[or-roots] Historic Cemeteries

[The Strong Family]

Thanks, I should have put more information in from the article, as it goes
into greater detail.  The only death certificate that was filed was from one
of the people identified below, and as the article says, "Settlers buried
their relatives and friends on their homesteads, creating neighborhood
cemeteries.  Such is the Paulina Prairie Cemetery.  ...there were no
churches or funeral homes.  LaPine was a hamlet.  Neighbors helped each
other bury the dead - preparing the body, building the coffin, digging the
grave and performing the service, all on their own."  Filing a death
certificate required riding all the way to Prineville and back...not a
single day trip.

So, those routes have been investigated, but still there are some
unidentified plots.  I'm just hoping someone reading the list might have a
note somewhere about an ancestor who was buried in the area (that isn't
listed in the first message).

Thanks for your help though...they're valuable ideas!

Riki

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "W David Samuelsen" <dsam at sampubco.com>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Historic Cemeteries


> in order to find who might have been buried in this cemetery or any
> other cemeteries, somebody will have to travel to Salem, to
> the State Archives in order to do a manual searching of death
> certificates, checking each one for the county in question.
>
> This is how I was able to learn and identify more burials in
> several historic cemeteries in Baker County, the locals had no
> knowledge of in first place.
>
> And also, check with funeral homes for their older records (they
> are required to keep them, as well as the records of the funeral
> homes they acquired.) The records show where burials were.
>
> And if you have access to present and defunct newspapers of the
> county in question, search for information about deceased persons.
> They usually mention the cemetery.
>
> David Samuelsen

>