King County WA Archives Cemeteries.....Maple Graves Site - Complete Survey
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Niches located in a small grassy area in the parking lot
adjacent to the main administration building for the King
County Airport (Boeing Field).  Jacob Mapel or Maple was one
of the original donation settlers at Van Asselt, later
Duwamish, later Georgetown, now the industrial area of south
Seattle.  His son Samuel Adams Mapel or Maple was one of
eleven children born of Jacob's marriage to Catherine Jane
Adams, at Guernsey County, Ohio.  Jacob died at Meeker (now
Kent), and Samuel died at Duwamish, within four years of
each other.  The community burying ground (named variously,
but generally called Comet Lodge) was becoming established
on the hill above Georgetown and they were buried there. 
The remains of Jacob and Samuel Maple, father and son, were
disinterred from the Comet Lodge Cemetery abt 1939 by their
descendants, cremated, and returned to the land which was
their original donation claim.  For a decade the ashes were
in a display cabinet inside the lobby of the King County
Airport terminal.  However, when the terminal was converted
to an administration building the ashes were retired to a
concrete vault in the parking lot.  Marked by descendants in
1950, and registered as a county historic landmark for the
centennial of the settling of Seattle, the graves site is a
local curiosity.  Samuel Maple has an abandoned marker still
in place at Comet Lodge.  Surname spelling varies in the
contemporary records but is given as shown on the marker.

Last Name     First Name    Middle Name   Birth        Death        Comment
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Maple         Jacob                       9 May 1798   2 Sep 1884   b in PA d in WA Terr
Maple         Samuel        Adams         15 Dec 1827  23 Jul 1880  b in OH d in WA Terr



Additional Comments:
accompanying photographs taken 14 Oct 2005 with permission of the King County
Airport

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