BOWLUS CEMETERY

MILTON, OREGON

This list compiled by Garland E. Wilson in 1979

Courtesy of Frazier Farmstead Museum

www.museum.bmi.net

Located East of Milton-Freewater at base of Government Mountain on the old stagecoach road from Walla Walla to the North Fork of the Walla Walla River.  It is now farmed by Tremayne Rae.  The earliest grave found here was Alexis E. Osborn in 1874.  One plot of sunken stones show the 8 graves of the J.M. & Martha Willard children who all died in 1878 of diphtheria. 

The cemetery was located on the original Lewis Bowlus Farm and according to the State of Oregon Department of Transportation cemetery survey published in 1978 it is listed as starting in 1873; has 25 – 100 burials; 5 acres in size; and abandoned.

The records in this survey was taken from inscriptions from tombstones, family records, newspaper accounts and obits and other genealogical sources.  No records have been found of this cemetery and from the size - we assume there are many more burials.  This list compiled in 1979.

BOWLUS CEMETERY

 

LAST NAME

FIRST NAME

BORN

DIED

COMMENT

Beeson

Infant

 

1883

 

 

Clarkson L.

1871

1882

 

 

Mary F.

1883

1888

 

Blazier

Ida M.

10 Oct 1870

24 Nov 1885

 

 

Rose Lee

8 Jun 1879

15 Dec 1880

 

 

Walter

1 Sep 1883

16 Sep 1883

 

Bowlus

Alten Delbert

2 Sep 1879

18 May 1881

s/o Lewis & Sarena

 

John Henry

6 Apr 1991

20 May 1881

“             “

Bunch

Charles, Sr.

1798

25 May 1877

Age 79

Caup

Michael

25 Dec 1805

23 May 1881

 

Chapman

David

10 Apr 1828

19 Oct 1887

 

 

Infant

 

 

n/d s/o David & Sarah

 

Sarah

21 Sep 1837

18 Sep 1899

W/o David

Cockburn

Aris Mabel

1889

22 Oct 1913

Age 25 w/o G.S.

Church

Andrew

25 Dec 1814

4 Oct 1895

 

 

Martha A.

23 Dec 1839

10 Apr 1896

 

 

Mary Ann

28 Apr 1821 OH

13 Jan 1902

W/o Andrew

Nee Gunsaules

 

Mary L.

26 May 1876

2 Aug 1876

D/o W.A. & M.A.

 

Maude

28 Sep 1882

21 Sep 1883

“           “

Davidson

?

1882

26 Dec 1897

Age 5 s/o John

Demaris

Enoch, Sr.

21 Mar 1813

3 Nov 1887

 

 

Mary

11 Jan 1830

5 Oct 1904

2nd wife of Enoch

Dehaven

Mary M.

?

1991

W/o Eugene

Duncan

Infant

?

11 Nov 1893

D/o John

Furrow

John K.

13 Nov 1883

26 Oct 1895

 

 

Walter E.

?

19 Feb 1894

 

Freeman

Max J.

17 Jul 1920

20 Mar 1903

 

Garred

A.W.

15 Jun 1930

1 Dec 1899

 

 

Mary Serilda

11 Oct 1870

27 May 1873

D/o Henry & Lucretia

Good

Nancy J.

1849

1941

M1 William Michael

M2 David White

M3 William A. Good

 

W.A.

19 Feb 1863 KY

1938

S/o Louis & Louise

m. 12 jan 1893 to

Nancy J. White

Gordon

Alison R.

16 Dec 1869

19 Jul 1898

Milton Eagle states his father, mother, brother buried here.

Graham

Levina

?

18 Oct 1882

W/o John

Groom

David M.

19 Jan 1832

18 Mar 1909

m. Mary Garred

 

J.B.

1879

23 May 1907

S/o David M.

Harris

Laura Church

12 Aug 1868

1 Oct 1946

 

Hellberg

Christian

15 Nov 1894

27 Mar 1989

 

 

Margretta

21 Apr 1891

10 Aug 1891

 

 

William

23 Mar 1901

9 Aug 1901

 

Hetherington

Benjamin Franklin

11 Feb 1843

25 May 1913

 

Hetzer

Christine

1815

21 Feb 1892

Age 77

 

John

1815

1882

Age 67

Hill

Edgar

1849

19 Jul 1924

b. Alberta Canada

 

Edna S.

1895

13 Dec 1903

Age 18 d/o Edgar

 

Wilber H.

1890

1972

 

 

Bertha

Feb 1886

13 Dec 1903

D/o Edgar & Edna S.

Irons

Nellie E.

18 Nov 1877

12 Oct 1901

W/o Baily

 

Baily P.

1864

11 Oct 1929

 

Kelley

Anna M.

1881

5 Feb 1904

Age 23 w/o J.E.

