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Salem Pioneer Cemetery

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Established
  
1853

Country
  
Owned by
  
City of Salem

Founded
  
1853

Location
  
Type
  
Public

Size
  
16 acres (65,000 m)

Phone
  
+1 503-588-6336

Salem Pioneer Cemetery

Address
  
Commercial St SE & Hoyt St SE, Salem, OR 97302, USA

Hours
  
Open today · 8AM–5PMWednesday8AM–5PMThursday8AM–5PMFriday8AM–5PMSaturdayClosedSundayClosedMonday8AM–5PMTuesday8AM–5PMSuggest an edit

Burials
  
Tabitha Brown, Benjamin Forstner, Nathaniel Ford

Similar
  
Lee Mission Cemetery, Eugene Pioneer Cemetery, Bush's Pasture Park, Willamette Heritage Center, Dr Luke A Port House

Salem Pioneer Cemetery (also known as the I.O.O.F. Cemetery or Oddfellows Cemetery) is a cemetery in Salem, Oregon, United States.

Contents

Overview

Salem Pioneer Cemetery is one of two historic cemeteries located next to each other at the intersection of South Commercial and Hoyt streets. It is just east of City View Cemetery. The earliest burials center around the Methodist missionary pioneer David Leslie. The Methodist Mission was founded by the Reverend Jason Lee in 1834. This was the first mission to the Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest. After the end of the mission period, settlers poured into the Willamette Valley to take advantage of the land that was being granted due to the passage of the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, brought to Congress by early pioneer Samuel R. Thurston, Oregon's first delegate.

David Leslie became Jason Lee's principal assistant. He was a leader in the movement to organize the provisional government of Oregon, and a lifelong trustee of the Methodists' Oregon Institute, which was charted as Willamette University by the Territorial legislature in 1854.

In 1985, the City of Salem's Parks Division agreed to be titleholder and steward of the cemetery, mainly due to work done by the Friends of the Pioneer Cemetery. The Friends of the Pioneer Cemetery consists of a group of concerned citizens working together to raise awareness of the rich local history and to raise funds to supplement the limited public monies available to maintain this historic site.

Notable burials

  • Captain Charles H. Bennett (1811–1855) plot #106
  • Tabitha M. Brown (1780–1858) plot #44
  • Asahel Bush (1824–1913) plot #66
  • Governor John Pollard Gaines (1795–1857) plot #56
  • Alonzo Gesner (1842–1912) plot #549
  • Hiram Gorman (c. 1835-1888) plot #184
  • Hancock Lee Jackson (1796-1876), 13th Governor of the State of Missouri
  • Rev. Lewis H. Judson (1809–1880) plot #306
  • Thomas Lister Kay (1837–1900) plot #421
  • Augustus C. Kinney (1845–1908) plot #603
  • Robert Crouch Kinney (1813–1875) plot #588
  • David Leslie (1797–1869) plot #135
  • John McCourt (1874–1924) plot #200
  • Isaac R. Moores (1796–1861) plot #9
  • Isaac R. Moores, Jr. (1831–1884) plot #18
  • John H. Moores (1821–1880) plot #19
  • George K. Shiel (1825–1893) plot #136
  • Samuel R. Thurston (1815–1851) plot #076
  • Dr. William Holden Willson (1805–1856)
  • References

    Salem Pioneer Cemetery Wikipedia


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