Pioneer Memorial Cemetery ~ James Thornton Bateson
Bateson, James Thornton
LAST: Bateson FIRST: James MID: Thornton
GENDER: M MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE: 
BORN: 20 Sep 1839 DIED: 7 Aug 1912 BURIED: 11 Aug 1912
OCCUPATION:  Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  Lancaster, England
DEATH PLACE: Mt. Angel, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
1st MARRIAGE - "James Bateson & Maria L. Illidge, m 06 May 1866 at house of & by G. H. Burnett, M. G. in Bethany; Wit: S. Illidge & L. P. Pitman #909 pg 321";
1880 CENSUS - James T. Bateson, age 40, widower, farmer, b. England, is enumerated with sons Eddy, age 10 b. Oregon and Frank, age 8, b. Oregon.
2nd MARRIAGE - Laura Tucker, 18 Jul 1887.
1900 CENSUS - James T. Bateson, age 60, b. Sep 1839 in England, year of immigration 1851, occupation farmer, is enumerated with his wife of 13 years, Laura, age 28, b. Sep 1866 in Oregon, along with Frank, age 28, b. Sep 1871 in Oregon, occupation farm laborer, and Robert C., age 12, b. Feb 1888 in Oregon.
OBITUARY: 
James Thornton Bateson died Aug. 7, 1912 at is home on Howell Prairie, and was buried in the Pioneer Cemetery. He was born at Lanchester, England September 20, 1839 and was Christianized at St. John’s Chapel of that place.
Mr. Bateson has been a resident of North Howell for the past fifty years and was one of the prosperous farmers of that section of Marion County. He was married to Louise Illidge at Bethany, Marion County, Oregon, May 6th, 1866, who died several years ago. To this marriage were born Edward of Oregon City, Minnie, deceased, and Frank of The Dalles. Only July 18, 1887, he married Miss Laura V. Tucker of Cowlitz County, Wash., who survives him. There is a son by his second marriage, Robert C., who resides at the old home.
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INSCRIPTION: 
James Bateson
1839-1912
SOURCES: 
Hollin
Saucy Survey & Photographs
OSBH DC (Marion County 1912) #2391
Marriage Records of Marion Co., Oregon, Vol I, pg 57
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Howell Prairie, pg 145B)
1900 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Howell Prairie, ED 138, pg 11A)
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