[or-roots] Waconda IS on my map???

[Leslie Chapman]

Gary;

I decided to take a look at the Pioneer/Jones/Waconda/whatever cememtery i
had sent the link for, it is about 2 1/4 miles east of I-5 on Waconda Road,
but the interesting thing is that about a mile west of the interchange is a
little community labled Waconda, yet when I did search for that name on USGS
all I found was Wakonda Beach. Huh?

There is one farmhouse at the junction of Waconda road and I-5, but
everything else there is fields, makes me think it had to have been a very
small cemetery, and it seems like the State would have had to re-inter folks
elsewhere if they were going to dig them up like that.  I don't think they
would have gotten away with just paving over a grave yard. You don't suppose
that person could hve been pulling your leg?

Les C

-----Original Message-----
From: or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us]On Behalf Of Gary Murray
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 6:20 PM
To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Keizer mea culpa/ where is Waconda?leslie


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.