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Oregon Pioneers
     It is difficult to find two sources that define an Oregon pioneer exactly the same way, but for purposes of this website I have included anyone who lived here before 1872 as a possible pioneer.  That means including those who made the overland journey and also those early settlers who were born in Oregon or the Oregon Territory. This is similar to the definition used by the Oregon Genealogical Society, and is related to the overland migration.  Cross-continental train service became available after 1871 and even though you still couldn't connect directly to Oregon, the journey was much faster and less grueling than crossing the plains and the Rocky Mountains in a wagon. 

       The Oregon Trail began in 1843 and most of these pioneers arrived by that route between 1843 and 1872.  Some traveled by ship around the horn.  Others may have been here prior to 1843 when most Europeans in the territory were French Canadian trappers, but I have no evidence or documentation of that. Most of the early settlers were farmers, loggers, or river workers who established the elaborate system of ferries and steamboats that moved people and goods across and up and down the Willamette. 

       Other sources tie pioneer status to those who resided in the territory before statehood occurred on February 14, 1859, including those who were born here and did not make the journey.  Oregon statute defines pioneer cemeteries as those with burials that predate the fiftieth anniversary of statehood, February 14, 1909.

       Pioneers are listed here as "confirmed" if their headstone mentions pioneer status, if they are listed in the 1850 or 1860 censuses, if they died before 1872, or if I have specific anecdotal information about their history.  Pioneer status is listed as "likely" if they have not been confirmed, but their birth date is prior to 1850.  Their status is listed as "possible" if their birth date is after 1850, but before 1872.  A combination of clues may lead to a judgment call that varies from these parameters.  

If you have information about family members who crossed on the Oregon Trail or are able to document others or assist with the research to identify the pioneers in this pioneer cemetery, I would be eager to hear from you.    

Charlotte

 

 The Pioneers
 

NAME

Confirmed Likely
Possible

YEAR OF ARRIVAL

NATIVITY

 LOT #
Adams, Melinda Baker
1832 - 1913		 C 1853   65
Adams, Tom
1854 - 1907		 C   Oregon 65
Allison, Joseph P.
Abt. 1831 - 1911		 L   Illinois 69
Anderson, James
1863 - 1921		 P     38
Ashpole, Charles
1853 - 1932		 P     74
Ashpole, Mary
1855 - 1951		 P     74
Ashpole, Thomas
            - Abt. 1865		 L   England 74
Atterbury, Mary E.
1844 - 1938		 P     83
Atterbury, Norman P.
1847 - 1898		 L     83
Auringer, A. Edgar
1850 - 1924		 P     211
Badley, Almeda
1827 - 1909		 L   Illinois 112
Bagley, Mary Ellen
1854 - 1933		 P     30
Bagley, Mike
1855 - 1929		 P     30
Bailey, Anna
1797 - 1879		 C 1865 North Carolina 72
Bailey, George S.
1835 - 1923		 C 1865   72
Bailey, George W.
1802 - 1883		 C 1865 North Carolina 72
Bailey, Harriett Elizabeth
1849 - 1934		 L     72
Bailey, John C.
1837 - 1867		 C 1865 Tennessee 72
Baker, Alison
1856 - 1947		 P     67
Baker, Barthenia
1836 - 1901		 L     23
Baker, Charles
1863 - 1945		 P     60
Baker, Elizabeth
Abt. 1788 - 1872		 C   Kentucky 65
Baker, Ellen June
1835 - 1929		 L     26
Baker, Endymian
1812 - 1892		 C   Tennessee 54
Baker, Florence
1861 - 1947		 P     67
Baker, Henry
1816 - 1866		 C   Tennessee 65
Baker, Henry James
1847 - 1937		 L     117
Baker, Henry J.
1858 - 1874		 C   Oregon 67
Baker, Jay
1855 - 1931		 L     118
Baker, John Jehu
Abt. 1784 - 1868		 C   Maryland 65
Baker, Juliette
1868 - 1939		 P   Oregon 60
Baker, Martha J.
1857 - 1943		 L     117
Baker, Mary E.
1851 - 1956		 C   Missouri 116
Baker, Mary E.
1855 - 1933		 C     59
Baker, Moses
1828 - 1912		 L     60
Baker, Sarah E.
1857 - 1919		 L     118
Baker, Sarah J.
1823 - 1899		 C   Tennessee 54
Baker, Terry H. Melvin
1836 - 1919		 L     23
Baker, Thomas
1855 - 1924		 P     59
Baker, W. P.
1834 - 1918		 L     117
Bareno, Willy
1850 - 1912		 P     91
Barber, Jerome
 1851 - 1943		 P     151
Barton
         - Abt. 1889		 P     30
Barton
         - Abt. 1889		 P     30
Beavert, Henry
1838 - 1900		 C 1853 Arkansas 44
Beavert, James
1854 - 1872		 L   Oregon 46
Beavert, Jane
Abt. 1818 - 1902		 L   N. Carolina 46
Beavert, Mary
1839 - 1873		 C   Indiana 44
Beavert, Mina
1869 - 1870		 P   Oregon 44
Bell, J.D.
1842 - 1895		 L     70
Bell, Thomas
1859 - 1889		 P   Iowa 51
Boland, Barbara
1819 - 1908		 L     31
Boland, John
1822 - 1900		 L     31
Boston, John W.
1826 - 1896		 L     45
Boston, Nancy
1840 - 1918		 L     45
Brandt, Charles A.
1834 - 1879

