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Black
Sweet Home
From
EOT survey: "On Reeves Hill
near McDowell Creek. 'An old man
named Black'. Couldn't make it up
the hill to Ferguson Family Cemetery. Thought
to be the father of Mrs. John Calvin Woodruff (nee Ellen Black)."
From ODOT survey: "1 grave of man named Black -- On Reeves Hill, McDowell Creek area. (estab.) 1883"
Cascadia
From
EOT survey: "Near Cascadia -
on shelf south of Hwy. 20. 3
graves. Used to have wooden fence.
Also
included on ODOT survey.
Curl
Scio
From
EOT survey: "Near Huffman
Bridge at foot of Hungry Hill, upper side of road.
Young Curl Boy."
Dunden
(or Dundon)
From
EOT survey: "One grave at Dunden Place.
A child buried in back yard."
From
ODOT survey: "A child buried
in back yard."
Earl
T 10S, R 3W, Sec
36 -- Knox Butte, Albany
From
DAR records: "On the east side
of Knox Butte are three graves -- probably early fifties.
Mrs.
Frances (Gibson) Earl (listed as Fanny Earl in the 1850 census.)
Child
of John Ivy.
Unknown
young man.
Vouched
for by Mrs. Elizabeth Lines."
[end
of DAR note.]
From
ODOT survey: "On Earl D.L.C.
on E. side of Knox Butte near Albany. 3
graves. 1880's - 10S, 3W, 36
See also Jan Phillips' website.
Fairview
Memorial
This
cemetery was listed on the ODOT cemetery survey of 1978.
No other mention has been found to date.
It is designated as 4 acres, moderately tended, 0-25 graves, estab.
1960's. It is possible that this is
the same as Fairview Mennonite cemetery, also included on the ODOT survey.
Fry
T 11S, R 3W, Sec
27 -- Albany
BLM
shows D.L.C. of Olney Fry at 11S, 3W, 27 & 28. According to DAR records:
"On
the Fry (Olney Fry, Sr.) Donation Land Claim, southeast of Albany, there was a
family burial ground from which all except two bodies were removed to the
Riverside Cemetery at Albany.
A
stone found in the field reads:
Roxey
Fry, wife of E. W. Watson, died Sept. 11, 1856, aged 27 years 6 months and
10 days.
Mary
Culver (wife of Amos).
--end
of DAR note.
Garrison
T 13S, R 4E, Sec
26 -- Cascadia
ODOT
survey notes: "Road crew found
3 graves located near Upper Soda, E. of Cascadia."
From
EOT survey: "Three graves near
Upper Soda - once named for Garrison family who lived nearby.
DAR
Miscellaneous: "On the Santiam
Highway at Upper Soda (then called Garrison) is one grave with the following
inscription:
Foster,
Mrs. Charles (daughter of ________Garrison), died June 1894.
"Reported
by the owner of the land, William Looney."
--end
of DAR note.
[Charles
Foster was first postmaster of Garrison P. O.
1930 Metsker map shows M. J. Looney as property owner in this section.]
Holley
From
EOT survey: "Two graves up the
Calapooia from Holly. Ask Bertha
Malone of Lois Rice. (?) graves
between Holly and Rocky Point. Also
2 or 3 graves on Blue Creek."
Indian
Grave at Lost Prairie
Sweet Home
From
EOT Survey: "Indian grave at
Lost Prairie. Andrew Wiley
Historical Marker also."
From
ODOT survey: "Indian Grave -
Lost Prairie Hwy. 20"
John
Swallow Grave
Lat
443446N Lon 1215033W -- Marion Forks
Included
on USGS GNIS as a cemetery, but otherwise not indicated on any survey.
No other information available at this time.
Lemaster
Crawfordsville
From
EOT survey: "One grave on
Brush Creek so. of Crawfordsville. Lemaster."
Malone
Sweet Home
From
EOT survey: "Two graves on
Fred Malone place. Fred Malone
married Bertha Groshong. His mother
was Liza Weddle who married Tom Malone."
Also
included on ODOT survey.
McKnight
Sweet Home
Tombstone
of McKnight boy at Tombstone Prairie now resting in Sand Ridge Cemetery.
