We went to the cemetery walk...it was wonderful! Interesting and fun, especially the Benjamin who was representing his own fifth great grandfather...all the representatives were very informative. I didn't know that was a cemetery combined from three original ones, nor that it had a substantial potters field... Saralie ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Kelly To: ORWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 9:03 AM Subject: Re: [WASHINGTON] Need lookup volunteer. Thanks Judith. Please copy Bessie. I asked her to join our list. Sorry I missed the cemetery walk......had to work that day and you guys were winding down the walk when I passed by on my way home to Cornelius. I was impressed by that old horse drawn hearse. It looked brand new. Thanks all for the help. This is a great mailing list.....someone always jumps in to help. Thought you needed to know how much I appreciate all of you. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judith E. Goldmann" <gate736@spiritone.com> To: <ORWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 8:10 AM Subject: Re: [WASHINGTON] Need lookup volunteer. > > > Looks like Faye Hollar was a VanCamp. > __________________________________________________ > Faye VanCamp Hollar > Hillsboro Argus 17 May 1979 > > Services for Faye VanCamp Hollar, 24 of Hillsboro , Monday 2 PM, > Hillsboro Methodist Church. > Mrs. Hollar died Tues (15 May) in Redlands, CA; born 28 Jan 1905 in Ripley,OK > She married Glen W. Hollar Dec 26, 1926 in Cushing, OK; liv HIllsboro > area 34 years -teaching for Beaver ton School dist - Barnes School. > Member Hillsboro Methodist Church; Nat'l Educa Assn; Ore Educa Assn, and > Amer Assn of University Women. She helped organize Beaver HIlls Unit 25 > of Oregon Retired Educators Assn in 1874; served as president 1972-74. > Surv: sons: Marvin Hollar, Colorado springs, Lt Col Otis R. Hollar, > Redlands, CA, sisters: Ann Ericksen, Okla city; Pearl Howell, Cushing; > Opal Lochner, Enid, OK; bro - Orval VanCamp , Springfield, MO; and > eight grd children. > Burial services will be Skyline Memorial Gardens, Portland. > Contributions to the American Cancer society. > _______________________________________________________ > Don Kelly wrote: > > > > Can anyone help Bessie? Please contact her directly at BessieMH@aol.com > > > > Thanks all > > > > Don > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: BessieMH@aol.com > > To: donkelly@grovenet.net > > Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 1:11 PM > > Subject: Washington County > > > > Don: > > > > Please advise if your society has someone who can do a look up on the > > obit for Faye Hollar who died May 15th, 1979 in either Hillsboro or > > Beaverton. I'm searching for a long lost relative born Faye Harris > > about 1904. > > > > Thanks, > > John Hoffman > > Colorado Springs, CO > > > > --- > > 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 Pioneer Project > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~orpionpr/ > > > ==== ORWASHIN Mailing List ==== > Visit the USGenWeb Project site > http://www.usgenweb.com > --- 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/

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