Mary L. Tatum

1854 - 1891  (36 years)

• Name	Mary L. Tatum  [1]
  Born	26 Oct 1854	Oregon, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  SON	8 May 1879	Independence, Polk County, Oregon, USA   [3]
  	name: Ralph Dale Shelley gender: Male birth date: 08 May 1879 birthplace: Independence, Polk, Oregon father's name: Roswell Shelley father's birthplace: father's age: mother's name: Mary Tatom mother's birthplace: mother's age: indexing project (batch) number: I09277-8 system origin: Oregon-EASy source film number: 2229218 reference number: DF366
  Census	10 Jun 1880	Independence, Polk County, Oregon, USA   [4]
  	1. Shelley, Roswold [Roswell], white, male, 33, married, clerk in store, Iowa, [blank], [blank] 2. _____, Mary, white, female, 25, wife, married, Oregon, Illinois, Kentucky 3. _____, Ralph, white, male, 1, son, Oregon, Iowa, Oregon
  SON	1 Apr 1883	Oregon, USA   [5]
  	name: Hugh Watom Shelley gender: Male birth date: 01 Apr 1883 birthplace: Oregon father's name: Roswell Shelley father's birthplace: father's age: mother's name: Mary Tatom mother's birthplace: mother's age: indexing project (batch) number: I09278-5 system origin: Oregon-EASy source film number: 2229224 reference number: 13506
  Biography	1885	Polk County, Oregon, USA   [6]
  	Biography of Roswell Shelley Mr. Shelley was bon in Iowa in the year 1846, and came with his parents to Oregon in 1848. His first home in Oregon was in Lane County, where he lived until 1857 when he moved to Polk County, and that has continued to be his home with the exception of a few years spent in Wasco County. Dealt in merchandise for several years. In 1882 was elected county clerk, and was placed in nomination again in 1884 for the second term but was defeated. Owns city property in Dalls. Married Miss Mary L. Tatom in 1878, and has two children--Ralph D., and Hugh T.
  Died	26 Aug 1891	Polk County, Oregon, USA   [2]
  	Place of death unknown but likely to be Polk County where she was enumerated in 1880 and buried in 1891.
  Buried	Hilltop Cemetery, Polk County, Oregon, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I5186	Full | ProgenitorWalker
  Last Modified	29 Dec 2012

  
  

  Father	James Tatum,   b. 1827, Dickson County, Tennessee, USA ,   d. After 1880  (Age 54 years)
  Mother	Nancy Berry
  Married	3 Jul 1851	Missouri   [7]
  Family ID	F1806	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Roswell Shelley,   b. 26 Sep 1846, Iowa, USA ,   d. 29 May 1910  (Age 63 years)
  Married	1878	Oregon, USA   [6]
  Children	1. Ralph Dale Shelley,   b. 8 May 1879, Independence, Polk County, Oregon, USA   2. Hugh Watom Shelley,   b. 1 Apr 1883, Oregon, USA
  Last Modified	28 Dec 2012
  Family ID	F1807	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S2961] 1860 U.S. census, Jackson County, Oregon, population schedule, Butte Creek Precinct, [no penned p. no.], p. 167b-168a (stamped), dwelling 626, family 15, James Tatom household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 December 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1055. [S2974] "Hilltop Cemetery, Polk County, Oregon," database and images, OregonGravestones.org (http://oregongravestones.org : accessed 28 December 2012), entry for Mary L. Shelley (1854-1891). . [S2976] "Oregon Births and Christenings, 1868-1929," index, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 29 December 2012), Mary Tatom in entry for Ralph Dale Shelley, 8 May 1879; "not necessarily intended to index any specific set of records" and "not complete for any particular place or region." . [S2972] 1880 U. S. census, Polk County, Oregon, population schedule, Independence, enumeration district (ED) 106, p. 16 (penned), p. 485 (stamped, verso), dwelling 142, family 142, Roswold Shelley household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 28 December 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 1083. [S2977] "Oregon Births and Christenings, 1868-1929," index, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 29 December 2012), Mary Tatom in entry for Hugh Watom Shelley, 1 April 1883; "not necessarily intended to index any specific set of records" and "not complete for any particular place or region.". [S2973] Herbert O. Lang, History of the Willamette Valley, being a description of the valley and its Resources, with an account of its Discovery and Settlement by White Men, and its Subsequent History together with Personal Reminiscences of its Early Pioneers (Portland, Or.: Himes & Lang, 1885), 698, biography of Roswell Shelley; pdf download, EBooksRead (http://www.ebooksread.com/ : accessed 28 December 2012). [S2971] Oregon and Washington Donation Land Files, 1851-1903, microfilm publication M815 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives, roll 74, "Winchester-Roseburg Land Office, Donation Certificates 852-913," James Tatom file (Jackson County), certificate no. 862, issued June 1865.