Index of Burials

Adams, Joseph
Born: September 12, 1820, Ontario, Canada
Died: March 23, 1893, Snohomish
Headstone

In 1871, Joseph  Adams and his family were living in Walsingham, where he worked as a lumberman. He and his wife Mary Ann (Tuttle), had a daughter, Teresea "Tressie", and sons, Thomas, 22, also working as a lumberman; Samuel, 19; and Lafayette, 17. On the census, he listed his religion as "Primitive Methodist," a movement that emphasized evangelism and revivalism. By 1883, Joseph and Mary Ann had removed to Seattle, where he worked as a carpenter and Mary Ann, a housewife. Six years later, in their late 60s, they were living in the household of their youngest son, Lafayette, a teamster, and his wife in Snohomish on Lincoln Street. His daughter, Theresa, had married Harvey Light, a prominent farmer in the county. Their two other sons, Thomas and Samuel, had predeceased them.

Joseph died on March 23, 1893 at age 72 years old. In his will he bequeathed “to my only son Lafayette Adam the sum of Five Dollars and to my only daughter Mrs. Theresa Light I bequeath the sum of Five Dollars.” Joseph is now buried in the Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery with the inscription: "At rest.” He died before the G.A.R. opened, so was likely moved here in later years. His widow, Mary Ann, was buried at the G.A.R. in July 1898.

Allen, Annie Garphelia
Born:  1846, New Jersey
Died: March 30, 1879, Fall City
Headstone

Annie Garphelia King was born the third of seven children. She married Watson Allen on May 10, 1865 and by 1870, had moved to Randolph, New Jersey where they welcomed their first daughter. Watson was a carpenter and landowner who had served in the Civil War.  The family came to Washington in about 1872.  

Watson and Annie moved to Seattle with their two daughters: Lillian, 11 and Linna, 3. Later, in that same year, on the last day of March 1879, Annie delivered a baby girl on their farm in Fall City. Annie died that same day. The Snohomish newspaper announced, "Her remains were brought to this place on the first of April where her funeral took place. Mr. Allen has the heartfelt sympathy of all in the loss of his wife and leaving a poor motherless babe, only a few hours old for others to raise. His loss is truly irreparable.” Annie's headstone was moved the G.A.R. Cemetery at least nine years after her death.

Watson remarried to Cornelia Newton in 1884.

Ames, James and Milton
Headstone

Brothers Milton (b. 1856) and James Ames (b. 1862) were born in Lee, Maine, two of six children. Their father, James Gilmore Ames (1827-1916), was a farmer. The family moved west to Washington State in the summer of 1880 .

Three years later, Milton died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, writing that he could “no longer endure life” because of poor health and becoming “melancholy”. The funeral took place from the City Hotel. Sadly, James died in 1888 at the age of 26. According to the newspaper, James was working at Blackman's Mill, fell from a boom and being unable to swim, drowned. There is a headstone dedicated to both James and his brother Milton that was moved to Woodlawn Cemetery after it opened in 1891. Their parents and brother Edson are also buried at Woodlawn.

Anderson, Charles
Born: 1841, Maine
Died: July 30, 1894, Snohomish
Headstone

Charles H. Anderson was born to a family of twelve children. Charles' father was a laborer, and by 1860 they had removed to Richmond, Maine, where Charles and his father John both found work as millmen. Later the family moved to Peshtigo, Wisconsin and Charles found a wife, Addie Geddes, and had a son. Charles and his father were now “lumber jobbers.”

By 1887, Charles had divorced Addie and he and his brothers, along with his son, Benjamin, moved west to farm in Snohomish County. Charles remarried to Elizabeth Hartwick, who already had two daughters, Myrtle and Jane. In 1889, Charles and Lizzie and their blended family were living in Snohomish where Charles worked as a surveyor for the county.

Charles suffered for over a year from chronic stomach inflammation and finally died of an "intussusception of the small intestine, lung and other troubles" on July 30, 1894. His funeral was held at the Congregational Church. He was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery; his headstone was later moved to the Grand Army of the Republic. After Charles' death, his son Benjamin was sent back to live with his mother in Wisconsin.

☑️  Armstrong, Elizabeth Ann
Born: June 28, 1869, Wales
Died: May 2, 1899, Seattle
Death Notice

Elizabeth “Bessie” Ann Delaney was raised by her grandparents Jane and Henry Jones. In 1873, Elizabeth Jones sailed for the United States aboard the ship Glamorgan with her grandparents and their six children (Henry, Jane, Lloyd Abel, David, Sarah, Herbert). By 1880, the family was living in Hamilton, Pennsylvania.

When Elizabeth turned 18, she married James Armstrong in Washington where they both had resided. They had two children, David and Hazel. In 1892, the Armstrongs were living in Seattle where James worked as a miner, but a few years later Bessie and James were granted a divorce on the grounds of cruelty and neglect. Bessie was awarded $500 in alimony and given custody of the children. Three years later, Bessie died from septicemia, cause unknown. Her body was shipped to Snohomish by Seattle & International railway where her grandmother, aunts, and uncles were living. The Jones' had purchased a plot in the Snohomish Cemetery in 1892. Bessie was buried there and later moved to the Marshland Cemetery. Bessie’s headstone also includes Jane Jones (1831 – 1888) and Agnes and Henry Thompson.

In the 1900 census, the Armstrong children were wards of the state, living with Maggie and John Jenkins in Cumberland, King County.

☑️  The Austin Family

Grannis William Austin was born in 1834 in Quebec and came to the US twenty years later. He married Amelia Jane Wellman in 1865 in Goodyears Bar (a mining town) in the California Sierras. (Amelia’s parents and four siblings had left Illinois in 1851 and came to California through the Isthmus of Panama.)

The Austins resided in Wisconsin for awhile, then removed to Monroe, WA in 1873, and later Snohomish from 1880 to 1889. Grannis and Amelia had eight children, and adopted two more.

Four of these children were interred in the Snohomish Cemetery and later removed to the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Monroe. An article published in May 1901 reported that,

“The bodies of four of the children of Grannis Austin were removed yesterday from the old cemetery at the head of Second street, where they were buried years ago, and reinterred at the Monroe cemetery, by C. H. Bakeman. It seems to be conceded that more attention is due our cemeteries than they are receiving. Too much is not likely to be devoted to beautifying the last resting place of those who have gone before.”

Ela, age 4, and Alvin, age 6, died four days apart, likely of diphtheria during an epidemic that swept the county. “The funeral of Alvin Austin took place last Friday from the residence of Mr. A. J. Austin at Stretch’s ranch,” announced the Northern Star on November 18, 1876.

Clifford was born in March 1892 and lived only five months.

Ira, at the age of 14, was injured in a hunting accident. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported, “Ira Austin of Monroe left the institution [Everett hospital] a few days ago, having recovered from the operation by which his leg was amputated above the knee, necessitated by a severe gunshot wound inflicted while out hunting.” It seems he died afterwards of complications, in March 1897.

Grannis died in 1906 and Amelia in 1908. Both were buried in the Monroe Odd Fellows Cemetery with many of their children.  

☑️  Averill, Easter and Jotham, Jr.

Jotham Edward Averill, Jr. was born in October 1861 in Maine. In 1884 he headed west, stopping in Santa Cruz, California for work as a lumberman, then moved north to Snohomish, where on the 30th of April 1889, he married Anna Maddox.

They had four children: Easter, Forest, Valera, and Howard.  Their firstborn died in June 1890, aged 2 months, and was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery. Father  “Joe,” noted as "one of the strongest loggers in Snohomish" had suffered a severe cold 14 years prior, hemorrhaging his lungs, and his health had gradually failed. He died February 7, 1904 and was buried at the Snohomish Cemetery. He was reinterred in 1947 by the Department of Transportation to the G.A.R. Cemetery, along with his son, Easter. A "Mrs. Averill" told the D.O.T. in a letter that she had 7 relatives buried there, marked only with wooden crosses that had long since decayed, and was okay with them being moved.

Joe and Anna's third son, Howard Earl Averill went on to become a professional baseball player, named to six All-Star teams and elected to the Hall of Fame in 1975.  Averill Field in Snohomish is named in honor of Earl.

Mrs. Baker
Born: unknown
Died: February 7, 1891, Snohomish

Known only as the wife of Mr. Baker, Mrs. Baker had been sick for some time. She had moved to Snohomish from Michigan in search of better health. Unfortunately, she did not find it and passed away on February 7, 1891.

Barnes, Vivian
Born: 1889
Died: April 12, 1891, Snohomish

Vivian Barnes, the eldest child of Lafayette and Lulu Barnes, died suddenly at the age of two. The cause was listed as “congestion of the brain.” Her younger sister Gladys had been born just three months earlier, in January 1891. The youngest of the family, Marion, would not arrive until 1897.

A funeral sermon for Vivian was delivered by Reverend Feese of the Methodist Church on the Sunday following her death. She was likely laid to rest in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Vivian’s father, Lafayette, was born in 1863 in Iowa. He married Lulu Ann Wallace in 1888, when she was sixteen. Vivian was born the following year.

The family moved frequently. By 1889, they were living in Bothell, where Lafayette worked as a photographer with his firm Barnes & Evans. By 1893, the Barneses were settled on Avenue F between Third and Fourth Streets in Snohomish, and Lafayette was listed as an agent for the Singer Manufacturing Company.

Lulu died young—just 34 years old—in West Seattle in 1906. Her death record notes “Interment in Snohomish,” though no further details are given. It’s possible she was buried beside her daughter Vivian.

Lafayette W. Barnes lived a much longer life, passing away in 1951.

Barnett, Ida
Born: 1869, Snohomish
Died: 1871, Snohomish

Ida Barnett was the daughter of Marcellus and Chiletha Barnett (1841–1915). Her mother, Chiletha, was born in Missouri and first married Sylvester Roussin while living in California. They had a son, Howell Roussin—Ida’s half-brother—who died in 1877 at age 16 and was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

After her first husband’s death, Chiletha married Marcellus, who operated the shipping firm Stone & Barnett, transporting freight between Steilacoom, Seattle, Victoria, and other ports.

Ida died from unknown causes in 1871. She was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Five years later, Marcellus opened a storefront on Commercial Street in Snohomish. That same year, he ran for the office of county coroner, but lost to A.C. Folsom. Perhaps burdened by too many losses, the Barnetts decided to sell their home to Tamlin Elwell and relocate to Kittitas County.

Bartlett, Denman and Isabel
Headstone 

Denman Bartlett died on February 27, 1882, at the young age of 33. The cause of death is unknown, but he was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

He was the son of Denman and Mary (Randall) Bartlett, who came from Lee, Maine. The younger Denman was active in Snohomish civic life, working alongside other young men to survey new roadways in the growing town.

In December 1879, he married Isabel “Billie” Frederickson, but their time together was brief. Billie died in 1880. They had no children, though family stories say she was buried with a baby in her arms.

Denman’s death predates the opening of the G.A.R. Cemetery, where his headstone now stands. It is likely that he and Billie were buried together in the original Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️ Batt, Arthur
Born: 1859
Died: January 25, 1876, Snohomish
Death Notice

On a frigid January night, Arthur Franklin Batt was ice-skating on Blackman’s Lake with a group of friends, including Horace C. Low. Both were just 16 years old and already described as “estimable young men” by their employer, the Northern Star newspaper, which published a brief but grief-stricken notice of their deaths. The boys had fallen through the ice and drowned.

Arthur was the son of John Batt (1832–1901), who immigrated from Devon, England, in 1851. He married Harriet Simmons (1839–1899), and Arthur was their first child, born in 1859. Arthur’s sister, Vesta, was born in Iowa when he was about 11 years old.

Arthur was buried in the southern half of the Snohomish Cemetery. His headstone was unearthed in 1978 during a restoration effort.

Read more about the drowning in Lost & Forgotten.

☑️ Bell, Lizzie
Born: 1859, Zanesville, Ohio
Died: July 23, 1881, Seattle
Obituary

Lizzie was a resident of Seattle in her final years, well-regarded for her lovely singing voice, notably at special church services. Her obituary claims her final performance was Christmas Eve 1879 at Trinity Church.

Lizzie was born in Zanesville, Ohio and later moved to Idaho with her mother, Belinda Johns (1841-1913), her sister Lillie, and her father, Richard Bell (born 1836). After her father's passing, the family came to Seattle.

