GI LLIAM COUNTY
Gilliam County Cecil Children Cecil Children Janice M Healy (2000) Janice M. Healy (2000) Oregon Burial Site Guide Gilliam County
Area: 1,223 square miles Population ( I 998): 2,023 County seat: Condon, Population: 790 County established: 25 February 1885
The earliest established public cemetery in Gilliam County was apparently Blalock in 1880. This was during the construction of the trans-continental railway to Portland. Gilliam County then began to be populated by settlers who engaged in wheat and livestock ranching. There was some lumbering in the far south of the county. The 1880's saw the establishment of most of the public cemeteries.
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Name of Cemetery and also known . I Number of burials Arra Coniston pate started or earriest known burial I Township I Range I Section
ARLINGTON D 3.38 1 1882 T3N R21E S28 AKA: 1. MASONIC Leave the 1-84 Freeway and turn onto OR. Hwy. 19 (Locust Street) into town. Turn right off of Locust Street onto Main Street, go about 0.6 of a mile up the hill to the cemetery below the water tower. You will pass the Elementary and High Schools. (Arlington 1971 USGS Quad. map.)
BLALOCK 8.75 8 1880-1895 T3N R19E S36 Now underwater in Lake Umatilla. In 1960 all known graves (16) were moved to the Arlington Cemetery as the John Day Dam was being constructed. (Not shown on Sundale N. W. 1971 USGS Quad. map.)
BROWN, FAMILY A 2 5 1881 T3S R22E 810 AKA: 1. DEVILS GAP Go 7 miles north of Condon on OR. Hwy. 19 at Milepost 29, turn right (southeast) on Cayuse Canyon Road for 5.1 miles, then turn right (south) onto a private road. Go 1 mile to the confluence of Rock Creek and South Fork of Rock Creek. There were 20 known burials 1972. NOTE: This site is thought to be on private property. (Devils Gap 1970 USGS Quad. map. Metsker Land Ownership Atlas 1934 lists H. G. Brown Ranch.)
CECIL CHILDREN, A ? ? 13 Feb 1877 T3N R22E S12 ANNA LAURA AND WALTER This small burial ground is located in the Northwest 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4 of Section 12. It is on the heights above the left (west) bank of the valley of Willow Creek, upstream from its mouth with the Columbia River. The burial ground is about half a mile to the northeast from the nearest point on the new alignment of OR. Hwy. 74; at 2.2 miles south of Heppner Junction. It is out of sight of the road and access is on foot through a farm field, possibly private property. A range fire has cleared the sage and grass this fall (2000) so we were able to locate it. There are only three tombstones left here. They are for Walter Cecil aged 5 years, 7 months, 21 days died 13 February 1877. Anna Laura Cecil aged 7 years, 11 months, 5 days died 17 February 1877. Who
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Name of Cemetery and also known as Number of burials Acres I Condition I Date darted or earliest known burial Township ! Range I Section
were the children of William Y. Cecil and Mary Ellen Cecil who settled in 1862 starting the hamlet of Cecil in what is now Morrow County. Elizabeth M. Shippy Died 12 December 1879 aged 32 years, 7 months and 13 days. There is evidence of other graves here as well as holes doug that were not fully filled back in. With the site having being totally burned over a few days before, we could not tell if they were recent or not. When Gilliam and Morrow Counties were created in February 1885 the graves were then in Gilliam County. {2 September 2000} (Heppner Junction 1962 USGS Quad. map)