PEOLA PIONEER CEMETERY, Peola, 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- PEOLA CEMETERY, Peola, Garfield County, WA Located: On Highway 128 several miles southeast of Pomeroy, Garfield Co, WA. Past & present residents have a "clean-up" day here yearly. It is weed and brush grown, but the graves have been kept in good repair. Located (according to a 1913 Standard Atlas of the county) in Peola Precinct in R43E T10N Sec 31. As of June 30, 1966. Copied (at different times) by Elaine (TRESCOTT) ANDERSON, Carole (STARK) SLAYBAUGH, and Muriel BOTT. NAME BORN DIED COMMENTS FOSTER, W.C. 1830 1908 Father FOSTER, Cynthia 1840 1922 Mother CLAYTON, George D. Jan 3, 1875 Jan 18, 1945 MEWHINNEY, Thomas J. Feb 5, 1891 age 67y 10m 27d; Lt. Col of the Missouri Home Guards in 61-2 Sergeant of Co. H 4th Reg. Indiana Volunteers, in the Mexican War. MEWHINNEY, Mrs M. E. Oct 3, 1915 age 69y 10m 23d MEWHINNEY, S_________ (is same as Mrs M.E.) HOWARD, Rocester H. Jan 31 1899 89y 14d; Survivor of the Black Hawk War. ROSS, Nellie A. Aug 9, 1891 3y 11m 8d ) children of George W. & Luella A. ROSS ROSS, George W. Aug 10, 1891 1y 7m 22d ) FITZGERALD, Edward Aug 1, 1905 65 years WEATHERLY, Edward Henry Oct 20, 1903 Aug 12, 1904 son of J.H. & G.C. RICE, Isaac (no dates, large rock for stone) COOK, Daniel M. May 25, 1820 Dec 25, 1897 JOHNSON, Mary C. Apr 8, 1866 Oct 26, 1897 JEFFREYS, "Doc" Marmaduke 1865 1961 JEFFREYS, Nancy R. 1870 1945 JEFFREYS, Vera Sept 2, ____ Sept 24, 1905 dau of M.N. & N.R. JEFFREYS, Elmer N. 1894 1937 JEFFREYS, Marmaduke N. 1837 1914 JEFFREYS, Nancy M. 1833 1907 JEFFREYS, W. O. 1862 1894 COOK, George H. 1858 1922 BLANKINSHIP, Margaret J. Oct 15, 1842 Dec 6, 1919 BLANKINSHIP, Joseph L. May 14, 1842 Oct 22, 1898 ROBINSON, Chapman M. Sept 2, 1876 Jan 16, 1880 ROBINSON, Poline T. July 7, 1840 Dec 4, 1878 (to the right of her stone are two graves, marked with an iron standpipe) Unknown to the right of ROBINSON Unknown to the right of ROBINSON THOMASON, John H. Dec 26, 1883 Jan 5, 1885 son of W.A. & L.A.; "This little flower for Earth to have - has gone to Heaven to bloom there" THOMASON, J. L. (died at Peola and may be buried here.) POLUMSKY, Andrew 1834 1896 (beside Andrew's stone is a rock with vase of flowers. Do not know if this rock is meant to be a gravestone or not) ANKROM, J. W. (no dates) Co. I 16th Illinois Inf. Civil War HUDSON, Mary J. Sept 17, 189 61y 6m 20d; wife of S.R. WEARYRICK, Sarah E. Oct 23, 1859 Apr 9, 1879 (erected by John HOWTON) HOLLAND, H. A. Co. K 5th Kan. Cav. (G.A.R. star by grave) VINSON, Lillie E. Feb 1, 1872 Mar 21, 1879 VINSON, Minnie M. Nov 21, 1875 May 21, 1878 VINSON, Talula D. Aug 14, 1869 June 20, 1882 ROBINSON, Thomas W. July 16, 1833 Feb 18, 1892 note: Robinson & Duffy copied as if they were together; either same stone or same plot? DUFFY, Anna M. Mar 6, 1867 Nov 17, 1891 FOSTER, J. M. 1864 1941 FOSTER, E. M. Feb 26, 1899 29y 10m 5d BANKSON, J. M. Oct 2, 1849 Sept 26, 1898 BANKSON, M. J. Nov 30, 1867 Jan 2, 1895 