OLEQUA AREA CEMETERIES

Olequa Area Cemeteries
Legal Description:   Section 11, T10N-R2W

The Area known as Olequa is located north of Castle Rock on the Old West Side Highway, near the
Lewis County boundary line. Several burial sites have been reported to be in this general area.

There is what is know as the "Pete Graveyard", where Captain Peter and his family are buried. The
graves are along West Side Highway about one half mile north of where the railroad crosses the
Cowlitz River, about at the 17 mile marker. The gravesites are about 200 feet east of the road,
between the road and the power line. Said to be buried there are the following:  Captain Peter (1892);
Alexander, sone of Peter (4 Mar 1871-2 Dec 1892); Smira Laous (4 Nov 1860-20 Nov 1892); and Kitty,
an Indian lady and wife of Captain Peter, who dies July 16, 1887 at age 40.

There are two marked graves of Marie Person (14 Feb 1829-17 Mar 1902) and Sven Person (20 Jan 1826-15 Jul 1888)
and one or two unmarked graves on the Johnson property east of West Side Highway about two miles south of 
Olequa. This is across from what was originally the Frykholm farm.

It is reported there is a grave of a boy of a servan couple who worked at the Huntington Inn, who
died about 1904 at the age of four or five years. The grave is in the south end of the year surrounded by
an iron (3'X5') fence. The Huntington Inn was destroyed by fire in 1969.

On the old Patterson place at Olequa are two pioneer graves, one located in a field, the other in the front yard
of what is now th eJean Huntington place. No other details are available.

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