EVERGREEN CEMETERY Drs`akhrgdc 0787 Italicized numbers indicate grave location by block & lot GOVERNORS Louis Kossuth Church (1846-1897) Gov of Dakota Territories, 1887-89 3:81 David Marston Clough (1846-1924) Governor of Minnesota, 1895-1899 52:1 Roland Hill Hartley (1864-1952) Governor of W ashington, 1925-1933 52:1 Monrad Charles W allgren (1891-1961) Gov of W ashington, 1945-1949 49:396 UNITED STATES CONGRESSMEN Monrad C W allgren (1891-1961) 49:396 US House of Representatives 1933-1940; US Senate 1940-1945 Henry M Jackson (1912-1983) 73:118 US House of Representatives 1941-1953; US Senate 1953-1983 W ASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATORS Lewis H Coon (1842-1903) Civil W ar vet 10:32 State House, District 44: 1895 Thomas Boyd Sumner (1858-1934) Everett industrialist 52:7 State Senate, Dist 31/38: 1901, 1903, 1905 Nelson J Craigue (1864-1934) 37:162 State House, Dist 48: 1903 H.L. (Henry) Strowbridge (also Strobridge) (1850-1908) city attorney 14:136 State House, Dist 48: 1905, 1907 John A Theurer (1863-1942) 43:88 State House, Dist 49: 1905 John E Campbell (1880-1924) 30:400 State House, Dist 48: 1909, 1911. State Senate, Dist 38: 1913 John T Rogers (1864-1933) 24:49, an unmarked grave State House, Dist 48: 1909, 1921 Roland H Hartley (1864-1952) also Everett mayor, W ash governor 52:1 State House, Dist 48: 1915 S Frank Spencer (1881-1954) also Everett mayor 41:42s State House, Dist 48: 1917, 1919, 1921, 1923 Joseph A St Peter (1882-1937) also vaudeville theater proprietor and Superintendent of Monroe Reformatory 38:63 State Senate, Dist 38: 1925, 1929 Chart A Pitt (1878-1966) Mukilteo resident, author 50:129 State House, Dist 38: 1937, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1945 Howard S Bargreen (1906-1987) 38:4 State Senate, Dist 38: (appt Dec 1940), 1943, 1951, 1953, 1959 State House, Dist 38: 1949 1 6 ck (John) Dootson (1914-1985) 49:246 State House, Dist 38: 1941, 1963, 1965 Eleanor A Fortson (1904-1997) 57:4 State House, Dist 10: 1973, 1975, 1977 W ASHINGTON SECRETARY OF STATE Samuel Nichols (1830-1913) served 1900-1909 2:21 MEMBERS OF EVERETT'S "COMMITTEE OF 21" PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT, CREATED IN MARCH OF 1892 W illiam J Gillespie (1852-1936) 43:42 Prince K Lewis (1860-1926) 35:447 W illiam M Ross (1850-1908) 15:156 Eugene D Smith (1837-1909) 24:1 EVERETT MAYORS Jacob Hunsaker (1845-1920) mayor 1895 and 1903 31:63 Dr W illiam C Cox (1858-1931) mayor 1896, also Everett’s first doctor 23:24 James Elijah Bell (1853-1919) mayor 1900 23:33 Newton Jones (1866-1922) mayor 1907-09 29:74, an unmarked grave Roland H Hartley (1864-1952) mayor 1911 also state legislator & governor 52:1 Richard B Hassell (1853-1942) mayor Jan-June 1912 52:10 W illiam H Clay (1863-1931) mayor 1914-16, 1920-24 37:117 John Henry Smith (1858-1956) mayor 1924-27 37:189 Nelson D Martin (1872-1958) mayor 1928-31 23:51e S Frank Spencer (1881-1954) mayor 1940-42 also state legislator 41:42s John Davis W illiams (1892-1965) mayor 1942-43 23:45e Henry Arends (1878-1953) mayor 1944-1952 49:299w Louis H Unzelman (1888-1954) mayor 1952-54 49:276w DEPUTY KILLED IN THE “EVERETT MASSACRE” NOV 5th, 1916 Jefferson Beard (1871-1916) 15:263 TW O DEPUTIES W OUNDED AT THE CITY DOCK DURING THE "EVERETT MASSACRE" NOVEMBER 5, 1916 James A. Broadbent (1861-1940), superintendent of Clark-Nickerson Lumber, wounded in the leg 24:12, an unmarked grave 6oseph Irving (1868-1953), logger, lumberman, participant in "County Seat Fight," wounded twice in the foot 22:42 LAW MAN KILLED JULY 3, 1902 BY OUTLAW HARRY TRACY Charles Raymond (1859-1902) 4:72 2 POLICEMAN KILLED IN COLBY AVE GUNFIGHT NOV 24, 1920 John H Fox (1883-1920) 30:168 FIRE DEPARTMENT CRASH VICTIMS, OCTOBER 29, 1923 W illiam A Taro (1880-1923) Everett Fire Chief 35:572 Dennis P Boyle (1868-1923) pump engine operator 35: Daniel H Michel (1864-1923) bystander, former fire chief 1900-1904 26:448 EVERETT’S FIRST SCHOOL MISTRESS/PRINCIPAL Emma Sarepta Yule (1863-1939) 31:6 McCHESNEY COLUMBARIUM Block 51 John T McChesney (1857-1922) of the Everett Improvement Co Located on the cemetery’s highest point (229.5 feet above sea level, 25 feet higher than the Rucker pyramid) RUCKER MAUSOLEUM: A 30-FOOT GRANITE PYRAMID Block 19 Thirty feet square, thirty feet tall on a stone-encased earthen plinth. Designed and constructed of W ashington granite by F W Ladd of Seattle at a cost of $30,000. Four-by-seven-foot door of Red Beach granite from Maine. Chapel space inside nine feet square and twelve feet tall, surmounted by a five foot tall dome with four art glass windows and, at one time, a gas chandelier. There are 22 crypts, each two by two-and-a-half feet and seven-feet-four inches deep. The fitted closures for the crypts are of polished Barre granite from Vermont. A large, seated bronze figure representing Jane Rucker once stood atop the doorway. 