[or-roots] Waconda Road area & Banat immigrants

[Gary Murray]

THE OLD WACONDA CEM. where my jarius bonney is supposedly buried is west of 
99 and was supposedly on waconda road.i have just the old man i talked with 
to fall back on.  he was very alert and knew where i could look for more 
cems.
gary in az.
don't forget belle passi cem in woodburn or just south of them, and hubbard
pioneer.  i have a lot of people buried at both places. if you check at 
belle passi you will find a memorial grave listed under jarius bonney and 
his brother dr. truman augustus bonney.  more than 60 years ago the ladies 
that ran the bonney reunions did a search for either one of these men and 
found neither.  the man that donated the land for mac laren school for boys 
in woodburn was a grandson or son of dr. truman bonney.  there is a small 
gravesite on the grounds of the school with two or three broken grave 
markers.  it has been ASSUMED for many years that one of them is dr. truman 
a. bonney.  they called him dr. but he was not a graduated m.d.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Denise Merritt" <merritthome at clearwire.net>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 8:52 AM
Subject: [or-roots] Waconda Road area & Banat immigrants


> My grandparents own property on the corner of Waconda Road and old Hwy 99. 
> From the notes I haven't yet figured out where this old cemetery is/was. 
> I've driven Waconda Road East of Old Hwy 99 countless times on the way to 
> my grandparents home and didn't ever notice a cemetery but I've driven 
> west alot fewer times so perhaps it is between Old Hwy 99 and I-5 on 
> Waconda Road.
>
> An extremely nice Russian man has farmed the property my grandparents own 
> for quite a number of years now (raises Boysenberries on it).  My 
> grandmother's family lives all over the land East of Old Hwy 99 (Lake 
> Labish/Parkersville/North Howell area) and I've found alot of German 
> immigrants in that area who came from Arad County Hungary settled there. 
> Many there are related and quite a number that aren't related immigrated 
> from the same area of Hungary (Germans).
>
> Most of them are buried in the Gervais cemetery or Silverton (Bethany 
> Pioneer).
>
> Anyone researching settlers of that area might find the following web 
> sites helpful:
>
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~banatdata/DDB/HomePage.htm 
> (David Dreyers Immigrant lists)
>
> http://www.banaters.com/banat/intro.html
>
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~romban/map/xymap.html  (map of Banat cities many 
> migrated from)
>
> Denise
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