James Lindsay Findley was born to John R. and Nancy (Findley) Findley. His daughter Sarah wrote about the trip to Oregon in 1847 in the Elias Buell wagon train. The Buells camped near Independence Rock, and decided to walk to it after dinner, but were deceived by the distance, and did not arrive there until 2AM.
Sarah wrote that the Buell train met Mormons along the way, who urged them to go to Utah, and that as they approached Oregon, a rider from Marcus Whitman met them and urged them to continue onto the Willamette and not detour to the mission. As they headed down the Columbia, the party met Josiah Osborne, who had married Margaret Findley, a close relative of James. The Osbornes were headed to the Whitman mission to operate a grist mill, at the request of Marcus Whitman.
At the Dalles, most of the party rafted downstream, but "There were men bringing the teams along the trail, and my father, who was one of the number, became stricken with the mountain (typhoid) fever, and was borne, seriously ill, on to the fort", arriving Nov 15, 1847. There James died on December 23, 1847. "There were others whose deaths occurred during the winter of 1847-48. When the Pioneer Cemetery was plotted their remains were exhumed and reinterred."
Old burials with wooden markers have been lost.
Roger Daniels posted that the oldest multi-cultural graveyard in the Pacific NW "was the original pioneer cemetery that was located behind the St. James Catholic Church just north of the Hudson Bay Fort Vancouver. Just north of the church was a 4-acre cemetery where over 200 people were buried. I have seen the death records of this cemetery which are available at the Archdiocese in Seattle. You will find Dr. John McLoughlin's son buried here, along with Chief Casino of the Multnomah Indians (Chinook)."
Currently, the Mother Joseph Catholic Cemetery is located next to the military cemetery, at the corner of 29th Street and "O" Street.
Sarah wrote that the Buell train met Mormons along the way, who urged them to go to Utah, and that as they approached Oregon, a rider from Marcus Whitman met them and urged them to continue onto the Willamette and not detour to the mission. As they headed down the Columbia, the party met Josiah Osborne, who had married Margaret Findley, a close relative of James. The Osbornes were headed to the Whitman mission to operate a grist mill, at the request of Marcus Whitman.
At the Dalles, most of the party rafted downstream, but "There were men bringing the teams along the trail, and my father, who was one of the number, became stricken with the mountain (typhoid) fever, and was borne, seriously ill, on to the fort", arriving Nov 15, 1847. There James died on December 23, 1847. "There were others whose deaths occurred during the winter of 1847-48. When the Pioneer Cemetery was plotted their remains were exhumed and reinterred."
Old burials with wooden markers have been lost.
Roger Daniels posted that the oldest multi-cultural graveyard in the Pacific NW "was the original pioneer cemetery that was located behind the St. James Catholic Church just north of the Hudson Bay Fort Vancouver. Just north of the church was a 4-acre cemetery where over 200 people were buried. I have seen the death records of this cemetery which are available at the Archdiocese in Seattle. You will find Dr. John McLoughlin's son buried here, along with Chief Casino of the Multnomah Indians (Chinook)."
Currently, the Mother Joseph Catholic Cemetery is located next to the military cemetery, at the corner of 29th Street and "O" Street.
James Lindsay Findley was born to John R. and Nancy (Findley) Findley. His daughter Sarah wrote about the trip to Oregon in 1847 in the Elias Buell wagon train. The Buells camped near Independence Rock, and decided to walk to it after dinner, but were deceived by the distance, and did not arrive there until 2AM.
Sarah wrote that the Buell train met Mormons along the way, who urged them to go to Utah, and that as they approached Oregon, a rider from Marcus Whitman met them and urged them to continue onto the Willamette and not detour to the mission. As they headed down the Columbia, the party met Josiah Osborne, who had married Margaret Findley, a close relative of James. The Osbornes were headed to the Whitman mission to operate a grist mill, at the request of Marcus Whitman.
At the Dalles, most of the party rafted downstream, but "There were men bringing the teams along the trail, and my father, who was one of the number, became stricken with the mountain (typhoid) fever, and was borne, seriously ill, on to the fort", arriving Nov 15, 1847. There James died on December 23, 1847. "There were others whose deaths occurred during the winter of 1847-48. When the Pioneer Cemetery was plotted their remains were exhumed and reinterred."
Old burials with wooden markers have been lost.
Roger Daniels posted that the oldest multi-cultural graveyard in the Pacific NW "was the original pioneer cemetery that was located behind the St. James Catholic Church just north of the Hudson Bay Fort Vancouver. Just north of the church was a 4-acre cemetery where over 200 people were buried. I have seen the death records of this cemetery which are available at the Archdiocese in Seattle. You will find Dr. John McLoughlin's son buried here, along with Chief Casino of the Multnomah Indians (Chinook)."
Currently, the Mother Joseph Catholic Cemetery is located next to the military cemetery, at the corner of 29th Street and "O" Street.
Sarah wrote that the Buell train met Mormons along the way, who urged them to go to Utah, and that as they approached Oregon, a rider from Marcus Whitman met them and urged them to continue onto the Willamette and not detour to the mission. As they headed down the Columbia, the party met Josiah Osborne, who had married Margaret Findley, a close relative of James. The Osbornes were headed to the Whitman mission to operate a grist mill, at the request of Marcus Whitman.
At the Dalles, most of the party rafted downstream, but "There were men bringing the teams along the trail, and my father, who was one of the number, became stricken with the mountain (typhoid) fever, and was borne, seriously ill, on to the fort", arriving Nov 15, 1847. There James died on December 23, 1847. "There were others whose deaths occurred during the winter of 1847-48. When the Pioneer Cemetery was plotted their remains were exhumed and reinterred."
Old burials with wooden markers have been lost.
Roger Daniels posted that the oldest multi-cultural graveyard in the Pacific NW "was the original pioneer cemetery that was located behind the St. James Catholic Church just north of the Hudson Bay Fort Vancouver. Just north of the church was a 4-acre cemetery where over 200 people were buried. I have seen the death records of this cemetery which are available at the Archdiocese in Seattle. You will find Dr. John McLoughlin's son buried here, along with Chief Casino of the Multnomah Indians (Chinook)."
Currently, the Mother Joseph Catholic Cemetery is located next to the military cemetery, at the corner of 29th Street and "O" Street.
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