[or-roots] Keizer mea culpa/ where is Waconda?

[Leslie Chapman]

Now that I know where to look, it jumps right out at me, Sorry I missed it,
on USGS it show up as being west of the end of a cul de sac off of Russell,
but from the aerial photo it sure looks to me like it is square across the
end of Bolf terrace N. If a person were coming in on I-5 they would want to
take Lockhaven Drive Exit and go west to 219, or nearly there, it looks like
there should be a turnoff north to 219 at about the subway shop. You could
probably shorten the drive by turning north at 14th ave and headin west on
marigold, but that might also be a formula for getting lost, anyway it looks
like about a mile up 219 to the turn left on Wheatland and Bolf Terrace is
the third left on Wheatland.

> I checked the USGS topo maps and found
no indication of any cemetery in the Keizer area.<

Now to Gary's problem; Gary, I couldn't find a community named Waconda in
Oregon, except Wakonda Beach, and I doubt if it's cemetery is under I-5.

http://www.marioncountycemetery.com/brooks/		Is Waconda Road cemetery in
Brooks

Note: Waconda was a railway stop on the Oregon Electric Railway   [this is
from Salem Pioneer Cemetery, lots of Waconda folks buried there.]

http://photos.salemhistory.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/max&CISOPTR=38
69&REC=6	a 1947 photo of where it "used to be"

[Oh, this just gets more and more interesting;]

S.W.R. donated land for the cemetery, 12 miles northeast of Salem. The sign
at the entrance reads Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, but it also has been known
through the years as Brooks, Brooks Pioneer, Jones, Parkersville, Pioneer
Waconda and The Nook.

[[[[I am throwing this in here for laughs; more on SWR:]]]]

A Jones you couldn't keep up with.

Between moves, S.W.R. Jones left a large mark on Marion County.

CAPI LYNN
Statesman Journal
March 2

Silas Washington Robinson Jones lived a remarkable life.

He married four times and had 15 children.

He accumulated more than 5,500 acres of farm land in Marion County.

He gained notoriety for being swindled out of $5,000.

He offered $10,000 to any woman who would marry him.

He was arrested for alleged bigamy.

Descendants to this day continue to uncover the fascinating but sometimes
disturbing details of his life.

“It’s only been probably in the last five years that there’s even been any
whispers of it in public,” great-great-grandson Roger Jones said.

[[[[
There is a much more detailed description of his life and death, it is not
certain if he is actually buried in his own cememetery, apparently he died
in Indiana and was buried there but his descendants supposedly moved his
remains to Oregon in the thirties, he has a large stone here and a blank one
in Indiana.]]]]

http://www.oregonpioneers.com/marion/cemetery.htm
BROOKS MEMORIAL CEMETERY:
Established 1855. aka Pioneer Memorial, Jones Cemetery
Located T6S R2W 10. Near Parkersville. Off Hwy 99, east on Waconda Road to
Pioneer School, turn S. on first road, the church and cemetery are on the W.
side of the road. The cemetery was located on the DLC of J.I. Smith and
later enlarged by a donation from S.W.R. Jones who adjoined the property.
The first burial was William Jones in 1855.

Feature Name                                County     Latitude  Longitude
Elevation Quadrangle Name
Waconda                                             Marion
     45.07556 -122.97583       174  Gervais
Waconda Post Office (historical)                    Marion
     45.07556 -122.97583       174  Gervais

[[[[what boggles my mind is google has 97,000 hits for Waconda; I expected
about ten, it seems there are Waconda's in Nebraska, Kansas, Tennessee and
what all.


Les C

>>i have always been told that the waconda cem. is now beneath I-5. does
anyone know for sure?  in his write-up for his death, it says jarius bonney
is buried at the waconda cem. but everyone in and around that area tells me
there is no cem. in that town.
gary in az.
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