[or-roots] Re: [GFO] De Moss

[Eugene Melvin]

Yes a very beautiful place out in the middle of nowhere with a very rich history.  The De Moss cemetery is located a couple miles off highway 97.  I took some pictures while I was there but have not check them out yet.

Eugene Melvin
SW Portland Oregon
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Janice M. Healy 
  To: Eugene Melvin 
  Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 6:58 AM
  Subject: Re: [GFO] De Moss


  >List,
  >
  >Is anyone out there researching the De Moss family?  Dora M. De Moss 
  >is my Great Grandmother.
  >
  >Last Thursday on a whim my wife and I left Portland for Moro, Oregon 
  >and we stop by the Sherman County Museum located in Moro.  To our 
  >surprised the unscheduled volunteers on duty that day was a husband 
  >and wife team whose last name is De Moss. We still are working out 
  >the details as to how we are related.
  >
  >We were greatly impressed with this museum located in a town of 
  >about 300 people.  And of course we spent the next eight hours with 
  >our new found relations going over books and records located in the 
  >museum plus traveling a couple miles North of Moro to visit De Moss 
  >Springs.

  Glad to see that you got to De Moss Springs. Ruth Bishop and I were 
  there in 2000, a lovely spot in the middle of no where.



      Janice M. Healy
      Co-compiler of "Oregon Burial Site Guide"

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