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Vida O. JACOBSEN

West Park (aka Hereford) Cemetery
Deaf Smith County,
Texas

Vida O. Orr Jacobsen
June 2, 1884-December 16, 1974

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*Photo, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell

*Obituary
Texas, U.S., Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Vida Jacobsen
Death Date: 16 Dec 1974
Death County: Deaf Smith
Gender: Female
Marital status: Widowed

Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Vida Orr Jacobsen [Vida Orr Orr]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 90
Birth Date: 2 Jun 1884
Birth Place: Texas
Residence: Hereford, Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Death Date: 16 Dec 1974
Death Place: Hereford, Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Father:
Berry Orr
Mother:
Ella Shipman
Certificate Number: 97470

Vida Orr stayed with the J. D. Thompson family on their ranch about 18 miles north of Hereford during the winter of 1903. She was supposed to teach the Thompson girls during the week and go home on week-ends. There was one especially bad spell during February when it was impossible for her to go the three miles because the snow was so deep. The Thompsons ran out of coal. The lack of coal was even more critical because the "prairie coal" often used by pioneers was buried under the frozen snow. Thompson hitched four large mules to an empty wagon and still had a hard time making it to town and then back with a half-ton of coal.

Miss Orr also taught the first term of school in the Ward community. She was married to John N. Jacobsen, Sr., on June 7, 1907, and they made their home in Hereford. A History of Deaf Smith County, by Bessie Patterson, 1964

Contributed on 6/27/22 by neldapat
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Submitted: 6/27/22 • Approved: 7/1/22 • Last Updated: 7/4/22 • R521604-G521604-S3

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