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This cemetery is owned and maintained by the Lebanon Odd-Fellows Lodge. The following information is transcribed from the WPA Linn County Cemetery Survey, researched & prepared by Leslie L. Haskin on 2-19-1940. (Note: The Lebanon Odd-Fellows Cemetery lies adjacent to the Masonic Cemetery without dividing fences. The Odd-Fellows Cemetery lies in an L shape on a part of the William B. Gore donat...
Malheur County was created February 17, 1887, from the southern territory of Baker County. It was first settled by miners and stockmen in the early 1860s. The discovery of gold in 1863 attracted further development, including settlements and ranches. Basques settled in the region in the 1890s and were mainly engaged in sheep raising. Wikipedia
According to Oregon Geographic Names, the county is named for the town of Union. Union County was originally part of Baker County (which was originally a part of Wasco County, which was originally part of Clackamas County). The northern end of the Grande Ronde Valley was the first part to be settled. During the 1860s, population growth in eastern Oregon prompted the State Legislature to split U...
This cemetery is located on 665-689 12th Street, La Grande, Union County, Oregon. Find a Grave
Marion County was created by the Provisional Legislature of Oregon on July 5, 1843, as the Champooick District, one of the original four districts of the Oregon Country along with Twality (later Washington), Clackamas, and Yamhill counties. The four districts were redesignated as counties in 1845. Originally, this political entity stretched southward to the California border and eastward to th...
On December 28, 1847, the Provisional Legislature created Linn County from the southern portion of Champoeg (later Marion) County. The boundaries were altered in 1851 and 1854 with the creation of Lane and Wasco Counties. The county seat was originally located in Calapooia (later known as Brownsville), but in 1851 the Territorial Legislature passed an act establishing Albany as the county seat....
Morrow County was created in 1885 from the western portion of Umatilla County and a small portion of eastern Wasco County. It is named for Jackson Lee Morrow , a state representative who advocated for the county's formation. Heppner was designated the temporary county seat at the time the county was created and narrowly defeated Lexington in the election held in 1887 to determine the permanent ...
The earliest burial in this cemetery was January 2, 1848 (Jean Jacques Barclay per Catholic Church records - died 12/31/1847 at Fort Vancouver, WA) and by April 1848 was called the Old Cemetery and was the official city cemetery. This makes Mountain View Cemetery the oldest municipal cemetery in the Oregon Territory. It is located on 500 Hilda Street, Oregon City, Clackamas County, Oregon. F...
Modoc, Shasta, Takelma, Latgawa, and Umpqua Indian tribes are all native to the region of present Jackson County. Prior to the 1850s, the Klickitats from the north raided the area. The Territorial Legislature created Jackson County on January 12, 1852, from the southwestern portion of Lane County and the unorganized area south of Douglas and Umpqua Counties. It included lands which now lie in ...
This cemetery is located on 1400 South Highway 395, Hermiston, Umatilla County, Oregon. Find a Grave Billion Graves
This cemetery is located on 31285 Valley View Lane, Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon. Find a Grove
Oregon Pioneers will include those who emigrated to the Oregon Territory prior to the arrival of the railroad in 1872. The Oregon Genealogical Society has issued Pioneer Certificates to persons proving to be directly descended from a person who was residing in Oregon, or the Oregon Territory, prior to 1872 when the railroad arrived in Oregon. The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorpora...
Greenwood Cemetery is located 1 mile south of the Walluski River bridge (or ½ mile past Milepost 5 on Highway 202) coming from the city of Astoria. This 30 acre cemetery lies on a gently rolling knoll overlooking Young's River and gives a panoramic view of the valley and surrounding hills, with views of the mouth of the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean. Incorporated in 1891, it is possibl...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grant County, Oregon. Grant County was established on October 14, 1864, from parts of old Wasco and old Umatilla counties. Prior to its creation, cases brought to court were tried in The Dalles, county seat of the vast Wasco County. The great distance to The Dalles made law enforcement a difficult problem, and imposed a heavy burden ...
This cemetery is located on Foothill Road, La Grande, Union County, Oregon. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Gilliam County, Oregon. The Oregon Legislative Assembly created Gilliam County on February 25, 1885, from the eastern third of Wasco County after residents complained that they were too far from their county seat in The Dalles. The first Gilliam county seat was at Alkali, now Arlington. The question of a permanent county seat was pla...
This cemetery, established in 1880, is located on 500 South Everest Road, Newberg, Yamhill County, Oregon. It's also known as Newberg Friends Community Cemetery and Roselawn Cemetery . Find a Grave Roots Web
The name Coos originated from the name of the Native American tribe that had settled the area. "Coos" loosely translates to "lake" or "place of pines". Lewis and Clark noted Cook-koo-oose. Early maps and documents spelled it Kowes, Cowes, Coose, Koos, among others. Although exploration and trapping in the area occurred as early as 1828, the first European-American settlement was established at...
This cemetery is located on Richardson Gap Road & Providence Drive, in Scio, Linn County Oregon. It was established circa 1855. Find a Grave
Riverview Abbey Mausoleum Company was founded in 1916. The original building included just one corridor named the Lilac Corridor. It was built on property acquired in part from the Portland Clay Company in 1916. The endowment tract included 157 feet of frontage on Taylors Ferry Road in Portland. In the Nineteen Twenties a man named Kenworthy acquired the mausoleum. In the later Twenties my gre...
Wikipedia =Northern Illinois University (NIU) is a public research university located in DeKalb, Illinois, United States, with satellite centers in Chicago, Hoffman Estates, Naperville, Rockford, and Oregon. It was originally founded as Northern Illinois State Normal School on May 22, 1895, by Illinois Governor John P. Altgeld as part of an expansion of the state's system for producing college ...
The cemetery is located on 2201 North Phoenix Road, Medford, Jackson County, Oregon. Official Website Billion Graves
Established 1929 on the Henry and Trijah Davis D.L.C. 687 Located at the west end of West Main Street in Hillsboro, Washington County, Oregon. Also known as Fir Lawn Cemetery . Find a Grave
Also known as Finley-Sunset Hills Memorial Park and Finley-Sunset Hills Mortuary Cemetery . Located on 6801 Southwest Sunset Highway, Portland, Washington County, Oregon. The cemetery sits on the County Line of Washington County and Multnomah County. Find a Grave Billion Graves
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