Oregon Historical County Records Guide
Washington County Records Inventory
Pension and Relief Records
1860-1936
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:
Old Age Pension Applications, 1933-1936 (4 cu.ft.);
Relief Petitions [includes paupers, indigents, etc.], 1860-1890 (.20 cu.ft.);
Search for 1933-1936 Washington County old age pensions in Oregon Historical Records Index.
Records at the Walnut Street Center Complex, Building E, County Historical Records Vault:
Indigent Soldiers G.A.R. [Grand Army of the Republic-Relief Records], 1895-1917 (.15 cu.ft.);
Widows Pensions [Record-with index], 1917-1919 (1 volume).
Records at the Walnut Street Center Complex, Building E, County Records Center:
Widows Pensions [Application Records-includes mothers pensions], 1913-1935 (.70 cu.ft.).