 

Helen Iris

April 1913

7 Oct 1917

Age 4-1/2 d/o J.N.

 

Louis Glenn

May 1817

14 Oct 1917

Age 5 mo. S/o J.N.

 

Mathias

1 Apr 1832

19 Jan 1905

 

 

Patrick Jasper

1837

13 Jun 1918

m. Sarah Jane Warren

Lawrence

Lydia M.

?

Feb 1880

D/o J.A. & M.J. Lawrence

 

Minnie A.

23 Feb 1891

19 Sep 1891

“        “         “

McCumber

Arkley

15 Oct 1903

27 Jan 1904

S/o Matt

 

Ella Anna

1919

19 Jan 1920

4m 23d d/o Robert

Mackey

Nancy E.

1842

10 Feb 1912

70y 4 d

Maxon

Sydney

188?

188?

 

Merrick

Joseph E.

1886

1935

Age 49

Michael

George Delbert

29 Mar 1876

1 Apr 1877

S/o G.W. & N.J.

 

L.B.

31 Dec 1877

5 Oct 1905

 

 

G.W.

21 Nov 1840

Nov 1877

 

 

W.E.

7 Mar 1874

19 Jul 1902

 

Morris

Jack

?

8 Feb 1906

S/o Thomas Morris

Morrison

Nora, nee Ross

?

3 Nov 1898

m. Henry Morrison

Osborn

Alexis E.

June 1875

4 Jul 1875

1m s/o B. & Osborn

 

Lessie E.

1884

18 May 1885

1y 6m d/o B. & J.

 

Louisa

1 Jun 1836

22 July 1910

 

 

Malinda

1859

16 Jul 1879

19y 5m 10d

 

Retta B.

1870

8 Feb 1881

11y 2m

Osborne

Willie

1822

15 Oct 1898

76y 2m (same plot as Osborn’s

Owen

Helen

1906

1906

Stillborn d/o Wm. Levi Owen & Della May White

Post

Ezra B.

19 Nov 1851

19 May 1891

 

 

Orabell

1880

26 Feb 1881

1y 2m 10d d/o E.B. & M. Post

Ross

David G.

20 Mar 1836 KY

21 Oct 1917

 

 

James S.

1860

12 Mar 1914

d. Pendleton OR

Sample

David

 

 

N/d’s

 

Mandy

 

 

N/d’s

 

Henry Manford

18 Apr 1868

26 Feb 1922

 

Smith

A.C.

1836

8 Jan 1905

68y 9m

Stark

Cynthia

1838 Indiana

18 Dec 1911

Age 73

 

George

10 Dec 1861

29 Apr 1926

S/o John Stark and Cynthia Adams

 

John

1838

27 Sep 1915

At The Tanks OR

87y 7m 12d

Stout

Amanda nee Hargus

16 Jun 1830

21 Mar 1907

 

Stumpf

Neva Marie

16 Aug 1928

Yakima WA

26 Apr 1931

D/o Carl Stumpf &

Elsie Garred

Summers

Robert

Nov 1829

30

Dec 1880

 

Robert E.

9 Dec 1880

25 Mar 1881

3m 19d s/o Robert & Caroline

Vonderahe

F.W.

14 Oct 1842

26 Jul 1907

64y 9m 12d

Wallace

Martha

1842 KY

23 Aug 1903

Nee Michell

White

David C.

17 Apr 1826

55 May 1891

 

 

Cynthia M.

1835

9 Jan 1877

41y 2m 7d w/o David

 

P.A.

16 Apr 1882

22 Sep 1896

 

Wilder

David

1878

26 Dec 1896

Age 18 s/o A/F/ Wilder

Williams

Henry E.

13 Jun 1871

14 Nov 1877

 

 

John W.

31 Mar 1840

23 Apr 1897

H/o Anna F.

 

Robert Z.

2 Feb 1841

30 Sep 1925

 

Willard

Anna L.

25 Nov 1877

16 Aug 1876

8m 22d d/o J.M. & Martha

 

Charles W.

2 Feb 1869

8 Sep 1878

9y 7m 6d s/o above

 

Elizabeth J.

31 Oct 1875

4 Sep 1878

2y 10m 4d d/o above

 

Ellen

?

10 Aug 1883

D/o above

 

George M.

21 Oct 1872

19 Aug 1878

S/o above

 

Johnson M.

19 Feb 1831

13 May 1917

H/o Martha

 

Martha

20 Dec 1839

24 Aug 1913

W/o Johnson M.

 

Mary F.

18 Jan 1871

20 Aug 1878

7y 7m 2d d/o J.M. & Martha

 

Tabitha

27 Apr 1863

28 Aug 1878

15y 4m 14d above

 

Ulysses H.

19 Jan 1868

29 Aug 1879 ?

11y 7m 10d above

Wood

James

1894

1895