PATAHA VALLEY (Oliphant, Owsley) CEMETERY, Garfield County, WA The US GenWeb Archives provide genealogical and historical data to the general public without fee or charge of any kind. It is intended that this material not be used in a commercial manner. Submitted by Vicki Batterton December 28, 1998. Copyright 1968 Elaine Anderson. Both above notices must remain when copied or downloaded. bookworm@3-cities.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- PATAHA VALLEY (Oliphant, Owsley) CEMETERY, Garfield County, WA Located in Garfield Co., WA is known by all three names above. It is about 8 or 9 miles west of Pomeroy, north of Hwy 12, in the middle of a pasture. Located (according to a 1913 Standard Atlas of the county) in Tucannon Precinct; R41E T12N Sec 31. Copied by either Elaine (TRESCOTT-HAZARD) ANDERSON or Carole (STARK) SLAYBAUGH in about 1968. An article written for the Daughters of the Pioneers in Nov. 1966 says "We have been unable so far to establlish the oldest burial site in Garfield County as there seems not to be any official record for the early days. However, I believe the Owsley Cemetery, six miles west of Pomeroy on the highway, culd be one of the oldest because (and I quote from Gilbert's Historic Sketches of 1882) where, in the back of the book, in the appendix on Page 57, is the following; 'Henry Owsley lives 5 miles west of Pomeroy. Farmer and stock-raiser; own 800 acres of land; address is Pomeroy. Born in Clairborne County, Tennessee December 3, 1818; came to Dayton, Columbia County in 1860 and to this county in the same year.' I visited this little cemetery the other day and took down all available data from the stones, which you will find enclosed:" "Many more were unmarked. Across the road and creek to the south and slightly west of the Owsley Cemetery on a knoll there used to be a cemetery which is now plowed over." NAME BORN DIED COMMENTS OWSLEY, Mary Emilam 1850 19__ article says d. 1919 OWSLEY, Elmer C. May 16, 1852 Feb 16, 1910 OWSLEY, Jane BRANTON 1864 1931 OWSLEY, Edward Dec 9, 1873 Jan 29, 1881 s/o A.A. & Emma OWSLEY, Sarah E. May 15 1822 Mar 16, 1888 born Christian Co. KY w/o Henry OWSLEY, Aleana S. Mar 29, 1854 June 9, 1870 s/o Henry & Sarah E.; article spells his first name Alcana. OWSLEY, Henry Dec 4, 1818 July 5, 1905 (not noted in the article) COLEAN, Charles W. 1862 1943 article spells it CALEAN (U) BROWN, Leona R. 1900 1944 OWSLEY, Alma Dec 31, 1870 Sept 7, 1910 OWSLEY, Minnie A. 1877 1913 (dates from article) none on stone now?