Robert Ira Seely
Birth: 26 Dec 1858; Death: 3 Nov 1935; Burial: 6 Nov 1935; Nativity: Oregon
Location: Lot 34, Plot 12 (block C)
Ledger Notes:
Age: 76 Yrs., 8 Mos., 10 Days
Funeral: Oregon City Funeral Home
General Notes:
Oregon Pioneer (Monument birth date and obituary date do not agree.)
Son of Lucius & Sophia (Buckman) Seely; Husband of Nettie (Corby) Seely; Father of Cora (Hasselbrink) (Cuthill), Edna (Boeckman), Dora (Taylor), Inez (Wheaton), Jasper, Elsie, Loyd, Milton, Chester,
Hazel, and Baby Seely
Obituary:
Obituary: Sherwood Valley News, November 7, 1935
Robert Ira Seely passed away at his home Sunday evening. He had spent his entire lifetime on the farm on which he was born in a log cabin December 26, 1859, the son of Lucius A. and Sophia Seely. Surviving are the widow Nettie; seven children – Cora Cuthill, Edna Boeckmann, Jasper M. Seely, Milton J. Seely, Inez Wheaton, Dora Alsop and Chester W. Seely; one brother, J. L. Seely.
He was a member of Wilsonville M. E. church in which funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon, Rev. Willard H. Pope, of Calvary Tabernacle, Portland, officiating. Interment was in the family lot in Pleasant Hill cemetery.
(Courtesy of the Seeley Genealogical Society)
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