My channel is primarily dedicated to pioneer and cemetery history in the state of Oregon and Washington.
My channel focuses on the interesting stories of Oregon pioneers and visiting the older cemeteries in Oregon not so visited these days. From civil war vets to the father of cheese you never know what interesting stories we'll come across during our cemetery visits.
My hope is to bring not only entertainment to my subscribers but to remember the individuals from the past that sacrificed so much for us to enjoy what we have in the Pacific Northwest.
I will also update the description in my past videos if something needs corrected, information is inaccurate that I presented, or if something new comes up.
If you have a particular cemetery in Oregon or Washington you recommend please feel free to comment!
INRI stands for Jesus of Nazereth, King of the Jews / Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum in Latin, what the Romans were supposed to have mockingly put on the cross where they crucified Jesus. Growing up Catholic, it was on pretty much every crucifix hanging on the wall in classrooms etc. I feel like seeing that on a gravestone might indicate a Catholic; I don't know that I've ever seen it used by other Christian traditions, but I'm not sure.
Thank you so much for this video. Henry Noble was my great-great grandfather who came over on a wagon train. My mother told me, though I don’t know how true it was that he had 20 children some who died on the Oregon Trail. Unfortunately, Meek was supposed to be an experienced wagon trail leader got lost. He led people around through a desert where some of Henry’s children died. According to the book, “The Terrible Trail”, Henry was going to hang Meek. I guess Henry didn’t follow through on his threat because Meek survived. Like you said, Henry homesteaded on a large piece of land and donated a portion to the cemetery. He also gave a chunk of property to my great grandfather who sold it. With the money, my great grandfather, James Noble, bought a farm on Bald Peak where my son and his wife live to this day.
Thanks for sharing your family history! Interesting stories surrounding Meek for sure...Noble was one of my favorite trips, hidden gem out in the country with amazing stories.
There's free parking at the coordinates below, end of East Second Avenue Google Maps will help: 45°41'05.9"N 121°23'30.3"W Walkthrough the retirement home parking lot. Then make your way to Mosier Plateau Trail
Just laid to rest my Aunt Susan there this afternoon next to her Mother and Father's gravestone. A few Scotts and quite a few Collins from my father's side are buried there, as well as some family friends. I found this video yesterday and have been sharing it with family. Much less muddy in the summer, but just as peaceful. Thank you for posting this video.
Great Channel! In Marion Co., there’s an old overgrown pioneer cemetery (mostly mennonites that settled the surrounding Whiskey hill area) on a hill between Hubbard and Aurora… It was basically completely lost and overgrown for probably 50+ years (completely inaccessible unless you crawled and hacked away at the underbrush) until a few people cleared it out about a decade ago. at one point there were wooden tombstones there when I originally crawled around and found and explored it 20+ years ago, but they were rotted and completely illegible. The coordinates are 45.18619° N, 122.74396° W Enjoy, Andy
I am from Akron, Ohio. This cemetary is next to a lodge now managed by the National Park Service, and is also a performance site. I was going to get tickets about 25 years ago and noticed the cemetary and walked through it. At that time, there were at least 80 headstones that aren't there now. They were mostly limestone, and many were no longer readable. The ones I could read all had Irish names, many included the Irish county of birth, and the dates on them were very close to the years of digging the Ohio Canal, which runs nearby. Most of the canal workers were Irish. None of the park rangers could give me any history of the cemetary. No idea who removed or maybe stored the headstones nearby.
Now that's interesting about the headstones and odd the Park Rangers couldn't be helpful. Typically they have the backstory on a lot of landmarks and are expected to know basic local history. Then again a lot of historical cemeteries are being forgotten and left behind sadly. I will say that cemetery was one of the odder ones I've visited. Thanks for sharing!
And i would not hike down to the rock quary unless you wanna spend the night in county jail. And yes you can get the key at the fire depot but you have to have family i believe buried their in order to get the key. And wow the tour that place has been cleaned up and looks great. That concret square at 18:56 is the baby grave plot
So their is a even more sinister things with this cemetery. If you go to the far back to the tree line. And venture in finding the old path way. Look up in the trees and youll see rope in the trees from people being hung their. When i was a teenager their used to be a skeleton of the last person that got hung their. Its just past the plot that has or had railing around it. It was a baby that died Oh you just mentioned it as i wrote that Their is a an old overgrown path past that site. Into the trees line. Probably all gone by now. This was thirty years ago. Been a long time since i been up their.
