Oregon Historical County Records Guide
Harney County Records Inventory
Pension and Relief Records
1912-1963
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.
Records at the Harney County Courthouse, Clerk's Office:
[Miscellaneous Trifolded Records-includes report of welfare office], 1932 (.05
cu.ft.).
Records at the Harney County Courthouse, Clerk's Basement Records Room:
Application for Relief [Widows, Dependent Mothers,
Sick], 1932-1935 (.15 cu.ft.);
Old Age Pensioners Accounts, 1934-1935 (1 volume);
Widows Pension and Relief [Records-trifolded], 1912-1935 (.25 cu.ft.).
Records at the Harney County Courthouse, Circuit Courtroom Cabinet:
County Court Journal Juvenile [Administrative and Judicial Journal-includes adoptions, mental commitments, widow's pensions, water rights, civil and criminal judicial actions, and administrative actions],
vol. B, 1920-1963 (1 volume).