[or-roots] Re: Deer Creek Cemetery, Roseburg, Oregon

[Beth Perry Johnston]

Papaglen000 at aol.com wrote:
> Hello anyone out there.....
>  
>     Do you know anything "intimate" about Deer Creek Cemetery just outside
> Roseburg, Oregon?  I'm trying to find the grave of Elizabeth Bonebrake 
> DeMoss,
> who died in Roseburg in December 1886.  There was an obituary for her son,
> George Grant DeMoss, much later, which indicated that she was, indeed, 
> interred
> there.  But we can't seem to find the grave.  Elizabeth was a pioneer 
> from Iowa
> who came west in 1864 and with her husband, James McElroy DeMoss, founded
> the DeMoss Family Lyric Bards, who became famous in their time.
Glen,

I can't help you with your cemetery question but am curious if your 
Elizabeth Bonebrake came from Marion Co., IA. My ggrandparents, James 
and Rebecca Jane (Mathew) Smith, came to Oregon from Dallas Twp. in 
Marion Co., also in 1864. James and Rebecca were married by a Henry 
Bonebrake M.G. (minister of the gospel) in Marion Co., and in looking at 
census records there seem to be quite a few Bonebrake families there.

Beth Johnson <----in rainy, windy Newport