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Oregon Burial Site Guide Malheur County
Charbonneau, Jean Baptiste Janice M. Healy (2000)
OREGON HI STORY JEAN BAPTISTE CHARBONNEAU 1805-1866 THIS SITE MARKS THE FINAL RESTING PLACE OF THE YOUNGEST MEMBER OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION. BORN TO SACAGAWEA AND TOUSSAINT CHARBONNEAU AT FORT MANDAN (NORTH DAKOTA) ON FEBRUARY 11. 1805. BAPTISTE AND HIS MOTHER SYMBOLIZED THE PEACEFUL NATURE 01 THE "CORPS OF DIS- COVERY". EDUCATED BY CAPTAIN WILLIAM CLARK AT ST. LOUIS. BAPTISTE AT AGE38 TRAVELED TO EUROPE WHERE HE SPENT SIX YEARS. BECCNIING FLUENT IN ENGLISH. GERMAN. FRENCH AND SPANISH. RETURNING TO AMERICA IN 1829. HE RANGED THE FAR WEST FOR NEARLY FOUR DECADES. AS MOUNTAIN MAN GUIDE. INTERPRETER, MAGISTRATE AND FORTY MINER. IN HER. HE LEFT THE CALIFORNIA GOLD FIELDS FOR A NEW STRIKE IN MONTANA. CONTRACTED PNEUMONIA ENROUTE. REACHED INSKIPS RANCI1r. HERE, AND DIED ON 16,1888 MAY.
Charbonneau, Jean Baptiste Rim, C. Bishop (2000).
598 Oregon Burial Site Guide Malheur County
Area: 9,926 square miles Population (1998): 28,542 County seat: Vale, Population: 1,510 County established: 17 February 1887
This county, considerably larger than the State of Massachusetts, was utilized as a transit area. The Oregon Trail entered what is now Oregon via Malheur County. The cemetery at Arock (1860) appears to have been the earliest organized cemetery in the county. lronside Cemetery (1873) was the second to be established. There was brief gold mining in the Mormon Basin in the north. But the county was and is largely devoted to livestock ranching but with considerable irrigated agriculture along the Snake River and the lower Malheur River. There is a significant settlement of Spanish Basques (''Bascos") in Malheur County.
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Charbonneau, Jean Baptiste Janice M. Healy (2000)
599 Oregon Burial Site Guide Malheur County
600 Oregon Burial Site Guide Malheur County
Name of Cemetery and also known as Number of burials Acres I Concretion I Date started or earliest known burial I Township Range Section
APPLEGATE A 0.25 3 1892-1914 T16S R47E AKA: 1. PIONEER Located in Section 10 or 11. Take OR. Hwy. [ONTARIO] 201 from Weiser Junction and go about 2 miles southerly to the Mesquite Road crossing. Turn right (east) onto Mesquite Road and continue about another 1.5 miles. The cemetery site is apparently on one of two farms on the left (north) between the road and the Snake River. James Applegate, the most recent burial, died 2 April 1914, aged 14 years 6 months 21 days, according to the death certificate #1717. The certificate states that he was buried on the Clarence Barker Place. The 1936 Metsker Land Ownership Atlas shows the Barker family owned considerable acreage along Mesquite Road. Besides young Applegate, 6 children died in a diphtheria epidemic in 1892; 3 from the Erickson family; 2 from the Hopper family; and 1 from the Duncan family. Billy Randall, dates unknown, is also reported buried here. When researched in 1972 there were no headstones visible but the cemetery had been fenced. (Not shown on Weiser South 1951 USGS Quad. map.)
AROCK A 0.1 5 1860-1885 T3OS R42E Thought to be in Section 26 at Arock, on the old Sheep Ranch and across the road from the old stone fort on the old highway. In 1972 the D.A.R. surveyed this cemetery and found that it had been destroyed. (Not shown on Arock 1972 USGS Quad. map. The USGS Quad. calls the ranch Sheep Ranch.)
