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Note: Oregon Marriage Records:
Name: Eli McConkey
Name: Vivian Watson
County: Clatsop
Marriage Date: 10 Jun 1915
US World War I Draft Registration, Jun 1917
Name: Eli McConkey
Residence: Astoria, Clatsop, Oregon
Birth Date: 7 Dec 1891
Age: 26
Birthplace: Middleton, Oregon
Nearest Relative: Wife and child 14 months old
Occupation: Driver Sherman Transfer Company
Medium Height, Slender, Blue Eyes & Dark Brown Hair
Home in 1920: Chadwell, Clatsop, Oregon (1 Jun)
Eli McConkey, 29, OR-US-OR, Laborer Transfer Company
Vivian McConkey, Wife, 25, OR-NY-France
Cathleen McConkey, Dau, 4, OR
Home in 1930: Lewis and Clark, Clatsop, Oregon (1 Apr)
Eli McConkey, 39, OR-OR-US, Age first married 24, Truck Driver
Vivian McConkey, 35, OR-NY-France, Age first married 20
Kathleen McConkey, Dau, 14, OR
Virginia McConkey, Dau, 10, OR
Wallace McConkey, Son, 5, OR
Home in 1940: Lewis and Clark, Clatsop, Oregon (1 Apr)
Eli McConkey, 47, OR, Creamery Truck Driver
Vivian McConkey, 45, OR
Virginia McConkey, Dau, 20, OR, Bank Stenographer
Wallace McConkey, Son, 15, OR, Laborer
In 1935 they all lived in the same house.
US World War II Draft Registration, 1942:
Name: Eli (NMI) McConkey
Birth Date: 7 Dec 1891
Age: 50
Birth Place: Middleton, Oregon
Nearest Relative: Mrs. Vivian McConkey
Residence: Astoria, Oregon
Employer: The Austin Company
Oregon Death Records:
Name: McConkey, Eli
County: Multnomah
Death Date: 7 Sep 1972
Certificate: 72-14340
Age: 81
Birth Date: Dec 1890
Spouse: Vivian
Social Security Death Index:
Name: Eli McConkey
Last Residence: Astoria, Clatsop, Oregon
Born: 7 Dec 1890
Died: Sep 1972
State (Year) SSN issued: Oregon (Before 1951)
A longtime Astoria resident and labor leader, Eli McConkey, 81, Rt. 1, Box 545, died Thursday morning in the Village Convalescent Center, Gresham, after an extended illness. McConkey was born Dec. 7, 1890, at Middleton, Ore., the son of the late John and Lodemia Vanderpool McConkey. He moved with his parents to Grays River, Wash., where he received his schooling. At an early age, he started working in logging camps and on farms in that area. In 1905, he came to Astoria where he was a conductor on the street cars; he then drove a team of horses for Hildebrand & Gerding on construction on the Astoria streets. During the 1922 fire, he was driving trucks for Sherman Transfer Co. He later worked for the Van Vleet Logging Co., in Seaside and other logging firms in the area. McConkey was business agent for the Teamsters, Local 506, for many years, retiring in 1955. He served as president and secretary of Local 509 from 1919 to 1955. He spent 32 years working for labor and labor unions. He was president of the Central Labor Council for 20 years. After his retirement, McConkey had been secretary and organizing agent for the Laundry and Dry Cleaners Workers Union, until last year. McConkey was married June 10, 1915, in Astoria, to the former Vivian Watson, who died March 7, 1968, in Astoria. McConkey is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Maurice (Virginia) Hendrickson, of Astoria, and Mrs. Clarence (Kathleen) Kullard, of Astoria; six brothers, Fred McConkey of Buena Park, Calif., Lewis Welch of Salem, Ross and Pat Welch, of Orting, Wash., Billy Welch of Astoria and Ray Welch, of Aberdeen, Wash.; one sister, Myra McKee of Carbonado, Wash.; 8 grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren and one great-great-grandson; and numerous nieces and nephews. Service is planned for 1:30 p.m. Saturday, at the First Church of the Nazarene. Memorial remembrances may be made to the Eli & Vivian McConkey Nursing Education Grant or to the American Cancer Society. Astoria, Ore., Dec. 8, 1922 -- The business district of Astoria, the oldest city in Oregon is in ruins, hundreds of persons are homeless and property loss estimated around $15,000,000 has been caused by a fire which earlier today broke out in a restaurant and was soon beyond control of local firemen who resorted to dynamiting in a vain effort to stop the conflagration. For ten hours the flames held away, enting an ever-widening path through the city until shortly after noon. At that time, largely because it had burned itself out, the fire was under control. Banks, newspaper plants, hotels, stores, theaters and numerous buildings housing a variety of business places were wiped out. According to Fire Chief S. B. Foster, the fire got out of control because it burned beneath the buildings under piling upon which the business section of the city was built. He attributed the disaster to failure to fill in the space beneath the piling. Norris Staples, automobile man and president of the Bank of Commerce, dropped dead of heart failure while the fire was at its height. The body of C. J. Smith, a transient, was found hanging under the sidewalk but whether he had ended his life because of the fire or for other reasons the police were unable to learn. Thirty blocks were wiped out by flames. Many homes the older residence district were destroyed and about 50 families living in an apartment house were made homeless. In addition to these, many persons occupying rooms in the destroyed area lost everything they had except the clothes on their backs. Portland Sends Help. A committee of citizens headed by Mayor James Bremmer began plans for immediate relief measures. They were assured of help from Portland and Seaside. Every restaurant and hotel in the city had been destroyed and stocks of food in the stores had been wiped out, so there was prospect of suffering. Portland bakeries sent loads of bread and Seaside sent word that the hotel there was open to receive those without shelter and a large number of summer cottages at the beach resorts also were to be offered to the homeless. Homes in the residence district also were thrown open to give aid and food to the needy. The Y. M. C. A. building, which was outside the fire zone, was opened as the headquarters of all welfare agencies. The Budget, afternoon paper, which attempted to get out an edition today on the press of the paper at seaside, found this impracticable, and instead issued mimeographed sheets. J. S. Dellinger, publisher of the Astoria, the morning paper, announced that he would probably get out tomorrow morning's edition on the press of the local Finnish daily, "The Tovert". (Nevada State Journal, Reno, NV, December 9, 1922)
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