Oregon Historical County Records Guide
Marion County Records Inventory
Pension and Relief Records
1862-1941
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 Oregon State Archives:
Public Welfare Records [includes applications for pauper
relief and old age pensions], 1862-1878, 1888-1908 (.30
cu.ft.);
Public Welfare Records [Poor Book-with index], 1892-1917
(6 volumes);
Widow's Pension [Records], 1913-1918 (.30 cu.ft.);
Search for 1913-1916
Marion County widow's pensions in Oregon Historical Records
Index.
Records at the Marion County Archives:
Commissioners Proceedings [includes county officials
reports, orders, resolutions, road petitions, old age pension fund
claims, and other records], ca.1921-ca.1936 (1 cu.ft.);
County Court Case Files [includes civil, criminal, juvenile,
and some widow's pension, and dependent mother's assistance
cases], no. 1-2786, 1859-1941 (10 cu.ft.);
Old Age Pension Record, vol. 1, 1934-1936 (1 volume);
Warrant & Claim Register Old Age Pension Fund, 1934-1936 (1
volume).