Lizzie caught cold in December 1880 and never recovered. Rheumatism developed and ultimately ended her young life the following summer. She was temporarily buried in the Snohomish Cemetery, but her aunt, Mrs. W.H. Pumphrey, explained in the Seattle P.I.'s obituary that, "Her remains will receive temporary sepulture in the Snohomish City cemetery, but eventually they will be conveyed to Seattle and placed in Mr. Pumphrey's lot in the Odd Fellow Cemetery." (P.I., 7/24/1881)

Mrs. Berry
Born: about 1820
Died: December 20, 1890, Snohomish
Death Notice

Mrs. Berry lived north of the depot and died at the age of 70. Few facts are known of her, as she was a recent arrival to Snohomish. Other reports have her last name as Derry, and it appears she was married to a Daniel B. Other Berry family members were buried at the Snohomish Pioneer Cemetery and later moved to the G.A.R. in 1947. It's possible Mrs. Berry/Derry was one of these.

☑️ Berry, Ira
Born: December 17, 1866, Marshfield, Maine
Died: September 23, 1890, Lowell
Headstone / Death Notice

Ira was the son of Franklin M. and Sarah G. (Foss) Berry. The Berry family were long-time Mainers, dating back to the 18th century. Ira was the second oldest son and had ten younger siblings.

It seems Ira moved out to Snohomish on his own, but family ties run deep, evidenced by his brother Enos naming his own son after his brother. That Ira was also born in Maine, in 1899.

Ira died in Lowell, WA, at the home of his aunt, Mrs. Harmon, after a three-week struggle with typhoid fever. He was only 24. He was moved from the Snohomish Cemetery to the G.A.R. in 1947 by the WA State Department of Transportation.

☑️ Berys, George
Born: July 30, 1921, Snohomish
Died: August 20, 1921, Snohomish
Death Notice

Little George lived only 3 weeks and was taken from this world by primary bronchopneumonia. He was born to Hattie and Henry Berys. Hattie’s parents were both Duwamish tribe members. Father Henry was born in Russia and was Hattie’s second husband. Her first was Peter, son of Pilchuck Jack and Julia.

George was born to a family with four living half siblings and two full siblings. A half-sibling who earlier died, Roy Jack, was also buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️ Bill, Charley
Born: unknown
Died: May 30, 1911, Snohomish
Funeral Record

Charley Bill was enumerated in the Tulalip Reservation census, but it's unknown who his parents were or his birth date. Charley married Lucy John in 1896 in Everett and by 1900 they were living on the Tulalip Indian Reservation.

Interestingly, Henry Steve was mentioned as the executor of Charley Bill's estate in 1906, well before the man's 1911 death and funeral record. In a Daily Herald article of the time, Henry Steve asks to be discharged as executor because a decision of the federal court judge claimed “no property or effects of any kind belonging to Charley are known to him.” Henry was a Coast Salish native living at Tulalip who acted as the administrator for many Native Americans who died in the first decade of 1900. Perhaps there was an elder Charley Bill who died in 1906 - a father perhaps.

Charley was buried in the "first grave the north on Julia Pilchuck's lot" in the spring of 1911. Julia paid $8 cash for the funeral, which included a large six-handled coffin.

We don’t know how or where his widow Lucy continued her life after Charley died.

☑️ Black, Charles
Born: unknown
Died: May 30, 1911, Snohomish
Newspaper Article

Charles was well-known in town and well liked. He had no relatives here; both his parents lived in Pittsburg, PA.

He worked as a brakeman with the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern railroad and met an untimely death because a laborer at Dubuque’s Mill piled material too close to the tracks.

The lumber pile took poor Charley down, who was riding on a ladder on the side of the train as it approached the unseen hazard. The engeinner looked backed to see a "bruised and bleeding mass, on the track." He was brought to the residence of H.F. Jackson and Dr. Keefe was summoned, but he died from his injuries. The act of piling lumber too close to the track, a longtime issue at the mill, was called criminal negligence by The Sun newspaper: “Hereafter, lumber pilers will no doubt be more careful, but that will not bring back life to poor Charley Black, nor lessen the grief of his relatives for his untimely death caused by this criminal negligence."

The undertaker did not hear back from Charles' parents, so buried him in the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️ Blackman, Mary and Adam
Headstones

Mary Gardiner Howard was born in 1809 in Maine, the daughter of Asa Howard and Mary Fisher, both of them born in 1776 in Massachusetts. Mary appears to be their only child.

She married Adam Blackman, a lumberman, and their first child, Mary Ursula, was born in 1837 in Maine. Mary Ursula was their only daughter, but they five other sons. The youngest was Hyrcanus, born in 1847. Three of Mary’s sons, Hyrcanus, Alanson, and Elhanan, were later known as “the Blackman Brothers,” founding a successful logging camp and later the county's largest lumber mill in Snohomish.

Mary lived a long life, passing away at age 81 on January 16, 1890. Three years after her death, so died her husband Adam.

Adam Blackman was the son of Bradley Blackman and Mary Knapp of Bradley, Maine. Adam and his wife Mary moved to Snohomish from Maine in 1889, several years after their sons. The couple lived at Fourth Street and Avenue A.

Adam died of an “attack of la grippe,” or influenza, made worse by old age, on February 15, 1893. He was 84. "Mr. Blackman was a great reader and inquirer, and had accepted the philosophy of spiritualism, in which faith he calmly died," wrote the editor of The Eye. He was laid to rest beside his wife in the Snohomish Pioneer Cemetery.

Blair, Olive
Born: about 1874
Died: December 11, 1894, Snohomish
Headstone

Olive was the daughter of Silas Toles and Elmira D. Brooks, born in Labett County, Kansas. Her mother died when she was only five years old. Within a year her father married Alice Malvina Kimmons. Olive’s stepmother went on to welcome four more children to the family.

Olive, who went by Ollie, married James William Blair in 1892, but died in childbirth with her first child at Haller City, which is now part of Arlington. She was only 20. It appears her baby boy may have also died.

☑️ Boss, Edwin
Born: 1833, Burford, Ontario, Canada
Died: October 5, 1890, Snohomish
Obituary

Edwin R. Boss came to Washington State at age 50, in 1883. He had a half-brother, named Henry Boss (1828-1904) and a half sister named Amanda (Boss) Fowler (1820-1901). Their parents were Levi Boss and Lucy Prior. Edwin appears to be the only one from the family to move to Snohomish.

Edwin married Elizabeth Adams, born in 1845 in Scotland. They had no children.

Edwin had a quiet nature, was fond of reading, and demonstrated "more than ordinary" intelligence. He died at age 57. There is no mention of the cause of death in his obituaries. The Sun reports, "It was a surprise to his friends to learn of his death, as he served as juror at the late session of the Superior court and was only discharged a little over a week ago." He was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Land records show that Edwin Boss received a plot of land in 1891, a year after his death, on Westwick Road in Monroe/Snohomish, perhaps a claim he was "proving." In 1893 widow Elizabeth lived at State and Third Street in Snohomish. She died sometime after moving to Seattle in 1910.

☑️ Brem, Freddie
Born: unknown
Died: 1874

There is little known about Freddie, but much more about his parents. Martha (Brown) Brem charged her husband Jacob Brem with assault in a divorce/custody trial soon after the end of Freddie’s short life. The divorce became final in November 1876 and Martha was awarded custody of their other children Charles (born 1871) and Rosa (born 1875).

Martha’s complaint seems consistent with Jacob’s evidenced behavior. From the Washington Standard, December 11, 1875:

"Jacob Brem assaulted Mr. Cathcart, the popular proprietor of the Snohomish City hotel, with a revolver, at that place, on the 28th ult., and fired a shot which fortunately did no harm. Mr. C disarmed his antagonist, and ejected him from the house. It appears that jealousy was the cause of the assault. Mrs. Brem having to support herself and children by her own labor in the hotel, in consequence of the dissipated habits of her husband, a few months ago, she instituted a suit for divorce, and Brem imagining that Mr. Cathcart had advised the proceeding, at once conceived a violent animosity against him, which resulted in an attempt upon his life with the above result. Brem has been committed to the Fort Madison jail, in default of $3,000 bond."

Martha remarried in October 1877 to Clark Ferguson. Freddie was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery, but now shares a headstone at the G.A.R. with half-brothers Yates and Grover Ferguson.

Brisley, Edward
Born: 1891, Tacoma
Died: July 19, 1894, Snohomish

Edward Charles Brisley was born in Tacoma. His father, Leonard Brisley came from England and worked as an insurance agent and later as secretary of an insurance company. His mother, Mary Almena (Swan), came from Portland, Oregon. Her middle name came from her father's boat, the Almena, which sailed from New York around Cape Horn to San Francisco and on to Oregon where she was born.

Mary’s father, David Swan died when Edward Charles was just one year old. David had a notorious past, having been caught embezzling close to $50,000 from the Northern Pacific Railroad where he was a cashier. He tried to escape, was caught and sentenced to 15 years in prison. One year later he was pardoned by the Minnesota governor siting ill health.

Mary and Leonard were married in 1888 in Minnesota and then moved to Washington. Their three-year-old son Edward died in Snohomish City by falling into a boiler of hot water. He was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

In 1906 Mary accused Leonard of poisoning her and they got a divorce. They remarried in 1913 in South Dakota.

☑️ Broughman, Laura
Born: about 1877, Snohomish County
Died: March 14, 1893, Snohomish

Laura was the child of James May and Nancy Dolahyde, both of Indiana. Laura married Nathan Broughman in January 1891.

She died of typhoid fever a little over two years later. She was just 16 years old. She was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Burgen, John
Born: 1858, Marysville, California
Died: April 28, 1894, Snohomish
Death Notice

John Burgen was the son of another John Burgen, of Ohio, and Mary Jane Thompson, of Missouri. He married Mina Gaffney in Snohomish in 1889. His work life included being a butcher and the proprietor of the Gold Leaf saloon on the east end of First Street. John was only 36 when he died of brain congestion, having suffered for a week.

Cady, George
Born: unknown
Died: July 20, 1891, Snohomish

George Cady, a workman on the farm of E.R. Clark, near Cherry Valley, passed away on July 20, 1891. He lived a life of hard work and died of overexertion. A sum of $46.20 ($1,600 today) was found on his person.

☑️ Cathcart, Amy
Born: February 13, 1878, Snohomish
Died: January 23, 1879, Snohomish
Headstone / Newspaper Article

With the tallest and most prominent family headstone in the Snohomish Cemetery, it’s no surprise that Isaac Cathcart was once known as the wealthiest man in Snohomish County. He logged the now eponymous south Snohomish hillside and had nearly 5,000 acres under production near Lake Beecher. Born in Ireland, Cathcart came to the U.S. at 19 and spent several years working in logging camps until he had saved enough money to build a hotel. It opened in 1872 and offered “bed, board, billiards, and bar.”

Tragedy struck in 1879 when he and his wife Julia lost their firstborn daughter Amy, only three weeks shy of her first birthday. They invested in a glorious headstone and a metal box for her coffin, which would later prove to have remarkable preservation potential. She was moved in 1947 to the G.A.R. Cemetery by the Department of Transportation.

Read more about Amy Cathcart in Lost & Forgotten.

☑️ Clarke, Ruben
Born: 1865, California
Died: August 5, 1902, Snohomish
Newspaper Article

Ruben, a well-known logger, was the son of John Clark and Susan Inman (on this list as Susan Isaacson). He married Clara "Carrie" Richardson in 1886. On August 5, 1902, he was involved in an unfortunate accident while riding his bicycle and suffered a broken spinal cord. Some reports say he was struck by a team of horses, other that he suffered heart failure while being the wheel, or another still that the wheel slipped and his head struck a stone. It is known that he had just been riding through town, speaking "as pleasantly as he ever did in his life." and then was found by two other men near the brickyard, at the current intersection of Highway 9 and Second Street. The newspaper reported,

"His forehead was badly bruised as if in falling he had struck a stone. A moment after finding him, one of the men went to a neighboring house for water, as he made a motion toward his mouth as soon as he saw the men. Just then John Lindsey came along and began feeling his pulse, which was very low, the beats being only a minute. The dying man was brought to Crippen's barn by the brickyard team and there he died in a few minutes."

