Sherman County OR Archives Photo Place.....Grass Valley Cemetery March 15, 2008
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Terri Earl s_briar7@yahoo.com January 4, 2009, 11:16 pm

Source:             Grass Valley Cemetery
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About 1 mile north of Grass Valley, Sherman County,Oregon, west of Highway 97. 
Access from Mt. Hood Lane about 1/4 mile north of town or Highway 97 turnout near
top of hill.

Warranty deed from Oliver P. King, et us to R.L. Campbell, et al, Trustee, recorded
in Deed Book E, page 
66, Sherman County courthouse 13 September 1897.
Signed by Oliver P. King and Addie King, witnessed by C. R. Rollins and C. W. Moore,
in consideration of 
$1 paid by R. L. Campbell, J. D. Wilcox  & J. H. Smith, Trustees of Grass Valley
Lodge # 131, IOOF, Grass 
Valley to Oliver P. and Addie King of Grass Valley; six acres in the SE 1/4 of
Section 22, T2S, R16E, for 
cememtery purposes. The conveyance is given for purpose of correcting an error in a
deed dated July 
10, 1897 and recorded in Deed Book D, page 617.

Graves from the King ranch were removed to the Grass Valley IOOF cemetery, including
white granite 
markers and the grave of an Olds wife who died in childbirth. 

The Grass Valley Lodge #131 -- Willard Barnett, Marcus Eslinger and Rodney Rolfe,
officers, signed 
articles of incorporation to provide for the care, maintenance and improvements of
the Grass Valley 
IOOF Cemetery. 

Apparetly 16 “Blocks” were originally platted for the cemetery, with a grid of 18
lots each. Through 
changes in fencing over the years, the actual cemetery has shrunk to Blocks
1,2,7,8,9,10, part of 15 
and part of 16. 

Blocks are numbered as follows:

         West
South   15  16      North 
         road
        10   9
         7   8
         road
         2   1
         East





Lots within the blocks are numbered:

           West
        18   7  6
        17   8  5
South   16   9  4   North
        15  10  3
        14  11  2
        13  12  1
           East

Each lot is divided into smaller divisions; halves, quarters or less.
For simplicity’s sake, I have designated each grave Block #, lot #, north or south.

That should get the searcher within feet of any given grave.   TRE

1897 survey by J. B. Goit
1904 survey by E. F. Sharp
Sherry Woods Kaseberg recorded graves for her book, Yesterday’s Roll Call, in August
1965.
Terri Raibley Earl recorded and photographed headstones 2008.
Special thanks to Sherry Woods Kaseberg, Emma Jean Smith, Patricia R. Moore, Jacque
von Borstel and 
Charlotte Barnett.



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