Hey Don, I'm still working on Forest View. Have had a lot of Family things come up lately, but when I get the chance, I jump on it!! :) I had my hubby buy me one of those CD-RW discs, so that I can add picture anytime I want to ONE disc. I have a pretty good start on these photos, just need to get names and dates down for them, you know sort of catigorize. I read your email about bull mt. cemetery, I chuckled because I kind of took the message about "Someone to take photos". That would be extremely helpful! I wish I could volunteer, but this one cemetery is enough to last me through the summer! Hopefully there are more folks out there with digital cameras, who will take the initive. Sometimes, the way people transcribe these cemeteries, well, it almost seems like there isn't any kind of "Easy read Format" to put the transcriptions into. I guess everyones style is different. I'm not knocking anyone's style, I'm just kind of a Virgo...you know the trait, gotta have order :) Keep up the good work that you are trying to accomplish for so many! Hope to be in contact with you sometime maybe by end of summer, early fall with a disc full of photos for ya!!! Thanks for being out leader! Shelley Van Loo Cornelius, Oregon ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Kelly Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 10:56 PM To: ORWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WASHINGTON] Cem 99 and Bull Mtn. Rd. OK, about the cemetery on 99W at Bull Mountain Road. The road is marked dead and closed. I didn't drive all the way up, but suspect an expensive home stands where the church once stood. 300 feet up the road, left branch into the cemetery. Plaque at entry says"Sunset Pioneer Cemetery, founded 1886 by Trinity Evangelical Church, Tigard, Oregon, In memory of the Tigerville Pioneers, Maintained by Tigard Breakfast Club, sponsored by Tigard Rotary Club in memory of founder Paul Harris. The cemetery is quite overgrown with ivy and spiders, but the club has cleared most of the family plots (enclosed by cement curbs) and individual stones which are remarkably upright for a hillside setting. Some stone base size holes in the ground, (some appear fresh) mute testimony to stones being removed with a shovel. There is evidence from grave size depressions in the ivy that some burials have no stone, or the stone is gone. Other stones are turned over, many broken, and some have been removed with only the pedestals left......searched the ivy and found no other discarded stones. As evidenced by flowers left there, the site still draws visitors. One site of a baby had a baby's toy placed on top of the stone. I spoke to everyone and told them that though I did not know them, I loved them anyway, especially the children. Many transcriptions are written in German, so I'll need help translating those. The polished marble stones are as clear as they were 100 years ago, but the soft stone monuments are hard to read. I'll put the transcriptions up on the website and hope someone will take pictures to add later. Meanwhile I'll list just the first/last names that I could read. Conrad Voct, Mother, Mrs. Conrad Vogt These are probably both spelled Vogt, new to me. William Bremer Sophie Bremer (wife?) Herb Ichhale Another new name to me. Ulricke S. Plieth Frederick A. Karoliee Baatz August Wilhelm Same stone as Baatz Grebe, Mother Matilda M.A. Father Henry Same stone as Matilda Joseph Long Katherine E. daughter of Lois and Emma Moser Fred V. Kaee Schritt Herman Frederick Strucken Thomas, Charles L. and Olive Effie L. Thomas Josephine, wife of L.D.Robinson Little stone with no writing, about 8" X 12" by 2" thick buried half in the soil. John Miltenberger Agnes M. Rehberg Strucken, Fred C. and Emma Bolan, George and Malinda John Piatt Clarence May Piatt Big metal caste monument written in German with what appears to be first names, Dienon Eltern, Sgufzen Galten, Guter Bruder, Einzig Dir, (Guter may be a brother) Kurth will small letters not read Aunt Marie (next to Kurth) Ursula (next to aunt Marie) Two stones flanking path, but relationship unknown Theodore Steinhoff (cross path two feet away) Ernest Ludwig. William Polland Mother Louisa Shamburg August Shamburg Last plot enclosed in cement curb with 8 family stones, most missing or broken. Behmke Father Fred Behnke probably BOEMKE or BEHMKE very faint. Julia Behnke quite clear, so name is BEHNKE another new one to me. There may be many more stone buried in the ivy, or thrown aside and covered with ivy, but it seems clear the club will find and replace them. I encourage all of you to transcribe that small cemetery near you and email it to me. We know about the big ones because they can't be lost, but the small ones can by bulldozed under and no one alive to mourn the loss, or know the site. A teen ager walked through the park and I asked him about the stones. He said they were broken or removed when he moved there ten years ago, and the cemetery now is better than it was, yet the new shovel holes worry me. Don ==== ORWASHIN Mailing List ==== Visit the USGenWeb Project site http://www.usgenweb.com

