BLACK ROCK CEMETERY
(MEEBOER or MEEKER0)
Yakima County, Washington

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Black Rock (Meeboer or Meeker) Cemetery
Yakima County, Washington

Although Metzker's map of Yakima County gives the name of this
inactive cemetery as the Black Rock Cemetery, it is generally 
known as the Meeker Cemetery, for the Meeboer family, who 
changed their name to Meeker.  The Cemetery served the Black 
Rock area, a farming development and village of the turn of the
century which was heavily promoted but failed for lack of water.
Today, the area contains some dryland wheat and cattle operation.
The Cemetery was copied by Jack M. Lines for publication in
the Yakima Valley Genealogy Society bulletin in 1970.  Additional
information about the burials in the cemetery was furnished to 
the society by Mrs. Elsine Brader.  The information from Mrs.
Brader is placed in ( )'s.  Permission for the use of that 
published information was granted by YVGS on November 6, 1999.  

The cemetery is on the eastern edge of Section 24, T. 12N, R22E,
3/4 mile south of Highway 24, six miles west of the junction of
Highway 24 with Highway 241.  It was once apparently a part of the
Meeboer Ranch and is reached by a "jeep" road along the section 
line.
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NAME                          BIRTH              DEATH

ADCOX, Elizabeth (Mrs.)       1853               1917
Two Granddaughters
ADCOX, (Baby)
     (unmarked grave)
CAMERON, (Buster)             (1911)             (1918)
     (unmarked grave)
MEEBOER, Father               (1843)             (13 April 1919)
     (Gysgert Meeboer)
MEEBOER, Mother               (1848)             (8 August 1914)
     (Aartje Meeboer)
MEEBOER, John M.              (21 April 1883)    (13 January 1911)
MEEBOER, Bessie               (30 December 1884) (18 January 1904)
MEEBOER, (Christina)          (7 November 1891)  (1 July 1931)
     (unmarked grave)
SKIDMAN, Edward J.            27 August 1970     5 March 1910
VANDER LIND, (Mr.)
     (unmarked grave)
WHITMIRE (Florence)           (1902)             (1917)
     (unmarked grave)