[or-roots] Homestead of George Charles Gillespie

[Nancy Lee Adams]

Oregon Magazine
I also read  a while back they want to put in a bigger/taller dam, where Old
Chief Joseph's Monument is,
to raise the water level : )  
My grandchildren & I have hung handkerchiefs with Beaded home made things on
that big bush next to Old Chief Joseph's Monument. I would miss doing that
greatly every time we go to Wallowa lake, if they destroyed it all : (

Right close to his monument are also several graves of pioneer family & I
forgot there names right off, 
But I do have it written down some where. 
OLD JOSEPH'S GRAVESITE
VIRTUAL TOUR: Nez Perce National Historic Trail
The Old Chief Joseph Gravesite, a national historic landmark, is a 5-acre
cemetery on the west side of Oregon Highway 82, just north of Wallowa Lake
and 1 mile south of Joseph, Oregon. 
The cemetery is separated from the highway by a cobble wall and gateposts
built by the Umatilla Tribal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in between
1938 and 1940. 
This is a sacred and sensitive landmark for the Nez Perce people. 
Old Chief Joseph was reburied at this site in 1926. The grave is marked by a
tall stone marker bearing the words, "To the Memory of Old Chief Joseph,
Died 1870." The beautiful view from the monument is across Wallowa Lake,
toward the Eagle Cap Wilderness, including an imposing glacial moraine. 
*More good reading>>First Settlement in Grande Ronde Valley, Union County,
Oregon

Oregon Magazine  (about) Marr Property at the foot of the  (Wallowa).. dug
up
Indian graves when they built Wahluna Terrace (the ranch style homes above
the Lake on it’s north end). 

Nancy 

-------Original Message-------
 
From: Leonard Couch
Date: 04/09/05 13:42:51
To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Homestead of George Charles Gillespie
 
Old Chief Joesph is buried at the foot of Wallowa Lake about 2 miles from
the town of Joesph. Which right now some developer wants to build houses
right near there.
 
Leonard Couch
Auburn Washington ( I was rasied in Wallowa Oregon).
 
 
> [Original Message]
> From: W David Samuelsen <dsam at sampubco.com>
> To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
> Date: 4/9/2005 12:47:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Homestead of George Charles Gillespie
>
>
>
> Nancy Lee Adams wrote:
> > Clyde,
> > Maybe your great grandfather, George C. Gillespie came back in 1877 &
> > patented the land then.
> > After the Nez Perce were sent off to Oklahoma & Kansas.
>
> No. Only the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce was sent to Oklahoma and Kansas
> and finally to Washington state. The Idaho bands are still on the Nez
Perce
> Reservation in Idaho.
>
> To this day Chief Joseph the younger is still buried in Washington.
> The one that's near Enterprise is that of his father Chief Joseph the
elder.
>
> David Samuelsen
>
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