Ruben died at the age of 35. His wife Clara and their 9-year-old son Guy moved in with Ruben's older brother, Dexter, who eventually married the widow. Dexter was also widowed, with two older boys, and Dexter and Carrie married for respectability. It was an unhappy union.

He was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery. A year after his death, in June 1903, the local Maccabes unveiled a new monument for Ruben, later moved to G.A.R.

☑️ The Claypools
Mary's Death Notice / Edith's Obituary

Mary Hannah Barnhill moved to Washington Territory from Ohio, where she was born in 1836. She married Ulysses Claypool and bore seven children between 1863 and 1873. Ulysses passed away in 1878 in Ross, Ohio. Mary and her seven children moved to Washington sometime in 1889 and took up residence in Snohomish. She contracted tuberculosis and ultimately succumbed to her illness on June 7, 1890 at the age of 54. Mary left behind her family of seven children including Edwin, Edward Oliver, and Edith.

Edith "Susie" Claypool was born March 25, 1872. It seems she was exposed to the same illness that took her mother, perhaps while being her caregiver, and it eventually caused her death, just a month after her mother's passing.  Edith died on July 29, 1890 at the age of 22.

Edward Oliver Claypool was born in 1871. He lived on the north end of Snohomish with his mother and siblings until his passing at the age of 22 in January of 1892. He died of the same illness that took his mother and sister: tuberculosis.

The family was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️ Collins, Peter
Born: 1835
Died: March 31, 1890, Snohomish

Peter Collins, a logger who lived in a room behind J.R. Boyd's wholesale liquor establishment, died March 31, 1890 at the age of 55.  He lived a life of hard drinking which took a toll on his body, ultimately leading to his demise. He fell suddenly ill on a Friday and was provided a bed and physician, but "so paralyzed by habitual drinking was he that medicine had no effect." Mr. Boyd requested an inquest, but the coroner thought it unnecessary. His body was turned over to the county for interment. The Sun newspaper wrote, "Poor, old, unfortunate, whisky-soaked bum, he made shipwreck of life," and then blamed local saloon owners for providing "dying indigents with food and medical attendance" in preparation for the "narrow house."

He was buried in plot 42 or 43, owned by the county.

☑️ Cook, Hannah and Daniel

Daniel Cook was born in 1834 in England.  He met and married his wife, Hannah Twydle, eight years his senior, in Yorkshire in 1854 and became step-father to her two boys Thomas and Henry. He and Hannah had one son of their own, William Cook. The family moved to the US in 1875, first living in California before settling in Snohomish's 3rd Ward (State and Third Streets) in 1883. Daniel became a farmer in Snohomish and lived with his family there until his death on March 27, 1895 at the age of 61 from a biliary abscess.

Hannah endured a long and painful battle with breast cancer, "confined to her bed for years," before finally passing away on December 18, 1901 at the age of 75. "The funeral of Grandma Cook was as largely attended as the inclement state of the weather would admit of."

They were buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Cook, Sarah and Mary
Death Notice

Sarah Ensley was born in 1855 and moved to Snohomish from Oregon with her husband Perry Cook to farm around 1890. Sarah and Perry had six children. Sarah passed away from unknown causes at the age of 37, two years after arriving in Washington, leaving behind her husband and children.

Mary Cook was her daughter, born in 1874 in Shorts Precinct. She died suddenly of heart disease at the age of 20 on August 21, 1894. She had dealt with a number of health issues including tuberculosis, but apparently was unable to get them resolved before passing away.

☑️ Corrigan, Pat
Born: likely Ireland
Died: June 23 ,1890, Snohomish

Pat Corrigan was a miner traveling through on his way to the Silver Creek mines. At some point in his journey, he left the wagon in which he was riding and walked ahead of the group. A teamster found him lying dead in the road as they approaced. The cause was undetermined. Pat passed away on June 23, 1890.

He was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️ Coveny, Daisy
Born: August 31, 1880, Michigan
Died: October 31, 1889, Snohomish

Daisy Louisa Coveny was born in Michigan to William Roe Coveny, a mining prospector, and Sarah Frances Hunter. The family moved to Washington and lived on Maple Street around 1889. Daisy died unexpectedly of unknown causes at the age of 9 on October 31, 1889 and was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

During the 1947 road construction, her body was moved to the G.A.R. by the Department of Transportation.

Craddock, Ethel
Born: January 3, 1892, Snohomish
Died: September 15, 1892, Snohomish

Ethel Craddock was born to Daniel Webster Craddock and Mary Melinda Stevenson in 1892. Daniel was a lawyer practicing first in Snohomish, then Everett, and later Coupeville. Ethel passed away at nine months old on September 15, 1892, leaving behind her parents and sister.

She was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️ Craig, Charlotte
Born: 1865, California
Died: July 14, 1894, Snohomish

Charlotte Lenora Wentz married her husband Thomas Chalmers Craig on May 3, 1884 in Placerville, CA. After they had their first child, a son named Thomas, Jr., they moved to Snohomish. Once in Washington, Charlotte and Thomas Sr. had two more children, the youngest being born on July 4, 1894 and named after her mother. Unfortunately, Charlotte passed away due to complications from this birth at the age of 29 on July 14, 1894, leaving behind her husband and three young children. The children were raised by their grandparents.

Charlotte was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️ Crosby, William
Born: 1849, Maine
Died: December 27, 1890, Arlington
Newspaper Article

William Crosby, the son of Roswell and Euphemia Ward Crosby, was born in 1849 in Maine, and worked in the logging industry in the Snohomish area. He married Rebecca Smith in the early 1870s and they had a daughter Ella, born in 1872. He and Rebecca were divorced by 1880.

William met an unfortunate end at the age of 41 on December 27, 1890 when he was run over and killed by a gravel train on the Lake Shore Road near Arlington. The train "came upon him unexpectedly in a curve" and his body was found alongside the track the next morning. The newspaper graphically described, "The top of the skull was cut nearly off, hanging only by a piece of scalp on the back of the head... A wheel had cut through the side of one of his boots."

He left behind his 18-year-old daughter, Ella, living in Maine. He was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️ Cull, William
Born: December 11, 1881, Snohomish
Died: March 31, 1883, Snohomish
Headstone

William E. Cull was the son of Patrick and Mary Reichle Cull. His father owned a saloon in Snohomish. William died on March 31, 1883 at the age of 15 months. He left behind his parents, two siblings, and one half sibling.

He was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery and his body was moved to the G.A.R. by the Department of Transportation in 1947.

D'Arcy, Clara
Born: June 28, 1851, Wisconsin
Died: November 9, 1895, Olympia
Obituary

Clara Oliver was the eldest of nine children. By 1860, the Oliver family had moved west to Klickitat County in Washington Territory, where her father worked as a farmer. Later that decade, they settled on Whidbey Island.

In 1868, Clara married James D’Arcy, a Nova Scotia native born in 1839. By the 1870 census, Clara and James were farming on Whidbey Island, living near her parents. Unfortunately, James suffered from a mental illness, and, ten years later, James was no longer in the picture. Clara was living in Snohomish County with her parents, siblings, and two daughters: Carrie, born in 1873, and Elsie Mae, born in 1875. She worked as a dressmaker.

On September 15, 1894, her daughter Elsie Mae married in Olympia, and Clara served as a witness to the marriage.

Clara died the following year on November 9, 1895, in Olympia, of endocarditis. While no headstone has been found, it is believed she was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery, where her brother William and sister Emma Oliver resided.

☑️ Daniels, Catherine
Born: April 3, 1918, Snohomish
Died: September 2, 1919, Snohomish

Catherine Daniels was the third child of David Daniels and Tu-Bul-Ubsk, also known by her English name, Catherine White. Both parents were members of the Snohomish tribe.

On September 2, 1919, baby Catherine died at the home of Pilchuck Julia, located along the Pilchuck River near the forks of the Machias and Three Lakes roads. She had battled bronchopneumonia for three days before succumbing to the illness. Her obituary, titled “Indian Baby Dies,” stated that she was buried the following day in “the old Snohomish cemetery on Second Street.”

Catherine was reinterred in 1947 by the D.O.T. to the Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery.

☑️ Davis, William and Edgar
William's Headstone / Edgar's Headstone

William Davis was born in 1846 in Wales and emigrated to the United States in 1861. By 1875, he was living in Illinois with his wife, Elizabeth, where their first son, David, was born. William worked as a coal miner. By 1880, the family had relocated to Newcastle, and had welcomed a second son, George, age 2. In 1884, their third son, Edgar, was born, and William began farming.

Edgar Davis died in September 1885, with a headstone adorned with the carving of a sheep. Edgar’s marker was rediscovered in 1978.

William died on July 21, 1892, of a “complication of diseases.” His surname on his headstone was recorded as “DAVIES.”

Today, both Davis men's headstones are preserved at the former Snohomish Pioneer Village, though the exact location of their remains remain unknown. Their interment was originally on the south side of the cemetery, where their headstone were found.

Deering, Edith
Born: 1883, Snohomish
Died: November 30, 1892, Snohomish

Edith Deering was the daughter of Delia Elwell (1861-1947) and William Deering (1847-1921), both from Maine. By the 1885 census, two-year-old Edith was living in Snohomish with her mother, then 23, who was listed without a marital status. William and Delia later divorced and each went on to marry others.

On November 30, 1892, Edith, aged 9, died of unknown causes at the family residence on Avenue B between 3rd and 4th Streets. Her funeral was held at the home the following Friday at 2 p.m. It is likely she was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Her father, William Deering, was remembered in his 1921 obituary in the Daily Herald as a “pioneer resident of the county,” having lived in Snohomish for “about 40 years.” Edith’s mother, Delia, was the granddaughter of Eliza Elwell, also on this list.

☑️ Delfel, Jonnie
Born: May 29, 1881, Snohomish
Died: April 30, 1889, Snohomish
Headstone

Jonnie Delfel was the first of five children born to John Delfel (c.1860–1929) and Lizzie Ross (1863–1931). He died on April 30, 1889, just shy of his eighth birthday, and was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery. In 1947, his headstone and body were moved to the Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery by the Department of Transportation.

At the time of Jonnie’s death, his father, John, worked as a saloon keeper in Snohomish and in 1893 the family was listed as residing near Lake Street and Third. Jonnie’s younger siblings included Julius, Lucy, and Louise. His youngest brother, George, was born on September 14, 1889—just three months after Jonnie’s passing.

The Delfel family’s later years were marked by public scandal. In the mid-1890s, John Delfel left for Alaska, and Lizzie followed soon after. Around that time, Lizzie became romantically involved with John Fenn, a fellow Snohomish resident who had also traveled north. Fenn, who had two daughters from his first marriage and was still legally married to his second wife, ultimately left that marriage to be with Lizzie. She, too, left her marriage with John Delfel, and the two were wed in 1907, eventually settling in Seattle. Their relationship—and the fallout—was reported in newspaper articles, including bitter letters from Fenn’s second wife, complaining that she raised his children before being abandoned.

☑️ Detering, Frederick
Born: November 2, 1863, Germany
Died: April 25, 1885, Oakland, California

Frederick Carl Detering was born on November 2, 1863, to Johann and Johanne Detering. The Detering family immigrated from Germany in 1874, sailing from Bremen aboard the S.S. Hansa and arriving at the Port of New York on April 2. By 1880, they had settled in Snohomish County.

As a young adult, Fred moved to Oakland, California. On April 25, 1885, while attending a Salvation Army meeting, he suddenly collapsed and died from a ruptured blood vessel. He was 21. His body was returned to his parents in Snohomish and buried in the Pioneer Cemetery.

When the cemetery was gutted in 1947, Fred’s sister, Marie Detering Morgan of Hollywood, California, requested his remains be moved to the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Monroe. In a letter dated September 29, 1947, addressed to George H. Shearer in Seattle, she wrote:

“Dear Sir: - Thank you for your letter in answer to mine. I have appointed Mr. Frank Stetcher to act in my place and to be present when my brother’s grave is being moved to Monroe Wash. Name (Frederick Carl Detering) Thank you. Yours truly Marie Detering Morgan.”

Read more about Fred Detering in Lost & Forgotten.

Dow, Grover
Born: July 1890, Snohomish
Died: September 1890, Snohomish
Death Notice 

Grover Dow was the only son of Nancy “Nettie” Wetherill (1869–1893) and Ware Stephen Dow (1858–1916). He lived just seven weeks.

