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If you picnic at Blue Lake or take your kids to the Oregon Zoo, enjoy symphonies at the Schnitz or auto shows at the convention center, put out your trash or drive your car – we’ve already crossed paths. So, hello. We’re Metro – nice to meet you. In a metropolitan area as big as Portland, we can do a lot of things better together. Join us to help the region prepare for a happy, healthy future. Metro Council President Lynn Peterson Metro Councilors Shirley Craddick, District 1 Douglass Christine Lewis, District 2 Craig Dirksen, District 3 Juan Carlos González, District 4 notable Sam Chase, District 5 Bob Stacey, District 6 Auditor burials Brian Evans For more information call Metro Cemeteries at 503-797-1709 or visit oregonmetro.gov/cemeteries oregonmetro.gov/cemeteries Writing credit and special thanks to Troutdale Historical Society Sharon Nesbit, Historian LeAnn Stephan, Executive Director 13. Kent 14. Mary Tibbets Henry Plischke Burial location unknown Though her grave has not been Columbarium located, Mary Tibbets, of the Kent Henry Columbia River Indians, lived and Plischke, worked as a housekeeper in local known homes. She died of tuberculosis at 1. Clara Latourell Larsson 2. John Larsson professionally age of 40 at the Multnomah Block 1, Lot 50 Block 1, Lot 50 as Kent Henry, was a guitarist in County Farm. Much respected by the music group Blues Image, best Clara Latourell Larsson, daughter In a town with many saloons, John the residents of Troutdale, the known for the hit, “Ride Captain of Joseph and Grace Latourell, Larsson’s tavern in Troutdale, costs of her funeral and grave Ride,” which reached Number 4 on was born in the Columbia Gorge owned in partnership with his were paid by local residents and the Billboard Pop Chart in 1970. He community of Latourell. Clara was brother, Carl, was regarded as the the Troutdale PTA. The Oregon was a member of Steppenwolf 40 when she was the first woman best in town. John was married to Daily Journal wrote: “A little during the latter part of that elected mayor of Troutdale in 1913, Clara Latourell Larsson. In 1915, as procession yesterday afternoon band’s history and came to one year after women got the vote mayor, she was obliged to close left the Multnomah County Farm Portland in the 1980s where he in Oregon. The wife of saloon Troutdale’s saloons because city escorting the remains of Mary played with the Paul deLay Blues keeper, John Larsson, she bested residents, emboldened by the Tibbets, an Indian woman, to the Band. another saloon keeper to take the prohibition movement, voted to cemetery over the hill.” office and served her community ban alcohol in town. John later until her death in 1939. owned a livery stable and garage. 4. Eunice Douglass Block 3, Lot 27 Eunice Douglass, storekeeper, 3. John Douglass organizer of the Block 3, Lot26 Troutdale chapter of the John Douglass fought in the 1813 Women’s Battle of Lake Erie with Lieutenant Christian Temperance Union, (later Admiral) Perry and came church member and doll collector, west on the Oregon Trail in 1852. was known for her pet goose, His wife, Elizabeth, died of “Bob, the Auto Rider.” Bob rode on pneumonia at Green River, the hood of her automobile on Wyoming, and is buried there. He trips as far as Seattle and Astoria. filed a land claim of 161 acres in The ashes of Eunice Douglass this location and donated land for were placed in the grave of her Douglass Cemetery. In 1876 he husband, James Douglass, was the only veteran of the War of grandson of John Douglass who 1812 to ride in procession in donated this cemetery. Portland. 5. Roy Meger Block 3, Lot 39 Roy Meger, 9. William Butler keeper of the Troutdale 6. Laura Bullock Harlow & Block 5, Lot 5 10. Charles Richard Knarr General Louis Harlow William Butler, an English coal Block 5, Lot 44 Store, was Block 4, Lot 122 miner, emigrated to the U.S. and often the only presence in Former Troutdale mayor Dick Laura Bullock Harlow was to Ohio in 1860. He enlisted with Troutdale’s downtown for many Knarr, came to Troutdale with his Troutdale’s second woman the Second West Virginia Cavalry years. He took up a broom there at parents in 1894. After service in elected mayor, “when she was in the Civil War serving under the age of 15, went to war in 1945, World War I he began selling sand, prevailed upon at the last minute Generals Hunter and Sheridan and returning to buy the store which shoveled by hand from the Sandy to become a candidate” in 1924. was mustered out in 1865. He he ran until he was 80. When he River. He then founded Troutdale Her husband, Louis Harlow, was came to Oregon in 1884 to claim a retired, he had a cash register full Sand and Gravel, helped establish Troutdale’s second mayor. They homestead and then acquired 160 of old watches taken in trade a Troutdale bank, and had one lived in Troutdale’s Harlow House. acres in farmland in East along with IOUs never paid up. He thumb out of whack, damaged During her time in office the city Multnomah County where he also was known to never turn down a when as he was ejecting a imposed a dog tax and shut down served three years as road kid or a dog. professional boxer from a Troutdale’s dances, justly famous supervisor. Troutdale dance. for getting out of hand. 11. Erick 12. Garth 7. Joseph & Rolf Sterling Grace Ough Enquist Nelson Latourell Block 7, Block 9, Lot 104 Block 4, Lot 43 Garth Nelson, a Lot 126 & 127 8. George Knieriem Erick Rolf funeral services Joseph and Grace Ough Latourell Enquist, instructor at Mt. were founders of the small Block 5, Lot 4 The Fish King, was the largest Hood Community College, had a community of Latourell just east George Knieriem was born in independent operator of Columbia rare liver disease and at the age of of Crown Point in the Columbia Germany in 1844 and came to River fish wheels which plucked 42 needed a liver transplant. River Gorge. Joseph, a French America when he was six. In July salmon from the river 24 hours a Medical insurance did not cover Canadian seaman, came to the 1862, he enlisted in the Third day. He came to the US in 1902 at transplants, so the community Columbia River and met Grace Wisconsin Battery, fighting in 18 the age of 17, teaching himself raised more than $100, 000, Ough, of a Cascade Indian tribe. battles and skirmishes in the Civil English by reading his Swedish declaring March 1, 1985, as “Garth Joseph and Grace were married in War. He came to Corbett in 1896, Bible and then the same verse in Nelson Day.” In June 1985, he was 1859. They raised eight children on farming 80 acres. He died with his an English Bible. After fish wheels flown by special aircraft to Texas their land claim below Crown son in a car wreck in 1936 in were banned in 1933, he was a to become the first Oregonian to Point, had a family brass band, California where he was visiting builder, landowner and mayor of have a successful liver transplant. hosted dances, and entertained and lecturing to other Civil War Troutdale in 1944. Columbia Gorge visitors. veterans. Douglass notable burials 6. Laura Bullock Harlow and 7.Joseph and Louis Grace Ough 1 & 2 Clara Harlow Latourell Latourell Larsson and John Larsson S Troutdale Rd 12. Garth 9. William 8. George Sterling Buttler Knieriem Nelson 5. Roy Meger SW Hensley Rd 13. Kent Henry Plischke 10. Charles Richard 3 & 4 John and Knarr Eunice Dougalss 11. Erick Rolf Enquist Cemetery address: S Troutdale Rd and SW 14th St.