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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Out on 82nd ave and Foster Rd was the old
Piggly Wiggly</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Market, open but plenty of fresh
veggies. Down the Road</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">a piece was the veterans hospital on the left
side a few</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">blocks from Raymond Court. We used to go
down an</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">talk with the Civil War vets.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Down by the BobWhite theater was were the
street car</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">tracks veered of the main route. Up the
street was an old</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">hardware store that had a two headed fawn in
its window.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">My grandfather got tickets from the local
Signal Oil SS on</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">pre WWII about SE 66th Ave., and we go to see
the Johnny Carson</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">show in Portland with Vera Vague and all the
crew. In about</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">'39 I attended the old Arletta Grammar Shcool
and had a teacher</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">that had taught my mother. I had stayed
for a time with my</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">grandparents due to my mother's
illness.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">My father worked for the Francis Motor Car
Co., and I</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">can still draw a picture of what it looked
like inside.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Gene</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</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>
<DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<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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