Ware Dow had come west from Minneapolis in 1883 with a friend, eventually meeting Will Stevens in San Francisco. The men traveled north to Seattle and found carpentry work in Snohomish. Ware and Nettie married in 1885. His friend later married one of Nettie’s sisters.

In 1891, Nettie developed a chronic cough which progressed into tuberculosis. Hoping the dry air might help, the family relocated to New Mexico, but Nettie died in April 1893. Their surviving daughter, Edna Ellen (1887–1976), was sent to live with Nettie’s sister.

Grover was likely first buried at the Snohomish Cemetery. The son and mother are now remembered together at Woodlawn Cemetery under a shared headstone.

Ware Dow remarried in 1898 to 18-year-old Minerva Daniels.

Drake, Emma Dell
Born: June 11, 1872, Snohomish
Died: April 11, 1877, Snohomish

Emma Dell Drake was the younger of two daughters of Augusta Packwood (1853–1932) and Jacob Drake (born 1837). Her father, originally from New Jersey, worked as a logger in Snohomish County. Her mother, born in California, was just 17 when listed as his wife in the 1870 census of Cadyville (early Snohomish). They lived next door to Augusta's parents, Elisha and Paulina Packwood.

Jacob and Augusta divorced in 1876 on the grounds of abandonment, and the children remained with their mother.

On February 3, 1877, Augusta remarried to hotel proprietor Kenric Shone in Snohomish. The ceremony was performed by her older brother, S. Tait Packwood, then serving as Justice of the Peace. Two months later, Emma died, possibly claimed by that year's diphtheria epidemic, at the age of 4 years and 10 months. She was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Duvall, Thomas
Born: 1861
Died: July 3, 1878, Snohomish
Death Notice

Frank and James Duvall were brothers from Illinois, drawn westward by the promise of cheap land. They staked neighboring land claims on what would one day become the town of Duvall, named in their honor. Frank and his wife, Sarah, had three sons, the eldest, Thomas, born in 1861.

In the summer of 1878, when Thomas was 17, he left home early in the morning to fell a towering red cedar, intending to make shingles to sell at the market in Snohomish. He told his younger brother, Robert, to meet him later in the woods with additional tools once the tree was down.

At the base of the massive cedar, Thomas studied the tree, looking for the best angle at which to cut. He notched his springboard into the trunk and began chopping with his felling axe. An hour or so later, Thomas moved to the opposite side of the tree and began sawing with his crosscut saw, the blade’s sharp grinding slowly into the dense old-growth wood. It was backbreaking work. Hours passed before he reached for his axe again, making a few final chops into the angled cut. The tree let out a slow, groaning creak, then a sharp, deep crack.

Back at the house, Robert heard the earth-shaking thud as the tree hit the ground. He grabbed the tools and hurried out to the site, but found the forest eerily quiet. He called for his brother repeatedly, with no answer. He finally found Thomas under the butt of the tree—his body mangled and lifeless. Yet, Thomas still clutched his axe with both hands. It appeared that the tree had fallen in the opposite direction of what he had planned for.

His corpse was brought to Snohomish and buried the following Saturday.

☑️ Dye, Jemimah
Born: 1802, Tennessee
Died: August 1887, Snohomish

Jemimah Hartzog was the daughter of Elizabeth Groves (1774 -1850) and George Hartzog, Sr (1774 – 1840). She married David Maddox (1804 -1849) in Tennessee and they had nine children: Matilda (1824 – 1855), Lavinia (1826 – 1908), David (1827 – 1840), James (1832 – 1869), George (1836 – 1919), Elizabeth (b. 1837), Elisha (b.1838), Nancy (b. 1839), and Josiah (1840 – 1917).

Despite many children, Jemimah's marriage dissolved quickly and she married William Boyce (1805 – 1865) around 1841. The couple lived in Griggs, Arkansas. Together, they had three children: Hiram (1843 – 1900), Amanda (1846 – 1860), and David (1850 -1900). William brought children from his previous marriage and the large blended family continued living in Griggs for another decade.

By 1860, Jemimah and William had removed to Tuolumne County, California with five of their children and William worked as a livestock raiser, with $1,000.00 in real estate and $10,000.00 in personal property. William died in 1865.

In an unusual occurrence, Jemimah was enumerated twice in the 1870 U.S. Federal Census: the first, as a resident in her daughter Amanda’s household in Merced County, California, and a month later at the home of a son “A.L. Maddox,” in Clinton County, Texas.

In May 1873, Jemimah married Job Dye (1807 – 1883) and by 1880, they had moved to Pajaro, California with his two grown sons, James and Samuel, who were helping Job work the farm. Three years later, Job passed away and Jemimah moved north to Snohomish to live with her youngest son (12th child), David Boyce.

In September of 1886, Jemimah was stricken with paralysis. Nearly a year later, she died in David’s home. The funeral took place from the Presbyterian church before her interment at the Snohomish Cemetery. In 1947, her remains were removed to the G.A.R.

Edge, John
Born: unknown
Died: November 24, 1890, Snohomish

John Edge (sometimes spelled Edgs) was born in Germany and was still a young man when he died. He had lived in Snohomish for only two years, working at the Delfel Barber Shop when he went missing. Several brief articles reported on his death, one stating, “There is scarcely any doubt that Johnny Edgs, the barber, who was found dead Tuesday, came to his death from the excessive use of liquor. He was one of those steady drinkers who kept eternally at it.”

John was said to have come from Peshtigo, Wisconsin, where he still had family. He was likely interred in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Edwards, William
Born: 1839, England
Died: February 22, 1881, Snohomish
Headstone

William Edwards was born in England. After immigrating to the United States, he lived in Port Gamble before settling in Snohomish in the 1870s. A shoemaker by trade, Mr. Edwards was remembered for his extensive collection of tools and materials related to his work, as documented by his probate file.

He died without a will. The courts appointed Williams Romines, a creditor, as the administrator of his estate. The only known family members named in probate records were a sister, Lizzie Sanders, and a cousin, Mrs. Tilly Thomas, both living in England.

Mr. Edwards was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery, but his headstone is now at the G.A.R. Cemetery.

☑️ The Elwells
Eliza's Headstone 

The Elwells were among the early settler families in Snohomish, with several generations eventually laid to rest in area cemeteries. Their story traces from Maine to Washington, and their presence left a lasting mark on the community.

John Harris Elwell, Sr. (1819–1889) and Eliza A. Crosby (1819–1879) married in 1838 in Maine and raised twelve children. After an initial visit to Washington Territory in 1861 with two sons, John returned with most of the family in 1872. A lumberman by trade, he also spent his time farming. Eliza died in 1879, and John in 1889 from "general illness"; both were originally buried in the Snohomish Cemetery and later moved to the G.A.R., where they now rest together.

Among their children was Tamlin Jacob Elwell (1839–1913), who married Sarah Watts (1839–1909). They raised a large family of their own—twelve children in total, including several infants who did not survive early childhood. Tamlin served on the board of the Snohomish Cemetery Association and likely arranged for the burial of these young children there. Three of their children—Herbert A. Elwell, an infant born and died in 1881, and two others referred to simply as “Infant Elwell” (one born in 1883 and one in 1890)—were buried at the Pioneer Cemetery. A shared headstone for Herbert and the 1883 infant now stands at the G.A.R. Cemetery. The 1890 child is memorialized with a marker that reads simply “BABY.”

Another child, Sherman Walter Elwell, born in 1873, died just before his third birthday in March 1876. At the time, he was described in The Northern Star as the “youngest son” of Mr. and Mrs. Tamlin Elwell. Ironically, the Elwells would go on to name another son Sherman W. Elwell later that same year. Sherman was likely buried at the Snohomish Cemetery, but his headstone is now located at the G.A.R.

The Elwell legacy continued through John Harris Elwell, Jr. (1843–1895), son of John and Eliza. He worked as a logger and married Susan Kektadose, also known as Guag-Wah-Ah, the daughter of Snoqualmie and Suquamish parents. Together they had five children. John Jr. met a tragic end on May 30, 1895 when he was struck and killed by a Great Northern train near Monroe while asleep on the tracks at noon. The Snohomish Eye reported he was lying across the track in a drunken sleep and the engineer didn't see him in time to stop. He was initially buried at the Snohomish Cemetery, but in 1899, his remains were moved to Monroe Cemetery by his son Charles: “The body of John Elwell, the old time Skykomish river logger, which is now interred in Snohomish, is to be removed to Monroe cemetery, his son Charles H. having purchased a lot there. Charley is also negotiating for a fine monument to be placed at his father’s grave, ” stated the local paper on 14 September 1899.

Another son of John Sr. and Eliza, Charles Fremont Elwell (1862–1938), married Sophie Roessel (1862–1946) and raised several children in Snohomish. One unnamed infant of Charles and Sophie was buried at the old cemetery on the Pilchuck and later reinterred at Woodlawn Cemetery on June 15, 1923. Cemetery records refer simply to the "Infant of Charles Elwell."

☑️ England, James
Born: July 12, 1808, Canada
Died: November 30, 1888, Snohomish

James England was a blacksmith by trade. He married Catherine McFarland in 1838, and together they had nine children between 1839 and 1860. The England family, devout members of the Church of Scotland—later identifying as Presbyterian—lived first in New Brunswick, then in Quebec, before settling in Snohomish in 1885. There, James and Catherine raised their grandson Gordon Frazier in a home near Avenue C and Second Street. James died at age 80 and was buried at the Snohomish Cemetery. His headstone now rests at the G.A.R. Cemetery.

Evans, James
Born: 1838, England
Died: May 18, 1883, Snohomish
Tinsmith Ad

James Evans immigrated to the United States in about 1873, leaving behind his wife Anna and two sons John and James.  He came to Snohomish in 1881 and opened a shop for his tin smithing business in the Morgan Building. In May 1882, James married  Mary Louise Ash (1840 – 1914), who was also an immigrant from England. Mary Louise had been married previously to three other men: the unknown father of her daughter, Louise Victoria, and Snohomish residents John Foss (1826 -1872) and Aaron Buchanan (1845 - 1914). 

On the 18th of May 1883, James was found dead in his room above the shop, where he lived separately from Mary: “When found he was lying on his face, on the floor, undressed... having been taken with an apoplectic fit, made a desperate attempt to arise from bed... fell forward out of bed and on to the floor, the concussion caused his nose to bleed, and his face being pressed heavily into some clothes... it is thought that suffocation had something to do with his death.”

James was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Read more about James Evans and his mysterious death in Lost & Forgotten.

Evans, Pearl
Born: April 1880, Athens, Kansas
Died: October 10, 1892, Snohomish

Pearl Evans was the daughter of Herod William Evans and Ruth Keiffer. One of nine children, Pearl fell ill at a young age and never recovered. Often confined to the family home, she died on the 10th of October 1892 at just 12 years old from what the Snohomish Tribune described as “complications of diseases.” The paper remembered her as a “bright little girl” and a favorite of her parents. Pearl was buried at the Snohomish Cemetery. One source gave her plot number as 56. 

☑️ Evans, James and Sarah
Newspaper Article

Sarah Jane Johnson was born in 1833 in Ireland and immigrated to the United States in the mid-1850s. She settled in North San Juan, California, where she met Ohio-born dairyman James Alexander Evans. The two married on January 5, 1858, and together built both a family (5 kids) and a business.

In March 1861, Sarah made headlines by filing as a “sole trader” in a California newspaper, declaring her intention to conduct business in her own name. Her enterprise included growing vegetables, hay, and fruit; maintaining a dairy, making and selling butter and milk; raising livestock; and selling eggs. The independence was short-lived: by April, James had placed a follow-up notice asserting that Sarah had “relinquished the Dairy Business, keeping fowls, selling eggs,” and that operations would henceforth continue under his supervision.

In 1882, the Evans family decided to move north to Snohomish County. According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, on August 15, 1882, James traveled ahead to establish a home near Tualco, with Sarah to follow later. She sent a $240 draft and a letter addressed to her husband, James Evans. The letter was mistakenly received by Mary Louise Ash Foss Buchanan Evans—wife of a different James Evans, a tinsmith living in Snohomish—who suspected her own husband of bigamy. The ensuing investigation included letters sent to California and ended with a dramatic clarification when Mary Louise overheard the dairyman James Evans expressing concern at the post office over the missing draft. The situation was quickly resolved, and Sarah, alarmed by the rumors, traveled to Snohomish immediately.

