CEMETERIES: INDIVIDUAL MARKERS AND GRAVE SITES IN Wasco County, Oregon ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ Transcribed and formatted for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cheryl J. Davis April 29, 2003 Wasco County Individual CEMETERY MARKERS Marker: Beulah May Cox "Beulah May Cox, stillborn, Jan. 6, 1916." Her brother, Dudley Cox, has enclosed it in a wooden fence. There are carvings on the gate and the tree that he did. It is about 35' or so behind the Pine Grove Trailer Court, near the irrigation ditch that runs behind his property, along the fence line between his property and the trailer court. It is right at the back side of the Pine Grove Trailer Court. Dudley Cox carved the stone for the marker on the Doyle grave under the Bonneville Power lines. (See below) The Cox grave is on private property. It is off Endersby road. Ulysses Endersby is who the road is named after. At the end of the road there is a newer log cabin belonging to a cousin, Delbert Endersby. Dudley's grandfather is a cousin of the Endersby that the town is named after. Marker: Colonel Young & Mrs. Young There are no markers. There are some cedar rails that are down on top of a knoll. The knoll is covered by junipers. On highway 216 between Pine Grove and Wapinitia. Private property. Marker: Cunningham "Infant daughter of J. R. and I G (I C) Cunningham. Died July 19, 1894. Our Loved One". The markers is off at the stone base. The foot stone is what is used to prop it up. The foot stone says "Baby". Private property off of highway 216 between Pine Grove and Wapinitia. Marker: Mrs. Doyle The Doyle grave is in the McQuinn strip. The marker says "Mrs. Doyle, March 1914". The headstone was carved by Dudley Cox. The grave has a wire enclosure. It is a granite type marker that looks like it is broke in half. I cleaned up inside the fence. I saw no other markers or indications of another grave. The number on the power pole that is right by the grave is ACB331. On the side is 127 & 4. The McQuinn strip is now part of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Marker: Grave Island Memorial "Grave Island Memorial. At final rest in this common grave overlooking the place they lived and died are the remains of members of a great American people. Hunters and fishermen, they were the first to challenge the mighty Columbia on it's wild race through the Cascade Barrier to the Pacific. Each season they called on the Columbia to pay its tribute in salmon and when these members of the indian tribes who fished here died, they went back to the river. On a rocky island of the dead, now buried beneath the water, they joined their ancestors. It was from now hidden Grave Island that the bodies were removed to this memorial point. From here, the spirits are the first to challenge the Columbia, look down upon the work of those who harnessed the river of the west". Marker: McQuinn Grave On the south side of 15 mile on the west side of the road that leads in to the ranch, high up on the hill, up on the second bench. Private property. Virginia McLaughlin has a photograph. On the back of the photograph it says "George, son of P E McQuinn. Born May 30, 1879. Died January 3, 1882. Our Son Is Gone But Not Forgotten". Marker: Ten Mile Marker The marker is 1.23 miles past Fairbanks. It is a big rock obelisk. It says "Here lie many pathfinders to the Oregon country. Erected by the Wasco County Pioneer Association 1935". Apparently when they were working on the road they dug up some graves and didn't know who they were so reburied them in a mass grave. MARKER: Stoller Wilbur Stoller. Born April 11, 1893, Died November 2, 1902. John Stoller. Born January 27, 1899. Died April 8, 1902. Walk north from behind the new Petersburg School through a field and follow the old railroad bed. (Looks like a farm road). You come to a clump of trees, the creek is on the west side (left side) and up on the hillside about 100 feet on the east side (right side) is the fence around the two graves. From the graves you can look to the northwest and see the back of the Gard Fulton place. Private property. MARKER: COVEY Lizzie A.E., wife of L. M. Covey. (Lewis/Louis Covey) Died Mar. 13, 1904. (Also baby Covey - marker stolen) In a field up on a hill southeast of Friend Oregon. Private property. MARKER: HAUSER Solomon Hauser. Died Nov 17, 1895. Age 57Y 1M 7D Susanna Hauser. Died Dec 16, 1903. Age 37Y 4M 8D Near Tygh Valley Pioneer Cemetery. Private property. MARKER: DARNIELLE Sarah M. Darnille b 2/2/1836 d 3/24/1884 Buried with at least two others unknown in field in Dufur, Oregon. Private property. MARKER: BRIGGS Jarvis Briggs, age 50 and Son, Newton Briggs, age 17, murdered by Indians 1861 Buried on Gate Creek near Barlow's Gate, Wamic Oregon. Public property. MARKER: BUTTS Catherine Bonnett Butts B 1812 d 10/2/1834 Buried on Tygh Ridge above White River Falls, Tygh Valley, Oregon. Came across Oregon Trail/Meeks Cutoff. Mrs. Butts took ill and died October 2, 1834. In Samuel Parker's diary he wrote: "October 5 went three miles to small creek. Heare we beried Missis Butts and 3 more...." Private property. MARKER: CHASTAIN Ina Elizabeth (Bessie) Chastain b 10/30/1907 d 2/9/1908 Grave in Badger Canyon west of Tygh Valley. Bessie was a twin to Hazel Chastain. Private property. MARKER: HEALD Gilbert C. Heald b 1916 d 1979 Marker in fireplace of old homestead in White River Game Management area. T3S R12E SEC 22 MARKER: SCOTT Chrissy Scott 1901-1905 On the west side of the John Day river south of Clarno. She fell in the river while playing and several days later died of diphtheria.