I know you have a monumental task there. To bad the sextant won't just let you copy his records. I saw them and they are really complete, and accurate far as I can tell. I gave him a name and he walked me to the site.....knew from memory where it was. I note there are sections, a section for Masons and other types of sections. I tried to find a Civil War section, but only found an old stone date 1835 which was clearly there before Forest Grove was founded. To bad I could not read the name of that SOONER. What a story he could tell. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "MATTHEW VAN LOO" <msskvanloo@msn.com> To: <ORWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 1:01 AM Subject: Re: [WASHINGTON] Cem 99 and Bull Mtn. Rd. > Hey Don, > > I'm still working on Forest View. Have had a lot of Family things come up lately, but when I get the chance, I jump on it!! :) I had my hubby buy me one of those CD-RW discs, so that I can add picture anytime I want to ONE disc. > > I have a pretty good start on these photos, just need to get names and dates down for them, you know sort of catigorize. > > I read your email about bull mt. cemetery, I chuckled because I kind of took the message about "Someone to take photos". That would be extremely helpful! I wish I could volunteer, but this one cemetery is enough to last me through the summer! > Hopefully there are more folks out there with digital cameras, who will take the initive. > Sometimes, the way people transcribe these cemeteries, well, it almost seems like there isn't any kind of "Easy read Format" to put the transcriptions into. > I guess everyones style is different. I'm not knocking anyone's style, I'm just kind of a Virgo...you know the trait, gotta have order :) > > Keep up the good work that you are trying to accomplish for so many! > Hope to be in contact with you sometime maybe by end of summer, early fall with a disc full of photos for ya!!! > > Thanks for being out leader! > Shelley Van Loo > Cornelius, Oregon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Don Kelly > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 10:56 PM > To: ORWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [WASHINGTON] Cem 99 and Bull Mtn. Rd. > > OK, about the cemetery on 99W at Bull Mountain Road. The road is marked > dead and closed. I didn't drive all the way up, but suspect an expensive > home stands where the church once stood. > > 300 feet up the road, left branch into the cemetery. Plaque at entry > says"Sunset Pioneer Cemetery, founded 1886 by Trinity Evangelical > Church, Tigard, Oregon, > In memory of the Tigerville Pioneers, Maintained by Tigard Breakfast > Club, sponsored by Tigard Rotary Club in memory of founder Paul Harris. > > The cemetery is quite overgrown with ivy and spiders, but the club has > cleared most of the family plots (enclosed by cement curbs) and > individual stones which are remarkably upright for a hillside setting. > Some stone base size holes in the ground, (some appear fresh) mute > testimony to stones being removed with a shovel. > > There is evidence from grave size depressions in the ivy that some > burials have no stone, or the stone is gone. Other stones are turned > over, many broken, and some have been removed with only the pedestals > left......searched the ivy and found no other discarded stones. > > As evidenced by flowers left there, the site still draws visitors. One > site of a baby had a baby's toy placed on top of the stone. I spoke to > everyone and told them that though I did not know them, I loved them > anyway, especially the children. > > Many transcriptions are written in German, so I'll need help translating > those. The polished marble stones are as clear as they were 100 years > ago, but the soft stone monuments are hard to read. > > I'll put the transcriptions up on the website and hope someone will take > pictures to add later. Meanwhile I'll list just the first/last names > that I could read. > > Conrad Voct, > Mother, Mrs. Conrad Vogt These are probably both spelled Vogt, > new to me. > William Bremer > Sophie Bremer (wife?) > Herb Ichhale Another new name to me. > Ulricke S. Plieth > Frederick A. Karoliee Baatz > August Wilhelm Same stone as Baatz > Grebe, Mother Matilda M.A. > Father Henry Same stone as Matilda > Joseph Long > Katherine E. daughter of Lois and Emma Moser > Fred V. Kaee > Schritt > Herman Frederick Strucken > Thomas, Charles L. and Olive > Effie L. Thomas > Josephine, wife of L.D.Robinson > Little stone with no writing, about 8" X 12" by 2" thick buried half in > the soil. > John Miltenberger > Agnes M. Rehberg > Strucken, Fred C. and Emma > Bolan, George and Malinda > John Piatt > Clarence May Piatt > Big metal caste monument written in German with what appears to be first > names, Dienon Eltern, Sgufzen Galten, Guter Bruder, Einzig Dir, (Guter > may be a brother) > Kurth will small letters not read > Aunt Marie (next to Kurth) > Ursula (next to aunt Marie) > > Two stones flanking path, but relationship unknown > Theodore Steinhoff (cross path two feet away) Ernest Ludwig. > William Polland > Mother Louisa Shamburg > August Shamburg > > Last plot enclosed in cement curb with 8 family stones, most missing or > broken. > Behmke > Father Fred Behnke probably BOEMKE or BEHMKE very faint. > Julia Behnke quite clear, so name is BEHNKE another > new one to me. > > There may be many more stone buried in the ivy, or thrown aside and > covered with ivy, but it seems clear the club will find and replace > them. > > I encourage all of you to transcribe that small cemetery near you and > email it to me. We know about the big ones because they can't be lost, > but the small ones can by bulldozed under and no one alive to mourn the > loss, or know the site. > > A teen ager walked through the park and I asked him about the stones. He > said they were broken or removed when he moved there ten years ago, and > the cemetery now is better than it was, yet the new shovel holes worry > me. > > Don > > > > > ==== ORWASHIN Mailing List ==== > Visit the USGenWeb Project site > http://www.usgenweb.com > > > ==== ORWASHIN Mailing List ==== > Visit the Oregon GenWeb Project > http://www.rootsweb.com/~orgenweb/ >