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FIRST: Margaret
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MID: S.
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| GENDER: F
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MAIDEN NAME: Hubbard
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| BORN: Abt 1849
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DIED: 11 Apr 1891
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| BIRTH PLACE: Illinois
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| DEATH PLACE: Lewisburg, Marion Co., Oregon
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NOTES:
1850 IL CENSUS - Margarett [sic] Hubbard, age 1, b. Illinois, is enumerated with Ely Hubbard, age 42, farmer, b. Kentucky, and Elizabeth age 36, b. Kentucky, along with Richard, age 11, Thomas, age 9, Joseph, age 6, Sarah, age 5, and Nancy, age 3, all born in Illinois.
1870 OR CENSUS - Margaret Hubbard, age 21, b. Illionoi, is enumerated with Eli, age 62, occpation farmer, b. Kentucky, and Elizabeth, age 55, b. Kentucky, along with Thomas H., age 29, laborer, b. Illinois, Florinda, age 15, b. Oregon, and Louisa, age 13, b. Oregon. Also enumerated with the family is Geo. E. Brown, age 3, b. Oregon ["adopted" was written, and then crossed out].
MARRIAGE - "Adam H. Sconce & Margaret S. Hubbard, m 29 Oct 1874 at house of Eli Hubbard; T. H. Small, M. G. Wit: Martin Lewis & Thomas Hubbard #1720 pg 115".
1880 OR CENSUS - Margaret Sconce, age 31, b. Illinois, is enumerated with husband A. H. Sconce, age 32, occupation farmer, b. Illinois, along with Carrie, age 4, b. Oregon, Effie H., age 2, b. Oregon, and Polly, identified as mother [of A. H.], age 76, widow, b. Tennessee.
PHOTO - Maggie Sconce, far right. Pictured with husband Adam, along with children Effie, Carrie, and Walter.
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OBITUARY:
DEATH LURKING IN LA GRIPPE
It Claims Four Victims in One Family and They Are All Buried Together.
The silent messenger has called, and obedient to his command four unfortunates have responded. At Lewisburg, seven miles south of Silverton, yesterday was conducted the funeral for four members of the Sconce family who had died Saturday night and Sunday.
A week ago last Friday four members of the family of Adam H. Sconce were almost simultaneously taken ill. They grew worse as time passed, until last Saturday night at 12:00 o'clock, Carrie, aged 15, a daughter of Mr. Sconce, passed to the great beyond. An hour and twenty minutes later her mother, Maggie Sconce, aged 42 years, and sister of Thomas H. Hubbard of this city, joined the silent majority. The next night (Sunday) at exactly the same hour, 12 o'clock, as the first death on the preceding night, Adam H. Sconce, aged 43 years, yielded to the malady, and an hour and twenty minutes later, as on the preceding night, death again entered the household, this time bearing away Mrs. Mary J. Sconce, mother of Mr. Sconce, aged 87 years. This completed the work, and of a family which twenty-five hours before consisted of six persons, but two remained, and one of the was ill in bed and the other a boy of tender years. Four corpses were laid out that night in the home which, a few days before, had been so happy. The father was dead, the mother, the daughter, and the aged grandmother.
The three physicians who had been called in were unanimous in pronouncing the ailment to have been la grippe in its true form.
At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon a long funeral train wended it's way from the Sconce homestead in Lewisburg to the Lewis burying ground. In the lead of the procession were four carriages, each of which contained a casket. Upon arrival at the silent city impressive funeral services were conducted and the bodies of the dead were conveyed to their last resting place in the little grove on the hill. Tears mingled with the soil that was deposited over their bodies as the sorrowing friends laid to rest their neighbors who had so suddenly and unexpectedly given up the burden of life. Side by side the four graves had been dug and as four mounds of earth were rounded up, covered forever from mortal sight the four bodies of one flesh and blood which had so recently been full of life and hope and promise and activity, there were none present but who wept for those who had gone to the silent vigils, and for the two orphans that had been left behind.
Mr. Sconce was a man well known in Marion County, having resided here since 1853, and he had many friends. His wife was a sister of Thomas H. Hubbard, of this city, and also was fortunate in being able to number her friends by the hundreds. Mr. Hubbard attended the funeral yesterday and returned to his home in this city last night. There is much sickness, he says, up in the Lewisburg country and most of it is la grippe. His brother, Richard Hubbard, is quite ill, as is also Mrs. Richard Hubbard and their son.
Oregon Statesman 17 Apr 1891
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INSCRIPTION:
No marker
[DAR lists marker before 1930 reading:
Margaret, wife of Aadam Sconce 1891]
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SOURCES:
DAR Survey
1850 IL CENSUS (Pike Co., Twp 7, FA #1152)
1870 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Silverton, FA #1679)
Marion Co., Oregon Marriage Records 1871-1874, Vol. II, pg 26
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Silverton, ED 85, pg 10B)
OS 17 Apr 1891 DAR Survey
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Silverton, ED 85, pg 10B)
Marion County Oregon Marriage Records 1871-1874, Vol. II, pg 26
OS 17 Apr 1891
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