L

  

Russia

 17
Brandt, Fredericka M.
1846 - 1931

L

  

Russia

 17
Bristow, G. R.
1836 - 1896

L

     68
Bristow, James H.
1839 - 1889

L

  

Missouri

 68
Bristow, Narcissa
1941 - 1925

L

     68
Bristow, Robison
1868 - 1872		 P   Missouri 68

Bramhall, Viola
1866-1885

P

 

Illinois

 8
Brobst, Sophia
1856 - 1943

P

     109
Brobst, William
1853 - 1917

P

     109
Brookman, Karl
1856 - 1928

P

     204
Brookman, Marian
1852 - 1931

P

     204
Brown, H. A.
Abt. 1831 - 1910

L

  

Germany

 45

Brunner, Peter
1857 - 1941

P

 

 

 109

Buck, Manford E.
1839 - 1920

L

 

 

 96

Busse, Fredrick
Abt. 1850 - 1926

P

 

 

 211

Butson, John E.
1850-1917

P

 

 

 5
Calkins, Eli
1856 - 1911		 L     48
Calkins, Hannah
1833 - 1906		 L   Pennsylvania 48
Calkins, Olive A.
1846 - 1910		 P     108
Calkins, Sylvanus
1822 - 1901		 L     48
Calkins, William R.
1840 - 1915		 P     108
Camehl, Christian
1827 - 1910		 L   Germany 62
Camehl, Elizabeth
1831 - 1917		 L   Germany 62
Chenaworth, Henrietta
1834 - 1862

L

  

Ohio

 114
Christenson, Emma
Abt. 1851 - 1920

P

     70
Churchill, Thomas F.
Abt. 1857 - 1924		 P     76
Clutter, Flora J.
1852 - 1925

P

     89
Clutter, Isaac
1846 - 1920

P

     89
Coley, T.F. M.
1826 - 1901

L

     79
Comstock, Columbus
1857 - 1939

P

     117
Crow, Almina
1857 - 1947

P

     94

Davis, Francis M.
1851 - 1931

P

 

 

 212

Davis, Nancy E.
1856 - 1954

P

 

 

 212

Edwards, J. S.
1834 - 1904

L

 

 

 105

Edwards, Nancy M.
1837 - 1908

L

 

 Indiana

 105

Ellison, Charles W.
1853 - 1932

P

 

 

 99

Ellison, Elizabeth
Died in 1868

C

 

 

 13

Ellison, Nancy
1824 - 1902

L

 

 Virginia

 99

Elsfelder, George W.
1857-1933

P

 

 

 17

Enos, Elmira E.
1851 - 1924

P

 

   155

Epler, John H.
1836-1909

L

 

Pennsylvania

 2

Epler, S. Jane (Zumwalt)
1850-1932

C

1850

Missouri

 2
Feaster, Martha
1830 - 1871		 L     43
Fields, Nelson
         - 1856		 P   Tennessee 30
Fields, William
         - 1860		 P   Missouri 30
Fitch, John C.
1847 - 1925		 P     87
Fletcher, David
1839 - 1935		 L     98
Fletcher, Fanney
1846 - 1918		 L     98
Fosner, Ignatius
1837 - 1927		 L     37
France, Martin B.
1834 - 1885		 L     115
France, Martin C.
            ?		 L     115
France, Sophrona J.
1843 - 1937		 P     115
Franklin, Lucinda F.
1840 - 1871		 C 1850 Missouri 57

Frye, Martha Ann
Abt. 1853 - 1936

P

     104

Gagne, Emma
1859 - 1949

P

 

 

 113

Graham, John Wallace
1834-1899

C

1858

Scotland

 33
Graham, Matilda Clementine
1844 - 1942

C

1850

Missouri

 33
Gregg, William R.
1833 - 1903		 L   Illinois 112
Hall, Arthur C.
1843 - 1818		 P     101
Hall, Celina
1855 - 1938		 P     101
Hall, John
1800 - 1876		 C   Ohio 76
Hall, John J.
1829 - 1893		 L     16
Hall, Sarah J.
1831 - 1898		 L     16

Harris, Mary
Died in 1868

C

 

