Editor's note: This story was updated at 7:20 a.m. Oct. 20 with a corrected marriage date for Martin and Jennie Harvey and a few additional details.
Published as it appeared on Dec. 31, 1926, in the Capital Journal (Salem), Page 2, Column 4.
HARVEY MARTIN
POLK PIONEER,
DIES AT HOME
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Monmouth, Dec. 31 — Martin M. Harvey, pioneer of Oregon, died very suddenly at his home near Monmouth on the 29th of December. Mr. Harvey was born in Montgomery county, Indiana on November 18, 1867 and came to Oregon when 21 years of age and settled in the Nehalem valley. He married Jennie Burkhead and the family resided at Mist for many years. In 1910 he moved to Monmouth to a farm one and one half miles north of the city.
Surviving are his widows, Jennie Harvey, one son William M. Harvey of Gibbon, Oregon; two daughters, Bernice, living at the family home and Mrs. Neta Leneve, of Marshfield; one brother, A.E. Harvey of Clatskanie; three sisters, Mrs. Mary Provost of Bay City, Oregon, Mrs. Margaret Carlson, Portland and Mrs. Mabel Burnham of Clatskanie and two granddaughters, Noreene Leneve and Logina Harvey, also many other relatives and a host of friends.
He had belonged to the Modern Woodmen of America for 29 years and was also affiliated with the Odd Fellows and Rebeka lodges and the local Grange. Services will be held in the Christian church at Monmouth at 2 p.m. Sunday with the Odd Fellow lodge taking charge of the burial in the K.P. cemetery.
Published as it appeared on Jan. 1, 1927, in the Morning Oregonian (Portland)), Page 10, Column 6.
Martin M. Harvey
OREGON NORMAL SCHOOL, Monmouth, Dec. 31 — (Special.) — Martin M. Harvey, 59, died at his home near Monmouth Wednesday. Mr. Martin was born in Montgomery county, Indiana, on Nocember 18, 1867, and came to Oregon when 21 years of age and settled in the Neham valley at Mist. In 1910 he moved to Monmouth and the family have since resided on a farm one and one-half miles north of the city. He is survived by his widow, two daughters, Mrs. Neta Leneve of Marshfield and Bernice of Monmouth; one son, William M. of Gibbon, Or.; one brother and three sisters.
Funeral services will be held on Sunday at the Christian church in Monmouth with Victor P. Morris officiating. Burial services will be in charge of the Odd Fellows’ lodge at the Knights of Pythias cemetery.
Published as it appeared on Jan. 1, 1927, in the Oregon Daily Journal (Portland), Page 11, Column 3.
Martin M. Harvey
Monmouth, Jan. 1. — Martin M. Harvey, 59, died at his home near Monmouth Wednesday. While death came suddenly, as he sat relating old-time stories, it was not unexpected, as he had been in poor health for several years. Mr. Harvey came to Oregon when 21 years of age, settling in the Nehalem valley. He lived at Mist until 1910, when he moved to a farm one and one-half miles north of Monmouth. Mr. Harvey is survived by his wife, Jennie Harvey, two daughters and a son. Mrs. Margaret Carlson, Portland, is a sister.
Editor’s note: Martin Morsellis Harvey’s burial at Mount Union Cemetery is somewhat of a mystery. Obituaries published at the time placed him in the Knights of Pythias Cemetery and that burial site is also included on his death certificate. However, a cross-check of relatives, including his wife, and birth and death information along with other available records confirm that it is the Martin Harvey of Monmouth buried at Philomath. The death certificate of his wife, Jennie Harvey (maiden name of Burkhead) shows Mount Union Cemetery as her place of burial after she had died at a nursing home in Portland about 36 years after her husband. Mount Union Cemetery records show that she purchased the two burial spaces in 1945, years after her husband had died and many years before she died. Martin Harvey and Jennie Burkhead were married Sept. 9, 1897, in Columbia County, Oregon. A grave site for Mr. Harvey could not be found in Knights of Pythias cemetery in Columbia County. Jennie Harvey’s parents, George and LouRaina Burkhead, are buried at Mount Union Cemetery.