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Pleasant Grove Cemetery ~ Sylvanus Condit ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Condit, Sylvanus
LAST: Condit FIRST: Sylvanus MID: 
GENDER: M MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE: 
BORN: 24 Mar 1829 DIED: 29 Apr 1904 BURIED: 
OCCUPATION:  Farmer, County Commissioner
BIRTH PLACE:  Mercer Co., Pennsylvania
DEATH PLACE: Aumsville, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
1850 OH CENSUS - Sylvanus Condit, age 21, b. Pennsylvania, is enumerated with Philip, age 49, occupation preacher, b. Pennsylvania, and Nancy, age 43, b. Pennsylvania, along with Syreanus [sic], age 22, Alva, age 19, Samuel J. W., age 15, Mary A. C., age 11, and David W. C., age 7, all born in Pennsylvania.
1880 OR CENSUS - Sylvanus Condit, age 57, occupation farmer & commissioner, b. Pennsylvania, is enumerated with wife Sarah A., age 47, b. Ohio, along with Mary May C., age 20, and Lawrence W., age 18, both born in Oregon. Also enumerated with the family is Mary E. V. Blackerly, age 6 months (b. Nov), identified as being raised by Sylvanus, b. Oregon (she has hooping [sic] cough).
1900 OR CENSUS - Sylvanus Condit, age 71, occupation farmer, b. Mar 1829 in Pennsylvania, is enumerated with his wife of 46 years, Sarah, age 67, mother of 4 children, 2 of whom are living at the time of the census, b. Jan 1883 in Ohio, along with daughter Mary, age 40, single, b. May 1864 in Oregon.
BIOGRAPHICAL (Source - Steeves):
"Sylvanus Condit, the pioneer of 1851 and again in 1854, was the second son of Rev. Phillip. He married Sarah A. Brown. She was born on January 16, 1832, and died on June 12, 1917. Mr. Sylvanus Condit died April 29, 1904. Sylvanus and his wife Sarah had the following children:
Alice and Henderson, who died before reaching maturity; Lawrence W., who married Anna Neal; Mary, who was one of Marion County’s faithful school teachers for many years. The writer was one of her pupils about the year 1884 at the Rock Point schoolhouse."
OBITUARY: 
Died – At the family home, two miles south of Aumsville, on Friday, April 29, 1904, Sulvanus Condit. He was born March 24, 1829, in Mercer county Pennsylvania, and moved to Ohio at ten years of age, and lived there until 1851, when he crossed the plains to Oregon with a party under the direction of Captain Hiram Smith. He remained at Clatsop Plains and Portland for two years, then returned by was of the Isthmus to his home in Ohio. On February 1, 1854, he was married to Miss Sarah A. Brown. She and one son, L. W. Condit, and one daughter, Mary C., survive him. He was also an uncle of A. O. Condit of this city. Soon after his marriage he and his father’s family started across the plains by ox-team, arriving in the Willamette Valley on September 15, 1854, and bought the farm near Aumsville, on which he has since made his home.
Deceased served three successive terms as county commissioner of Marion county. He was one of the early pioneers and most prominent men in the county, always taking an active interest in all affairs for the good of the community. He was one of the founders of the Pleasant Grove church, and assisted in the building of what is now the oldest building of that denomination on the Pacific coast, and was always a staunch member of the church.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. E. J. Thompson of Independence, assisted by Rev. McCloud of Albany, and Rev. Wm. Robinson of Salem. The funeral was probably one of the largest ever held in the country districts of the county, over 400 people being in attendance.
Daily Oregon Statesman 3 May 1904 3:5
INSCRIPTION: 
Sylvanus Condit
Born
Mar. 24, 1829
Died
Apr. 29, 1904
Rock of Ages, cleft for me.
SOURCES: 
Saucy
1850 OH CENSUS (Wood Co., Washington, FA #816)
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Lincoln, ED 86, pg 8D)
1900 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Aumsville, ED 121, sheet 6A)
Steeves, pg 289
DOS 3 May 1904 3:5
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