Name
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Lot
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Block
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History
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GPS Lat.
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GPS Lon.
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Backenstos,
J.S.
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47
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8M
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Lt. Col., Commander 1st Military
Force to arrive in Oregon
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000.0000
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000.0000
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Barrell,
Aurelia & Coburn
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1
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1
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founders of Mt. Crawford
Cemetery, later called Lone Fir.
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Beck, John
Al
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2
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9M
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Jeweler in
Portland, wife's stone is a simple slab as she died in need though
originally was a very elegant jeweled woman.
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Brown,
Archie
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36
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9
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On
august 23, 1878, they robbed a pawn shop, knocked the owner out and
ran. A constable tried to stop them and they shot at him, missed
and hit a boy, Louis Joseph. They made their escape but were
captured, tried, convicted and hung.
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Johnson,
James
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Caples,
William, Dr.
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31
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16
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First practicing physician
in Portland |
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Ceaser,
Julius
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231
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19
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Loved baseball. When
greeted would reply, "Play Ball". This legend is on his grave
stone. Written up in "Ripley's Believe It or Not" column.
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Chapman,
J.A.
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36
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3
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Mayor, city of Portland, for
three terms, 1867-1868; 1875-1877; 1882-1885
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Chapman,
William, W., Col
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7
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7M
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One of the main factors in
making Portland a city, establishing trade, etc., named paper "The
Oregonian".
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Cole,
George E.
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61
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6
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Former postmaster, City of
Portland.
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Curry,
George Law
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75
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6
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Governor, State of Oregon, 1853-?
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Dekum, Frank
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2H
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18
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Dekum Building was named after
him.
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Dobbins,
Crawford
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1
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1
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Partner of Barrell and was
killed in a steamboat explosion. The cemetery was originally
named after him.
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Dryer,
Thomas J.
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19
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3
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First editor of The Oregonian.
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Evans,
William M.
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53
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8M
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Wells attended
Evans, a young lawyer, when he was ill with typhoid fever and
pneumonia. The two had been friends in Virginia and had come west
together. Soon after Evans died, wells also died. They lie
side by side.
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Wells, John
T. Dr. (USN)
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Frush, W.H.
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16
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2
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Saloon keeper in a bar on 1st
street owned by Coburn Barrell.
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Fuller,
David
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6
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1
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Died in the steamboat explosion
with Dobbins.
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George, Melvin Clark
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19
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10M
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In 1851 at age 2 came to Oregon
over the Old Oregon Trail, Republican member of Congresses
1881-1885, State circuit court 1897-1907, supervised the construction
of the Burnside Bridge. |
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Hawthorne,
James, Dr.
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44
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8M
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Hawthorne Blvd., was named after
him.
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Hume,
William
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45
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12
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Father of the salmon canning
industry.
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Lake, John
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18
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2
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While all other
burials in the cemetery face east, these three persons had relatives
that requested they face the north toward a group of trees that fringed
the cemetery.
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Lake Eleanor
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Hawthorne,
John
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Lane, Harry
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51
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9
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Mayor of the City of Portland
for one term 1905-1909
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Lovejoy,
Asa L.
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50
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8M
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Flipped coin with F.W.
Pettygrove to name the city the two of them founded. Lovejoy lost
and the city was named Portland instead of Boston.
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Lownsdale,
D.H.
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24
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1
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Lownsdale Square was named after
him.
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The
Macleary vault
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3
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17
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Built in 1877 for $13,500 (over
a quarter million dollars in today's money) by Don Macleay of whom
"Macleay Park" is named.
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McNemee,
Hannah
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67
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1
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First or second pioneer child
born in Oregon.
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Millard,
Emma
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24
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2
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Organist of the Presbyterian
Church which stood where the Dekum Building now stands.
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Mitchell,
Michael
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64
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west
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He was a jig dancer who was
locked out of his rooming house and was found frozen the next
morning. Inscription reads, "Here lies one who has taken steps,
that won the applause of men."
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Morris,
Rodney B.
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59
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8
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Son of Bishop B.W. Morris.
He died at the age of 19, while trying to save the lives of three
people.
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Murray,
Hiatha
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42
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22
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Original owner of
the cemetery land.
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Murry,
Seldon
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Ordway, Elliot
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1A
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18
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First person in the cemetery to
be buried during the Spanish American War.
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Riley,
Robert "Earl"
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47
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8
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Mayor of the city of Portland
from 1940 - 1948
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Robb, John
W.
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1
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9
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Murdered in Astoria
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Roeder,
Frederick
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3A
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6M
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Drowned-stone in replica of
disaster that took his life.
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Rowe, Henry S.
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69
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8M
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Mayor of the City of
Portland from 1900 - 1902
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Stephens, Emmor
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18
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1
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Original burial in 1846 on son's
farm prior to sale to Coburn Barrell.
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Stephens, Elizabeth
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18
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1
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Original owners of
the first ten acres of the cemetery. Their monument is very
interesting. On one side it shows them as they were, carvings
made from a photograph of them. On the other side the inscription
reads, "Here we lie by consent after 57 years, 2 months, 2 days
sojourning on earth awaiting nature's immutable laws to return us to
the elements of which we were formed".
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Stephens, James B.
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Simpson, Samuel L.
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21
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13
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Poet. As he was
about to drowned himself in the Willamette river he reflected on its
serenity and its peacefulness. He had a change of heart and
instead wrote the poem "Beautiful Willamette"
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Thayer, William Wallace
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47
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22
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Sixth Governor of Oregon - 1878
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Tryon, Socrates H.
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11
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10M
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After completing
his medical degree, Dr. Tryon moved from Vermont to Hawaii. In
1849, he left
Lahaina and moved to Oregon and settled on 645
acres in Tryon Creek canyon. At age 39 Dr. Tryon died of sciatic
rheumatism. In the 1970's the Tryon Creek area became the world's
first
state park in a city, the first with a management plan, the first with
a nature center, and the first with an "all-abilities" walking trail. |
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