Woodcock Family - Lee Mission Cemetery - Salem, Oregon
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N 44° 56.507 W 123° 00.547
10T E 499280 N 4976484
Tall, zinc headstone of Martin & Amanda Woodcock
Waymark Code: WMKBGQ
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 03/14/2014
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This elaborate zinc headstone marks the graves of Oregon pioneers Martin Woodcock and his wife Amanda.
Amanda's obituary:
"Oregon Pioneer Passes-Mrs. Amanda Woodcock Dies At Age of 94 Years-Corvallis, Ore., Dec. 19
An Oregon pioneer of 1853 Mrs. Amanda Woodcock, 94, passed suddenly this morning in her sleep, following a day of apparent good health and unusual interest in the events of the day.
Mrs. Woodcock was a native daughter of New York. She was married in Wisconsin where she went in early years with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Woodard D. White, and with her husband, Martin Woodcock, came to Oregon by ox team and covered wagon in one of the trains of 1853.
The couple located in Lane county, later made their home in Benton county, near Monroe, then went to Portland, and finally to Salem, where they homesteaded on the Salem prairie and lived until Mr. Woodcock's death in 1884.
In 1905 Mrs. Woodcock came to Corvallis and has resided with her daughter, Mrs. W.H. Savage. Mrs. Woodcock was the mother of the late M.S. Woodcock, president of the First National bank, whose death occurred earlier in the year.
The body will be taken to Salem for interment in the Lee Mission cemetery, following a service at the home here at 11 o'clock Monday morning." -Oregon Statesman, December 20, 1925
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