BARKER, JAMES A 0.01 ? 10 Nov 1923 T23S R37E A rancher, James Barker, is reported by the death certificate to be buried "at Riverside." However he is not included in the list of burials at Riverside Cemetery. His monument, if any, may be lost or he may be buried somewhere in the vicinity of Riverside. The compiler cannot say. (Not shown on Winnemucca Creek 1979 USGS Quad. map.)
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BECKER, CHARLES A 0.01 3 1925-1960 T18S R4OE 88 Located about 2 miles east and south off of Bully Creek Road and about 6 miles northwest of Westfall. There are 4 graves here, all Becker family members. Charles Becker, who died in late May 1944, was a Pony Express rider. (Log Creek 1990 USGS Quad. map.)
BECKER RANCH, JIM A 0.01 4 ? T18S R41E S27 There are 2 unmarked graves on the old Jim Becker Ranch (1978). Take the Old Stage Road easterly from Westfall. John Bouncer was killed by Indians. The other undated burial is for a young girl, Martha Mullins, daughter of Mary Jane Westfall Mullins. (Jim Becker ranch building is shown but not labled, the burials are not shown on Westfall 1990 USGS Quad. map.)
BETTERLY, HAZEL A 0.01 ? 1890.S T2OS R47E This infant was reportedly buried on the old Harris Place sometime between 1890 and 1895. No further information was given. (Not shown on Owyhee 1967 USGS Quad. map.)
BEULAH A 0.8 2 1883-1971 T18S R37E 835 AKA: 1. AGENCY Located north of the north end of Beulah VALLEY Reservoir. Go northerly 0.34 of a mile 2. SCOTT from the junction with Beal Ranch Road and then turn left (northwest) off of the county road. Go another 0.26 of a mile to the cemetery, which is off to the right about 500 feet. There were 22 known burials in the D.A.R. survey of 1972. (Beulah 1990 USGS Quad. map.)
BLACK, MRS. A 0.01 ? 1899 T2OS R46E S26 Reportedly buried about 100 yards northwest of Owyhee Junction; OR. Hwy. 201 and Owyhee Avenue. No further information was given in the report. (Not shown on Owyhee 1967 USGS Quad. map.)
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Name of Cernmey and also Imam . I Manner or bud& I I Cons ilium I started or eeriest km.,, burial I Top I Range I Section
BROGAN B 1.7 1 1911 T15S R428 S26 Travel 23.3 miles north of Vale on U.S. Hwy. 26 to 8th Avenue; turn left (west) and go 1.3 miles on 8th Avenue to the cemetery. There were 41 known burials in 1972. (Brogan 1990 USGS Quad. map.)
CARTER HOMESTEAD, JOE A ? ? ? T20S R39E S29 Located on the Carter Homestead near the site of Peach. Three boys and one girl are in unmarked graves. (Not shown on Jonesboro 1990 USGS Quad. map.)
CEMETERY SPRING ? ? ? ? T19S R418 S35 Located in the hills about 2 miles due west of Amick Road, which is in Harper Valley. In the spring of 1958, the compiler was in Malheur County collecting geographic information for a forthcoming State Highway Division map of Malheur County. Some person, now forgotten, informed the compiler of a cemetery here. This unnamed cemetery appears on the subsequent Malheur County Map. The compiler was not especially interested in cemeteries in 1958, and now has no recollection of any story about it. (Cemetery Spring appears on the Westfall 1990 USGS Quad., and a corral is shown about 100 yards to the east downslope, but no burial ground. Nor do any burials show on the adjoining Namorf 1990 USGS Quad. map.)
CHAMBERS, SARAH A 0.01 2 3 Sept 1845 T185 R378 533 Start at the three-way junction of Beulah, Bendire, and Beal Ranch Roads at the north side of Beulah Reservoir. Take Beal Ranch Road to the west and northwest along the North Fork of the Malheur River and go about 3.2 miles. The grave is on the right about 100 feet above the road and was embedded in concrete about 1954. The 22-year-old Mrs. Chambers was the wife of Rowland Chambers and daughter of Nahum King, who settled in Kings Valley, Benton County; they are buried in the cemetery of that name. The death and burial
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of Sarah Chambers is inextricably tied to the stories, true or otherwise, of the Lost Blue Bucket Mine. (Beulah 1990 USGS Quad. map.)
