Hello all, Love hearing all the reports on this cemetery tour.... 2.) What is a potters field? 2.) Don, I have some pictures of tombstones of my great grandparents out at the Old Scotch Church, where would you like me to send them? Directly to you? Thanks Julie Thompson miller >From: "Don Kelly" <donkelly@grovenet.net> >Reply-To: ORWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com >To: ORWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [WASHINGTON] Monumental Moments >Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:04:44 -0700 > >Periodically over the past nine years I have lived here, several names >for some cemeteries around here have puzzled me, and some transcribers >have done double work in some cemeteries under the assumption the >cemetery they transcribed had only one name. > >I guess it is a growing process that will result in our transcriptions >of the future, and all we can correct, will be listed under every name >cemeteries are known by. > >The cemetery walk took place in a cemetery sometimes called the pioneer >cemetery, and indeed names of known pioneers are found buried there. I >suspect since the cemetery is just blocks from old downtown Hillsboro, >on the old wagon road (before the railroad) to Orchards (now Cornelius), >and the absolutely intriguing old College Town Forest Grove, >suggests to me that it was the original cemetery of Hillsboro when it >was surrounded by farm land with small churches founded here and there >on the dirt roads. > >How it garnered other names as it grew would be interesting to know, but >possible it was one farm where different churches had different plots >donated to them, so named each plot the way they wanted to. It would be >interesting to know who the farmer was who originally donated the land, >or even the year in which that occurred. > >The earliest burial I have found was in the Forest Grove Cemetery three >miles west and dated 1835. That was a few years before Forest Grove was >founded, and was probably a private burial on what was farm land. > >I have no further information on that very early pioneer. It would be >interesting to know if he was killed by Indians, died by accident (some >drowned in the Tualatin River, and in other floods of lowlands), or died >of natural causes. Adding to the interest, he was here long before wagon >trains came, long before Portland was here, long before the railroad >came, long before the side-wheeler steam boats plied the Tualatin as far >as Orchards; how did he get here?..................he was really, really >early, an Oregon "Sooner" I guess<GRIN> > >Sorry I missed it gang......I really wanted to meet you all. Perhaps we >can do this again, perhaps as an annual event, or perhaps quarterly >featuring different old cemeteries in this part of our universe. > >One thing I am working on is linking every cemetery transcription to >photographs provided by visitors. So if anyone has photographs of any >cemetery in this county, I will add them to the USGW, Washington County, >Oregon website so visitors can find them. > >Don > > > > >--- >Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.515 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/03 > > >==== ORWASHIN Mailing List ==== >Visit the Oregon GenWeb Project >http://www.rootsweb.com/~orgenweb/ > _________________________________________________________________ Use custom emotions -- try MSN Messenger 6.0! http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_emoticon

Thanks Julie. By email attachment, or if you live close enough, by floppy, zip or CD works for me. I'll put them on a separate page linked to from the cemetery index page. Thanks all.....I enjoyed the comments too. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie Miller" <millerjule@msn.com> To: <ORWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 6:40 AM Subject: Re: [WASHINGTON] Monumental Moments > Hello all, > Love hearing all the reports on this cemetery tour.... > > 2.) What is a potters field? > > 2.) Don, I have some pictures of tombstones of my great grandparents out > at the Old Scotch Church, where would you like me to send them? Directly to > you? > > Thanks Julie Thompson miller > > > > > >From: "Don Kelly" <donkelly@grovenet.net> > >Reply-To: ORWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com > >To: ORWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: Re: [WASHINGTON] Monumental Moments > >Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:04:44 -0700 > > > >Periodically over the past nine years I have lived here, several names > >for some cemeteries around here have puzzled me, and some transcribers > >have done double work in some cemeteries under the assumption the > >cemetery they transcribed had only one name. > > > >I guess it is a growing process that will result in our transcriptions > >of the future, and all we can correct, will be listed under every name > >cemeteries are known by. > > > >The cemetery walk took place in a cemetery sometimes called the pioneer > >cemetery, and indeed names of known pioneers are found buried there. I > >suspect since the cemetery is just blocks from old downtown Hillsboro, > >on the old wagon road (before the railroad) to Orchards (now Cornelius), > >and the absolutely intriguing old College Town Forest Grove, > >suggests to me that it was the original cemetery of Hillsboro when it > >was surrounded by farm land with small churches founded here and there > >on the dirt roads. > > > >How it garnered other names as it grew would be interesting to know, but > >possible it was one farm where different churches had different plots > >donated to them, so named each plot the way they wanted to. It would be > >interesting to know who the farmer was who originally donated the land, > >or even the year in which that occurred. > > > >The earliest burial I have found was in the Forest Grove Cemetery three > >miles west and dated 1835. That was a few years before Forest Grove was > >founded, and was probably a private burial on what was farm land. > > > >I have no further information on that very early pioneer. It would be > >interesting to know if he was killed by Indians, died by accident (some > >drowned in the Tualatin River, and in other floods of lowlands), or died > >of natural causes. Adding to the interest, he was here long before wagon > >trains came, long before Portland was here, long before the railroad > >came, long before the side-wheeler steam boats plied the Tualatin as far > >as Orchards; how did he get here?..................he was really, really > >early, an Oregon "Sooner" I guess<GRIN> > > > >Sorry I missed it gang......I really wanted to meet you all. Perhaps we > >can do this again, perhaps as an annual event, or perhaps quarterly > >featuring different old cemeteries in this part of our universe. > > > >One thing I am working on is linking every cemetery transcription to > >photographs provided by visitors. So if anyone has photographs of any > >cemetery in this county, I will add them to the USGW, Washington County, > >Oregon website so visitors can find them. > > > >Don > > > > > > > > > >--- > >Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > >Version: 6.0.515 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/03 > > > > > >==== ORWASHIN Mailing List ==== > >Visit the Oregon GenWeb Project > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~orgenweb/ > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Use custom emotions -- try MSN Messenger 6.0! > http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_emoticon > > > ==== ORWASHIN Mailing List ==== > This list is for everyone with a genealogy interest in Washington County Oregon. Topical posts only. No spam, flaming or commercial postings allowed. > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.515 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/03