King County WA Archives Cemeteries.....Old Seattle Downtown (White Church) Cemetery - Partial Survey More to Come
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Loretta-Marie Dimond genehisthome1@comcast.net February 13, 2008, 8:26 pm

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The White Church, Seattle's first house of worship, was a 
frame Methodist Episcopal church erected next to an 
existing cabin converted to parsonage, on land donated 
from the claim of Carson Boren, at the SE corner of Second 
and Columbia Streets; it was dedicated on 12 May 1855 and 
stood as a church for about eleven years, then became 
progressively a gambling hall, a saloon, a restaurant, and 
a theatre; inexplicably, the site was spared by the Great 
Seattle Fire of 6 Jun 1889, although the building just to 
the south of it was consumed; the site has been 
redeveloped several times, and is presently occupied by a 
lobby annex built for the Seattle-First National Bank's 
Dexter Horton Building, leased by the United Way of King 
County; the site of the successor church, of the Free 
Methodist denomination and first built in 1865, is three 
blocks to the east; all known graves were relocated to the 
Depot Street Cemetery in the late 1860s-early 1870s.  
Possible interments include those listed below, and the 
present locations of the graves is identified when known.

Last Name     First Name    Middle Name   Birth       Death        Comment
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Denny         Jonathan                    6 May 1867  6 May 1867   1870-1884 Depot St, 1884-present Oak Lake (Evergreen-Washelli)
Johns         Sarah         J             Abt 1839    Abt 1856     Child of Bennett Johns at Depot St from abt 1865, reloc to poss Lake View in 1884
McConaha                                  Abt 1825    1853-1857    Husband of Ursula McConaha, church member, present g.s. unknown
Holgate       Milton        Gilbert       8 Apr 1840  26 Jan 1856  Casualty, Battle of Seattle bur 1856 Maynard Pt, here 1857, Depot St abt 1865, now at Lake View



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