Island County WA Archives Cemeteries.....Pioneer Cemetery - Complete Survey ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wa/wafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Laura Ware deleware1968@frontier.com May 10, 2014 10:00 am Abstracted By: September, 1998 by Ralph Seefeld and Maureen MacDonald members of the Genealogical Society of South Whidbey Island. Updated by: May 2014 by Laura Ware ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pioneer Cemetery, Oak Harbor, WA (Davis, Morse, O'Leary, McCrohan Cemetery) T33N R1E Section 34 This cemetery has also been known as the Morse cemetery, the O'Leary Cemetery, and as the Davis cemetery. A marker in the center has the surnames "Davis, Morse, O'Leary, McCrohan' engraved on it. Those buried here are mostly of Irish ancestry. The cemetery is located at 355 Oak Harbor Street. As you proceed north through Oak Harbor on Highway 20, go straight where the highway angles to the right. Proceed north on Oak Harbor Street, past the traffic light at Whidbey Avenue, and the cemetery is about three blocks further, on the left side, behind a mobile home. Row Plot Name Birth Date Death Date Additional Information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 2 Stuart, Elizabeth B. 1906 1969 [no stone, born Jan 5, 1906 d. Aug 1969] 1 3 Nunan, George F. 1862 1948 1 4 Nunan, Elizabeth 1842 1925 1 5 McCrohan, Thomas 1851 1917 [s/o Francis McCrohan & Grace Mullen] 1 6 McCrohan, Michael 1854 1916 [s/o Francis McCrohan & Grace Mullen] 1 7 Morse, G. W. 1830 1916 Masonic symbol [George Washington Morse; m. Mary McCrohan O'Leary 1 8 Morse, Mary 1840 1911 [d/o Francis McCrohan & Grace Mullen; d. Sep 16, 1911; m1 Maurice O'Leary; m2 George Washington Morse] 1 10 Davis, Clement Morse 1900 1916 [s/o Robert Alonzo Davis & Sarah Grace Morse Davis] 1 11 Davis, Robert A. 1866 1952 s/s Sarah G. Davis [Robert Alonzo Davis; s/o Alonzo U. Davis & Davis, Sarah G. 1873 1952 s/s Robert A. Davis [Sarah Grace Morse Davis, d/o George Washington Davis & Mary McCrohan O'Leary Morse] 1 12 Davis, Robert A. Dec 6, 1909 Jan 17, 1985 US Army [Robert Aldon Davis; s/o Robert Alonzo Davis & Sarah Grace Morse Davis] 1 13 Orr, "Chief" Frankie L. Oct 17, 1938 May 17, 1992 Devoted / Husband-Father / Grandpa- Son / Chief, Oak Harbor WA Police Orr, Patricia B., Mrs. Chief Mar 3, 1941 Loving / Wife-Mother-Grandma / Daughter (This stone is outside of The cemetery wall.) 2 2 Nunan, Lottie C. 1879 1889 2 3 Nunan, Mary C. 1883 1889 2 4 Nunan, Thomas 1840 1895 2 5 Nunan, Lt. George A. 1918 1943 US Air Force (Not buried here -- lost at sea when shot down during World War II) 2 6 Peeples, Lawrence I. 1924 1990 US Marine Corps 2 7 Brun, Margaret 1845 1866 2 8 McCrohan, David 1848 1964 2 9 O'Leary, Maurice 1837 1864 2 10 O'Leary, Frank 1860 1885 2 11 Swayne, Delbert G. Sep 22, 1918 May 11, 1968 2 12 Swayne, Marcella L. Morse Jul 1, 1915 Dec 24, 1998 2 13 Orr, Frankie L. Oct 17, 1938 May 17, 1992 US Marine Corps (This is his second stone. It is outside the cemetery wall. 2 Burke, William David May 26, 1925 Oct 1, 2012 at foot of plot 9 Loving Husband, Father, Family Man and Educator O'Leary Descendant 3 1 Nunan, Elizabeth C. 1859 1877 3 2 Nunan, Grace M. 1859 1877 3 3 Nunan, F. J. Lost at Sea 3 4 Morse, Marcella 1876 1877 3 5 Morse, George 1866 1871 3 6 McCrohan, Francis 1816 1881 3 7 McCrohan, Grace 1818 1864 3 8 Morse, Robert Vernon Jan 11, 1930 Aug 18, 1962 Washington / SP4 US Army / Korea 3 9 O'Leary, Thomas F. 1858 1924 3 10 Morse, J. Marshall 1871 1955 3 11 Swayne, Beulah M. Jan 25, 1898 Oct 19, 1976 Mother Swayne, Grover C. Nov 8, 1892 Oct 16, 1977 Father 3 11 Morse, Lincoln 1909 1981 [Lincoln A. Morse; s/o Lincoln Anthony Morse & Eva E. Vosburg] 3 12 Morse, Lincoln A. 1874 1920 [Lincoln