LAST

FIRST

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Scovil

Fannie

15 Jun 1862

Scovil

Ray / Roy

abt 1877

16 Sep 1879

Scovill

Alda

31 Oct 1949

Scovill

Elizabeth

19 Nov 1838

29 Mar 1904

Scovill

Luelling

abt 1835

30 Jul 1905

Scoville

Allie

abt 1871

7 Jan 1897

Scoville

C.

abt 1864

24 Nov 1889

Scoville

George

12 Oct 1857

19 Mar 1891

Billings (Scovell)

Mary

4 Mar 1851

19 Jan 1931

Tull (Scoville)

unknown

31 Jan 1885

Scovil

FIRST: Fannie

MID: W

GENDER: F

MAIDEN NAME:

TITLE: Mrs.

BORN:

DIED: 15 Jun 1862

BURIED: Jun 1862

ETHNIC:

OCCUPATION: Housewife;

OBITUARY:
Obituary not in WOS

INSCRIPTION:
Fannie W. Scovil,
wife of L. S.
died June 15, 1862,
age 40 yrs

SOURCES:
DAR pg 2
S&H pg 37

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Scovil, Lorenzo S.

Scovil

FIRST: Lorenzo

MID: S.

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DIED: 4 Mar 1869

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NOTES:
Marion Co. Probate Low S. Scovill #395, died intestate, wife Ann.

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Scovil, Ray / Roy

LAST: Scovil

FIRST: Ray / Roy

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GENDER: M

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TITLE:

BORN: abt 1877

DIED: 16 Sep 1879

BURIED: 17 Sep 1879

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BIRTH PLACE : Salem, Marion Co., Oregon

DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon

NOTES:
Son of L. C. Scoville, died from whooping cough, 2 yr 5 mos 17 days

OBITUARY:
DIED-- In South Salem, Monday, September 16th, a little son of Calvin Scoval, aged 2 years and 3 months. Funeral will take place at 10 a.m. from the Christian Church. Oregon Statesman 17 Sept 1879 3:1

SOURCES:
OS 17 Sept 1879 3:1
IOOF Bk.

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Scovill, Alda Fay

LAST: Scovill

FIRST: Alda

MID: Fay

GENDER: F

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DIED: 31 Oct 1949

BURIED: 2 Nov 1949

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DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon

OBITUARY:
Miss Alda Fay Scovell, late resident at 1342 N. Capitol st., at a local hospital, October 31. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Lola Gray and Mrs. G. A. Nye, both of Salem, and several nieces. Private services will be held from the Virgil T. Golden mortuary Wednesday, November 2. Interment will be in IOOF cemetery. Please omit flowers. Oregon Statesman, Nov. 2, 1949, p. 14

SOURCES:
OS, Nov. 2, 1949, pg 14

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Scovill, Elizabeth Ann

LAST: Scovill

FIRST: Elizabeth

MID: Ann

GENDER: F

MAIDEN NAME: Burford

TITLE: Mrs.

BORN: 19 Nov 1838

DIED: 29 Mar 1904

BURIED: 30 Mar 1904

ETHNIC:

OCCUPATION: Housewife;

BIRTH PLACE : Knox Co., Illinois

DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon

NOTES:
OSBH DC (Marion Co., 1904) #504 - Elizabeth Ann Scovill, female, married, housewife, b. 19 Nov 1838 in Knox County, Illinois, d. at age 65 on 29 Mar 1904 in Salem, Marion County, Oregon, name of father - Hezekiah Burford, interment 30 Mar 1904, informant D. Davidson.

SOURCES:
OSBH DC (Marion Co., 1904) #504

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Scovill, Luelling Cal

LAST: Scovill

FIRST: Luelling

MID: Cal

GENDER: M

MAIDEN NAME:

TITLE: Mr.

BORN: abt 1835

DIED: 30 Jul 1905

BURIED: 1 Aug 1905

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OCCUPATION: Stage driver, mail carrier

DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon

NOTES:
Funeral ordered by Al. Nye

OBITUARY:
"OLD CAL" DEAD -- L. C. Scovell, Veteran Stage Driver and Mail Carrier, Passes Last Mile Post.- He Came to the Pacific Coast in the Fifties and Settled in Benton County- Drove the First Stage Out of Portland in 1860
DIED, SCOVELL--In Salem, Oregon, Sunday, July 30, 1905, at 11:30 p.m., of heart failure, L. C. Scovell, aged 70 years, 2 months and 17 days.
The above notice conveys the sad intelligence that "Old Cal,"the veteran stage driver and mail carrier, has passed from this life--has cracked the whip over a four-in-hand on Oregon roads for the last time. Deceased came to Oregon from Iowa, his native state, in 1853 and located on a ranch in Benton county, near the city of Corvallis. He had been a stage driver in Iowa for several years and shortly after arriving in this state he became acquainted with D. P. Thompson (Dave Thompson) of Oregon City and Portland. The latter was then arranging for the establishment of a stage line between Oregon City and Corvallis and in due course he secured Mr. Scovell to take charge of the details of operation. The stage line between Oregon City and Corvallis was started in 1854, the service being very irregular, and the route sometimes indirect. The stage ran where business called, and made as good time as was convenient. As compared with the present, there were practically no wagon roads and in some places the stage was driven through the almost trackless woods. Yet this was an improvement over previous facilities, and the stage was appreciated by the early inhabitants of the territory covered by the stage service. In 1860 the government provided for the carrying of mails from Portland to Sacramento, and the contract for this service was secured by a company formed for the purpose. Scovell was one of their first drivers and it was he who drove the first stage out of Portland on the new line. The stages were of the old-fashioned type, known to the present generation only by the pictures that may be found in pioneer newspapers or early books. The horses were large and powerful, and, according to Scovell made to run at the crack of the whip. "You bet everybody stood clear when the stage drove into town in those days," he said some time ago when talking about the events of his more exciting labors. "You don’t see any such horses nowadays because there is no use for them. The horses were wild. They had to be held until everything was ready, and when they were turned loose they started off at a gallop. When we came into town on a dead run, the stage horn blowing, everybody turned out to see who had come on the stage. We dashed up to the stage ofice and stopped quicker than an air-brake express. It took mighty fine horses to stand that kind of work and those that couldn’t stand it didn’t last long."
The stage under this new system made regular trips and had a time table that was closely followed. The company, known as the California Stage Company, had a contract by which it received $90,000 per year from the government, and made a good profit besides from carrying passengers and small freight. The stage left Portland at 6 o’clock in the morning and reached Salem at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Horses were changed at Oregon City, Dutch Town (now Aurora) and Waconda, near the present site of Gervais. The state left Salem for Eugene at 4 o’clock in the afternoon and reached the latter place at 3 o’clock next morning. The fare from Portland to Salem was $5, and this included the transportation of 150 pounds of baggage.
The Portland-Sacramento stage line was operated by the California company until 1865, when H. W. Corbett bought the line for $100,000 and conducted it until he was elected United States senator in 1866. Scovell was a witness to the transfer and saw the money counted out in gold He continued with the stage until 1870, when the northern terminus of the route was Salem. In 1868 the railroad had been completed to Lake Labish, and regular train service to that point was commenced. Under the federal law the railroad then had the right to carry the mails, and the stage ran only to Labish. Two years later the train and stage met at Salem, and in 1872 Eugene became the connecting point.
Scovell was not much given to talking about himself, and but for the stories told by other pioneers few would know anything of his interesting history. It was only by questioning that he could be led to tell of his early experiences, but his reminiscences are well worth listening to. Long night rides he considered not worth mentioning, though made under important circumstances. In 1856, while driving the stage on the Oregon City-Corvallis line, he had a thrilling adventure with highwaymen. He was driving from Jefferson to Salem at night, and had number of passengers, who as was the custom, carried considerable sums of money. The robbers had planned to hold up the stage at the top of Jackson’s hill, the summit of the range of hills south of Salem, on the Jefferson road. From the top of the hill there is a long, steep grade toward Salem. Just as the horses turned around a curve in the road at the crest of the hill, two masked men sprang into the road on either side of the stage. "Hold up!" was the command, but taking in the situation at a glance, Scovell swung his great whip back, cutting one robber across the face, and the next instant had cracked the lash over his leaders. The four horses dashed at a breakneck speed down that mile of heavy grade and did not stop their gallop until they neared the city. The passengers guessed the cause of the mad race and patiently endured such a shaking up and they never had before or since. But for Scovell’s prompt and daring action all would have been relieved of their money. Had the robbers chosen a spot at the beginning of the ascent the stage could not have escaped.
