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Note: er brother, Edward E Moore. She is forty one and single. Source Citation:
Year: 1920; Census Place: Los Angeles Assembly District 72, Los Angeles, California; Roll: T625_113; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 373; Image: 536.
The source for the marriage of Nellie and Otto Brandes are their obituaries in the Oregonian.
For Otto:
'BRANDES – March 11, Otto F., of 3349 E. Burnside beloved husband of Nellie Brandes, Portland; brother of L. A. Brandes, Seattle, Wash., and Frank Brandes, Portland. Services Wednesday, 1 P.M. Finley's Morninglight Chapel, SW Montgomery at 4th. Friends invited. Commitment Riverview. The Oregonian, 13 Mar 1945, p 10.'
For Nellie:
'BRANDES – May 7, Nellie G., late of 3349 E Burnside; sister of Frank V. Moore, Whittier, Calif.; Mrs. Lettie M. Kennedy, Minneapolis. Friends are invited to attend funeral services Wednesday, 2:30 p.m., in the Chapel of A. J. Rose & Son, East Side Funeral Directors, SE 6th and Alder. Interment Riverview cemetery. The Oregonian, 10 May 1960, p 22.'
The mention of Nellie's siblings Frank V Moore and Lettie Kennedy are the clues.
The source for confirmation of already known dates for Nellie G birth and death dates and locations for Otto and Nellie are their headstones in the Riverview cemetery in Portland.
Nellie and Otto are together on the 1930 and 1940 Portland census.
Year: 1930; Census Place: Portland, Multnomah, Oregon; Roll: 1952; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 0317; Image: 156.0; FHL microfilm: 2341686
Year: 1940; Census Place: Portland, Multnomah, Oregon; Roll: T627_3389; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 37-258.
Otto was married before Nellie to Effie Shurtleff, who also has a headstone in the Fairview cemetery, and is the source for her birth and death dates. The following obituary from the Oregonian gives supplementary material:
'Mrs. Effie Brandes, wife of Otto F. Brandes, died yesterday at her home, 320 ½ Tenth street, at the age of 51 years. She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Shurtleff and was born in Polk County February 2. 1867. She came to Portland with her parents two years later and resided here ever since.
Besides her husband, she leaves a wide circle of friends and other relatives. Mrs. Brandes was a life-long member of the Unitarian Church from which place the funeral will be held tomorrow at 2 o'clock.' The Oregonian, 17 Jul 1918, p 11.
The source for the infant son of Otto and Effie is the Riverview cemetery headstone. He is without name.
Note: Nellie G Moore is found on the 1920 Los Angeles census in the home of h
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