The Evanses remained in Snohomish County for the rest of their lives. James Alexander Evans died on May 16, 1888. Sarah had purchased a plot in the Snohomish Cemetery on February 18, 1895, and when she died on January 14, 1898, she was buried alongside James. Their shared headstone is now at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Monroe, together with their children Mary Ella, George, and Ross.

☑️ The Fergusons

A large monument marked FERGUSON sat in the middle of the old cemetery with a gated surround. Buried within were the children of Clark Ferguson, brother of town founder Emory Ferguson.

Mary Ethel Ferguson was born November 13, 1870 and died age 8 of diphtheria. S. Yates was born in 1878 and died in 1888 of unknown causes. Grover was born in 1888 and died November 3, 1894 of chronic nephritis: "Little Grover had been sick and a great sufferer for over four months." The brothers share a headstone with their half-brother Freddie Brem (on this list).

The children were all buried in the Snohomish Cemetery. Yates was moved to G.A.R. on June 15, 1923, and it's possible Grover was as well. There is no record for Mary being moved.

☑️ Folsom, Albert
Born: July 14, 1827, Illinois
Died: May 15, 1885, Snohomish
Headstone

Dr. Albert C. Folsom was among Snohomish’s earliest physicians. Born in Illinois and educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard—where a class with Professor Louis Agassiz turned his mind toward science—he served as a U.S. Army surgeon under Robert E. Lee, later transferring to posts in California and Arizona. Little is known about his personal life, but it is believed his first wife died, with whom he may have had a daughter. It is rumored he was fleeing an "unfortunate second marriage" when he removed to the Puget Sound.

After seven years in service and further studies in Europe, he arrived in Snohomish in November 1872, joining Dr. H.A. Smith as the town’s only doctors. Known for his generosity, much of Folsom’s work was done without pay: "He was actuated more from a desire to alleviate the sufferings of the pioneers than to build up a fortune for himself. Much of his work was for gratuity." He briefly served as county coroner and school district superintendent before retiring, exhausted after a deadly diphtheria outbreak and a serious fall in 1878.

He died from dropsy in 1885 after a long illness. Buried first in Snohomish Cemetery, his remains were later moved to the G.A.R. Cemetery, where a monument in his honor was "erected by residents of Snohomish through popular subscription."

☑️ Foss, John
Born: 1826, Holland
Died: July 26, 1872, Snohomish

John Foss, an immigrant from Holland, married Mary Ash in the 1860s. Mary had a daughter, Louisa, in 1866 who may have been his child, though it remains unknown. In 1871, the couple had Louisa's name legally changed from Ash to Foss.

John died from unknown causes in the summer of 1872. The following summer, a land claim was granted to his estate, inherited by Mary and her daughter. He is buried in the Snohomish Cemetery. His headstone was uncovered on the south side during a 1978 restoration and moved to the north side's display.

After his death, Mary remarried several times and fell under suspicion for her string of matrimonial licenses. Read Lost & Forgotten for the story.

☑️ Frazier, Gordon
Born: March 8, 1875, Matapedia, Quebec
Died: May 12, 1896, Snohomish
Obituary

Raised by his maternal grandparents, Gordon W. Frazier was born in Canada. His parents, David Frazier and Clementine England, became parents when they were both 15. The newspaper later reported that his father had died when young, but more likely their union was disapproved of.

Gordon and his grandparents moved to Snohomish in 1885. He enjoyed baseball and was enrolled as a university student at the time of his death, age 21. After a few months of suffering, he died of tuberculosis.

He was laid to rest beside his grandfather, James England, in the old cemetery. His funeral, attended by "a throng of friends with tearful eyes and aching hearts," was organized by the fire department.

Frederickson, Hans
Born: 1859, Norway
Died: May 16, 1895, Snohomish
Headstone

Hans Edward Frederickson was the son of Hogan and Anna (Marstin) Frederickson. The family, including Hans' sister Isabel (on this list - Bartlett), immigrated from Norway. His father had a ranch at Park Place (present-day Monroe).

Hans found work as a logger, but in April 1883, Hans cut his foot so severely at Blackman's logging camp that he had to have part of his foot amputated. Disabled, Hans found work instead in the grocery business in Seattle, supporting his wife, Jennie Sorenson, and their two sons.

In 1893, during an economic recession, he lost his store and became instead a member of the courthouse guard. Unfortunately, Hans struggled and "his business difficulties greatly depressed him." He chose to die by suicide in May of 1895. His wife said he was preparing to go to his father's place and they had an argument. He turned to her and said, "I guess I have made you trouble enough." He fired a revolver into his temple and "fell heavily upon the floor." He was described as a "quick tempered proud man" that was good-hearted and had lots of friends.

He was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery, and moved to the G.A.R.

Frohning, Anna
Born: 1880, Germany
Died: September 14, 1896, Snohomish
Death Notice

Anna Frohning was born in Germany in 1880 to Fritz Frohning and Christina Detering (1841-1915), and died of tuberculosis in Snohomish on September 14, 1896 at the age of 18.

A published death notice said she had been sick with consumption for nearly a year at her home near the Pilchuck, and referred to her as “Anna Sommers,” the surname of her mother’s then-current husband, Henry Sommers.

☑️  Geddes, Maude
Born: June 1892, Snohomish
Died: March 23, 1902, Monroe

Maude Geddes was the second of six children born to Minnie Adaline Hawkins (1872–1950) and George Edward Geddes (1863–1945). Minnie and George married on December 25, 1888, in the home of Minnie’s father, William Hawkins. Their first daughter, Eva, was born in 1890, followed by Maude in 1892 and their first son, Wesley, in 1894. Later came Dorothea, Howard, and Herbert.

Maude died before her youngest siblings were born. On March 23, 1902, she passed away from typhoid fever at just 10 years old. According to the Monroe Monitor, “Maud, the ten year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Geddes, living two miles west of Monroe, died Sunday afternoon, March 23, of typhoid fever. The funeral was at the residence Tuesday afternoon, services being conducted by Rev. R. M. Schoonmaker, interment being in the old cemetery in Snohomish.”

Geue, Wilhelmina
Born: 1834, Baden, Germany
Died: 1890, Snohomish
Headstone

In the early 1850s, Wilhelmina Betz was living in Vanderburgh County, Indiana, where she married Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Geue (1827–1913) on November 22, 1853. Wilhelmina was F.W.’s second wife, and together they led an adventurous life. Their first child, Alvina, was born in 1854 in Evansville, Indiana, before the family made a major move—to Australia. While there, Wilhelmina gave birth to three more children: Emma, William, and John Frederick.

Around 1870, the family returned to the United States, first settling in Minnesota, then California, and finally arriving in the Pilchuck Valley in 1877. There, F.W. Geue built a strong reputation as a cabinet maker of fine skill.

Wilhelmina died in 1890 and is believed to have been buried at the Snohomish Cemetery. Her name is carved on a shared headstone at the Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery alongside her husband, Frederick, and their son William.

Gill, William
Born: 1889, Snohomish
Died: August 21, 1891, Snohomish
Headstone

William H. Gill was the only son of William Early Gill (b. 1852) and Florence Wells Duncombe (1855–1938). Florence, born in Michigan, and William, originally from Pennsylvania and raised in Kansas, had three daughters who reached adulthood—Frances, Nellie, and Mabel.

On August 21, 1891, two-year‑old William succumbed to unknown causes and was laid to rest in the Snohomish Cemetery. Later, his headstone was moved to the Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery. The shared marker bears a simple inscription, “At rest.” 

☑️  Gillespie, Clara and Emma
Clara's Headstone / Emma's Headstone

Clara Blanche Gillespie was born on November 30, 1878, in Banks, Michigan to Anna J. Ellis (1858–1886) and John Gillespie (1853–1919). She was the middle child of three, growing up alongside her older brother Walter Malcolm and younger sister Katie Clara. Tragedy struck early: in 1885, Clara lost her two-year-old sister to consumption, followed by the death of her mother from the same illness the following year. Clara was just eight years old.

Nearly a decade later, Clara’s father remarried. His new wife, Emma Lotten Larson Peterson, was a Swedish immigrant and recent widow of Swanson “Sven” Peterson (1836–1893). Emma brought five children of her own into the marriage, and the Gillespie household grew to seven children—Emma’s and John’s combined. The blended family tried to build a life together in Snohomish County.

In the spring of 1897, hope bloomed anew for Clara. A devout and active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Monroe and vice president of the Epworth League, Clara was preparing to marry Andrew Braaten, an engineer at Buck’s Shingle Mill. On their way to Everett to obtain a marriage license, the young couple passed through Snohomish. Just outside of town, they stopped at a roadside watering trough to rest their horse. As Andrew adjusted the bridle, a hog bolted into the road, spooking the horse. The animal reared and bolted. Andrew was caught in the tack and dragged beneath the buggy. Clara was thrown from her seat, landing headfirst on the wooden road planks.

Andrew awoke to find Clara unconscious. She was taken to a nearby home, and a doctor was summoned, but the injury proved fatal. Clara died that same afternoon, on April 23, 1897. She was just 18. Her body was laid out by undertaker O. A. Phelps “in a beautiful casket . . . visited by hundreds of friends”. Her “body was laid to rest in the old cemetery”.

Only seven weeks later, the family was struck again by grief. Emma, Clara’s stepmother, passed away on June 12, 1897, after a year of declining health and three weeks of confinement to bed. Her funeral was held at home, and she was buried beside her first husband, Sven Peterson, in the Snohomish Cemetery.

In her will, written just five days before her death, Emma divided her estate equally between her husband and her five children: Hannah Charlotte, Andrew, Maud, Sven Emil, and Amanda. John Gillespie, left to grieve both his daughter and his wife in the span of two months, received the heartfelt sympathy of the community.

The Gillespie headstones are still on the northern half of the Snohomish Cemetery.

Read more about John Gillespie in Lost & Forgotten.

Gio, Felix and Joseph

Joseph Lee Gio was born in 1876 in Oregon, the eldest child of Joseph Gio (1847–1912) and Maradia Margaret George (1862–1932), who had married the year before in Clark County, Washington. The family moved often in search of work and opportunity, settling in Skamania County by 1880, where Joseph Sr. worked as a cordwood chopper. By 1883, they had arrived in Snohomish County, drawn by the promise of farmland near the Pilchuck River.

Tragedy soon struck. In February 1883, five-year-old Felix Gio died just days after the family arrived. A local newspaper, The Eye, reported:

“We are sorry to learn that a five-year-old son of Joseph Gio, who recently settled on Pillchuck, about eleven miles from town, died about ten days ago.”

It is believed that Felix was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery—the same place where his older brother would be laid to rest 14 years later.

Joseph Lee lived into young adulthood and was residing in Hartford when he died in 1897. His official cause of death was listed as bronchopneumonia, though Dr. D. F. Chappell, who signed the death record, noted, “But I believe it to a’ Diphtheria”—a common and deadly infectious disease of the time.

The Gio family remained in Snohomish County into the early 1900s, raising six children in total, though only three survived into adulthood. After burying two sons here, they eventually moved east to Spokane, where their youngest daughter Ruby died in 1907.

☑️  Gunther, Gottlieb John
Born: 1846, Germany
Died: May 7, 1891, Snohomish County
Newspaper Article

Gottlieb Johann Gunther (whose name appears variously in records as Gottlieb, Gotthelf, Jothelf, and “O.” Gunther) immigrated to the United States in 1881. He arrived with his wife, Agnes Tautenhahn (1852–1930), and their two children: Rose Mary (born 1874) and Gottlieb John (born 1880). Like many immigrants of the time, the Gunther family moved frequently in search of opportunity. They first settled in Chicago, Illinois, where their daughter Minnie was born in 1885. Two years later, in 1887, the family was living in Tacoma, where daughter Martha was born.

By 1888, Gottlieb Gunther had acquired 160 acres of homesteaded land near what is now Martha Lake in Snohomish County. Gottlieb worked hard to establish a home in the dense forests of western Washington, but the labor was grueling and dangerous. On May 7, 1891, while clearing trees on his property, Gottlieb was killed instantly. A tree he felled struck another, which then came crashing down upon him. His wife, Agnes, discovered the scene “when he did not respond to her call to come to supper.” 

