[or-roots] Keizer, OR Cemeteries -- Waconda

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

< <  i have always been told that the waconda cem. is now beneath I-5. 
does anyone know for sure?  in his write-up for his death, it says 
jarius bonney is buried at the waconda cem. but everyone in and around 
that area tells me there is no cem. in that town. -- gary in az > >

Gary --

dates would be helpful -- and do you know just where "that area" is on a 
modern map?  There were two locations in Oregon named Waconda -- the one 
near Gervais was abandonded long before the railroad used the named for 
one of its locations -- railroads typically named a place for about 
every two to five miles of track, whether there was anything there or 
not -- more at: 
http://www.salemhistory.net/transportation/electric_railway_waconda.htm

how this might all tie into the name of Salem's Pioneer Cemetery, I do 
not know

Godspeed!

Bill Strickland
Oregon City, OR
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