CEMETERIES: FRANKTON CEMETERY, Hood River County, Oregon, a.k.a.: Backus Cemetery ********************************************************************************* 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: 5/9/03 ******************************************************************************** FRANKTON CEMETERY, Hood River County, a.k.a.: Backus Cemetery Smith, Irving born 2/1879 died 1/1881 Smith, Laura died 1883 Aged 14 Children of E.L. and Georgia Smith (E.L. and Georgia Smith were disinterred and their ashes scattered on the Columbia River) Corporal B.F. Hull CoD 33rd Iowa Infantry (Civil War Soldier) Benjamin Hull died 11/9/1890 55 years 3 months Hull, O.D. born 3/20/1881 died 7/28/1881 Hull, D.A. born 5/12/1887 died 9/3/1887 Children of B.F. & L. Hull Thomas, Charles Newton born 9/12/1870 died 1891 Son of Lizzie R. & Eli J. Thomas Crocket, Herbert Wray died 4/7/1881 aged 1 year 17 days Warren, Charles B. died 2/18/1879 aged 4 months 4 days Lloyd, FRW died 5/16/1884 aged 18 years It is believed as many as "twenty seven people are buried here, including one who was accidentally shot". Another Civil War soldier was buried her, Isaac Howe, who was later moved to Idlewilde. An influenza epidemic took the lives of several small children, the youngest being only four days old. Jonathan Collins restored this cemetery as his Eagle Scout Project in 2002.