The local newspaper reported, “The remains were interred in the old cemetery in the East End,” a reference to the Snohomish Cemetery.

Agnes remained in Snohomish and supported her family as a laundress, living on Hill Street near Lincoln by 1893. She never remarried and died in 1930. Their daughter Rose Mary would later be known as Rose Ella Hawley, and is also listed among the burials at the cemetery.

Hallen, Emor
Born: February 2, 1887, La Crosse, Wisconsin
Died: November 29, 1890, Mukilteo

Emor was the first child of Johan A. Halland (1849–1923) and Augusta Bernsten (1858–1929), both immigrants from Norway. He was baptized two months later at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. Emor’s last and middle names appear in records with various spellings, including “Klaudie."

Johan and Augusta married in 1886 in La Crosse and welcomed a daughter, Mabel, in 1889. Seeking new opportunities, the family soon moved west to Washington Territory. They settled in Mukilteo, a budding port town on the Puget Sound.

Tragedy struck on November 29, 1890, when three-year-old Emor fell into the bay at Mukilteo and drowned. The specifics of the accident are unknown, but it was a time such heartbreaking losses were all too common. Emor was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Two years later, the Hallens welcomed another son, Claude, born in Machias, Washington, on August 27, 1892.

☑️  The Hanson Family
Hans' Headstone / Rosebud's Headstone / Olga's Headstone

Hans Haunane Hanson was born on March 12, 1807, in Larvik, Norway. A ship’s carpenter by trade, Hans spent the first half of his life in Norway, where he married Anne Catherine Jacobine Olsdatter on November 16, 1845. The couple had six children: Lauritz Anton (1846–1910), Hans Severn Jr. (1847–1914), Cecilie Charlotte (b. 1849), Martin (b. 1850), Ole Christian (1853–1888), and Elise Nicoline (b. 1855). Anne died shortly after the birth of their last child.

In 1856, Hans married Bertha Marie Larsdatter (1819–1898), and they had three more children: Anne Marie (b. 1857), Hans Bernard (1860–before 1901), and Anne Katrine (b. 1863). The large family remained in the Larvik area of Norway until, one by one, several members immigrated to the United States, eventually settling in Snohomish County.

Hans himself arrived in Snohomish in 1885, joining his adult children who had already established homes there. By 1889, he and Bertha were living on the ranch of their son Hans Severn Jr., alongside his wife Charlotte and their children: Agnes, Adolph, and Elmira. Bertha died in 1898, and in the 1900 census, Hans is recorded as a widower, still residing with his son's family.

Son Hans Jr. and Charlotte raised five children in total in South Snohomish. On October 29, 1881, the couple experienced the loss of their infant daughter Rosebud. That same day, their daughter Elmira Charlotte was born—suggesting that the girls may have been twins.

Another daughter, Olga Henritta, was born on April 13, 1884, but died just two years later in a tragic and unusual accident. As The Eye newspaper reported in September 1886, "Henritta, youngest daughter of H.S. and Charlotte Hanson, aged two years and two months, died on the 5th inst., after a short illness. It is thought the child was poisoned by playing upon an old harmonica or French harp, picked up in the garden, as she was attacked with convulsions shortly after the instrument was taken from her, and exhibited symptoms of zinc poisoning."

Hans, Sr. died on December 16, 1901. His funeral was held at the family home, and he was laid to rest in the Snohomish Cemetery. A year later, his son Hans Jr. placed "a beautiful marble monument at the head of his father’s grave in Union Cemetery. His children are buried in the same lot. Mr. Hanson’s father died last fall at the advanced age of 95, it being claimed that he was the oldest man in Washington at the time of his death.”

☑️  Harvey, John and Christina
Headstone 

Christina Noble was born on March 9, 1839, in New Brunswick, Canada to Scottish immigrants Janette Sloan (1814–1891) and Robert Noble (1809–1873). She immigrated to Washington Territory sometime before 1872, where she married John Harvey in King County. The couple welcomed their only child, Noble George Harvey, on June 17, 1873.

John Harvey was born in Kingston, England in 1826 and christened in nearby Modbury on January 8, 1827, the son of Honor Shepherd and William Harvey. After immigrating to the United States, he first settled in California, then moved to Seattle in 1852, and finally arrived in Snohomish in 1862. He built a log cabin homestead on the south side of the Snohomish River, near where the Seattle-Snohomish Mill Company would later operate. He served as one of the first Snohomish County Commissioners and was later listed as a farmer, though records from 1880 indicate he suffered from “general debility.” He and Christina also became guardians to a girl named Catherine C. Hayes in 1879.

John Harvey died on November 28, 1886, in Snohomish. His burial was originally in the Snohomish Cemetery, but his remains were relocated to the GAR Cemetery in 1947. He lies there beneath a shared marker with Christina.

Following John’s death, Christina married Asa Robbins (1844–1914) on February 3, 1888. The marriage was troubled: her son, Noble, disliked his stepfather and chose to live separately at a property his mother had purchased at 56 State Street. Christina died just four years later, on September 17, 1892, of typhoid fever. She, too, was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery before being relocated to the GAR Cemetery.

Christina and John’s son, Noble George Harvey (1873–1952), was remembered in his obituary as “the first white boy born in Snohomish County.” Upon his mother’s death, he inherited the Harvey family farm at age 19 and made substantial improvements to the land. Part of this property—approximately 80 acres—was later developed into Harvey Airfield, still in operation today. 

John Harvey
Born: 1857, Washington
Died: March 17, 1902, Trafton, WA

John Harvey was the American name of a Coast Salish man. One night near Trafton, just outside Arlington, John was struck and killed by a Northern Pacific train. According to the Daily Herald, Coroner Bakeman "was called yesterday to investigate into the running over and killing of an Indian named John Harvey. The circumstances seemed to all point to the fact that Harvey, in an intoxicated condition, got on the track at a curve and was struck by the train, and badly crushed and probably instantly killed, and in such a manner that an inquest was not deemed necessary, and he will be buried today or tomorrow by his Indian relatives. He is reputed to have been a pretty good and industrious Indian, but with too much love for 'firewater,' which led to his death, as is too apt to be the case always, with those who intemperately use it.”

He was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Haskell, Agnes and Julia
Julia's Obituary

Julia E. Kinsman was born on May 19, 1841, in Brighton, Iowa, to Lucy P. Sanderson (1817–1904) and Melatiah Matthew Kinsman (1816–1894). She married Royal Haskell Jr. (1834–1894) on January 7, 1858, in Mahaska County, Iowa. In 1871, the couple moved to Snohomish with their five children and purchased a ranch on the edge of town. Royal became a county judge and signed the paperwork creating the Snohomish Cemetery in 1876. The Haskells quickly became respected community members, and Julia was remembered as “a woman of much more than ordinary excellence in all the relations of life.” She gave birth to their sixth child in 1873, but her health declined in the following years. Julia died of typhoid fever on January 31, 1878. Her obituary in the Northern Star praised her contributions to the community, stating, “Her loss can never be replaced.”

Royal and Julia’s daughter, Agnes Haskell, was born on February 28, 1861, in Harrison, Iowa. She came to Snohomish with her family at age ten. As a young woman, she worked as a cook at the shingle mill her father built near the Snohomish-Skykomish fork. Agnes died of scarlet fever on June 24, 1879, just a year and a half after her mother’s passing. She was 18 years old.

Both Julia and Agnes were originally buried at the Snohomish Cemetery. Judge Haskell moved to Iowa in 1882 to try out the butcher business.

Hassler, Mae and Fannie Mae
May's Headstone / Fannie's Headstone

Mae M. Hutchins was born on January 1, 1867, in North Hero, Vermont, to Luana H. Pettit (1846–1917) and Asahel Hutchins (1840–1910). One of twelve children, she married James Edward “Ed” Hassler (1859–1934) on September 6, 1885, in Clermont, Iowa. The couple had three children. The family moved to Snohomish in the fall of 1890. Just two years later, Mae died of diphtheria on December 1, 1892. Her funeral was held at the Methodist Church, and she was likely buried at the Snohomish Cemetery, later reinterred at GAR. 

Mae’s daughter, Fanny Mae, was born March 2, 1888, in Clermont, Iowa, and named for her paternal grandmother, Fanny Faunt. She died in 1892, but the exact date and cause are unknown. It is unclear whether Fanny died at the same time as her mother.

Following their deaths, James Edward Hassler returned to Iowa and later remarried in 1902. 

☑️  Hawley, Rose Ella
Born: 1874, Germany
Died: May 14, 1898, Snohomish

Born Rose Mary Guenther, Rosa immigrated to the United States with her family in 1881. By 1888, they had settled in Snohomish. She was the daughter of Agnes Tautenhahn (1852–1930) and Gottlieb John Guenther (c.1846–1891). On May 30, 1896, she married Orma S. Hawley (also known as George). Their daughter, Erma Clara Hawley, was born on May 4, 1898.

Later that year, Rosa Ella fell seriously ill and died ten days later from typhoid fever complicated by septic peritonitis. She was 24. The Snohomish Eye reported that the funeral was held at the Congregational Church, led by Rev. Winchester, and attended by members of the Foresters fraternal organization. She was survived by her infant daughter, husband, mother, two sisters (Minnie and Martha), and brother John Gunther.

Church records note that Rosa was buried in the “old cemetery,” referring to the Snohomish Cemetery.

Hennoffer, Anna
Born: June 28, 1872, unknown
Died: November 30, 1877, Lowell, WA
Death Notice

Anna H. Hennoffer died of diphtheria near the town of Lowell, at the age of five years, two months, and seven days. Her death was part of the 1876-77 diphtheria epidemic that swept the region.

Though no headstone survives, she was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery, as no other burial grounds served the area at the time.

☑️  Hill, Joseph
Born: unknown
Died: November 19, 1900, Snohomish

Little is known about Joseph Hill beyond the circumstances of his death. He was found dead in bed on the morning of November 19, 1900, at Wood & Iverson’s shingle mill. Acting coroner C. W. Gorham conducted the inquest, after which Hill’s body was taken to Bakeman’s undertaking parlors. His funeral was held the following afternoon.

The official cause of death was heart failure, with alcohol listed as a contributing factor. Hill was believed to be from Ohio, with his last residence recorded as McCaullville—likely a misspelling of McConnelsville, Morgan County. According to Bauer Funeral Home records, he was buried in the “old” cemetery.

☑️  Hoem, Elling and Olof

Born in Illinois in 1877, Olof was the son of Norwegian immigrants Elling and Amalie Hoem. The family moved from Chicago to Snohomish County in 1880. On January 5, 1888, eleven-year-old Olof died of pleurisy and pneumonia. His father purchased plot #5 in the Snohomish Cemetery on February 17, 1888, located along the far western edge that is now the center of Second Street. The grave would have been removed during highway work in 1947. He is now with his family at the GAR.

Olof's father, Elling, was born June 23, 1838, in Tingvoll, Norway. He immigrated to Chicago in 1865 with three siblings and worked as a blacksmith. In 1870, he married Amalie. The couple had seven children—five born in Illinois and two in Washington—three of whom did not survive to adulthood. The family settled on a farm in Snohomish in 1880, where Elling became known as a community minded person, well respected for his hard work. He died on the 26th of January 1902 of a cerebral hemorrhage. His obituary in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer noted, “He was an industrious man, and by his labor had cleared up a large tract of land, and leaves one of the finest improved farms in Snohomish county. He was public spirited and always took an active part in local improvements. At the time of his death he was the road supervisor in his district and a member of the school board of that township."

Four days later, the Daily Herald reported, “The funeral of Elling Holm was yesterday largely attended notwithstanding the inclement weather. It took place from the Congregational Church, the Rev. C. L. Mears officiating. The interment was at the Union cemetery.”

His remains were moved to the GAR cemetery along with his son's in 1947.

The Howe Family
Headstone 1 / Headstone 2

The five Howe children—occasionally misrecorded as “Horne” in early burial records—were all born in Washington Territory and died in Snohomish in March 1878 during a devastating diphtheria epidemic.

