Astoria Pioneer Cemetery, Astoria, Clatsop Co, Oregon USA ********************************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE: ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ********************************************************************************* Information gathered by Sharon Whitmore Sharda@aone.com ASTORIA PIONEER CEMETERY Madison and 14th Streets, Astoria, Oregon. A plaque in the cemetery reads: “ Deeded By James Welch to Astoria on April 22, 1865. By 1891, 498 burials were recorded. There were also numerous unlisted interments, bodies from abandoned cemeteries were brought here, many graves and markers later removed by the families. Use was discontinued around 1900” The following are markers still there with inscriptions. Emma Brown Died Mar. 22. 1878 Aged 36 years Willie Twilight Died Dec. 25. 1876 Aged 3 yrs & 4 ms. ……………………………….. William W. McKerley Born in Abbottsford P.Q. Died July 17th 1877 at Knapp, Oregon Aged 29. Years. “I know that my Redeemer liveth” Minnie Manchester Twilight Died Dec. 21. 1876 Aged 4 yrs. & 10 ms Johnny B. Twilight Died Dec. 30. 1876 Aged 1 yr. & 4 ms ……………………………… John Brown Died April 6. 1872 Aged 62 years W.S. Ferrell Born Oct. 17. 1855 Died Aug 28. 1881 “Come before us, O our brother to the spirit land! Vainly look we for another In they place to stand.” F. Ferrell Born May 29. 1820 Died Jan 1.1879 Rest In Peace N. Ferrell Born April 20. 1861 Died Oct. 19. 1881 “I saw not the angels who met him there The gates of the city I could not see Over the river, over the river My Darling stands waiting to welcome me. ………………………………………………………………………………… Mary Louise Wife of AM Johnson Born Aug. 29. 1858 (death date was underground) ……………………………………………………… Mary E Wife of A. Vaughn Died Apr. 7. 1883 Aged 39 Y’s 5 ms. 6 D’s We love her. We miss her. ………………………………. There is one masoleum for the Shively family with the following: “In Sacred Remembrance Of Susan Shively who died January 28th 1883 Aged 58 years 1 month & 4 days and of R. Cyrus Shively who died April 23d 1880 Aged 27 years 1 month & 20 days The son. “Each alike Sincere Truthful & True” and of Milton Elliott who died Aged 85 years The brother. and of Olivia Elliott who died Sept. 20, 1903 Aged 8 years The sister. Rest In Peace. ……………………………………… In Memory of Amor Boyd Died Apr. 18. 1854 ………………………. Sacred to the Memory of James Robinson late Pilot on the Columbia River who departed this life May 12. AD. 1852 Aged 40 “REQUIESCAT IN PACE” ……………………………………. Eliza Wife of P.J. Holland Born Aug. 6. 1854 Died Mar.8.18 ? (unclear under ground) ………………………………………. Amelia Wife of Capt. M.M. Gilman Died July 4, 1824 Aged 54 years 11 months and 26 days ………………………………………. In Memory of John Burke Born in Ireland 1829 Died on Clatsop June 7, 1879 Rest In Peace ………………… In Memory of Emma Burke Born in VA. Jan. 20. 1862 Died on Clatsop June 7, 1879 ………………………. Sacred to the Memory of Henry Turner Alias “Larry” Born in Ireland About 1851 Died Jan. 24, 1881 ………………………… R.L. Crockett Co.1. 20th ME. INF …………………… Agnes C.B. Dau. Of A & E Rothe Born Feb. 22. 1872 Died Aug. 30. 1881 ……………………… J.J. O’Bryan A native of Lower Prospect Nova Scotia Born 1840 Died 1882 ………………… Hugh F. Chance Born Aug. 17. 1860 Died July 7, 1880 ……………………… Sarah E. Neely Wife of Cyrus Oiney Died 1864 Aged 15 Charlotte Olney Died 1864 Aged 5 Astor Olney Died 1864 Aged 18 Cyrus Olney Died 1870 Aged 55 Mary Tillotson Wife of Cyrus Olney and two children Died in Iowa 1848 ………………………………. George W. Warren Born in Bath NY Aug. 14. 1834 Died Sept. 27. 1875 Charles Leonard Warren Born May 25. 1861 Died Nov. 29. 1863 George W. Warren, Jr. Born Oct. 26. 1865 Died Oct. 28. 1865 Franklin Irving Warren Born Nov. 1. 1869 Died Mar. 19. 1871 This was a tall stone. On one side of the stone was “WARREN” with these names inscribed. On the other side was “CASE” with no inscriptions. ……………………………………………………….. Capt. A.C. Farnsworth Born June 20. 1819 Died Jan. 11. 1874 ……………………………… Effa Beloved Wife of David Wilson Born Dec. 11.1830 Died June 23. 1883 ……………………. “Tasa Lepaa” Olaf Peterson Syntynyt Kiuruyedella 8 paiva Huhti-Kussa 1824 Kuoli 24 paiva Huhti-Kussa 1883