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

[Gary Murray]

leslie:   answered two e-mails from nancy and now your turn.  i talked with 
a very old person who lived on waconda road.  he sid there was a pioneer 
cem. at one time near him but the freeway paved over the top of it.  as i 
told nancy, i was told by this same man thatwaconda was never a town but an 
area.  i told nancy about this cem. with all the lee's in it.  hopefully she 
will read this and know it is the jone's and not the lee's.  a dau. of 
s.w.r. jones married as his first wife to augustus alva bonney in the 
dalles.  i have a list of her name and their children.  this came from 
bessie bonney who is long dead but was an old maid school teacher and the 
dau. of a.a. bonney and his second wife.  i may be mixing them up here but i 
am old and its allowed.  anyway i do have all this down on fgs's.   bessie 
gave me info on the entire side of that family.  they all descend from dr. 
truman bonney.  she tried to give me hundreds of pics of all the family and 
i told her to give them to someone in the family.  they were not my line of 
bonneys.  if someone out there finds a waconda cem. would they please let me 
know as i am trying to move back to portland area where i can do more gene. 
i have also been to the claggett cem. both online and in person and the one 
online is missing at least one person that i know of.  martha jane bonney is 
buried there and like her mother, was married twice but both are buried as 
bonney's.
gary in az.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
To: "Oregon List" <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 6:11 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Keizer mea culpa/ where is Waconda?


> 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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