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E&$t Oregonian Round-Up Souvenir Edition
Pendleton. Oregon, Friday. September 12. 1913
Twenty-four Pages
Historic Old Cemetery Holds Story
Of Pioneer Hardships and Heroism
Burial Place Now Close to Business Section Holds Remains of
Men Killed in Indian Wars and Mothers who Braved Dangers
J
the founder of Pendleton
who a half century ago built
house on the spot where now stands caU" one of lne m08t thrlnl
the Pendleton hotel, and for many of lhe early days the d
years conducted It with th nl.t nf hi'homes Kln8t hostile, Int
Fy Merle . Chessman.) '
In the heart of Pendleton's choicest!
TCHtdcnt district ix situntod the first
liravryard In eastern Oregon, a" burial
ground more than half a century old.
which has l.ecn unuse.l for vears &ml
yet which may nut be converted to '
another use because of tije provisions !
made when It was first laid out. Pro-j
tected by the law and yet with no one
to care for it. Its monuments and !
tombstones crumbling and broken
down. It Is Itself a monument to ne
glect and ruin
There has it lain a little plot of bare '
ground, dedicated to the grim reaper
for over half a century, and beneath
Ita uneven, weed grown surface lies
the dust of those whose hands first
opened the gates of an empire. With
in the narrow boundaries of that des
olate area,
"Where heaves the turf In many a
mouldering heap.
Each in his narrow cell forever laid.
The rude forefathers of the hamlet
sleep,"
and by their bones, long since decay
ed and crumbled, is that spot conse
crated and hallowed, and made for
ever sacred.
It has been written to "let the dead
past bury its dead." but that com.
mand does not enjoin a complete for
getfulness and disregard for that
which has gone before, for In the
graves of the past are the roots of
the trees of the present, and he is al
most a criminal who falls In his In.
herent obligations to cherish the
things bygone. History with lu nar
rowed pages can touch but lightly up
on Its multitude of makers, and thus,
the duty Is Imposed upon each com
munity to perpetuate the names of
those whose toil, sacrifice and mar
tyrdom secured for It the peace and
prosperity it now enjoys. And the
least It can do Is to show some ex
ternal respect and reverence for the
last resting place of these dead heroes.
To the stranger, who, from curios
ity allows his footsteps to lead him
within this "silent city of the dead,"
as he moves from mound to mound
and reads the few Inscriptions carved
in marble there, those scattered graves
may be but scattered graves with no
other significance, or if he .be of a
meditative cast or gifted with an Im
agination, he may guess something of
what lies hidden there within; but to
the few remnants of the pioneer
band who saw this land as a wild fron
tier, those earthen billows mutely
speak of a thousand Incidents of other
times. From out of those tombs rise
upectres of former friends,-and be
fore their retrospective vision are en
acted scenes in a drama which tells of
an empire in the making. 1 dear lowered into the earthen cell. A
few tears would be dropped as the
It was the body of Ella Bailey that dirt was gently heaped over the corpse
was first interred in that historic and then with one last lingering look
cemetery. She was a daughter of behind, on to the west, to the prom
Judge . W. Kalley. and a sister of ised land where hopes and dronms
the present D. W. Bailey, who Is still ' were to be fulfilled. Often a rude
a resident of this cltv h. . i.,v. ... . .
victim to pneumonia late in the '60.s and the name and years and perhaps
when only the Bailey and Goodwin! a homely verse carved thereon, all of
families constituted the solo popula- j which have long since been erased by
the are whereon now dwellj time and the' warrlm? elements. Those
.000 people. After her death the few ruRKed pioneers, with their uncertain
acres which now comprise the burial ! futures, were given neither time nor
ground were deeded to the county by ! opportunity for the funeral rites and
M. E. Goodwin, and soon other graves ! observances of civilization, and. that
appeared within Its confines. j they left no marble tributes over their
Many of these were strangers to the j 'fd, but made the living monument
few people who then inhabited thisiin their memories more lasting,
section. Oftentimes a train of immi-1 Then, too, in that burial ground, as
grants would draw sadly to this spot. it is today, are many shallow holes
bearing in their midst the body of j w here the mouldering bones of former
one of their number, fallen on the! occupants have been disinterred and
Journey, a victim to disease, accident! removed to other places. In one of
or violence. A grave would be hastily j these for many years rested the re-
i5' , ew 8imP' words would be mains of M. E. Goodwin whose name
said and the lifeless form of one held j shall stand imperishable as that of
He It was . have withstood the assaults of winds
a Wliy ana rains is an inscription which re-
1 calls one of the most thrilling periods
defense of
dlans. On
thrifty wife. And he It was also whojon 8,de K rea.ds;
first bridged the Umatilla, building! ",n memory of William Lumar.
the structure of timbers hewn and sergeant in Captain Kperry's company
whlpsawed by his own hand, and re- Pendleton volunteers, killed In
muneratlng his labors by charging NKht with the Indians at Willow
toll to the constant stream of home-1 Springs, July 6. 1878."
seekers and gold hunters which pas- On the reverse side is chiseled
ed this way. And later in the venr
1S69 It was he and Judge G. W. Bail
ey who contributed the funds for the
erection of the first Umatilla county
court house which was built and
stood for many years where the HeJ
Cross drug store, Schaefer's Jewelry
store and the Peoples Warehouse are
now located. Scarcely an Incident of
the early history of this county but
with which hla name is identified and
linked inseparably, and the very
ground upon which a great many of
the business blocks and residences of
this city nre now built Is a part of his
former 160 acre homestead tract. His
aged widow, who after his death, was
married again to Henry Raley, passeJ
away scarcely a month ago.
In one corner of the old cemetery
there still lies a piece of brokeen mar
ble over a grass grown grave which
tells that there lies all that remains of
the body of G. W. Bailey, the fourth
judge of Umatilla county, and the
first who held court in Pendleton; an
other pioneer whose labors in this sec
tion of eastern Oregon makes him a
prominent figure In its early history.
On one of the few tombstones which
By the friends, who, during his
short stay with us, learned to esteem
him, this monument Is erected as a
tribute to his manly worth, and to
commemorate his gallant conduct."
In that burial ground, too, U the
grave of George Coggan, who with
Kred Foster and Al Bunker, was be
trayed by an Indian woman he had
long known, and who was killed by
ner irioesmen wnne ruling from cay.
use to this city. Bunker was wound
ed at the same time and fell In the
bed of a stream where he was found
next morning by a fescue partv
Stirring times those, when danger
walked hand in hand with those early
settlers with death always lurking
near to claim them as hia own
Standing In the center of the aban
doned graveyard Is a tall, imposing
monument which, desnita the storms
which have played about it stands
as straight as on the day it was erect
ed to mark the last resting place of
an honored pioneer, on its untar
nished siirfacn is nneraved tha name
of Hon. George A. La Dow and the
(Continued on Page Thirteen.)
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