I found additional information that you had posted elsewhere that would have been VERY HELPFUL in this posting. If you have additional info when posting to a genealogical site, always include that. It will help in the research; and avoid additional "findings" that you already have:
Cyrenus
Clark Hookerdob 12/1/1818 Chatauqua County,
New Yorkdod 2/12/1852 Murdered in
Polk County,
Oregon According to the book "A Man is a Man" by M. Overholser on the
Hooker Family he was murdered over a stolen watch by a man named Return W. Everman who stole the watch from the home of Cyrenus's brother where Cyrenus was living and farming at the time. He was shot from ambush as he plowed his fields. He was not found until the next day. A posse hunted down and arrested
Everman who was hung from the "hanging tree" in Rickreall,
Polk County,
Oregon on May 11, 1852.
--The 1850 Census for Portland, OR,
R.W. Everman, age 23, carpenter, born in
KentuckyHiram
Everman, 26, born in
KY.
R.W. was also in te
Oregon census of 1845
The
www.findagrave.com identifies the same information in a write-up in the
Burch Pioneer Cemetery, Rickreall,
Polk County,
Oregon. He was son of Ira Allen and Sarah
Taylor Hooker.
--The 1850 Census for
Polk Co.
Ira A. Hooker, age 70, born
VermontSarah, 65, born
New YorkHarriet T, 21, born IL
--On another page
Nemas
Hooker, age 33, born VA
Jane, 26, born
KYSarah C, 3/12., born
Oregon Territory
The book written by Marguariete
Overholserhttp://www.bookfinder.com/dir/i/A_Man_Is_a_Man/0832305006/ Marguariete was born 1914.
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermain... Your first "task" would be to find this book and see what bibliography data she used for this claim of this murder. The bibliography is on pages 279-181. The above site has one organization that carries the book. You can also request this book through your own library via the library loan system, they look for it and borrow it.
As far as an obit. Obituaries were extremely, extremely rare in newspapers up to the late 1800's/early 1900's when newspapers became more common. Because this was a criminal action, murder, a local newspaper may have written the account as news, by a news reporter.
There is a VERY small chance of a death certificate. They were not "required" until July 1903.
This is a listing of archived records of
Polk County, via the
Oregon State Archives:
http://www.sos.state.or.us/archives/county/cppolkdescrip1.ht... The listing of offices and repositories are those locations where the records are ACTUALLY KEPT.
Since this was a capital crime, murder, felony, any court records would be via the Circuit
Court. As you can see most are in old volumes or microfilm.
You would need a LOCAL researcher to find records for you. I did NOT see a "
Dick" that did research in
Polk County on the Random Acts of Genealogical
Kindness in
Oregon. There is a Kristina in
Polk, but does not do lookups:
http://www.raogk.org/oregon4.htm The
Polk County Historical Society does have records. You can look in their library with access to their museum. They do some research; but at $7.50 per hour.
Ron Bestrom
