Jessie was born in the town of Jackson, Andrew Co., Missouri,he died while a resident of the County Poor Farm in Multnomah Co., Oregon
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An excerpt from an article by Connie Lenzen.

The Poor Farm was not a place where people wanted to go. A 1907 newspaper article tells about another man who was going to the Farm. "His hair touched with silvery gray, his form bowed with the weight of four-score years and seven, but the light of a kindly spirit still shining in the dim gray eyes, James Barton Ward, half-brother of the great writer, General Lew Wallace, author of 'Ben Hur,' slept last night at the Multnomah County Poor farm. 'My life is all behind me,' said the aged writer, wiping the tears from his eyes. 'The sadness of it all bows me down with humiliation, but greater men than I have died in the poorhouse.'"

The Multnomah County Record Managers have read many of the admission records, and they've noted patterns. A significant number of the people who were admitted were elderly people with no family. In the middle of winter, many single men would check in for a few days, perhaps until they had a chance to get a few meals under their belt, a shower, and warmth. Sick people, many with consumption (tuberculosis), were admitted to the sanitarium. The Poor Farm was a combination nursing home, hospital, and social service agency in the early 1900s.

The residents were often frail and sick, and medical care was minimal. Deaths at the Poor Farm were common. Burials were often in unmarked plots.

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Name: Jesse Estes Age: 22 Birth Year: 1838 Gender: Male Birth Place: Missouri Home in 1860: Fifteen Mile, Wasco, Oregon Family Number: 2048
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County Poor Farm records'
Estes J L. age 68.book.2 ,page 155 entry date. 04 Jan 1906
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Name: Jessie Estes Death Date: 10 Jun 1906 Death Place: Multnomah Certificate: 1140
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Jessie and Sarah Ann's son Edwin "Ed" Estes, death notice.

Date: Monday, March 19, 1894
Paper: Oregonian (Portland, Oregon)
Page: 9
A Young Man drowned
The Roseburg Review has an accounts sad ending to a carnival party in Camas Valley one night last week.
The crowd had separated, two young men, Thrush and Estes, going home by themselves. As they were crossing a bridge, Estes made a misstep in the darkness and fell into the swollen creek, disappearing from his companion's sight. Thrush gave the alarm, and a thorough search was instituted, but at last reports received from the valley. The body had not been recovered. Ed Estes, the unfortunate victim, was 18 years old.
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Research by ~ JMB