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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2><A href="http://oregonmag.com/RichWColumn204.htm"><FONT face=Arial color=#0033cc size=2><B>Oregon</B> Magazine</FONT></A><BR>I also read a while back they want to put in a bigger/taller dam, where Old Chief Joseph's Monument is,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>to raise the water level : ) </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>My grandchildren & I have hung handkerchiefs with Beaded home made things on that big bush next to Old Chief Joseph's Monument. I would miss doing that greatly every time we go to Wallowa lake, if they destroyed it all : (</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Right close to his monument are also several graves of pioneer family & I forgot there names right off, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>But I do have it written down some where. </FONT></DIV>
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<H2>OLD JOSEPH'S GRAVESITE</H2>
<DIV><A href="http://www.fs.fed.us/npnht/virtual/"><FONT face="Lucida Bright" color=#0033cc size=2>VIRTUAL TOUR: Nez Perce National Historic Trail</FONT></A></DIV></FONT></CENTER>
<P><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>The Old Chief Joseph Gravesite, a national historic landmark, is a 5-acre cemetery on the west side of Oregon Highway 82, just north of Wallowa Lake and 1 mile south of Joseph, Oregon. </FONT>
<P><A href="http://www.fs.fed.us/npnht/virtual/monument.jpg"><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2><IMG height=260 alt="Old Chief Joseph Monument" hspace=12 src="http://www.fs.fed.us/npnht/virtual/2monument.jpg" width=187 align=right vspace=12></FONT></A><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>The cemetery is separated from the highway by a cobble wall and gateposts built by the Umatilla Tribal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in between 1938 and 1940. </FONT>
<P><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>This is a sacred and sensitive landmark for the Nez Perce people. </FONT>
<P><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Old Chief Joseph was reburied at this site in 1926. The grave is marked by a tall stone marker bearing the words, "To the Memory of Old Chief Joseph, Died 1870." The beautiful view from the monument is across Wallowa Lake, toward the Eagle Cap Wilderness, including an imposing glacial moraine. </FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>*More good reading>></FONT><A href="http://www.oregongenealogy.com/union/firstsettle.htm"><FONT face=Arial color=#0033cc><FONT size=2><B>First</B> <B>Settlement</B> in Grande Ronde Valley, Union County, <B>Oregon</B></FONT></FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://oregonmag.com/RichWColumn204.htm"><FONT color=#0033cc><FONT face="Lucida Bright"><FONT size=2><B>Oregon</B> Magazine</FONT></FONT></FONT></A><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2> (about) Marr Property at the foot of the (Wallowa).. dug up</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Indian graves when they built Wahluna Terrace (the ranch style homes above the Lake on it’s north end). <BR></FONT></DIV><A href="http://www.fs.fed.us/npnht/virtual/"><FONT face="Lucida Bright" color=#0033cc></FONT></A>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Nancy </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Lucida Bright"><FONT size=2><I><B>From:</B></I> </FONT></FONT><A href="mailto:lmcouch@earthlink.net"><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Leonard Couch</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Lucida Bright"><FONT size=2><I><B>Date:</B></I> 04/09/05 13:42:51</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Lucida Bright"><FONT size=2><I><B>To:</B></I> </FONT></FONT><A href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us"><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Lucida Bright"><FONT size=2><I><B>Subject:</B></I> Re: [or-roots] Homestead of George Charles Gillespie</FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Old Chief Joesph is buried at the foot of Wallowa Lake about 2 miles from</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>the town of Joesph. Which right now some developer wants to build houses</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>right near there.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Leonard Couch</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Auburn Washington ( I was rasied in Wallowa Oregon).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>> From: W David Samuelsen <</FONT><A href="mailto:dsam@sampubco.com"><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>dsam@sampubco.com</FONT></A><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>> Date: 4/9/2005 12:47:30 AM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Homestead of George Charles Gillespie</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>> Nancy Lee Adams wrote:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>> > Clyde,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>> > Maybe your great grandfather, George C. Gillespie came back in 1877 &</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>> > patented the land then.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>> > After the Nez Perce were sent off to Oklahoma & Kansas.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>> No. Only the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce was sent to Oklahoma and Kansas</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>> and finally to Washington state. The Idaho bands are still on the Nez</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Perce</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>> Reservation in Idaho.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>> To this day Chief Joseph the younger is still buried in Washington.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>> The one that's near Enterprise is that of his father Chief Joseph the</FONT></DIV>
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