 

 15

Hasselbrink, Bertha W.
1860-1899

P

 

Minnesota

 14

Hayes, Emma-Bell
1854-1937

P

 

 

 215

Hayes, George
1851-1937

P

 

 

 215

Haynes, A. Josephine
1846-1913

L

 

Indiana

 6
Heater, Amelia
1858 - 1919		 P     41
Heater, Mary
1856 - 1936		 P     20
Heater, Noah
1848 - 1920		 L     41
Heater, Peter
1851 - 1926		 P     20
Heater, William Cornelius
1824 - 1908		 L     93
Herron, Daniel
1824 - 1908		 L   Indiana 58
Herron, Rebecka
1836 - 1906		 L   Indiana 58
Holmes, Charles
1838 - 1917

L

     62
Holznagel, August F.
1856 - 1940

P

     208
Holznagel, Louise
1856 - 1925

P

     208

Iler, David
1831-1898

C

 1850

Pennsylvania or Ohio

 11

Iler, Naoma
1841-1923

C

 1852

 Illinois

 11
James, Anna
1828 - 1886

L

  

Ireland

 42
James, Martin
1818 - 1882

L

     42

Jay, Miralda
1855-1936

P

 

 

 98

Jeager, John C.
1839 - 1911

P

 

Germany

 27

Jeager, Marie
1840 - 1912

P

 

Germany

 27

Johnson, Charles
1841-1920

L

 

Sweden

 1
Johnson, W. P.
1838 - 1912		 L   Ohio 79
Jones, Hugh
1838 - 1893		 L   Sweden 52
Jones, Mary
1840 - 1910		 L     52
Jones, R.
1815 - 1975		 L   New Hampshire 80
Jones, Rodney
1847 - 1904		 L   Illinois 80
Jones, Saphronica
1858 - 1931		 P     80
Kelso, Clara
1855 - 1937		 P     97
Kelso, Samuel
1853 - 1917		 P     97
Kiser, Abie
Abt. 1846 - 1936		 P     21
Kiser, Calvin
Abt. 1846 - 1906		 P   Ohio 21
Kosbob, Emma C.
1855 - 1899		 P     29
Kramien, Gustav
Abt. 1849 - 1843		 P     40
Kramien, John
1814 - 1877		 L   Germany 40
Kramien, William
1850 - 1933		 P     40

Larson, Fred
1853 -1908

P

 

Sweden

 1

Larson, Ida G.
1852 -1909

P

 

Sweden

 29
Lechner, Barbara
1851 - 1928		 P     61
Lentz, Jacob
Abt. 1830 - 1894		 L     22
Lentz, Lousia
Abt. 1835 - 1896		 L     22
Lichtenthaler, Auregene
1849 - 1878		 L     19
Lichtenthaler, Harrison B.
1849 - 1878		 C 1853 Pennsylvania 19
Loney, Edward
1804 - 1905		 Pioneer of
Nebraska		   North Carolina 35
Loney, Mary
1826 - 1895

Pioneer of Nebraska

  

Ohio

 35
Loring, Abigail
1843 - 1936		 P     87

Loring, George F.
1834 - 1915

L

 

 

 87

Macinaw, R.
Died in 1925, Age 76

L

 

 

 7
McConnell, David
1845 - 1888		 L   Illinois 49
McConnell, Eliza
1847 - 1892		 L     50
McConnell, Franklin
1852 - 1879		 P   Oregon 49
McConnell, James
1838 - 1900		 L   Illinois 49
McConnell, John
1810 - 1881		 C   Indiana 49
McConnell, Nelson
1834 - 1907		 C   Illinois 50
McConnell, Urania
1845 - 1937		 L     49
Meeks, Edd
1854 - 1910		 P     43
Meeks, Elizabeth
1845 - 1909		 L   Illinois 43
Meeks, Nancy Jane Roberts
1848 - 1928		 C   Abt. 1847 71
Meeks, Peter
1848 - 1928		 L     43
Moore, Harriet
1856 - 1913		 P     56
Moore, Joseph
1844 - 1909		 L     56
Morgan, Emiline
1824 - 1902		 L     31
Morgan, S. Margaret
1865 - 1910		 P     31
Morgan, William
Abt. 1846 - 1917		 P     31
Mulloy, Alfred
1852 - 1939		 P     52
Mulloy, Alice
1855 - 1903		 P   California 52
Newby, Nathan
1862 - 1866		 P   Oregon 45
Ogg, James
1809 - 1889		 L   Kentucky 41
Parrish, Nancy M.
1852 - 1916		 P     78
Parrett, Elizabeth
1860 - 1936		 P     81
Parrett, Henry
1826 - 1909		 C     99
Parrett, Martha J.
1816 - 1903		 L     99
Parrett, Martha Jane
1845 - 1921		 L