SIMMONS CEMETERY, Yakima County, Washington

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Submitted by Judy Schuster September 27, 2000.  
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Simmons Cemetery, Yakima County, Washington
T13N R18E Sec 13


Capt. James T. Simmons settled in the vicinity of the present 
intersection of 6th Avenue and Fruitvale Blvd., Yakima, Washington
prior to 1867.  At that time he, Mr. Vaughan, and others built a
canal, the ancestor of the present Union Canal.  Capt. 
Simmons' homestead claim was completed January 15, 1878 under 
Certificate No. 240 of the Walla Walla Land Office. 

During the work of the Yakima Valley Genealogy Society on the
records of Tahoma Cemetery, they found the following record:

     "During the month of January 1901 the following 
     32 bodies were removed from the Simmons graveyard 
     to Tahoma Cemetery and buried in the IOOF Section 
     except where noted."

No indication of plot number was found in the cemetery record
for over half of these graves nor were they marked on gravestones.
The Society was not able to learn much about Capt. Simmons or 
about most of the persons whose bodies were moved.  Please note that
the actual list only accounts for 31 bodies. This information was
published in the Yakima Valley Genealogy Society Bulletin.  
Permission for the use of that published information was granted 
by YVGS on November 6, 1999.  


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NAME                          BIRTH              DEATH

NELSON, Emma F. (city plot 138)                  21 July 1890
MABRY, Walter P. (city plot 138)                 7 August 1873
MABRY, Margaret (city plot 138)                  17 October 1872
BECK, Leonard (city plot 125)
BECK, Margaret (city plot 125)                   22 March 1887
BECK, Lizzie (city plot 125)                     28 April 1887
FARMER, J. W. (IOOF plot 16)
BECK, Miss Jennie (IOOF plot 16)
VAUGHAN, Charley  (Masonic plot 36)
VAUGHAN, Thomas N. (Masonic plot 36)
VAUGHAN, Martin N. (Masonic plot 36)
VAUGHAN, Judson
GIBBS, Mary Jane
BENNETT, George
BENNETT, John
HIETT, Jessie
REED, Barbara
McQUEEN, Miream
SIMMONS, Martha (Masonic plot 11)
SIMMONS, Lizzie
SIMMONS, Susanna
SIMMONS, Angeline
SIMMONS, Elmer
CHASE, William
WOOLEY, 3 children
WARREN, 2 children
GOODWIN, child
DAVIS, child