So their is a even more sinister things with this cemetery. If you go to the far back to the tree line. And venture in finding the old path way. Look up in the trees and youll see rope in the trees from people being hung their. When i was a teenager their used to be a skeleton of the last person that got hung their. Its just past the plot that has or had railing around it. It was a baby that died Oh you just mentioned it as i wrote that Their is a an old overgrown path past that site. Into the trees line. Probably all gone by now. This was thirty years ago. Been a long time since i been up their.
We went there when our kids were little, it’s a beautiful resting place with old tombstones. Lots of little young children buried there. Stayed for maybe 15-20 minutes. Enjoyed the beautiful sunshine and flowers. Said a little prayer. Got into the car and was buckling my youngest into her car seat. I look at her face and there are scratches on both of her cheeks. I know she wasn’t scratching herself, or her sisters scratching her….i was watching them the whole time ! She didn’t cry at any point during our visit either. Kinda creepy. Haven’t been back since! My youngest daughter was maybe 14-18 months old when this took place. Less than 2 years old. So she wasn’t speaking a lot yet to tell me what happened. I just remember asking her if she has an owie and she calmly replied “no”. So weird !!
A familiar cemetery to me, as William & Elizabeth Whitney are my ancestors. My mother’s first cousin was married to a descendent of F. X Matthieu (pronounced “Matthew”). I hope your videos inspire people to help preserve pioneer cemeteries. I think the symbol & Latin on Amos Hovenden’s headstone is Knights Templar Symbol. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_hoc_signo_vinces He wasmy great great Grandfather. You might want to visit Zoar Cemetery in Canby. early Scandinavian pioneers.
Thanks very much for commenting! And thanks for the historical information. I'll definitely add Zoar Cemetery to the list. From my visits its looking like the old pioneer cemeteries are barely hanging in there. Luckily local town volunteers appear to have a lot of pride in taking care of them. However I have run into some pretty forgotten beat up ones that most likely will be lost in time within the next 20 years.
Robert & Rachel Bird were my 3rd great grandparents. Their son William was buried there. As was their granddaughter Nancy Bird Crisell. Glad you got to visit on a sunny day. A view of the lovely surroundings would be a good thing to add. 38:04 38:04
@@MJ-vn6gu I may have traced your line to people in Hillsboro. My Mom is gone, but knew some of your people, l’m sure. Thru Tualatin Historical Society.
Thanks very much, quiet cemetery overall and nice drive. Pretty country. I would like to make it further south one of these days, some good visits in southern Oregon.
My Grandmother and Grandfather are buried here. Effie and Edward Kommer. Buxton was a great place with lots of memories. Loved the train trussel and the Food and Feed Store. My Grandfather was a butcher in the feed store. We loved going there. Thank you for the memories.
It’s actually “Hill” Cemetery: named for the Hill family and not the geologic feature on which the place is sited. The Hill house, one of the oldest in the region, is just down the road. Newer maps appear to have begun calling it “Hills”, relatively recently.
I’m trying to gather information about my ancestors but I’m interested in the past and where they might be buried dad said we’re like flea’s we’re everywhere 😂😂 but that includes my mom’s family too how do I start with the cemeteries
A good start is findagrave.com, it's sorta a baseline search engine. You can break the search down by state location, last name, cemetery, etc. if you have some known information. If you need something more in depth/document wise ancestry.com is great but its pay to use. However, most libraries offer it free if you have a library card. Depending on where you are in the country the local historical society can help, every county usually has one or a city group. If your family history is tied to the Oregon Trail you can check out Oregon Pioneer data bases online about families and last names that traveled by year.
I'm not sure, this was such a long time ago I can't remember. I do plan on doing a second visit at this cemetery in the future though and will keep an eye out for that name.
