Do you have a relative named Ed EATON? Lives in Auburn. Former Journalism teacher at Green River Community College. On Tue, 23 May 2000 12:02:15 -0700 "Joe & Laura Schmidt" <DigMyPast@msn.com> writes: > I live in Burbank in south eastern Washington. Saturday morning my > husband > and I got up and ran over to Kent for the day. We found this > cemetery > thanks to the great directions I was given on the > Washington-L@RootsWeb.com > mailing list. It is between a driving range and the Valley freeway. > It > isn't marked from the road, but it's there! There are many graves > both > visible and others found under all the brush and bramble. I didn't > have > time to do a transcription of it, but one will be done. I have > contacted > the Boy Scout Troop that was involved with this cemetery in 1991 to > see if > their Eagle Scout, that worked on the cemetery as a project, > transcribed it > then. I cannot believe that a community the size of Kent would let > such an > historic site deteriorate to such an extent! I was appalled. I > have been > to many old burial plots, but for the location and all the other > factors, > this is the worse! There are IDDINGS, STEPHENSON, CHADWICK, > ANDERSON, > MONSTER, just to name a few. It was used from 1873-1949. I have an > email > of a gentleman and his wife who had just "found" the cemetery. They > live a > half mile up the hill from the cemetery. They plan on getting > involved in > the clean up and restoration of it. With his permission I will give > out his > email addy, but I have to ask him first. He has been doing > genealogy for a > couple of years. > > Now for my question. Found my hubby's great great grandmother's > grave there > (Mary [Sheckler] Anderson). She was born Dec 14, 1825. "Promoted > Aug 23, > 1905" and at the bottom of the stone it says "The Salvation Army > Seattle > Corps No 1". I have never ran across a Salvation Army stone. Does > this > mean that 1) She was a member of the Salvation Army Church, 2) That > the > Salvation Army just provided the stone, or 3) Why is it on her > headstone? > > Needless to say, when we got home last night, I wrote the Salvation > Army, > and found a contact for the Boy Scout who did his Eagle project in > 1991. > > Laura > DigMyPast@msn.com > King Co surnames include: > Eaton, Anderson, Drabing, Sheckler, Martin, and many more > USGenWeb Volunteer and RootsWeb Sponsor > > > > ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.