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Mary Elizabeth <I>Munkers</I> Estes

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Mary Elizabeth Munkers Estes

Birth
Liberty, Clay County, Missouri, USA
Death
12 Aug 1926 (aged 90)
Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Burial
Salem, Marion County, Oregon, USA Add to Map
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Mary, who usually went by Elizabeth, came out West from Liberty, Missouri with her parents in a wagon train of about 50 families when they left Missouri. She married Albert Franklin Davidson of Kentucky on November 06, 1851 and they had two children: Thomas and Mary. They divorced and Elizabeth married John S. Estes of Maine on December 4, 1857. They had 3 children. She told the story of their trip on the Oregon trail in vivid detail to members of her family around the fireside on Christmas Eve, 1916, as documented in the book "The Trail Blazers," written in 1935 by Martha Alice (Turnidge) Hamot and published by Portland Metropolitan Publishing Co. of Portland, Oregon.

Oregon Death Index
Name: Estes, Mary Elizabeth
Death Date: August 12, 1926
County: Portland
Certificate #: 2066
Mary, who usually went by Elizabeth, came out West from Liberty, Missouri with her parents in a wagon train of about 50 families when they left Missouri. She married Albert Franklin Davidson of Kentucky on November 06, 1851 and they had two children: Thomas and Mary. They divorced and Elizabeth married John S. Estes of Maine on December 4, 1857. They had 3 children. She told the story of their trip on the Oregon trail in vivid detail to members of her family around the fireside on Christmas Eve, 1916, as documented in the book "The Trail Blazers," written in 1935 by Martha Alice (Turnidge) Hamot and published by Portland Metropolitan Publishing Co. of Portland, Oregon.

Oregon Death Index
Name: Estes, Mary Elizabeth
Death Date: August 12, 1926
County: Portland
Certificate #: 2066


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