CEMETERIES: WELTER FAMILY CEMETERY, GOBLE, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON ********************************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE: ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ********************************************************************************* Transcribed and formatted for use in USGenWeb Archives by: BARB HEFLIN ********************************************************************************* Transcribed by BARB HEFLIN - JUNE 2006 Submitted by BARB HEFLIN for use in The USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project. WELTER FAMILY CEMETERY LOCATED ON THE PG&E PROPERTY SITE OF THE OLD TROJAN POWER PLANT NORTH OF GOBLE, COLUMBIA cO., OREGON ON THE OLD COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY. IT IS FENCED IN AND FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO FAMILY MEMBERS HOWEVER IT CAN BE SEEN FROM THE OLD HIGHWAY.. IN 1898 THE FRANK WELTER FAMILY RENTED 400 ACRES OF LAND FROM THE RAILROAD AND OPERATED A DAIRY DID COMMERCIAL FISHING. THEY HAD 13 CHILDREN MY GRANDMOTHER BEING ONE OF THEM. IN 1916 THE RAILROAD SOLD THE LAND TO THE TROJAN POWER COMPANY. FAMILY MEMBERS CONTINUED TO LIVE THERE UNTIL THE TROJAN COMPANY SOLD THE PROPERTY TO THE PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY AND THE REACTORS WERE BUILT. THOSE BURIED IN THE CEMETERY ARE: Welter, Bessie H. Mercer 31 Jan. 1902 - 24 Jan. 1990 AGE 88 WIFE OF PAUL F WELTER Welter, Elmer 1931 - 1942 AGE 11 Welter, Frank SR 16 Jan. 1863 - 13 April 1919 AGE 56 HUSBAND OF IDA ZEHNER SON OF NICHOLAS AND KATHERINE REITER WELTER Welter, Henry C. 1907 1923 AGE 16 Welter, Henry N 11 Sept. 1879 - 5 March 1956 AGE 77 SON OF NICHOLAS AND KATHERINE REITER WELTER Welter, Ida Catherine Zehner 15 Sept. 1870 - 14 Mar. 1935 AGE 65 WIFE OF FRANK WELTER SR DAUGHTER OF DAVID AND CAROLINA HERSHBARGER ZEHNER Welter, James Henry 1924 - 1939 AGE 15 SON OF PAUL AND BESSIE MERCER WELTER Welter, Joseph Rudolph 20 Oct. 1895 - 16 Apr. 1963 AGE 68 SON OF FRANK AND IDA ZEHNER WELTER Welter, Katherine Reiter 18 Feb. 1843 - 27 June 1912 AGE 69 WIFE OF NICHOLAS WELTER SR Welter, Margaret A. 1880 - 1933 AGE 53 Welter, Mary 16 Sept. 1864 - 6 Jan. 1935 AGE 71 DAUGHTER OF NICHOLAS AND KATHERINE REITER WELTER Welter, Nicholas SR 14 Feb. 1838 - 27 Feb. 1918 AGE 80 HUSBAND OF KATHERINE REITER SON OF MATHIAS AND KATHARINA KINEN WELTER Welter, Nicholas David 18 Dec. 1892 - 7 July 1942 AGE 50 HUSBAND OF ETHEL SKIPWORTH SON OF FRANK AND IDA ZEHNER WELTER Welter, Paul Francis 9 Sept. 1898 - 3 Oct. 1990 AGE 92 HUSBAND OF BESSIE MERCER SON OF FRANK AND IDA ZEHNER WELTER