Scovell related two stories of hard drives made at the request of men who were of no small importance in Oregon affairs at the time. In 1868, as before stated, trains ran only as far as Lake Labish, five miles north of Salem. Ben Holladay was the owner of the road. He had important interests awaiting the action of the legislative assembly of that year, and came up to Salem to see that the members of that august body were fully advised upon questions of public moment. It happened that a number of his opponents came up on the same train with Holladay and his friends, and the opposing faction had each a desire to be the first to reach Salem. As soon as the train stopped at Labish both parties alighted and Old Ben sought out Scovell with the request that his party be driven to Salem in time to beat the other crowd. Scovell undertook the task, and started on the drive with Holladay on the seat beside him. Scovell said: "Holladay patted me on the back and told me to put the horses through if every one of them dropped in his tracks. He said we must beat the other fellows, and he would pay for any injury to the horses. When we got nearly up to Salem he kept urging me on, and said if I beat the other fellows I should have a free pass over that railroad as long as there should be a rail left of it. My horses came in ahead, and it didn’t kill them either. Ben gave me the pass as he agreed, but I never got a chance to use it until the road got down as far as Salem in 1870. After I had been driving here in Salem about six months I took a day off and went down to Portland. When the conductor came around I gave him the pass. He looked at it pretty closely, punched it and gave it back. On the trip back the conductor took my pass and said that it had expired and that he would keep it. I told him: ‘No, you don’t! That is my pass, and you give it back.’ He would not, and I made for him in a hurry. I would have killed that conductor if some of the passengers hadn’t held me. He kept the pass and the next time I saw Ben Holladay I told him I wanted him to keep his promise. He laughed and said he would fix it after the next legislature, but he never did. That’s the kind of man he was."
Scovell’s eyes fairly snapped when he told of that of his efficient services, and though the conductor probably obeyed his instructions he may be thankful he did not have his battle to fight alone on that eventful day thirty-one years ago. Scovell did not like the treatment he sent to the metropolis with a request that Mr. Corbett come to Salem immediately. The message was delivered late in the evening. Mr. Corbett, then a storekeeper, hunted up Scovell and inquired whether the drive to Salem could be made that night. Scovell related the following concerning the matter: "I told him if he wanted to go to Salem I would take him there. It was a dark, stormy night, but we started and drove into Salem before the legislature met next morning. Corbett told me during our ride that if I got him through all right he would pay me $15 a month extra as long as I drove on the state. And he did it. I drew my salary every pay day with the rest of the boys, and then I went down to the store and got my $15 extra. Corbett treated me white, he did, just as he always did everybody."
After the railroad reached Salem and the stage line between Portland and here was discontinued Scovell was given the government contract as mail messenger between the depot and the postoffice. For awhile he made four trips a day between these two points--the first being at 5 a.m. and the last at 9:30 p.m. Later two extra trips were necessary on account of the "Albany local" and the job kept Scovell quite busy. He held this contract for several years and afterwards became stage driver and mail carrier on a subcontract between Salem and McMinnville. This route he covered for some time, when he was given the mail route between Salem and Macleay and Whiteaker in the Waldo hills, east of Salem. This he did with his faithful old buckskin colored horse, "Pedro," and a buggy until a few months ago.
Deceased was married in Monmouth about forty-one years ago, Elizabeth Anna Scovell, his sister-in-law, being the bride. To them four children were born and two of these survive him, Mrs. Lola Gray of Cottage Grove, and Miss Alda Scovell of Salem. Mrs. Minnie Nye of Salem, and A. D. Davidson of Independence, are stepchildren of the deceased. His wife died about a year ago. The funeral will be conducted at 2:30 today by Rev. W. S. Gordon, pastor of the Leslie M.E. Church, at the Nye residence on South Commercial street, and interment will be in the family lot in Rural cemetery. Oregon Statesman, August 1, 1905, 3:3-5.