wife of J.M. KIDWELL, (2 stones initialed DPK & M.J.K.; GAR star) KIDWELL, J. F or G Co. F 1st Ark Cav. REED, J. Henry 1867 1946 REED, Katherine A. 1877 1953 REED, Arthur L 1896 1902 JONES, Infant Sept 8, 1900 dau of Wm & M.T. (no age given) REED, W. G. Apr 28, 1838 June 1, 1905 REED, Mary Jane 1840 1922 KIDWELL, Rebekah Apr 6, 1852 July 9, 1881 HAWORTH, Allen Aug 12, 1814 Jan 28, 1885 KING, William Sept 6, 1833 Sept 29, 1889 KING, John Feb 18, 1804 Feb 9, 1886 KING, Frank June 30, 1837 Dec 11, 1883 KING, Mary A. Dec 30, 1846 May 26, 1881 KING, John T. 1839 1910 KING, Myrah Ellen 1858 1906 HAVEN, George A. 1835 1878 MALCOLM, Hattie L. 1868 Apr 4, 1890 22y (Ref: Wash Independent - newspaper of Garfield Co, WA stated she was buried here .. KIDWELL Mary J. Apr 7, 1891 aged 45y (see footmarker MJK AND DPK) TRAVIS, Ida M. Feb 5, 1872 Nov 15, 1957 TRAVIS, John B. Jan 9, 1823 Feb 13, 1873 Father TRAVIS, Margaret 1838 1922 his wife; Mother WHITE, Albert H. 1853 1893 MARTIN, Nels P. Feb 21 1911 80y 2m 6d (Three people are buried in this plot but only the stone of Nels is erected. Footmarkers are N.P.M.; E.M.; and the 3rd is a stump, no data.) BROOKS, Robert H. 1890 1929 BROOKS, Rebecca Jan 22, 1903 28y 25d BROOKS, Cletus Arnold 1948 On the bottom of Rebecca BROOK's stone are two very small metal markers with these four people and their info. BROOKS, Letus Leonard 1948 ANDERSON, Anna 1854 1886 ANDERSON, William 1850 1938 EMERSON, Elzie July 13, 1900 July 30, 1901 (next to Rebecca BROOK's stone) DICK, John B. 1844 1927 and Theresa, his wife DICK, Theresa 1845 1927 Pioneers of 1874 DICK, Olive 1888 1938 BLANKINSHIP, Sadie Elizabeth July 4, 1901 25 years; wife of D.E. LYLE, Nancy Apr 11, 1830 Aug 8, 1914 (Stone is badlly chipped and hard to read. Last name believed to be LYLE but could be LYNCH. Also not sure about the 11th being correct.) LYNCH, Nancy GOBEL (the 2nd reading, by 2nd person, of above) KIDWELL, Allen Loraine Oct 3, 1906 Oct 16, 1909 son of D. & A. KIMBLE, Stella M. June 22, 1909 Sept 7, 1909 MITCHELL, John Nov 19, 1909 75 years MITCHELL, Alex Sept 14, 1906 42 years MITCHELL, Jane Dec 26, 1905 age 82y 4m 11d; Mother FOSTER, Estella KIMBLE 1877 1900 wife of J.A. FOSTER (headstone) FOSTER, Estella M. Oct 1, 1900 age 23y 5m 25d (footstone) END OF PEOLA DATA DUPPY - see ROBINSON, Anna M HOWTON - see WEARYRICK, Sarah E. GOBEL - see Nancy LYNCH/LYLE Elaine and her sister, Barbara , also extracted genealogically related items from the early Garfield County newspapers; namely the "Washington Independent" 8/1880 to 8/1896 and the "East Washingtonian" 3/1882 to 1928. When death notices from these papers indicated where burial took place I have added them to this record with a note in the comments column. Some of these undoubtedly account for the Unknown graves. Vicki (HAZARD) BATTERTON. FOSTER, Mrs. J. A. Sept 29, 1900 East Washingtonian extract #1782 KIDWELL, Mrs. John Dec 1889 Washington Independent #1060 WELCH, Mrs. J. C. abt 1879 Washington Independent #372