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Nora Cheney worked at TKWM as a weaver from 1905-1909. Her sisters Sabina and Mary Alice also worked at the mill.
Lenora Cheney was born 16 Nov 1884 in Crescent City, California to George Oscar and Katherine [Forestall] Cheney. Her father George was a finish carpenter, a craftsman whose projects included the construction of the large filing cases in the Supreme Court building, clerk’s office.
In 1902 the Grants Pass newspaper recorded that father George had left his family in Salem for his homestead 15 miles up Cow Creek in Douglas County. He had been engaged in finishing work in Grants Pass during the Fall, returned to Salem to spend a week with his family and brought his daughter Nora home with him to Cow Creek for company.
Nora was baptized in St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Salem, OR on 7 April 1891. Accounts of her schooling differ with a 1930 census record that she never attended school and the 1940 census record with the highest grade completed as fifth.
She married Henry Gaedeke on 14 June 1905 in Galesville, OR. It was a double wedding with Henry’s brother Fred. Witnesses were Henry’s brother Fred and Nora’s sister Sabina Fisher. The wedding took place at the home of Charles Gaedeke [brother] outside Galesville, OR and was performed by a minister of the gospel. Henry was over the age of 30 and Nora over 20, according to the marriage record. They would be the parents of 7 children; Florence, Henry, Inez, Arthur, Bernice, Fred, and Robert.
Following their wedding the couple went to Seattle, Washington where Henry worked as a conductor. It was here that son Henry was born in 1906. Within two years the family returned to Oregon where Henry took work as a miner in a quartz mine near Wolf Creek, Josephine County, OR.
By 1912, the family returned to Galesville, OR to work the Cheney family homestead owned by Nora’s father George. Here two more children were added to the family, daughter Inez and son Arthur. They remained on the property until Henry sought work as a logger near Marshfield, OR. Daughter Bernice was born here in 1920. They returned to the family property in Douglas County by 1924. Two additional sons were added to the family here, Fred and Robert. This was the final move for the family. They remained on the family homestead.
Husband Henry died 12 Dec 1965 in Forest Glen Hospital in Canyonville, OR. Cause of death was listed as hypostatic pneumonia following cerebral vascular accident. Nora died 16 Sep 1966 in Forest Glen Hospital, in Canyonville, OR. Cause of death was hypostatic pneumonia following cerebral vascular accident. She was buried with her husband in Glendale Memorial Cemetery in Glendale, OR. |
| Census Records |
1895 Marion County Census Nora Chaney [Cheney] Born: CA. Height: 3’9”. Weight: 63#. Complexion: light. Occupation: student. Sex: female. Age: 8. Additional household members: George O. Cheney (father), Kate Cheney (mother), and sisters.
1900 Nora H. Cheney Age: 15. Birth Date: Nov 1884 in California. Home in 1900: 5 N. High St. Salem Ward 1, Marion, OR. Single, daughter to HOH. Additional household members: George O. Cheney, age 56 (father), Kate G. Cheney, age 36 (mother), Sabina Cheney, age 24 (sister), Barbara Cheney, age 14 (sister).
1910 Nora G. Goedeche [Gaedecke] Age: 23. Birth Date: 1887 in California. Home in 1910: Wolf Creek, Josephine, OR. Married, wife to HOH. Years married: 5. Additional household members: Henry A. Goedeche [Gaedecke], age 38 (husband), Henry G. Goedeche [Gaedecke], age 3 (son), Florence P. Goedeche [Gaedecke], age 1 (daughter).
1920 Lenora G. Gaedecke Age: 34. Birth Year: abt 1886 in California. Home in 1920: Cow Creek, Douglas, OR. Married, wife to HOH. Additional household members: Henry A. Gaedecke, age 45 (husband), Vernon H. Gaedecke, age 13 (son), Florence P. Gaedecke, age 11 (daughter), Inez K. Gaedecke, age 7 (daughter), Arthur M. Gaedecke, age 2 (son), George A. Cheney, age 66 (father).
1930 Lenora Gaedecke Age: 44. Birth Year: abt 1886 in California. Home in 1930: 1481 Anderson Ave. Marshfield, Coos, OR. Married, wife to HOH. Attended school: No. Able to read and write: Yes. Additional household members: Henry A. Gaedecke, age 55 (husband), Inez Gaedecke, age 17 (daughter), Vernon Gaedecke, age 23 (son), Arthur Gaedecke, age 12 (son), Vernece Gaedecke, age 10 (daughter), Fred Gaedecke, age 5 (son).
1940 Nora Gaedecke Age: 55. Birth Year: abt 1885 in California. Home in 1940: Cow Creek, Douglas, OR. Married, wife to HOH. Highest grade completed: Elementary School, 5th grade. Additional household members: Henry Gaedecke, age 65 (husband), Arthur Gaedecke, age 22 (son), Bernice Gaedecke, age 20 (daughter), Fred Gaedecke, age 15 (son), Robert Gaedecke, age 8 (son), Herman Gaedecke, age 62 (brother). |
| Digital Newspapers
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Weekly Rogue River Courier 11 Dec 1902, p. 10 – Nora returns to Grants Pass with father
Capital Journal 1 May 1905, p. 5 – of Galesville, employment in woolen mills at Salem
OR Statesman 2 May 1905, p. 4 – return to Roseburg, employee of woolen mills
The News-Review 7 Aug 1942, p. 3 – birthday dinner, Henry Gaedecke
The World 13 Dec 1965, p. 2 – Obituary, Henry A. Gaedecke |