204.5 feet above sea level, seventy feet higher than the lych-gate at the northeast corner of the cemetery. Location: N 47' 57.792 x W 122' 12.203. Interred here are Jane Morris Rucker (1830-1907) and her sons W yatt J Rucker (1857-1931) (a 32nd Degree Mason, entombed after full Rose Croix Masonic service at Scottish Rites Temple) and Bethel J Rucker (1862-1945) ENTRANCE LYCH-GATE (lych or lich: archaic term for corpse) ne cor of 1,6 This gazebo-like building imitates the traditional English churchyard structure where pallbearers rest the coffin and await the arrival of the minister. Rebuilt 2004-05 after extensive damage by a tree blown down in a windstorm. TW O AFRICAN-AMERICAN CIVIL W AR VETERANS Alford Samuels (1828-1903) Pvt, 107th USCT Inf Co H 8:11an unmarked grave Cicero Hunter (1841-1916) Pvt, 43rd USC Inf Co B 26:46 an unmarked grave VICTIM OF "THE NELSON-CONNELLA FRACAS" OCTOBER 10, 1898 Ole Nelson, shot dead near the corner of Hewitt & W etmore by newspaper editor James Connella 6:57, an unmarked grave 3 ,ERBERT J. "SCOOP" TOOLE (1898-1928) Revered local sportswriter. 38:64 W ELLINGTON AVALANCHE VICTIMS, MARCH 1, 1910 Great Northern employees killed in the worst railroad disaster in American history, which occurred at the summit of the Cascades and claimed 96 lives. Benjamin F Jarnagan (1879-1910) engineer 26:121 Sydney H Jones (1883-1910) fireman 26:135 John Edward Kelly (1886-1910) brakeman 24:30 Earl Rumsey Longcoy (1891-1910) secretary, stenographer to GN Division Superintendent James H O’Neill 22:44 Francis S (Frank) Martin (1871-1910) engineer 24:58 John K Parzybok (1885-1910) rotary conductor 24:64 Joseph L Petit (1871-1910) conductor 24:57 W illiam E Raycroft (1879-1910) brakeman 24:63 Lewis George W alker (1856-1910) African-American cook and steward to GN Division Superintendent James H O’Neill 24:65 KARAS FAMILY KILLINGS, 1922-23 A tragedy in Everett's Greek community involving the murders of five members of the Karas family. They all lie in unmarked graves on the western edge of Block 27- Peter A Karas (died July 25, 1922, age 34) 27:222 Gust Karas (died March 17, 1923, age 29) 27:222 Cleopatra Karas (died March 17, 1923, age 25) 27:221 Alexander Karas (died March 17, 1923, age 4) 27:221 Polly (Panagiota) Karas (died March 17, 1923, age 2) 27:221 NAMESAKE OF LOCAL AIRFIELD Topliff Olin Paine (1893-1922) W W I aviator, airmail pilot 34:9 CIVIL W AR OFFICER, GETTYSBURG SURVIVOR, AUTHOR Capt R K Beecham (1838-1920) 31:61 EVERETT’S FIRST MOTORIST (1902) W ilde Ulysses Knisely (1867-1955) 42:205 THE W ATER CLOSET OF THE DEAD North edge of Block 5 Remarkable century-old plumbing fixture from long-gone comfort station LEGENDARY NORTHW EST ATHLETE George W ilson (1901-1963) played for coach Enoch Bagshaw at Everett High School & the University of W ashington 58:3 PIONEER BUSINESSMAN & EVERETT PARK NAMESAKE John Judson Clark (1838-1922) 34:1 4 NURSE KILLED IN ACTION ABOARD (SS COMFORT IN W W II Margaret M Billings (1910-1945) 42:166 FIRST GRADUATE OF EVERETT HIGH SCHOOL (1893) Margaret Clark Salisbury (1874-1947) 34:1 EVERETT’S SISTER PHOTOGRAPHERS Alice Rigby (1871-1915) and Clara Rigby (1873-1953) 31:495 MEXICAN W AR VETERAN, HOMESTEADER AT EVERETT SITE Ezra Hatch (1825-1890) 11:13 W EYERH2EUSER’S EVERETT MANAGER W illiam H Boner (1863-1925) 52:3 FORMER SLAVE W HO DIED AT THE AGE OF 110 Mary Jane Green (1802-1912) 24:65 an unmarked grave THREE SALOON PROPRIETORS (Block 15) Eugene B McGill (1864-1935) of Irish ancestry 15:155 John Diefenbacher (1861-1935) born in Germany 15:148 John Burch (1860-1906) an Englishman 15:130 EVERETT'S FIRST UNDERTAKER John T Rogers (1864-1933) 24:49, an unmarked grave Rogers allowed early Everett citizens to bed down in coffins at the rear of his shop during the housing crisis created by the land rush that accompanied the Everett boom late in 1891. Also served in the State House of Representatives, District 48, in 1909 and 1921. EVERETT’S FIRST DOCTOR Dr W illiam Columbus Cox (1858-1931) also an Everett mayor 23:24 MANAGER OF EVERETT LAND COMPANY Schuyler Duryee (1847-1922) 23:44 FOUNDER OF PROMINENT NORTHW EST CONTRACTING FIRM Howard S.