Lewis Henry Wilkes, 18791946 (aged 66 years)

Name
Lewis Henry /Wilkes/
Given names
Lewis Henry
Surname
Wilkes
Birth
Citation details: Memorial# 50938295, Added 10 Apr 2010 by Jan
Census
Address: Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon, USA
Text:

Supervisor's District: Oregon
Enumeration District: 128
Enumerator: DMC Gault

Citation details: Sheet 24, Page 346C, Reel 1084, Page 696
Quality of data: census image
Note: in hh 246-247 as J. C. Wilkes, White, Male, Age: 32, Head, Married, Farmer, OR VA TN; Dora, White, Female, Age: 23, Wife, Married, Keeping house, IA IA IA; Irvin, White, Male, Age: 5, Son, Single, At Home, OR OR IA; Henry S, White, Male, Age: 1, Son, Single, At home, OR OR IA; Thos. Moore, White, Male, Age: 40, Boarder, Divorced, Farm Laborer, MO KY SC.
British Queen
Victoria
from June 20, 1837 to January 22, 1901
20th President of the United States
James A Garfield
March 4, 1881
21st President of the United States
Chester A Arthur
September 19, 1881
22nd President of the United States
Grover Cleveland
March 4, 1885
Birth of a brother
Citation details: Sheet 2B
Birth of a sister
Citation details: Sheet 2B
23rd President of the United States
Benjamin Harrison
March 4, 1889
Birth of a brother
Citation details: Sheet 2B
24th President of the United States
Grover Cleveland
March 4, 1893
Birth of a sister
Citation details: Oregon-EASy, film# 22589234
Note: Oregon State Archives has delayed birth record as being in Polk County, Oregon, certificate 1194. page 1
25th President of the United States
William McKinley
March 4, 1897
Marriage of a brother
Citation details: Sheet 8A
Birth of a brother
Citation details: Memorial# 67805960. Added 02 Apr 2011 by Dan & Barbara.
Death of a paternal grandfather
Address: Wagner, Wheeler County, Oregon, USA
26th President of the United States
Theodore Roosevelt
September 14, 1901
Death of a paternal grandmother
Address: William Thompson home on Alder Creek, Wheeler County, Oregon.
Note: Clipping from the Fossil Journal of September 1905 - DEATH OF AN EARLY PIONEER - Wife of Archibald Wilkes - Mahala Glenn Wilkes

Clipping from the Fossil Journal of September 1905 - DEATH OF AN EARLY PIONEER - Wife of Archibald Wilkes - Mahala Glenn Wilkes

"Died at the home of Wm. Thompson on Alder Creek, Wheeler County, Oregon, September 9 , 1905 , Grandma Wilkes , a pioneer of Oregon, who crossed the plains with an ox team from Missouri in 1845. She was 81 years of age at the time of her death.
Thus passeth away another of the pioneer people of Oregon and none other of the writers acquaintances has filled a larger, or better, place in the pioneer history of Oregon than she."

