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Pioneer cemeteries point out
mystery in Oregon’s history
■ Many graves contain pioneer families with an unknown
history, and the state is trying to track down descendants
EUGENE — A small cemetery
at the bottom of the long
Willamette Valley is keeping fam
ily tradition alive for descendants
of some of the earliest Oregon pi
oneers, who the state is finally
trying to find.
The graves of John and Mary
Gay Cogswell are in just one of
the hundreds of pioneer cemeter
ies across the state, ranging from
one to dozens of graves.
No one knows how many an
cestors rest in small family plots.
But the Oregon Legislature has
ordered the state to find out, even
though officials aren’t sure how
to start looking.
The key to documenting pio
neer history may rest with de
scendants such as Emery Ing
ham, a Portland antique dealer
who belongs to the fourth gener
ation of a family that crossed the
Oregon Trail more than a century
and a half ago.
Ingham, 66, made a trip to the
family cemetery west of Creswell
over the weekend to bury a por
tion of the ashes of a cousin,
Doris Norton of Long Island,
N.Y., who died last fall in her
70s.
Norton’s family spread most of
the remains in her favorite places
back East. But Ingham will per
form the final honor — making
sure she becomes part of Oregon
history.
Gathering at the cemetery has
become a family ritual, and
dozens of descendants show up
every Memorial Day to trim the
grounds, set new flags, eat a
potluck picnic, tell stories and
watch children of the family’s
fifth and sixth generations play
among the headstones.
“This was a Garden of Eden to
them, you know,” Ingham said of
the farm set in the long valley
that is now home to most of the
people in Oregon.
“Everything they planted
grew,” Ingham said. “Seeds,
hopes, dreams — everything.”
The family cemetery began in
1857, when John and Mary Gay
Cogswell lost their first two chil
dren, daughters Mary Anne, 4,
and Florida, 1, to scarlet fever.
John Cogswell was born in
1814 in New York, helped herd
horses to California in 1845 and
worked his way north the next
year. He was nearly shipwrecked
heading back to California for the
gold rush of 1849, but was lucky
enough to survive and strike it
rich.
He carried as much gold as he
could to Pennsylvania, had it
minted and bought a herd of cat
tle, horses and sheep. In 1851, he
drove them to Oregon to build a
ranch.
One day, while scouting ahead
of the herd, Cogswell came upon
a wagon train with one of the
prettiest woman he’d ever seen.
Family lore says 19-year-old
Mary Francis Gay had already
quickened men’s hearts from
Missouri to Oregon, and the love
struck Cogswell hurried back to
his cattle. He urged his
cowhands to “hurry up — I’ve
just seen the woman I’m going to
marry.”
Theirs was the first marriage li
cense recorded in Lane County,
and to her death in 1887, Mary
said she always “had all I need
ed.”
The Associated Press
Memorial Day
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“Thjs day is sacred with al
most a visible presence of those
who have gone before us,” he
said.
Potter said many people tend
to forget what Memorial Day is
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all about, and he said he hopes
that as the number of those veter
ans able to attend Memorial Day
services decreases, the annual
memorial service at Pioneer
Cemetery reaches out to younger
people.
“We’re trying to pass on to the
generations coming on the sacri
fices that people made,” he said.
And those sacrifices, Potter
said, were not only for Ameri
cans, but also for the thousands
of immigrants who come looking
for a promising future in the
United States every day.
“The gates are open to this
country,” he said. “That’s free
dom, and that’s what it is all
about.”
Paul Gilbertson, a member of
the American Legion and presi
dent of the Eugene Pioneer
Cemetery Association board, said
he was pleased to see so many
people come to the memorial
service.
“It was good,” he said. “I look
at the people each year.”
But Gilbertson also said he
feels that some tend to forget the
meaning of the holiday.
“So many people have lost re
ality of these days that have a
special significance,” he said.
Past commander of American
Legion Post 3, A1 Reeves, said
many younger people look at
Memorial Day as nothing more
than a long weekend and an op
portunity to go camping.
“We will soon be forgotten,” he
said.
But he also said he noticed that
some young people are starting to
show an interest in learning
about history, wars and veterans.
Some of those young people —
a choir from Shasta Middle
School in Eugene — sang at the
memorial service.
Choir director David Fitch said
he tries to prepare his students
for more than just concerts, and
performing at the annual memo
rial service gives them a chance
to learn about veterans and the
wars they fought. Coming to the
service year after year, he said he
has watched many of his stu
dents understand what the holi
day is all about.
“The experience for me was re
ally moving,” Fitch said.
Fitch was not the only one at
the memorial service who en
joyed seeing his students react to
the service.
“It really is wonderful to see
the young people out here,” said
Ruth Holmes, secretary treasurer
of the Eugene Pioneer Cemetery
Association. “I thought it was
beautiful.”
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