Oregon Historical County Records Guide
Deschutes County Records Inventory
Pension and Relief Records
1916-1969
Series documents financial assistance approved by the county court for widows, mothers, dependent children, orphans, the elderly, and indigents. Information includes applicant name and address, children's names and birth dates, amount of pension or monthly support payment, and county court order. Because the provision of relief became primarily a state and federal function in the 1930s, records are inventoried through 1939.
References to indigent relief, soldiers' relief, and widows' pensions were included in the Commissioners Journal (County Commissioners Administrative Journals) beginning in 1916.
Records at the Deschutes County Justice Building Basement, Court
Archives:
County Court Journal [includes insane commitment, dependent
mother, civil, criminal, adoption, juvenile, and other cases-with
index], vol. 1-7, 1916-1969 (7 volumes);
County Court Register [includes insane commitment,
dependent mother, civil, criminal, adoption, juvenile, and other
cases-no. 1 to 590-water damaged-with index], vol. 1,
1916-1931 (1 volume);
County Court Register [includes insane commitment, dependent
mother, civil, criminal, adoption, juvenile, and other cases-no.
591 to 1380-with index], vol. 1, 1931-1951 (1 volume);
Juvenile [County Court Case Files-includes insane commitment, dependent mother, civil, criminal, juvenile, and other cases], no. 1-2237, 1916-1965 (17 cu.ft.).