SOURCES:
OS Aug. 1, 1905, 3:3-5
See also MCH, vol. 8, pg 17
Rigdon Records Bk 3.

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Scoville, Allie

LAST: Scoville

FIRST: Allie

MID:

GENDER: M

MAIDEN NAME:

TITLE: Mr.

BORN: abt 1871

DIED: 7 Jan 1897

BURIED: 9 Jan 1897

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OCCUPATION:

NOTES:
Scovell

OBITUARY:
At his home in South Salem, at 8 a.m., Thursday, Jan. 7, 1897, after an illness of four days, Al. Scovell, aged about 26 years.
Deceased was a son of Cal. Scovell of this city and a half brother of A. D. Davidson.
OR Statesman 8 Jan 1897, 7:4

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LR
OS 8 Jan 1897 7:4

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Scoville, C. H.

LAST: Scoville

FIRST: C.

MID: H.

GENDER: M

MAIDEN NAME:

TITLE: Mr.

BORN: abt 1864

DIED: 24 Nov 1889

BURIED: 25 Nov 1889

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OCCUPATION:

DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon

NOTES:
Consumption Stepson of Carl Scovil

OBITUARY:
Mortality Record: C.H. Scoville, aged 25 years, one month and three days, died at his home in South Salem, Nov. 24, 1889, and was interred in the Odd Fellows' cemetery, Monday. This was the first one dying in Salem to have been interred in that cemetery during November.
Daily Oregon Statesman 27 Nov 1889, 4:3
notes on card: (IOOF book) Lot 165; age 25 yrs,1 m, 9 days; consumption; bur. 25 Nov 1889; stepson of Carl Scovil

SOURCES:
DOS 27 Nov 1889, 4:3
IOOF Book

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Scoville, George

LAST: Scoville

FIRST: George

MID:

GENDER: M

MAIDEN NAME:

TITLE: Mr.

BORN: 12 Oct 1857

DIED: 19 Mar 1891

BURIED: 21 Mar 1891

ETHNIC:

OCCUPATION: Fireman

DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon

NOTES:
Scovil in city index and lot record, but Scoville in obituary and on marker.; Age: 33 years, 5 months, 7 days; NOTE: Marion Co. Probate file: #395 for Low S. Scovill who died Mar 1869-- George is mentioned as age 11;

OBITUARY:
SCOVILLE -- At his home on Ferry street, Salem, Thursday, March 19, 1891, at 10:35 p.m., George Scoville, aged 33 years. With the death of George the roll of the exempt firement in Salem is reduced another name. He was one of the charter members of Tiger engine company and bore the reputation of being one of the bravest "fire laddies" Salem ever had. He has been bedfast for several months and death was a happy relief to his sufferings. The funeral will take place at 2 p.m., tomorrow (Saturday). All firemen are requested to meet at the Tiger engine house for the purpose of attending and assisting in the burial. The fire bell will be tolled early this morning.
Weekly Oregon Statesman, Mar. 27, 1891, 10:4.

INSCRIPTION:
George Scoville
Born Oct. 12, 1857
Died March 19, 1891

SOURCES:
DAR pg 2
S&H pg 37
WOS 27 Mar 1891 10:4

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Billings, Mary

LAST: Billings

FIRST: Mary

MID:

GENDER: F

MAIDEN NAME: Scovell

TITLE: Mrs.

BORN: 4 Mar 1851

DIED: 16 Jan 1931

BURIED: 19 Jan 1931

ETHNIC:

OCCUPATION: Homemaker

BIRTH PLACE : Iowa

DEATH PLACE: West Salem, Polk Co., Oregon (1375 Plaza St.)

NOTES:
Mary S. Billings in City index and lot record; OSBH DC (Polk Co., 1931) #8: Mary Scovell Billings, widow (of Fred Billings), b. May 4, 1851 in Iowa, dau. of Loren Scovell and Fannie Blair (both b. New York), d. Jan. 16, 1931, age 79 years, 8 months, 4 days; informant: Wm. McAdams of West Salem; burial Jan 19 in I. O. O. F. cemetery, Clough - Barrick Co. 1928 Salem City Directory says she is the widoow of Elmer Billings.

OBITUARY:
Billings -- Died at the residence, 1375 Plaza street, West Salem, Mary Scovell Billings, 79. Survived by one daughter, Miss Lottie W. McAdams of West Salem; one son, W. F. McAdams of West Salem; one sister, Mrs. G. A. Nye; one brother, Cob Hinkle, Lakeview, Oregon; one niece, Bertha McCollum, Portland, Oregon; two cousins; Mrs. C. G. Gray and Miss Alta Scovell; one nephew, Sichel Hinkle, all of Salem. Funeral services Monday, January 19, at 3 p.m. from the Clough-Barrick chapel, Rev. M. A. Groves of the Ford Memorial church officiating. Interment I.O.O.F. cemetery.
Oregon Statesman 17 Jan 1931 5:7;

SOURCES:
OSBH DC (Polk Co., 1931) #8
OS 17 Jan 1931 5:7
1928 Salem City Directory

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Tull, unknown

LAST: Tull

FIRST: unknown

MID:

GENDER: F

MAIDEN NAME: Scoville

TITLE: Mrs.

BORN:

DIED: 31 Jan 1885

BURIED: 2 Feb 1885

ETHNIC:

OCCUPATION: Housewife;

DEATH PLACE: Barlow's Station, Clackamas Co., Oregon

NOTES:
In city index as Mrs. Budd Tull; also spelled Tulle in necrological list.

OBITUARY:
TULL -- At her home at Barlow's station, on Saturday morning, January 31, 1885, Mrs. Budd Tull, nee Miss Scoville, formerly of this city. Her death will be learned with profound regret by many people in Salem. Weekly Oregon Statesman, Feb. 6, 1885, 7:3.

SOURCES:
WOS, Feb. 6, 1885, 7:3 OS, Jan 10, 1886: Necrological list of burials in IOOF cemetery, Mrs. Bud Tulle, bur. Feb. 2, 1885.

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