Polk County OR Archives Obituaries.....Quivey, Sophronia June 12, 1904
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Independence Enterprise June 16, 1904
DIED

Mrs. Sophronia Quivey died at the home of her son in West Independence Sunday 
June 12 at the age of 92 years.  The funeral services were held from the home 
Monday afternoon, Rev. Edmondson officiating.  Interment was made in the 
I.O.O.F. cemetery.

Miss Sophronia U. Storey was born in Grafton County, New Hampshire November 25, 
1812.  At the age of three years she moved with her parents to Meigs county, 
Ohio.  In the year 1831 she was married to William Quivey and in 1840 she with 
her husband moved to Wisconsin.  It was at this time she united with the M. E. 
church, of which she remained a faithful member until her death.

In 1853 she crossed the plains with an ox team and settled twelve miles 
southwest of Corvallis.  Deceased was the mother of four sons, one John Quivey 
survives her, with whom she has made her home for the past two years.

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