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Harpole, Nancy
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FIRST: Nancy
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MID:
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| GENDER: F
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MAIDEN NAME: McMullen
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| BORN: 17 Feb 1808
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DIED: 20 Nov 1906
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BURIED: 22 Nov 1906
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| BIRTH PLACE: Kentucky
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| DEATH PLACE: Brooks, Marion Co., Oregon
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NOTES:
MARRIAGE - William P. Harpole married Nancy Mullen (or McMullen - both are recorded) 29 Oct 1829 in Pike Co., Illinois.
1860 OR CENSUS - N. Harpole, age 52, b. Kentucky, is enumerated with W. P. Harpole, age 53, b. Tennessee, along with M. D., male, age 29, L., male, age 25, T. J., male, age 23, Paul, age 20, Susan, age 14, and N., age 12, all born in Illinois.
1880 OR CENSUS - Nancy Harpole, age 64, b. Kentucky, is enumerated as the mother in the home of Thomas Harpole, age 40, farmer, b. Illinois, and Celia Linzy Harpole, age 14, b. Washington Territory.
BIOGRAPHICAL:
OLDEST WOMAN IN COUNTY.
Mrs. Nancy Harpole is supposed to be the oldest lady now living in Marion County.
Among the few remaining grand old pioneers who fearlessly braved the dangers of the West, and helped to develop this rich and beautiful county, and whose history is indelibly inter-woven therewith, there now remains in Marion county an aged woman, Mrs. Nancy Harpole.
This remarkable woman was born in Kentucky February 17, 1808. While a child her parents, Mr. and Mrs. McMullen, moved to Tennessee, thence to Missouri, and later to Illinois, where in 1829 she married Wm. P. Harpole, a man of sterling worth and unimpeachable honesty. In 1851 Wm. P. Harpole and family crossed the plains to Oregon in company with his brother, James W. Harpole, who had previously come to Oregon, and returned to Illinois to secure a band of cattle to bring to Oregon. Wm P. Harpole settled in "French Pairie" on a fine donation farm about nine miles north of Salem, where his aged widow now resided, her declining years comforted and brightened by the tender care of her son, LaFayette, her children and her grandchildren.
Wm. P. Harpole was a man of prominence in public affairs and did much to aid in reclaiming this county during its early history, and in the establishment of law amoung the early pioneers of the original territory of Oregon, He was an influentioal member of the territorial legislature of Oregon during 1855 and 1856, and died suddenly May, 1862, during his campaign in Marion county for re-election to the legislature, a man loved and respected by all who knew him.
Mrs. Nancy Harpole, now in her 98th year, and mother of four sons and two daughters, is a remarkable old lady, retaining all her mental faculties, taking a keen interest in current events and the progress of Oregon, recognizing old time friends and neighbors with pleasure and full of interesting recoleections of pioneer days and people.
Capital Journal 28 Apr 1905
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OBITUARY:
Died, at the family home near Brooks, on Tuesday, Nov. 20, Mrs. Nancy Harpole, aged 98.
Had Mrs. Harpole lived until February she would have been 99 years of age. She was born in Kentucky and went with her parents to Tennessee, Missouri and Illinois where in 1829 she married Wm. P. Harpole, coming to Oregon in 1851.
Wm. P. Harpole was a prominent citizen and public man in those days and served in the territorial legislature of 1855 and died suddenly while campaigning for a re-election.
Mrs. Harpole the mother of six children was a remarkably bright old lady retaining all her mental faculties, and taking a keene interest in current events and Oregon’s progress even to the last.
The funeral will take place on Thursday, Nov. 22, from her late home, interment in the Pioneer cemetery.
[newspaper clipping, not cited]
DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN.
Mrs. Nancy Harpool [sic], of Brooks, Passed Away this Morning.
One of the oldest and best known of the pioneer women of the Willamette valley passed away this morning at her home at Brooks. Mrs. Nancy Harpool, in the one humdredth year of her age, and a pioneer of 1850 [1851], died of old age and general debility at 10 o'clock today. Mrs. Harpool was suffering from no disease, but her advanced age had rendered her very feeble, and her death was not unexpected.
She came to Oregon in 1850 from Southern Illinois and settled on the donation land claim at Brooks which was her home until she died.
The funeral will be held at Brooks, Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock.
Mrs. Harpool is survived by several children, among them Mrs. Daniel Shafer, of Eugene; Lafayette Harpool, Brooks, Mrs. Hagy, Eastern Washington, and Paul Harpool, of Lane county.
Mrs. M. P. Rogers, of this city, is a granddaughter of Mrs. Harpool.
Capital Journal 20 Nov 1906
At the family home at Brooks, 10 o'clock, November 20, 1906, Mrs. Nancy Harpool [sic], aged 100 years.
Mrs. Harpool came to Oregon in 1850 from Southern Illinois a settled on the donation land claim at Brooks where she lived until her death. She was highly respected by her neighbors.
The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon, at 1:30 o'clock at Brooks.
Among the children who survive her are Mrs. Daniel Shafer of Eugene; Lafayette Harpool, of Brooks; Mrs. Hagy of eastern Washington and Paul Harpool of Lane county. Mrs. J. P. Rogers, of this city, is a granddaughter of Mrs. Harpool.
Daily Oregon Statesman 21 Nov 1906
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INSCRIPTION:
Mother
Nancy
1808-1906
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SOURCES:
Hollin
Saucy Survey & Photographs
IL Statewide Marriage Index 1783-1900, Pike Co., Vol. 1, pg 4
1860 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Labish Pct., FA #2525)
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., LaBish, ED 81,pg 60D)
Marion Co., OR Probate, File #227
CJ 28 Apr 1905
CJ 20 Nov 1906
DOS 21 Nov 1906
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