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Pioneer Cemetery
White Salmon, United States
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Pioneer Cemetery in White Salmon saw its earliest burial in 1882, was deeded by A.H. and Jennie Jewett to the Board of School Directors of District #19 in 1897, deeded to the City of White Salmon in 1914, and received its last burial in 1922 before the property was converted to a memorial park in 1955. Some headstones were moved to the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Snowden, now known as Klickitat County Cemetery District #1. In 2010, the White Salmon City Council renewed recognition of the cemetery. Those associated with the cemetery include Annie Clarkson's son Chas, James H. Cook, Mary A. Church, daughter of White Salmon's first mayor Clinton Wolford, George S. Church, Harvey Dunn, John J. Egan, Katie M. Groshong, Lloyd C. Groshong, Reinert B. Hansen of Norway, Bethewel Hendrix, John S. Johnston, Margarethe Lauterbach, Emil Lauterbach, Amy E. Locke, Amy F. Locke, Wm. H. McCoy, Cornelius J. Palmer, one of the earliest pioneers, Anne Rankin, schoolteacher at Husum, John P. Sisson, Hannah Waters, Emerson P. Williams, Lydia A. Williams, Wm. Willets of Company D, 6th Kansas Calvary, Ida Wyers, Monroe Allen Ziegler, and Harry F. Ziegler. Several entries preserve brief family ties and circumstances of death, including acute dysentery, a drowning accident while trying to cross the White Salmon River on a boom pole, a wagon accident on dock road, sudden death in sleep, and Willets's death from a gunshot wound to the head followed by later reburial there in 1922.
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