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

[Gary Murray]

i do not think this man pulled anything.  i know of two cems. that have been 
destroyed in the last 10 years.  its a great thing to find out that no one 
would let anyone else destroy a cem.  unfortunately, these things happen all 
the time and no one seems to care.  one of these cems was the old whiskey 
hills cem.   i went so far as to turn these people in.  this cem was a mess 
with ivy growing everywhere.  the farmer directly behind the cem was cutting 
into it with each passing year.  i felt another year and he wouls disinter 
some of my people bured there.  when i turned in a report i was told that 
these things happen all the time.  now, they had the time and power to 
change all this but decided not to.  the other cem. was south of pdx. in a 
small town where my mother and grandparents were living.  there was, at one 
time, a small private cem. in a field.  when i went there all there was was 
a blank field that had been recently tilled, cemetery and all.  in fact it 
was so recent that the dirt was still black or had that wet look.  also on 
another note.  i interviewed this eldery man in waconda about 15 years ago. 
i know he is not still alive.  at that time waconda consisted of the house 
at the intersection and about 5-8 others.  very, very old houses.  this man 
lived west of 99 on waconda road.
I KNOW ABOUT THE CEM WHERE S.W.R. JONES AND HIS FAMILY ARE BURIED. 
interesting and very old.
gary in az.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 11:34 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Waconda IS on my map???


> 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.
>
>
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