Pioneer Memorial Cemetery ~ Richard Harrison
Harrison, Richard
LAST: Harrison FIRST: Richard MID: 
GENDER: M MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE: 
BORN: 17 Jul 1893 DIED: 22 Nov 1988 BURIED: 
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BIRTH PLACE:  Wyocena, Columbia Co., Wisconsin
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
Name of father Thomas Harrison
Maiden name of mother Estella Baker
1910 CENSUS - Richard Harrison, age 16, b. Wisconsin, is enumerated with Thomas, age 57, farmer, b. Michigan, and Stella, age 52, b. Michigan.
MARRIAGE - to Lillian Riggs, 5 Feb 1925
1930 CENSUS - Richard Harrison, age 36, married at age 31, farmer, b. Wisconsin, is enumerated with wife Lillian Harrison, age 26, married at age 21, b. Oklahoma, along with daughter Vivian, age 3, b. Oregon, and son Thomas, age 2, b. Oregon. Also enumerated with the family are Opal Riggs, identified as sister-in-law [of Richard], age 16, b. Oklahoma, and Orville Riggs, identified as brother-in-law [of Richard], age 15, b. Oklahoma.
OBITUARY: 
BROOKS -- Richard Harrison, 95, of Brooks died Tuesday in Salem. He was born in Wyocena, Wi. He moved to the Gervais area in 1900. He attended Parkersville School and Oregon Agricultural College and was one of the first graduates of the YMCA school in Portland, where he earned a degree in electrical engineering. 
He was a World War I Army veteran. 
He married Lillian Riggs in 1925 in Salem. She died in 1978. [newspaper clipping, not cited] 
INSCRIPTION: 
Harrison
Richard
July 17, 1893
Nov. 22, 1988
Married
Feb. 5, 1925 
[shares marker with Lillian]
SOURCES: 
Hollin
Saucy Survey & Photographs
ODI
1910 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Gervais, ED 210, sheet 1B)
1930 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., E. Gervais, ED 16, sheet 4A)
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