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Note: New York Passenger List:
Name: Bertha Hertig
Arrival Date: 20 Oct 1881
Age: 4
Ethnicity/ Nationality: Swiss
Place of Origin: Switzerland
Port of Departure: Le Havre, France
Destination: New York
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Labrador
Class: Steerage
Oregon State Archives:
Name: Hertig, Bertha
Date: 1895
Record Type: Census
County: Multnomah
Case#: Pct 69 pg 008
Home in 1900: Lower Boise, Canyon, Idaho (1 Jun)
Vanderpool, Mark, 25, Jul 1874, OR-NC-IA, Single, Farmer
Marian Hertig, 54, Aug 1845, Switzerland, Married 34 years, Children 11/9, Naturlized Citizen, Weaver
**Bertha Hertig, Dau of Marian, 24, Nov 1875, Switzerland, Single
Clara Hertig, Dau of Marian, 23, Jun 1876, Switzerland, Single
Emma Hertig, Dau of Marian, 16, Jan 1884, IA, Single
Vanderpool, Henry, Brother of Mark Marion, 30, Oct 1869, OR-NC-IA, Married 1 year, Laborer
Vanderpool, Mary E, Wife of Henry, 43, Jun 1856, IL-NC-VA, Children 1/1
Harrold, Warren E, Son of Mary, 20, Jul 1879, KS-MO-IL, Single, Laborer
Home in 1930: Portland, Multnomah, Oregon (1 Apr)
Bertha M Vanderpool, 50, Switzerland, Divorced, Sales Lady in Grocery Store
Oregon Death Records:
Name: Vanderpool, Bertha M
County: Multnomah
Death Date: 19 Mar 1966
Certificate: 4398
US Social Security Applications and Claims:
Name: Bertha M Vanderpool
Birth Date: 6 Nov 1872
Death Date: 19 Mar 1966
Claim Date: 14 Apr 1966
Type of Claim: Death Claim
Notes: 12 Apr 1966: Name listed as BERTHA M VANDERPOOL.
Vanderpool, Bertha May, March 19, 8123 N. Van Houten Avenue, beloved mother of Cedric, 3 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren; sister of Emma Durnil. Services will be held Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at Mikeworth's Peninsula Funeral Home, 8012 N. Lombard. (Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Wednesday, 23 Mar 1966)
A copy of a letter I have from the Swiss Civil Registry office, dated 23 Oct 1967, to Clara Hoffman lists Maria Bertha Hertig, date of birth 6 Nov 1875.
The birth year on her headstone (1872) is wrong. Dad claimed her parents could never agree on her birth year. The Social Security Claim was files by my sister who also ordered the headstone. But I am going with the Swiss Registry date of birth.
Between 1895 to 1899, Bertha worked for a family named Stone at Cleone, Oregon, which is just east of Portland and now called Fairview. The Stone's had a young son named, Cedric, that she liked and that is how my dad got his name. In early 1900 she moved to Parma, Idaho with her mother and two sisters. Her future husband, Marion, had moved there with one of her brother around 1895 to farm and raise stock. They drove a herd of sheep from Yamhill County in Oregon to the Lower Boise area in Idaho to get started. The family lived in Idaho until Oct 1910, when the hard water necessiated moving to Oregon, with its softer water. The doctor had told Marion that if he stayed the hard water would kill him. About Feb 1911 they purchased a home at 1717 Van Houten Street, in Portland. The address was later changed to 8123 N. Van Houten Ave. Grandma lived there until the day she died in 1966. The house had no indoor plumbing and she chopped wood everyday for her cook stove. She kept a .303 Savage rifle under her mattress and if every necessary would have had no fear using it.
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