Birth:  7 Jun 1872;   Death:  28 Apr 1946;   Burial:  1 May 1946;   Nativity:  Freeport, Illinois

Location:  Lot 17, Plot 12   (block B)

Ledger Notes:
Age: 73 Yrs., 10 Mos., 18 Days; Funeral: C. A. Hodson

General Notes:
Wife of George Elsfelder, daughter of Charles A. and Fredericka Brandt, sister of Gertrude Brandt Campbell.

The ledger lists her as "Leona", but the correct spelling is "Liona" according to family and census records.

Family Contribution:

The 1880 Oregon census lists "Liona L" Brandt, 9, born in Illinois, and living "at home" with her mother. 1880 U.S. Census, Cedar Creek Prct, Washington Cnty, OR.  According to her sister Gertrude's obituary in the Sherwood [OR] Valley News (31 Aug 1939), Liona was named as "Mrs. Liona Marks" and lived in Sherwood, Or.

Liona Brandt was born June 7, 1872 in Freeport, IL.  The family moved to Oregon around 1877, and the 1880 Oregon census lists "Liona L," 9, living "at home" with her mother in Washington County, OR.

Liona married George Elsfelder about 1895.  The 1900 census lists her and her husband and young son living in Portland, OR.  In the 1910s they lived in Columbia County, OR; by 1920 they had moved to Clark County, WA, where they lived until George died in 1933.

Sometime between 1933 and 1939, Liona married a man named Marks, and she lived in Sherwood, OR.  According to her Oregon death certificate, Liona Marks, a widow, died 28 Apr 1946, at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Marion County, OR, of "myocardial degeneration."  She had been hospitalized for 1 yr, 8 months.  The certificate notes that her parents were Charles Brandt and Fredericka Weckert, both born in Germany.