Marriage of a sister
British King
Edward VII
from January 22, 1901 to May 6, 1910
27th President of the United States
William Howard Taft
March 4, 1909
Marriage of a brother
Citation details: Sheet 2A, Page 305, Reel 1283, page 1219
Marriage of a sister
Citation details: page 136
28th President of the United States
Woodrow Wilson
March 4, 1913
Marriage of a sister
Citation details: page 1
Citation details: page 136
29th President of the United States
Warren G Harding
March 4, 1921
30th President of the United States
Calvin Coolidge
August 2, 1923
Death of a father
Citation details: Memorial# 61187905. Added 06 Nov 2010 by KBrownst
Burial of a father
Cemetery: Hillsboro Pioneer Cemetery
Address: Hillsboro, Washington County, Oregon, USA. Plot: West of West driveway, row 3. GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 45.52060, Longitude: -123.00420
Citation details: Memorial# 61187905. Added, 06 Nov 2010 by KBrownst.
Note: double tombstone inscription: WILKES; Father; Jesse C.; 1845 – 1927 / Mother; Dora E.; 1855 – 1929.
Death of a mother
Citation details: Memorial# 61187904. Added, 06 Nov 2010 by KBrownst.
Burial of a mother
Cemetery: Hillsboro Pioneer Cemetery
Address: Hillsboro, Washington County, Oregon, USA. Plot: West of West driveway, row 3. GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 45.52060, Longitude: -123.00420
Citation details: Memorial# 61187904. Added, 06 Nov 2010 by KBrownst.
Note: double tombstone inscription: WILKES; Father; Jesse C.; 1845 – 1927 / Mother; Dora E.; 1855 – 1929.
31st President of the United States
Herbert Hoover
March 4, 1929
Marriage of a sister
Citation details: page 136
British King
George V
from May 6, 1910 to January 20, 1936
32nd President of the United States
Franklin D Roosevelt
March 4, 1933
British King
Edward VII
from January 20, 1936 to December 11, 1936
Death of a brother
British King
33rd President of the United States
Harry S Truman
April 12, 1945
Death
Citation details: Memorial# 50938295, Added 10 Apr 2010 by Jan
Citation details: certificate# 6148
Burial
Cemetery: Olney Cemetery
Address: Block 6, Lot 82, Grave 7, Pendleton, Umatilla
County, Oregon, USA. GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 45.65890, Longitude: -118.80310
Citation details: Memorial# 50938295, Added 10 Apr 2010 by Jan
Note: tombstone inscription: Lewis Henry Wilkes, 1879 – [American Legion symbol] 1946
Family with parents
father
18471927
Birth: August 11, 1847 26 24 Buxton, Washington, Oregon, USA
Death: March 2, 1927Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, USA
mother
18551929
Birth: May 1855Iowa, USA
Death: January 6, 1929Washington, Oregon, USA
Marriage MarriageSeptember 27, 1873Washington, Oregon, USA
2 years
elder brother
18751944
Birth: about 1875 27 19 Oregon, USA
Death: January 26, 1944Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, USA
5 years
himself
18791946
Birth: December 14, 1879 32 24 Forest Grove, Washington, Oregon, USA
Death: August 27, 1946Grant, Oregon, USA
5 years
younger brother
1885
Birth: April 1885 37 29 Oregon, USA
Death:
3 years
younger sister
1888
Birth: April 1888 40 32 Oregon, USA
Death:
3 years
younger brother
1891
Birth: June 1891 43 36 Oregon, USA
Death:
4 years
younger sister
18951983
Birth: May 6, 1895 47 40 Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, USA
Death: May 24, 1983Oregon, USA
5 years
younger brother
19001958
Birth: August 28, 1900 53 45 Wheeler, Oregon, USA
Death: March 26, 1958Umatilla, Oregon, USA
Birth
Citation details: Memorial# 50938295, Added 10 Apr 2010 by Jan
Census
Text:

Supervisor's District: Oregon
Enumeration District: 128
Enumerator: DMC Gault

Citation details: Sheet 24, Page 346C, Reel 1084, Page 696
Quality of data: census image
Death
Citation details: Memorial# 50938295, Added 10 Apr 2010 by Jan
Citation details: certificate# 6148
Burial
Citation details: Memorial# 50938295, Added 10 Apr 2010 by Jan
Census

in hh 246-247 as J. C. Wilkes, White, Male, Age: 32, Head, Married, Farmer, OR VA TN; Dora, White, Female, Age: 23, Wife, Married, Keeping house, IA IA IA; Irvin, White, Male, Age: 5, Son, Single, At Home, OR OR IA; Henry S, White, Male, Age: 1, Son, Single, At home, OR OR IA; Thos. Moore, White, Male, Age: 40, Boarder, Divorced, Farm Laborer, MO KY SC.

Burial

tombstone inscription: Lewis Henry Wilkes, 1879 – [American Legion symbol] 1946

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