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Clatsop County Knappa Prairie U. S. Army Fort Stevens, Ruth C. Bishop Dean H. Byrd (1992) Janice M. Healy (1952) Oregon Burial Site Guide Clatsop County
Area: 873 square miles Population (1998): 35,424 County seat: Astoria, Population: 10,130 County established: 22 June 1844
Located on the south bank of the lower Columbia River where it enters the Pacific Ocean. Clatsop County was the site of the first white trading post in Oregon and therefore the earliest established cemetery. This was Fort Astoria founded in the spring of 1811 for the fur trade. It was occupied by the British in the fall of I 813 during the War of 1812 and was renamed Fort George. Returned to the Americans in 1818 and once again called Fort Astoria, the name was gradually transferred to a small civilian settlement as Astoria. The earliest burials after 1811 and those dating from the 1850's to about 1878 are now built over. Eventually most of Astoria's known burials were transferred to Ocean View which was established in 1872. The Clatsop Plains Pioneer Cemetery was begun in 1846 and is the earliest organized cemetery outside of Astoria. By the 1870's there were at least four other organized cemeteries. There were many family burial sites and still some Indian burials sites and a United States Military cemetery begun as early as 1868 at Fort Stevens. The most prominent ethnic nationalities from Europe were Finns and Swedes who are scattered through many cemeteries and family burial sites.
Clatsop Plains Pioneer Dean H. Byrd (1996)
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Ocean View Dean H. Byrd (1996)
JACK THE LEONARD KIPTLE APRIL 1,1902 NOV. c-4 988
Evergreen Dean H. Byrd (1996)
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Name of Cemetery and deo known as I Noah, of lowish I Amos I Condlion I Dee started or earliest known burial I Tomsk. I Range I Section
AHLERS, DORTHEA A 0.01 ? 15 Nov 1915 T5N R9W S22 AKA: 1. NECANICUM The grave site is located about 1.5 miles POST OFFICE west of Necanicum Junction along the right (north) side of U.S. Hwy. 26 and just before the bridge over Little Humbug Creek. This is about 15 miles south and east of Seaside. She and her huband Herman Ahlers (1859-1944) were German immigrants who settled here in 1886. The Ahlers house served as a post office from 1896-1916 and was variously known as Ahlers, Push and lastly Necanicum. (Not shown on Necanicun Junction 1985 USGS Quad. map.)
ASTORIA [OLD] ? 9 Circa 1850 T8N R9W S8 AKA: 1. CATHOLIC This was the second cemetery used in Astoria [ASTORIA] in the early 1850's; Fort Astoria Cemetery 2. POTTERS FIELD being the first. This site was formally 3. SHIVELY donated about March 1865 by John M. Shively FAMILY but was used as much as a decade previously. Shively donated to the city, Block #55 (now Block #255) bounded by Irving and Jerome Streets and 14th and 15th Streets. Most burials seem to have been around 14th and Irving. The cemetery was also known as Catholic because the church was near by. Located on the John Shively D.L.C., OC #1052. Around 1878 removals were begun to rebury the graves farther up hill to Hillside Cemetery, now Astoria Pioneer. See the article on the latter. (Not shown on Astoria 1949-84 USGS Quad. map.)
ASTORIA PIONEER D 5 2 1865-1903 T8N R9W S17 AKA: 1. CITY Located at the intersection of 15th and 2. HILLSIDE Niagara Streets in the city of Astoria: 3. HILLTOP Block #93 of the Shively Addition. The city 4. PIONEER maintains this old cemetery as a park. There [ASTORIA] is a historical marker which records some of the history. It is now signed as Astoria Pioneer but was most often referred to as Hillside Cemetery in earlier times. The cemetery was deeded on 12 April 1865, the third of the city cemeteries. Around 1878 the graves from the Astoria [OLD] Cemetery were reburied here. In 1897 a city ordinance forbade any more burials within the city limits and ordered reburials to what is now
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Name of Cemetery and also known as I Number of burials I Acres Condition I Date started or nudist known burial I Townshp I Range I Section
Ocean View Cemetery in Warrenton. Burials continued in Hillside until 1903 and in 1904 the removals to Ocean View were carried out. More than 700 burials had been made in Hillside. There are still some old monuments remaining in Astoria Pioneer Park and pre- dating the establishment of this cemetery. This is on the John Shively D.L.C., OC #1052. {9 May 1992} (Not shown as a cemetery on the Astoria 1949-84 USGS Quad. Map.)
BAYNEY CREEK A 0.01 5 Circa 1900 T6N R9W AKA: 1. BARNEY CREEK Perhaps found in Section 2. A logger was killed during a tree-felling accident and was buried nearby with a wooden marker and picket fence. It is near a concrete bridge over Bayney Creek on the Youngs River Mainline Road. This road follows the left (west) bank of Youngs River between Saddle Mountain Road and Youngs River Loop. (Not shown on Olney 1949-73-81 USGS Quad. map.)
BITTERLING FAMILY A 7 6 1887-1902 T7N RlOW S24 The homestead and burial site was located in the Southwest 1/4 of Section 24. Julius Bitterling was a German immigrant and Anna Louise Ottinger a Swiss immigrant who met in Astoria where both were employed in a restaurant. After marriage they settled in 1875 on this homestead near the bygone settlement of Melville. Louise was born in 1851 and died 23 August 1887 giving birth to their sixth child. Julius was born in 1842 and died 28 November 1902. The graves have been removed to Clatsup Plains Pioneer Cemetery. The date for Julius on the monument is incorrect. (Not shown on Gearhart 1949-73 or Olney 1949-73-81 USGS Quad. maps.)
CASEY FAMILY, ROSE A 7 5 ? T7N R9W 7 These could be located on Section 11 or 14, probably on Section 11. There are 16 to 20 Indian graves on the Lilli Watson Farm, 0.2 of a mile northwest of Youngs River Loop
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