McLANE CEMETERY


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McLane Cemetery.
The cemetery was originally canvassed in 1953, and again in 1982.
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McLANE CEMETERY

This cemetery lies on the crest of a small hill overlooking the
McLane Valley and McLane Creek.  The plot is bounded on the north
by US Highway 101 and on the west by Delphi Road SW.  William
McLane settled at Mud Bay near Olympia, WA, in the early 1850's
on a land grant of 360 acres.  Land for a school and cemetery was
deeded by him to the McLane School District on 23 July 1883.  The
cemetery remained in school district ownership until the district
itself was annexed by the Olympia School District in 1965.  In
1968 the Olympia District deeded the cemetery back to the heirs
of the original grantor.  The cemetery has been vandalized and
has fallen into complete disrepair, with only a few grave markers
and stones remaining.  The names and dates for interments in this
cemetery is mainly gleaned from the memories of Margaret Grace
McLane Ramsauer and Elsie McLane Shannon, surviving family
members, and Adah Dye, local historian.


AHERN, Clifford

CHEEKA, Louie                             d 1923?

DUVALL, male adult

HAGEN, Forestad                            source mentioned a "controversy"
                                           about this death and burial

HART, male adult

Kowitzkaka Mud Bay Sam

McCAFFERTY, male adult

McLANE, Jesse

McLANE, Martha McLeod

McLANE, Minnie L.              1882         1892   dates on stone

McLANE, William

Mud Bay Charlie

MURPHY, Gilbert                      03 Apr 1890   age 11, son of S. C. 
                                                   and H. A. Murphy

PETERS, Joe                                        also wife and young son

ROGERS, Brian

SWAN, Minnie Pearl

SWAN, Tom

WELKER, Gus                               d 1929?

WHEELER, small daughter

WHITTAKER, small daughter

ZANDELL, John A.        7 Feb 1838    8 Mar 1898     stone