Listed in birth order:

Carrie Howe (b. Dec 27, 1866 – d. Mar 4, 1878, age 11)
Lillian “Lilly” Howe (b. Mar 12, 1868 – d. Mar 5, 1878, age 10)
Percy Albert Howe (b. Feb 18, 1869 – d. Mar 22, 1878, age 9)
Chester Henry Howe (b. Jul 20, 1870 – d. Mar 18, 1878, age 7)
Kenneth Howe (b. Jul 8, 1872 – d. Mar 28, 1878, age 5)

The obituaries of both parents are included in their entireties. In The Tacoma Daily Ledger, Wednesday, October 8, 1902, page 10:

"Snohomish, Oct. 7 – Sam Howe, one of the earliest pioneers of this region, died yesterday at his old homestead three miles west of Snohomish. He had resided in the same place since 1861. He was born in Devonshire, England, December 29, 1836, and in 1853 went to the Crimean war, serving for three years. He fought in the battles of Alma and Inkerman, and after being wounded was for a long time in the hospital at Balaklava. He came to America and in 1858 came to Puget Sound and spent two years in the employ of the Port Madison Mill company. In 1860, in company with John Harvey, he came to Snohomish. Mr. Howe was ever an active citizen, and took an interest in politics, being a Republican. He left a widow but no children, his five little ones having died within a month at the time of the epidemic of black diphtheria in 1878.”

The death of Mary Howe was shared in The Daily Herald, Wednesday, January 6, 1915:

“Mrs. Mary E. Howe, who died at her home on Pearl street Monday night, was the last but one of the pioneer white women settlers on the Snohomish river. She was born near Plymouth, England, 81 years ago. She left London in January, 1865, and after a voyage lasting eight months arrived at Victoria, Vancouver island. Not meeting Mr. Howe there as she had expected, she went to Port Townsend and after some delay, owing to the poor mail service, she made known her arrival to her intended husband and they were married at that place. From there they removed to the Snohomish river in 1871, to a location on the south bank of the stream just above the place where the Cascade mill now stands. The journey from Port Townsend was made in a small sloop. At this home they lived for several years but when the land was surveyed by the government it was found impossible to get a full claim on 160 acres owing to the fact that a neighbor had a preference right of location. They then took up a homestead claim on Ebey slough, now owned by the Webbs. Mrs. Howe was the mother of five children, three boys and two girls, but lost them all in a short space of time in 1878 when an epidemic of diphtheria appeared that carried off nearly all the children of the settlers. Her husband died about 10 years ago. She is survived by no relatives in America except a niece, Mrs. Charles Curnow, of this city. A brother survives her in England. Mrs. Howe was a regular attendant of the Episcopal church and was greatly esteemed by all who knew her.”

All five children were likely originally buried in the Snohomish Cemetery: Carrie, Lillian, Chester Henry, Percy Albert and Kenneth, but they have been reinterred with a shared headstone in the Woodlawn Cemetery, along with their parents.

☑️  Howell, Elizabeth
Born: February 9, 1875, Lopatcong, New Jersey
Died: July 19, 1896, Snohomish

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Angeline Howell was born to Minerva Ellen Raub (1852–1937) and Isaac C. Howell (1840–1922). At the time of her birth, her father was a schoolteacher in Harmony, New Jersey. By 1880, the family had moved to Mount Olive in Morris County, where he continued teaching and the household had grown to include five children.

By 1885, the Howells had relocated to Snohomish. Isaac was farming, and the family eventually grew to include eleven children, including twin daughters born in 1890. However, Minnie and Isaac divorced in the early 1890s. Isaac later remarried, first moving to Thurston County and then to Wisconsin, where he wed Nancy Bell on June 9, 1896.

Elizabeth Howell died at the age of 21. The Snohomish Tribune remembered her two days later:

“After an illness of nine weeks Miss Lizzie Howell passed quietly away at the home of her mother. The deceased was 21 years old. It is with sorrow we make the above announcement, for to say the least, Miss Howell was one of our best ladies. She was bright and pleasant, always ready to give a helping hand, courteous at all times, and her gentle and sweet disposition has brought to her many friends who deeply and sincerely mourn her untimely death. . . . Miss Howell was laid away in Union Cemetery.”

After Lizzie’s death, her mother Minerva operated a boarding house on First Street, where she lived with her daughters Bessie, Eva, and Agnes. Among her boarders was John W. Renfro (1858–1910), whom she married on June 27, 1906. Following his death in October 1910, Minerva lived in Centralia, Washington, until her own passing in 1937.

Hulbert, Minnie
Born: February 5, 1874, Snohomish County
Died: December 8, 1877, Snohomish

Minnie Mae Hulbert was born to Lucinda Cottle (c.1842–1915) and Ansel Hulbert Jr. (1835–1906). Her mother had come west from Morgan County, Kentucky, and her father from Caledonia, Ontario. Minnie was their youngest child.

She died of diphtheria on December 8, 1877, just two months shy of her fourth birthday. She was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery. Her death was noted in the Northern Star, which closed with a final verse:

“Oh how hard to lose our treasure, and to bear the chastening rod
Fill Grief's overflowing measure, and to weep, 'Thy will, oh God!'”

☑️ Hulbert, Elma
Born: August 12, 1862, Chickasaw County, Iowa
Died: August 2, 1884, Snohomish
Headstone

Elma A. Thomas was born to Sophia Evandena Peterson (1843–1898) and David Henry Thomas (1838–1900). Her father had previously been married to Harriet Thomas (1839–1861), who died young along with their only child, Willard. Elma was the firstborn of Sophia and David’s children. Two more followed in Iowa before the family moved west to Snoqualmie in the early 1870s, where David took up farming. Elma’s younger sisters, Cora and Gertrude, were born there in 1874 and 1878.

On February 2, 1884, Elma married William Marion Hulbert at her parents’ home. The couple settled in the city of Snohomish. That same year, entering under the name “Mrs. A. Hulbert,” she won awards for best bouquet and best everlastings at the third annual Snohomish County Fair.

Tragically, Elma died just seven months after her wedding, of consumption. She was originally buried in the Snohomish Cemetery, but her remains were later reinterred in the GAR Cemetery, by the Department of Transportation’s relocation program.

Hyatt, Lucinda
Born: 1827, Illinois
Died: April 8, 1891, Snohomish County
Newspaper Article

Lucinda Gray is a complicated woman with a challenging past. Records throughout her life are inconsistent, and her true maiden name remains uncertain. In the 1850 census, she was recorded as Lucinda Gray, living with a young farmer named John Vineyard in Morgan County, Illinois. Both were listed as single, and the nature of their relationship is unclear.

On June 21, 1852, Lucinda married Abner Hiatt (c.1801–1865). By 1860, the couple had three children: Amanda (10), Car (5), and Luella (3). Later records for Amanda indicate she was actually born on July 27, 1850, and her parents were listed as Lucinda Montgomery and Samuel Montgomery. No marriage record exists for this union, and the likely Samuel Montgomery was a Virginia-born farmer living in nearby Cass County, already long married with children.

By 1870, Abner had died, and Lucinda had a fourth daughter, Clara, age 7. Now living in Chandlerville, she and her daughters used the spelling “Hyatt.” Amanda, then 20, was working as a teacher.

On August 21, 1873, Lucinda gave birth to another daughter in Chicago—registered as "Child Westcott." The baby girl, later known as Lucy (or Lucina) Westcott, was the daughter of Oscar Westcott and “Lucinde Hyatt.” 

In 1880, Lucinda was still in Chandlerville with her daughter Clara, now 16. Also living with them was a seven-year-old orphan named Etty Adkins, born in Kansas. No further connection to Etty has been found.

By 1891, Lucinda had relocated to Snohomish County, and was living with her daughter Amanda, now Mrs. T.A. Skaggs, on a homestead along the Stillaguamish River. On April 8, 1891, Lucinda died in a sudden and tragic accident. According to her obituary, she had gone out to fell a tree and her daughter Amanda discovered her body lying near a massive fallen branch. 

Lucinda’s remains were brought to Snohomish for burial, and it is believed she rests in the Snohomish Cemetery. Most of her daughters and their families were later interred at the GAR Cemetery nearby.

Read more about Lucinda Hyatt in Lost & Forgotten.

☑️ Isaacson, Susan
Born: March 8, 1831, Cleveland, Ohio
Died: February 17, 1909, Snohomish
Funeral Record

Susan G. Inman was the daughter of Justice B. Inman (1789–1868) and Eunice Jones Inman (b. c.1808, New York). She was one of eleven children. Around 1849, she married John W. Clark (1823–1884) in Illinois. John had previously been married to Ellen Parker, with whom he had a son, Dexter, before Ellen’s early death.

In the 1850 census, the newly married couple was living in Avon, Illinois, with a Parker family—possibly Ellen’s relatives. By 1860, they had moved west and were farming in Mattole, California, with their children Jennet (10), Mary (7), and Reuben (1). By 1870, the family was in San Diego, where only Dexter and Reuben remained in the household. In 1880, Susan was living with her daughter Jennet and her family in Mendocino County.

Tragedy struck in May 1884 when John W. Clark drowned while attempting to cross the Skykomish River in a small canoe with a man named William Waite. According to The Eye, Waite made it to shore, but Clark’s body was never recovered. The following year, Susan was living in Snohomish, still listed as “married”—perhaps holding out hope that John had survived. Her son Reuben and stepson Dexter (now a lawyer) were living with her.

On February 2, 1889, Susan was granted the land patent for the property once claimed by her husband. Later that same year, on December 17, 1889, she remarried. Her second husband was Isaac F. Isaacson, a recent immigrant from Finland, twenty-five years her junior. By 1900, the couple was raising her grandson George Clark, the son of her stepson Dexter.

Susan died of pleurisy and senility at the age of 77. She was buried at what is now known as the Snohomish Cemetery. Isaac handled her funeral arrangements and continued to raise George Clark until he came of age. 

☑️ Jack, Ray
Born: September 1902, Snohomish County
Died: October 26, 1918, Snohomish
Death Notice

Ray Jack was born in September 1902 in Snohomish County, the middle of five children born to Hattie Selalis Dan Jack (1883–1964) and Peter Jack (1875–1907). He was the grandson of Pilchuck Jack (1840–1903) and Julia (1841–1923), respected members of the Snohomish Tribe.

Ray was just four years old when his father died from a tragic fall off a bridge in February 1907. After Peter’s death, Ray, his mother, and siblings moved into the home of their paternal grandmother, Pilchuck Julia. While his grandmother and mother spoke their native language, Ray and his siblings were raised primarily speaking English.

In October 1918, at the height of the influenza pandemic, 16-year-old Ray became ill. His condition quickly worsened, developing into bronchopneumonia. He died on October 27, 1918. Two days later, The Daily Herald noted in its “Snohomish Briefs” section: “An Indian funeral was held for Ray Jack, grandson of Princess Pilchuck Julia of the Snohomish tribe, this afternoon. Interment was made in the old Snohomish cemetery.”

☑️ Jackson, Kate
Born: c. 1850, Ireland
Died: May 29, 1889, Snohomish
Headstone

Catherine “Kate” O’Hare immigrated to the United States from Ireland sometime before 1870. By that year, she was already married to James Thomas Jackson (1844–1938), and the couple lived in San Pablo, California. James worked as a stage driver while they started their family: daughter Lydora “Dora” was born in 1871, followed by sons J.T. Jackson in 1873 and William H. Jackson in 1875.

In the 1880s, the Jacksons relocated to Washington Territory. There, Kate managed the restaurant at the Esmond Hotel in Snohomish. She died on May 29, 1889, at just 39 years old. The Seattle Press printed a brief obituary the following week under the heading “Snohomish Notes”:

“Mrs. Kate Jackson of this city died at her home on Wednesday afternoon after an illness of two weeks. The funeral was held Friday morning at the Catholic Church. She leaves behind a husband and three children to mourn her loss. They have the sympathy of the whole community.”

Kate’s grave remains in its original location at the Snohomish Cemetery. Her headstone sits on the north side in the Pioneer Village display.

☑️ Jamieson, William
Born: unknown
Died: July 22, 1868, Snohomish
Newspaper Article

A cook in William Hawkins’ logging camp, William Jamieson had come west from Missouri, taken a small land claim on the hillside south of Snohomish, and built a modest cabin. Late at night, he played his fiddle, to the delight or chagrin of those passing by on the river below. The spot earned the nickname Fiddler’s Bluff.

