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<DIV>Hi Carroll, I do have both of their deaths certificates. Both list a
funeral home in the city where they died. Neither death certificates
mentions anything about relocating the body to Portland. Same with the
obituary I found in the Seattle Times for my Great Grand Father. I have
yet to find anything in the Oakland Newspaper. And nothing in the
Oregonian. Did not know about the Park rose newspaper. Will
follow up on that when I get home.</DIV>
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<DIV>Also I have some information about some dairy farms and a military Fort
locate east of Park rose. Also a story about a tree that took eight men
all day to take down because rail road tracks were being laid and this tree
was in the way. As I remember this story my Great Great Grand Father,
Samuel Douglas Melvin, was visiting from Maryland and was so impressed by
the work of these men that he made an all day trip to Portland by horse and
buggy to get a photographer to come out and take a picture. (Wish I had
this picture). This story was relayed to me by my Great Uncle who was born
in Rock way, Oregon. (Now 182nd and Stark Street, Portland, Oregon)</DIV>
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<DIV>Eugene Melvin</DIV>
<DIV>SW Portland, Oregon</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, June 20, 2004 2:09
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [or-roots] Re: [GFO]
Powell Grove Cemetery</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Hi Eugene</STRONG> - <STRONG>This is quite a difficult one. if
you have the death certificates from WA and CA they might help but would
probably not tell you where they were buried. Obituaries? Have you searched
for those? One might be in the place death for each and another in the
Portland Oregonian or Journal. Also, Parkrose at that time had a small,
local newspaper called the Parkrose Enterprise. They might be
obtainable from the Knight Library in Eugene through an interlibrary
loan.</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Parkrose was out of the city of Portland at that time
and I don't recall that there were any mortuaries there. The closest
ones I remember were the Colonial Mortuary in the Hollywood District (they
handled my grandfather in 1947) and Gables Funeral Home in Montavilla. There
may have been some closer but that would take research through the Polk City
Directories of those years and I believe phone books were almost
non-existant. One of the local mortuaries would probably have received
the bodies if they were shipped to Oregon.</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>You are correct in your rememberance of the fuss about the
cemetery being moved. 122nd curved off of Sandy on the west side of the
cemetrey. It made a slight S curve and then straightened out to head south
up the hill towards Halsey. Eventually the problem was reconciled and there
is still a curve but with the additonal lanes going straight past the east
side of the cemetery, leaving it stranded between the roads in a sort
of pyramid shape. Ah, progress. Some buildings were removed rather
than moving the cemetery.</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>I graduated from Parkrose High in 1947 and had lived in
Parkrose from the summer of 1941 until I married and moved to Medford in
1949. Peior to that time we lived in Montavilla but had lived in Parkrose
when I was very small and my grandparents had a dairy farm on 109th and
Simpson.</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Carroll (Cooper) Summers</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Hi Carroll, Living in SW Portland I have been
out to this loving little cemetery many times. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I also found a letter by my grandfather in the
Oregonian complaining about an attempt by the county to move this
cemetery because it wanted to straighten out 122nd avenue (I
believe). </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Anyway I have been in contact with the current
county administrators of this and the other 14 pioneer cemeteries and she
has been very helpful i.e. the 70 pages I mentioned earlier. But the
problem I have incurred is apparently there is no records between the
founding of this cemetery in 1848 and the beginning of the county
administrator in 1949.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The Oregon Historical Society has a book about this
cemetery but it only lists names that appear in the
headstones.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The issue I have is that my Great grand father and
Great grand mother had there marriage annul in 1906. The actual
documents are in the Oregon Archives in Salem. Both
remarried. He died in Seattle, Washington and she died on Oakland,
California.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Now the dilemma. When you go the cemetery you
see a head stone that says Father and Mother. It has the dates
(Year only) that I have for my Great Grand Parents. (Birth and
Death). But who is really buried there? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>And because my Great Grand mother died in 1930 and
Great Grand Father died in 1936. Divorces and annulments were
taboo subjects during this period in our history and they both
remarried. So my dilemma.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Eugene Melvin</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>SW Portland, Oregon</FONT></DIV>
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