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Marion Friends Cemetery ~ Benjamin Franklin Worthing ~ part of the Marion County Cemeteries of Oregon
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Worthing, Benjamin Franklin
LAST: Worthing FIRST: Benjamin MID: Franklin
GENDER: M MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE: 
BORN: 9 Feb 1840 DIED: 2 Nov 1917 BURIED: 4 Nov 1917
OCCUPATION:  Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  Franklin, Oakland Co., Michigan
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
OSBH DC (Marion 1917) #597 – Benjamin Franklin Worthing, male, married, farmer, b. 9 Feb 1840 in Franklin, Michigan, d. 2 Nov 1917 in Salem (Deaconness Hospital) at the age of 77 y’s 8 m’s 23 d’s, name of father Benjamin D. Worthing (b. New Jersey), interment 4 Nov at Marion, undertaker Rigdon R. Co., informant Mrs. B.F. Worthing.
1910 CO CENSUS - Frank Worthing, age 70, occupation laborer, b. Michigan, is enumerated with his 2nd wife of 20 years, Grace, mother of 5 children 4 of whom are living at the time of the census, b. Oklahoma, along with Emery, age 17, b. Oklahoma, Iva, age 14, b. Missouri, and Jennie, age 12, b. Kansas.
[They are enumerated next door to daughter Minnie and husband Frank Boyer, who have been married 4 years and have 3 children]
OBITUARY: 
WORTHING—At the Deaconness hospital, Friday, Nov. 2, 1917, at 1:45 o’clock in the afternoon, Benjamin Franklin Worthing, 77 years old.
He is survived by a wife and four children: Mrs. Minnie Boyer of North Platte, Nebr.; Emery F. Worthing and Mrs. Iva Isham of Salem and Mrs. Jennie Morgan of Creswell, Or., and one sister, Mrs. Emma Osborn of Thompson, North Dakota.
The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at the Friend’s church at Marion, Or. Interment will be in the Marion cemetery under the direction of the Rigdon company. 
Oregon Statesman 3 Nov 1917 5:3
INSCRIPTION: 
No marker
SOURCES: 
OSBH DC (Marion 1917) #597
1910 CO CENSUS (Larimer Co., E. Loveland, ED 238, sheet 13A)
OS 3 Nov 1917 5:3
SPACE: 81  
 
 

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