9 TTTE SUNDAY OREGONIAN.. PORTLAND. APRIL 1011. LONE FIR CEMETERY RICH IN HISTORIC INTEREST Many Stories, Tragic, Pathetic and Heartwarming, Could Bo Told by Thoso at Best in Portland's Pioneer Burial Tract Graves of Famous Men of Oregon Are There. V 7 'V V 4 , 1 J 7 m9 .1 5 r 0 , -0 - - " ' -'!'. . . . - v - :,i,V'.',- ,' ' V - - . ' J . - i - . 2 TV 3 -.871"?j 1 1 r-r irsr-fs 1 Z5! 11 4 1r COCJCt-f 4 4 v.ftuMEDP.rus 4 to 1 it i "1 ft AS y 1r S Jr pais bjr, Mtorik-tnteret ttmcbn mora and mir to Loo etmetery, tb pioneer bnrlal tract of th city, for there II burled erersJ who, during their tenure of life. wer known to fame, and many of the moat honored pioneers of Portland. The cemetery has been In as alnc 1847. be. tna; at Crst 10 acres In extent. It was opened by Cotburn EarrelL Among those who found tbetr last restlns; place In this historic spot were William Evans, a brother of Keax-Ad-mlral Robley . Evans, retired; Samuel I Simpson, tb poet: Ueutenan t-Colonel J- o. Ivackenstos. who commandel the First Mounted Rifles, tha first mllltarr fore to arrlv in Oregon; Rodney It. I Uorrla. a son of BIshon B. W. Morris. I who when 1 years of ace, lost bis life In a Tain attempt to save the lives of three persons: tun Ice Torrance, who at the as; of It crossed the plains to Or. Con In latu. and who was the oldest woman to accomplish this frat; Mary E. Miller, a niece of Joaquin Miller. "Poet of the 6ierraa"; and Sylvester Pennoyer. W. V. Thayer and George U. Curry. each of whom occupied the position of Coventor of Oregon. Many stories, trairlc. pathetic and neart-warratntr. could be told by those who He buried In I-on Fir cemetery war they able to speak. Inclosed In a aeat hedge Is the prave of a young- col. lege man whlcn for years has been de votedly tended by a Portland woman wbo had promised to becom Ms bride. Along; one of the prettiest walks Is the grave of Rosa Rankin, younic girl who lost her life by falllns; through a de fective plan In the old Fourth-street bridge over Sullivan's Gulch many years i go. When found, she held still clasped In her hands two small palls which her mother bad placed there. Explosion Victims at Kct. In another part of the tract are the srraves of Iavid P. Kulier and Crawford II- Iwbblns. killed by an explosion on the steamer Gazelle In April. 1SS4. They were burled In Mr. Rarreil's "family plot. and his remains were Later laid to rest beside theirs. Many s tranters and friends were Interred by Mr. Barrell at his ownxpens and In many Instances he aiso erected headstones to their memory. II erected neat monuments at the graves of the victims of the Ga sell explosion. A oathetie feature or ine Gasell trasredv was the fact that Mr. Fuller waa soon to havo married the daughter f a pioneer Portland lami.y. a very beautiful young woman. Iir heart Kroken. the younc woman lived only a few months after the death of her fcance. la US J. TV UI lam M. tvana. a jounj- of J- tie' iX I. , -i - i if'"1 Ski X, 'l - AT' ; 1 MSB U xf f ' ". rrvm-jvwt-flTjaF, avr.wwffaiy f 1' w -r lawyer, was taken sick with typhoid son and Brown, two desperat young and pneumonia, lie was attended by men who, detected in a robbery, lost their r his dearest friend. rr. John T. Wells, of the United States Navy. When Evans breathed his last, the physician wept at his bedside. The two men bad sat side lives for commit tig nmurder. In shooting at tho officers, they killed snainnoceni boy who was crossing tho street. They were hanged In this city. Kvery dii or n IS Deasioe. X i.w I V men piu - . . l , b.l... on an old bench in a Virginia . ' J""1 '"XlTtv rel c scboolhoos and bad come to the North west together. Soon after his friend's death r. Wells also passed away. The graves lias been carried away by relic hunters. In 1SSJ. a well-known character named bodies of th two men lie side by sld Mitchell, who mad his living by Jig i vr r,m,(,rr ' dancing, was frosen to death on an ex- Lou Fir contain the graves of John. traordlaarlly cola night, January U. His 1 friends placed a monument to his mem- buried was Eliot Ordway, a youth of 19. ory on which is engraved the following Here Ilea one wbo bas taken steps That won the applsasa of men; But grlra death came and took a step Which he could not withstand. Several young men who lost their lives In defense of th Stars and Strlpe dur ing the Spanish-American War are In terred at Ion Fir. Th first to be He was 'given a military funeral which was attended by more than 2000 citizens of Portland. Others, all members of the Second Oregon Regiment, also buried in thla tract, are: Jesse M. Ribinson, Harry Anderson, Guy Millard, vv imam Alien, Guy Packard and Joseph I Berry. A beautiful monument stands In commem onptloa of those Oregon men who par- ticipated In the Spanish-Ame, ican. Civil, Mexican and Northwest Indian wars. Among the pioneers of Portland and Oregon at rest in Lone Fir Cemetery are Captain John H. Couch, Dr. J. C. Hawthorne, Valentine Brown. James W. Robb, Judge Earl C. Bronaugn, Sr., Dr. William Weatherford. Dr. J. B. Pllking ton. Dr. W. H. Watkins, Dr. Justin Mil lard, Judge E. D. Shattuck, James B. Stephens. Frank Dekum, Miss Emma Millard, Matthew Kleth, Mrs. James H. McMillan. Levis Estes. Bishop B. 'W. Morris, E. J. Northup, Howard Northup, Rev. Crawford Rockwell Thoburn, W. W. Spauldinir. Captain Turnbull, Captain James Strang, George E. Cole, J. A. Strowbridge, Sr., A. G. Cunpingham and W. A. McPherson. Mr Thoburn was a noted missionary and college president. Born In India in 1862; he died in Portland in 182. "Ever a good and faithful servant" is the Inscription on the headstone erected in his memory. John W. Robb was mur dered at Astoria, April 25, 1SS1. Miss Millard was organist of a Presbyterian church which stood on the ground now occupied by the Dekum building. Mr. McPherson was a well-known state edi tor, having edited the Roseburg Plain dealer and the Ashland Tidings. George E. Cole, at one tlme. was Postmaster of Portland. A