This historical marker is mentioned on a number of websites:
See "Destinations: Santiam River"
Horseweb: Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Road
Moss
Butte
Sweet Home
From
EOT survey: "One grave
(tombstone) near Moss Butte on Green Place.
Name unknown at this time. Found
by at least 3 men while hunting or timber cruising."
Also
included on ODOT survey.
Pilcher
T 10S, R 3W, Sec
10
Unable
to locate any information about this cemetery.
It is listed on the EOT survey, as a handwritten note:
"Pilcher -- See Sam Kimball", and then subsequently indicated
on the ODOT survey.
Quartzville
Sweet Home
From
EOT survey: "On south side of
Middle Fork Quartzville. Graves of
two men."
Renfrew
Gold Hill
From
EOT survey: "Graves on Gold
hill. One named Renfrew."
Rice
From
EOT survey: "Rice grave on
Shot Pouch Creek. A lady -- fell
while helping build a cabin and ruptured self.
Body probably removed later. In
Section 26."
Rolf
(?)
Sweet Home
From EOT survey: "South side of Middle Fork below Green Peter Res. One grave. Rolf
Russell
Unable
to locate any information about this site.
It is included on the ODOT survey as "Enos Russell place in barn
yard. Maybe Newton Russell
grave". According to AHGP (Jan
Phillips') web site, this grave has been determined to be that of Freeman
Russell. No other info located.
Shea
Hill
T
13S, R 1E, Sec 26 -- Lat 442411N Lon 1224023W -- Foster
From
EOT survey: "On homestead of
D. W. McClure, later sold to Peter Shea. Perhaps
4 graves. South of Foster Reservoir
Dam."
USGS
survey shows cemetery "Sweet Home Valley" at lat/lon 442411N,
1224023W, which is in this approx. area.
BLM
shows homestead of Denny H. McClure, 13S, 1E, 34.
Soldiers
From
EOT Survey: "Evidence of
soldiers graves found on side of Sand Mt. West of Tombstone Pass."
Included
on ODOT survey.
Splawn
T 14S, R 1W, Sec
10 Holley; Crawfordsville
From
EOT survey: "Splawn family
cemetery. Old - now farmed over.
Perhaps 3 or more graves."
Also
included on ODOT survey
Taber
Halsey
From DAR records: "Northwest of Halsey. Alice Taber, and others whose names are not known, are buried in an old cemetery."
Thompson
Sodaville
From
EOT survey: "Single grave and
Stone on old Sam Gunderson place, 4 miles south of Sodaville.
A. K. Thompson born Jan 8, 1838 - died Nov 21, 1888.
Royal Arch Masom [sic, s/b Mason] Chpt. 19."
Timber-Linn
Memorial Park
Lat
443809N Lon 1230313W -- Albany
This
is listed as a cemetery on USGS GNIS list, but it does not appear that there are
any burials here -- just a War memorial to Linn Co. veterans.
See Timber-Linn Memorial Park for
names included on memorial.
Whitcomb
Sweet Home
From
"Sweet Home: In the Oregon Cascades"
by Carey & Hainline: "Whitcomb Cemetery is on an island in green Peter
Reservoir, across from Whitcomb Creek Park.
Before Green Peter Dam, this island was a butte located at the confluence
of the Middle Fork of the Santiam River and Quartzville Creek.
The
George Whitcomb family homsteaded on this butte in 1889, and in 1899 a
diphtheria epidemic took the lives of three of their four children.
Whitcomb buried them nearby where, according to one report, was already
buried a man who had died in an accident."
Zastrow
T 13S, R 2E, Sec
20
From
EOT survey: "Two Zastrow
children. S 20 T 13S R 2E."
Ziglinski
T 0S, R 0, Sec 0
-- Lat Lon --
Jordan, Scio
From
EOT survey: "One single grave on the Fred Ziglinski place located a little
west of Jordan in east Linn County. Supposedly
the grave of a boy who drowned after slipping of(f) a foot log across Thomas
Creek nearby. Once fenced but now
merely farmed around. This grave
was tended by John Frost until his death."
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References
used to prepare these cemetery pages are provided.
Lisa L. Jones prepared and is solely
responsible for the content of these pages.
Copyright 2001.
