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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Eugenia Thayer ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Eugenia Thayer
LAST NAME: Thayer FIRST NAME: Eugenia MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Miss GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 3 Jan 1897 DIED: 18 Oct 1918 BURIED: Oct 1918
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Berkeley, Alameda Co., California
NOTES: 
1900 OR CENSUS - Eugenia Thayer, age 3, b. Jan 1897 in Oregon, is enumerated with father Claudius Thayer, age 46, occupation banker, b. Jan 1854 in New York, and mother Estelle, age 44, b. Mar 1856 in Oregon. Also enumerated with the family is a servant, Anna Nelson, age 18, b. Oct 1881 in Sweden, year of immigration 1889.

BIOGRAPHICAL:
Daughter of Claudius and Estelle Thayer. Eugenia went to Burnham School, Northampton, Massachusetts, and on to Smith College. Her father, also a Latin scholar, sent her translations of Liby and Virgil, and this poem which he had written: 
She majors in the Latin tongue By Livy toned, by Virgil sung.
Therefore her dad assumes his spects, 
And mounts his horse to charge the text, 
Now be it registered right here, 
As on a movie canvas clear, 
Those ponies that you go and buy 
Are made to sell and not to try; 
And he who rides one, in a trice Is helpless as a hog on ice. 
Certainly, the poem shows his insight into human frailties and his gentle humor. Once he reminded Eugenia that one day her granddaughter would ask for help in translation, and she would then appreciate the forms and choice expressions from Virgil that have always remained in her diction. It is indeed tragic that Eugenia died young, never having had the pleasures of leading a young daughter to the experience of Latin literature. 
Extracted from Marion County History, vol. 3, 1957 p. 41-44

IAMGE #1 NOTES:  The photograph description is "Asahel Bush II, Estelle Bush Thayer, and her adopted daughter, Eugenia Thayer, Bush House, Salem, Oregon, c 1910. Estelle Bush Thayer is the oldest daughter of Asahel Bush II who built Bush House".  Photo courtesy of Bush House Museum, Salem Art Association (photo ID #bh2210).
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 
Yesterday a telegram from California told of the death of Miss Eugenia Thayer, niece of A.N. Bush and Miss Sallie Bush. Miss Thayer contracted pneumonia through influenza while in Berkeley. 
Oregon Statesman 19 Oct 1918 1:5.
INSCRIPTION: 
Eugenia
daughter of 
Claudius and Estelle Thayer
Born
Jan. 3, 1897
Died
Oct. 18, 1918 

MONUMENT; White marble stone upright, rounded top
SOURCES: 
1900 OR CENSUS (Tillamook Co., Hoquarten, ED 75, sheet 3B)
OS 19 1918 1:5
Marion County History, vol. 3, 1957 p. 41-44
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 055 SPACE: 1 SW LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: 
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