CHARBONNEAU, JEAN A 0.1 1 1866-1881 T3OS R448 S16 BAPTISTE Go 17 miles from Jordan Valley, on U.S. AKA: 1. INSKEEP Hwy. 95, to the southwest and turn right 2. INSKIP (north) at Milepost 37 on Danner Road. Go RANCHE 3.2 miles North on Danner Road. The burials 3. INSKIP'S are on the right (east), about 0.2 of a mile STATION north of the Jorden Creek Bridge. Charbonneau who was born 11 February 1805, died 16 May 1866; Jake Dixon died 7 October 1866; Ethan Wright died 13 August 1869; Gertrude Inskeep born 10 May 1872, died 10 December 1873; Emigrant child 1870's; James Doe died 23 March 1881. (11 September 2000) (Danner 1969 USGS Quad. map.)
CHINESE MASSACRE C 7 5 May 1866 T31S R41E AKA: 1. CHINAMEN'S Perhaps located in Section 13. See the MASSACRE account compiled by Hazel R. Fretwell-Johnson in her book In Times Past (1990) pages 53-54. Varying numbers of Chinese miners who were enroute from Winnemucca to the mines in Idaho are given, perhaps as many as 100. A large band of Paiutes caught them and butchered the Chinese for their few horses, tools, and especially for their long braided queues. One youth escaped. The victims were buried along the Owyhee just upstream from the mouth of Jordan Creek in the area known as Owyhee Crossing or Owyhee Ferry. China Gulch, a short distance further upstream (south) was so named in memory of the slaughter. (Not shown on Rome 1972 USGS Quad. map.)
CORD A 0.15 4 1907-1912 T288 R388 S7 AKA: 1. CURTIS Located between OR. Hwy. 78 and the Tom 2. SEAWARD Dowell Ranch (1978), 300 feet off of the west 3. SEWARD side of Crowley-Riverside Road between Turnbull Lakebed and Duck Creek Lakebed. There are three known burials of the Seaward (now Seward) family plus a possible burial of a man named Curtis. Cord was a locale with a post office from 1897 to December 1918. (Dowell Butte 1977 USGS Quad. map.)
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CRISWELL BOY A 0.01 7 1884 T2OS R46E Perhaps located in Section 35 or 36. Fred Criswell's son drowned in the Owyhee River. He is reportedly buried "above OR. Hwy. 201 near the bridge." (Not shown on Owyhee 1967 USGS Quad. map.)
DANNER A 0.25 12 ? T305 R44E S16 This is supposedly a separate cemetery from the Charbonneau burial site. The Danner Cemetery is off of Danner Road. Go 17 miles from Jordan Valley, on U.S. Hwy. 95, to Danner Road. Turn right (north) and go 3.1 miles to Jordan Creek Bridge. The cemetery is 200 yards to the left (west). This site appears to be farmed over or possibly washed out by the creek, no access. {11 September 2000} (Danner 1969 USGS Quad. map.)
DELL C 2.9 2 1877 T16S R43E S15 AKA: 1. JAMIESON The cemetery is on the right (east), 16 miles 2. JEMERSON [Sic] north of Vale on U.S. Hwy. 26. (Jamieson 3. WILLOW CREEK 1988 USGS Quad. map.)
EVERGREEN E 14 1 1886 T18S R47E S9 AKA: 1. ONTARIO Located on South Park Boulevard, Ontario; 3,595 burials were found in the D.A.R. survey of 1972. (Payette 1951-74 USGS Quad. map.)
FAIRVIEW C 4.5 1 1875 T153 R47E S33 AKA: 1. ANNEX Located 15.3 miles northwest of Ontario, via 2. FAIR-VIEW OR. Hwy. 201, to Weiser Junction; turn right 3. WEISER (north) onto U.S. Hwy. 95 Spur and go 0.15 of JUNCTION a mile. The cemetery is on the right. Contrariwise, the cemetery is 8 Miles south of the bridge over the Snake River at Weiser, Idaho. (Weiser South 1951 USGS Quad. map.)