Enjoyed your video. FYI at the end you showed the Sears stone. Just right of it is Jacob Sears and Ada Estella McKee. Their son Ernest Sears graduated from Harvard and was a professor in grain genetics in Missouri where he created special wheat varieties for China and Israel plus others. He won many awards and the Missouri research center is named for him. His wife Lotte was a fellow researcher. Shortly before the end you walked between the vertical stone of John William McKee and Missouri Glenn with Father and Mother stones left and right, and on the left was the red stone of Bob, John and Clara McKee. John William McKee, Missouri Glenn, her mother and father (Caswell Glenn and family) plus John and Missouri McKee's first son Bob were one of the few that sailed from Central City, Missouri down the Mississippi, around cape horn and up to norther California. They came north to Polk County, Oregon in 1873. West Salem's Glenn Creek Rd is named for Caswell Glenn and his family. They are buried at the Salem Pioneer Cemetery. The John William McKee family including wife Missouri Glenn and most of their 9 children and families are all buried in the Bethel Cemetery near the trees in the north-east corner. They include the McKee's, Iiams, Master, Grimes, Graves and of course Ida Estella McKee married name Sears. This is a great cemetery to visit. Thank you for showing it.
@@forgottencemeteriesofthepn6031 Just a mile or two east is the Zema Cemetery at the Spring valley church. It too is loaded with history, but is much smaller. That was due to John Waite leasing out his place to arriving immigrants. The history of Zena, Oregon is qite interresting history.
@@billmeade1073 Oh good recommendation, i'll check that one out! Hopefully the church is cool with me visiting. Looks like I'll have to do a writeup and a road trip down south. Thanks!
@@forgottencemeteriesofthepn6031 Oh I am so glad to hear this I am writing about it to the Canby Historical society in October and I am very interested in what you dig up and find.
@@forgottencemeteriesofthepn6031 That is awesome! I am doing a write-up about the cemetery for the Canby Historical Society in October. I am excited to see what you say about it always interested in non families opinions. Also, Chech out the Buttville Cemetery and the newly placed markers for the Boones family.
Louisiana Tennessee is my Great Great Grandfather Endymion Baker wife Sarah jane tuckness both Buried at Pleasant View Cemetery in Sherwood Oregon. My Great Great Grandfather Endymion came across th Plains by Ox-cart on the Oregon Trail with 3 Children. Sephronia was the oldest Louisiana was Next & Eliza jane the youngest. They settled in the Willamette Valley and lived & had a Century Farm along with 6 more Children. My Grandfather being one of them. Edward Lafayette Baker also buried in our family Cemetery in Sherwood Oregon. Pleasant View Cemetery. Donated by Moses Baker. Thank you so much for sharing this video. I looked & looked for this Cemetery because. My Great Great Grand parents are also buried here. The Harris's. My Father's first Cousin Elsie Crissel actually helped me find it. I've taken 2 of my cousins here since. In fact last time when we came someone had really fixed it up nicely. The first time it was like what your going thru. Tall Weeds & Brush. My Great Great Grandparents are the Harris's up to the top & to the right. I see you found one of the Harris's but there a at least a few more buried here. I have 40+ years of searching family history. I have pictures of quite a few that are buried here.my Dad's cousin Elsie said when she was young they would come to picnics here. She was a Century Farmer from Arora Oregon.. i also have a ton of History on the Bonney Family. In fact Truman Bonnie that Married Louisiana. ..they Called her Aunt Truman my Father told me. I hope this helps whit some of the History of this Cemetery. My Full Name is Sharyl Baker Cherwa. ..Baker is my Maiden Name. bakercherwas@gmail.com
Thank you for sharing so much information with us! It's good to hear the cemetery got a weed whacking. I've been meaning to get out to Pleasant View Cemetery for awhile and hear it's a nice visit. Do you recommend it? I hope you're doing well and thanks for watching!
I’m just discovering some of your older videos but honestly I am very skeptical of the whole George legend. I came here purposely trying to get him to do something, while it did end up being one of my best investigations capturing some good evidence, I think George is innocent. Based on what we captured we have suspicion that if the stories are true it’s from an Albert not a George. I’ll be revisiting this place again and will rewatch your video when I do to get as much info as I can. Definitely subscribing as well to see what other cool locations/legends there might be in the PNW
Yeh I didn't care much for the legend too. Not sure if its some local legend to scare the kids. That story of the mine incident was interesting though. Take care of yourself, never know what you might encounter 🙂 Thanks for watching!
