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CLATSOP COUNTY Scale In Mlles 81 8 I A 0,6 O 6 Secmide 0 10 6 7 WASV INGTON T I L LAMOOK COUNTY CO 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) 115 Oregon Burial Site Guide Clatsop County Ocean View Dean H. Byrd (1996) JACK THE LEONARD KIPTLE APRIL 1,1902 NOV. c-4 988 Evergreen Dean H. Byrd (1996) 116 Oregon Burial Site Guide Clatsop County 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 117 Oregon Burial Site Guide Clatsop County 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 118 Oregon Burial Site Guide Clatsop County Name of Cemetery and also known as Number of burials Acres I Condition I Date started or earliest known burial Townshp I Range I Section junction on OR. Hwy. 202 near Olney. Land owner noted in Metsker Landownership Atlases 1930 and 1956. (Not shown on Olney 1949-73- 81 USGS Quad. map, but is on 1936 ODOT map.) CLATSOP INDIANS ? ? 11 ? T6N RION 328 Located in the south part of Seaside along the west bank of the Necanicum River from the northwest end of the Avenue 'U' Bridge. The burial ground was about 100 feet wide and extended northerly several hundred feet to a point about east of the old Seaside Hospital, now the School Administration building. The area was noted as still being used as late as 1852-1860 and probably later than that. It was mostly of canoe burials. Any interments were shallow because this was on an old beach line and large boulders underlay the ground surface. Some graves were later marked with wooden crosses. After the area was subdivided in 1909 much of the cemetery was covered over: on Elizabeth Lattie D.L.C. #37, OC #3256. (Not shown on Tillamook Head 1949- 73 USGS Quad. map.) CLATSOP PLAINS PIONEER C 2 2 1846-1957 T7N R1OW 34 AKA: 1. ASTORIA Access to the cemetery is from U.S. Hwy. 101 South of Astoria and Warrenton. Take the road to the right (west) marked by the sign for Camp Rilea, Oregon National Guard. Almost immediately after turning off of U.S. Hwy. 101 is the the driveway to the left (south) to the Clatsop Plains Pioneer Presbyterian Church. Parking is limited to the church parking lot but you are free to enter the cemetery on foot. Five acres were deeded to the church in 1851, 2.5 extra acres deeded in 1888 for additional cemetery use, but only about 2 acres are enclosed by the fence. There are 245 known burials (20 November 1975) but undoubtedly more have been interred since then; on the Robert Morrison D.L.C., OC #720. {25 June 1996} (Gearhart 1949-73 USGS Quad. map.) 119 Oregon Burial Site Guide Clatsop County Name of Cemetery and aim known as I Number of burials I Acres I Condition I Date started or eeriest known burial I Tna‘aahP bflge I Stadion COMCOMLY,S GRAVE A 0.01 ? Circa 1835 T8N R9W 38 AKA: 1. CONCOMLY Chief Comcomly is said to be buried under the old Taylor House near 15th and Exchange Streets in Astoria. Originally buried near Point Ellice on the north side of the Columbia River, the date of transfer to Astoria is unknown to the compiler. The chief's skull was stolen by an English doctor and taken to Portsmouth, England, where it remained from 1836 to 1961 when it was returned to Astoria and reburied in Ilwaco Cemetery across the Interstate Bridge in 1972. (Not shown on Astoria 1948-84 USGS Quad. map.) CRAZY VALLEY ? ? ? ? T5N R9W Located in Section 16 or 21. "Past the fish hatchery near the old C.C.C.