Anthony Morse; s/o George Washington Morse & Mary McCrohan O'Leary Morse; m. 1st Mary Jane Smith; m. 2nd Eva E. Vosburg] 3 12 Morse, Betty D. 1905 2001 3 12 Bowmer, Jack L. Apr 19, 1924 Feb 3, 1992 US Army World War II 4 1 Nunan, Thomas E. 1865 1936 4 2 Johnson, Linda Sue Jablonski Sep 2, 1947 Dec 9, 1959 4 3 Davis, Hattie V. May 7, 1893 Dec 25, 1964 4 4 Davis, Claude O. Feb 15, 1984 Jan 17, 1971 4 5 Davis, Donald G. 1930 1975 US Navy 4 6 Davis, William O. Oct 19, 1926 Nov 24, 1989 AS US Navy / World War II 4 7 O'Leary, Donald J. Nov 7, 1894 Jan 9, 1955 Washington / Sgt Co F 161 Infantry / World War I 4 10 Johnson, Barbara 1930 1986 4 12 Friedman, Doris May 11, 1898 Mar 1, 1983 4 12 Wilcox, Selah R. Nov 14, 1896 Mar 4, 1985 4 13 Wilcox, Doris M. Oct 21, 1918 Jan 4, 1997 Beloved Wife and Mother 5 1 McGuern, Dorothy Nunan 1909 1974 5 3 Johnson, Donald William Jul 28, 1922 Feb 10, 1996 s/s Dorothy E. Solberg Davis Jablonski Johnson Johnson, Dorothy E. Solberg Davis Jablonski Dec 15, 1924 Jan 24, 1996 s/s Donald William Johnson; In loving memory 5 8 Davis, Raphael H. "Ray" Feb 11, 1905 Jul 26, 1969 5 9 Davis, Marjorie May May 1, 1909 Feb 7, 1963 6 1 Ragsdale, Berenice Nunan 1900 1988 6 2 Nunan, Mary Lou Goodwin 1938 2005 6 8 Barnhart, Allen G. 1910 1973 6 9 Barnhart, Ethel 1912 1971 6 10 Davis, Eunice Haines Aug 9, 1899 Jan 18, 1980 6 12 Davis, infant daughter Only one date: 1938 Infant daughter of Raphael & Marjorie Davis 7 Monument Davis, Nunan, Morse, O'Leary, McCrohan (Located in the center of the cemetery) 8 1 Dyer, Marjorie Eleanor Nunan Dyer Oct 24, 1905 Jan 6, 2002 Our beloved Irish mother 8 7 McDaniels, Clayton T. Nov 12, 1910 Dec 18, 1986 s/s Neva Margaret McDaniels McDaniels, Neva Margaret Oct 23, 1911 Mar 30, 1986 s/s Clayton T. McDaniels 8 8 Messmer, Margaret Louise 1920 1992 8 9 Messmer, Robert F. 1916 1985 US Navy / World War II 8 10 Martin, Stephen S. 1868 1940 8 11 Martin, John T. St. 1910 1977 SSgt US Army / World War II 8 12 Martin, Louise Morse 1878 1939 9 1 Dyer, Charles P. 1854 1916 (Buried in Sunnyside Cemetery, marker duplicated here) 9 2 Dyer, Nellie 1866 1939 American Legion Auxilliary 9 3 Dyer, Charles Yorke Feb 28, 1896 Jan 29, 1896 US Navy 9 4 Dyer, Emma 1899 1931 9 6 Dyer, Rae E. 1930 1992 US Navy 9 8 Williams, Roy L. Jul 13, 1926 Jun 8, 1996 Loving Husband & Father / Psalm 27:4 9 9 Messmer, Stephen Francis Mar 30, 1943 Jul 5, 2010 Married to Mary Elizabeth 1964 9 11 Messmer, David Robert 1950 2009 Loving Husband, Father & Friend 9 12 Messmer, Cheryl Nircko 1950 1985 10 1 Bradshaw, Jerry Nov 9, 1948 Feb 6, 1993 PVT US Army Vietnam 10 3 Dyer, George M. Apr 19, 1929 Feb 25, 2000 PFC US Army Korea 11 9 Suess, John A. 1913 1979 Cpl US Army / World War II 12 3 Monument Pioneers of 1858 12 9 Lueck, Leo A. 1896 1982 12 10 Lueck, Martha H. 1895 1984 Family information: Mary McCrohan, daughter of Francis McCrohan and Grace Mullen, was born in Austraila. She married Maurice O'Leary before 1858. He drowned in 1864 along with his mother-in-law, Grace Mullen McCrohan and his brother-in-law David O'Leary. Mary and Maurice were the parents of at least four children: Thomas F. O'Leary (b. 1858, d. 1924) Francis "Frank" O'Leary (b. 1860, d. 1885) Arthur O'Leary (b. 1862, d. ?) Maurice David O'Leary (b. 1864, d. 1927) After Maurice's death, Mary married George Washington Morse. They were the parents of at least seven known children: Ellen "Nellie" Morse (1866-1939), wife of Charles Yorke Dyer George A. Morse (1866-1871) Joseph Marshall Morse (1871-1955) Sarah Grace Morse Davis (1873-1952), wife of Robert Alonzo Davis Lincoln Anthony Morse (1874-1920), husband of 1st Mary Jane Smith, 2nd Eva E. Vosberg Marcella A. Morse (1876-1877) Louisa S. Morse Martin (1878-1939), wife of Stephen S. Martin