Jamieson struggled with depression, and one July night in 1868, instead of picking up his fiddle, he picked up his gun and shot himself.

Jamieson was laid to rest in the town cemetery. His friend William “Bobbie” Hughes inherited his canoe and fiddle. Bobbie also carved a cedar grave marker for his friend. As The Eye reported in 1883: “Snohomish City cemetery has a curiosity in the shape of an epitaph: ‘Here lies a poor unfortunate man, born in misery and died in misery.’”

Read more about William Jamieson in Lost & Forgotten.

☑️  Jerry, Johnnie
Born: 1875, Washington Territory
Died: February 24, 1915, Snohomish
Funeral Record

Johnnie Jerry was the only son of Pilchuck Jerry and his wife, Mary. When Pilchuck Jerry died in 1905, the Granite Falls Post published a tribute:

“Pilchuck Jerry died at his home below here on the Stillaguamish river Monday evening after a lingering illness of about two weeks. Jerry lived in this vicinity thirty years and his death is regretted by all who knew him. During the Indian troubles he was a constant friend of the whites. He leaves a widow, Mary, and a son, Johnnie.”

Johnnie remained in the area, living for many years in Granite Falls before relocating to Snohomish in the final year of his life. On February 24, 1915, he died of tuberculosis at the age of 38. The Daily Herald noted:

“Johnny Jerry, one of the last of the Pilchuck tribe of Indians, died at the home of Pilchuck Julia at Morgan’s dam, north of Snohomish, this morning at the age of 38 years. The cause of death was consumption from which he had been ailing for the past two years. He was the only son of Pilchuck Mary, the last except Julia of the original tribe… The funeral was held this afternoon at 3 o’clock from the home, interment being in the old cemetery on Second street.”

In 1947, his remains were reportedly reinterred to the GAR Cemetery—beside Pilchuck Julia and her husband, Jack.

Johnson, Fred
Born: 1881, Snohomish
Died: October 15, 1883, Snohomish

Fred Johnson was born to Danish immigrants Hans Johnson (1856–1928) and Laura Hansen (1853–1928). His father had emigrated from Aakirkeby, Denmark, arriving in New York in April 1875 aboard the vessel Alsatian. The Johnsons initially settled in Persia, New York, where their first children were born: Luie, Anna, and a third child listed in 1880 census records only as "Baby Johnson."

By 1883, the growing family had moved west to Snohomish. Now parents to five children—including Fred—they were living on the slough about a mile south of town. That October, tragedy struck. On the 14th, young Fred accidentally fell into a tub of boiling water prepared for his bath. The article in The Eye, graphically described what happened: “A terrible accident, which finally resulted in death, happened last Sunday to the little two-year-old son of Hans Johnson, who lives on the slough about a mile south of town. The little fellow accidentally fell into a tub of boiling water, which his mother was preparing for his bath, she having stepped into an adjoining room for some cold water to reduce the temperature of that in the tub. The child’s face and chest were so badly scalded that death resulted Monday, after intense suffering. The bereaved parents have the sympathy of the entire community.” It is believed that Fred was laid to rest at the Snohomish Cemetery.

The emotional toll of Fred’s death appears to have had lasting effects on his mother. Though she gave birth to two more daughters—Lottie in 1884 and Myrtle in 1886—Laura’s mental health began to deteriorate. That year, she attempted to hang herself in the upstairs bedroom of the family farmhouse. The Eye reported,

“For several months the unfortunate woman has shown symptoms of insanity. For several weeks she had been despondent, and Mr. J. had been obliged to keep close watch for fear she would do harm to herself or the children... She first attempted to place the neck of [her 3- year-old daughter] in the noose with her own. Failing this, Laura tried again, but the rope stretched her to the floor. Summoned by the older children, Hans hurried into the house to find his wife hanging from the rafters... After cutting the rope it was fully half an hour before Mr. Johnson could bring her to consciousness... Mrs. Johnson was sent to the asylum on Wednesday. The children are now being cared for by kind neighbors.”

She was committed to the Western Washington Hospital for the Insane in Pierce County, and later transferred to the Northern State Hospital in Sedro-Woolley, where she remained until her death on August 10, 1928.

Hans Johnson lived out his later years in Seattle, working as a farmer and living at various times with his sons or boarders. Upon his death on June 28, 1928, his daughter Anna J. Byrne noted on the death certificate that her father was “divorced” and “retired.”

Johnson, Ben
Born: unknown
Died: March 14, 1891, Snohomish

Poor Ben Johnson, literally and figuratively. The man died without a known history. His greatest fortune in death was the community that cared enough that they collectively paid for his funeral. The newspaper article printed in The Eye on March 20, 1891 explains: “At the [insistence] of Marshal Brown, the citizens of this city very liberally raised $38.75 for the burial expenses of the late Ben Johnson who died Saturday night of pneumonia, or a complication of causes. The deceased left no known relatives and no property. The charitable move on the part of the citizens is certainly very commendable. The remains was buried Monday.” Mr. Johnson was likely interred in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Johnson, Anne
Born: August 6, 1820, Norway
Died: March 11, 1892, Snohomish County

Born in Norway, Anne (Christianson) Johnson came to Washington later in life and worked as a housekeeper. By 1889, she and her husband, Gulbrand Johnson, were living in South Snohomish County, near their daughter Bertha and not far from their son Ole. Anne died there in March 1892. Gulbrand died four years later and was buried in South Dakota.

Anne was likely buried in Snohomish. One of their grandchildren, Albert Loken, died in 1897 and was also buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Mrs. Johnson
Born: unknown
Died: October 6, 1890, Snohomish County

Little is known about Mrs. Johnson. A notice of her death appeared in the Snohomish Sun: “Mrs. John A. Johnson died at her home near Ebey Slough last week Thursday after a sickness of about two weeks. Her illness was not considered serious until a few days before her death. Her husband, who was away from home was telegraphed for, but did not arrive in time to see her alive. She leaves three children.” Just over six months later, her husband drowned. He was buried in Woodlawn, but his wife was likely buried in Snohomish Cemetery, the only one at the time.

Jones, Aden
Born: February 17, 1864, Casey County, Kentucky
Died: September 27, 1890, Tualco, Washington

Aden W. Jones was the youngest son of Thomas Morris Jones (1823–1890) and Elizabeth Newell Jones (1826–1891). His father, a widower, had previously married Talitha Kelly (1827–1850), and through both unions, Aden grew up among ten siblings, including four half-siblings. The Jones family moved to Kansas during Aden’s childhood, where his father worked as a farmer.

As a young man in Baldwin, Kansas, Aden ran a successful livery stable. In 1887, he married Anna M. Gill (1865–1947), daughter of Samuel and Angeline Gill. The couple appeared well-positioned for a stable life—until, as the story goes, Aden lost his fortune in an ill-fated attempt to help a friend.

The couple relocated to Snohomish, where Aden took a job at Knapp & Hinckley working manual labor—far from the entrepreneurial independence he’d once known. Tensions grew and Anna moved out, taking refuge with her brother who lived near the train depot. The local papers cruelly reported that Anna left “because she was tired of him."

On a Saturday evening in 1890, Aden borrowed a revolver under the pretense of going hunting. He hired a team of horses and drove to the Tualco farm of Martin Fitzmaurice, where Anna had been working in the hop fields. He asked her to go driving with him. She agreed—on the condition that he leave the revolver behind. When he refused, she declined the outing and walked away. Moments later, a single gunshot rang out.

Aden was found with a bullet wound just above his left eye. He died within minutes.

In his pocket was a handwritten note addressed to his employer:

"Mr. Sewell M. Knapp - Please pay what you owe me to my wife, Mrs. Anna M. Jones, and oblige. Forgive me, Sewell. God only knows my trouble."

His body was retrieved the following day by undertaker Bakeman and buried the next—likely in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Aden was described as a good-hearted man, so the shock ran through many communities describing his suicide. The commentaries were particularly harsh towards Anna. The headlines included: "His Financial and Matrimonial Troubles were more than he could stand," "A Promising Young Life Ruined by Misfortune and Misplaced Affection,” and “A Fickle Wife Causes a Suicide.”

After Aden’s death, Anna returned to Kansas and married Evan Wood (1861-1938). Anna had no children.

☑️ Kikendall, Zilpha and Charles
Zilpha's Headstone / Charles' Headstone

Charles McNare Kikendall, a Civil War veteran, arrived in Puget Sound in the 1870s. Born in Pennsylvania in January 1837, his family later moved to Michigan, where he enlisted in the U.S. Army just four months after the Civil War began.

In 1867, Charles married Zilpha Anna Willis of Eaton Rapids, Michigan, and the couple had three children: Harriet, Hannah, and William. After securing a free homestead in the early 1870s, the young family endured three years of drought in Kansas before deciding to seek a milder climate out west. Upon arrival, Charles purchased 120 acres of timbered land along the Pilchuck River a mile and a half north of Snohomish. In the fall of 1875, he began building a cabin from “the finest and straightest logs available.”

Charles died from complications of his chronic illness in 1886. He was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery, and his wife Zilpha followed in 1890. Later, their bodies and headstones were moved to the G.A.R. Cemetery by the Civil War Veterans of Snohomish County. In an ironic twist of fate, the cabin Charles built ended up atop his original burial grounds as part of a museum display. 

Read more about the Kikendalls in Lost & Forgotten.

☑️ Kromer, Erskine
Born: 1836
Died: August 31, 1885, Snohomish County
Newspaper Article / Headstone

One of the first settlers to stake a land claim on what would become modern Everett was Erskine D. Kromer, a Civil War veteran from New York. Kromer arrived in the Pacific Northwest in 1863 as a lineman for World Telegraph, tasked with an ambitious project to string telegraph lines “around the world” through Seattle and into Alaska and Siberia. In 1868, he filed a homestead claim for 160 acres, married a Coast Salish woman, Emma Kennie, and “proved up” on the land in December 1876, securing ownership. Kromer died in 1881 in his cabin on a hill overlooking the bay, bequeathing the property to his son, Victor.

His headstone was uncovered at the Snohomish Cemetery during the 2005 excavation.

Read more about Kromer and the 2005 excavation in Lost & Forgotten.

Laister, Henry
Born: 1840, New York
Died: May 6, 1896, Snohomish

Henry S. Laister was the son of Scottish immigrants; his mother is believed to have been Clarisa Parker. He arrived in Washington Territory by 1886, when land records place him in Snohomish County.

On October 9, 1891, Henry married Kate McIntyre (b. September 1854) of Decatur, Illinois, in Snohomish. The couple had one child, Myrtle A. Laister, born in March 1894.

Henry farmed his land in the Snohomish area, but his life was cut short in May 1896 when he suffered from "retention of urine" and refused the medical intervention that might have helped him. He died on May 6, 1896 and is most likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

After his death, Kate moved into town, on Pine Street, with six-year-old Myrtle and supported them by working as a laundress. Myrtle eventually moved east, spending many years in Kansas City, Missouri, where she worked as a postal clerk. In 1922, she married a fellow postal worker, Jasper N. Long. The marriage ended in divorce by 1940. Myrtle died in 1951.

Lambrecht, Baby Boy
Born: November 6, 1894, Snohomish
Died: November 9, 1894, Snohomish

This infant son of Margaret “May” Callaway (b. July 10, 1867, Marietta, Wisconsin) and Adolf T. M. Lambrecht (b. September 1856, Germany) died without receiving a name. Though the Lambrechts lived in Tacoma, May gave birth to the boy in Snohomish. The baby died three days later of “insufficient vitality” and is believed to be buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Adolf immigrated to the United States in 1886 and settled in Tacoma, where he married May in 1893. This child was their first, followed by three more: Jennie Margaret (b. 1898), an unnamed daughter who died in infancy in 1900, and Bertha (b. 1901).

By the early 1900s, the Lambrechts owned a Tacoma-based laundry business called “Electric Laundry.” Adolf died of pneumonia on April 4, 1904. May sold the business soon after, remarried a man named Robert McDonald, and died of tuberculosis on September 28, 1905. 

After their parents’ deaths, Jennie and Bertha were sent to live with relatives in Wisconsin. Bertha died at age eight while living in Sparta with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brewster. Jennie, the only surviving child, was adopted by her aunt Ruth and uncle George Henry Putnam and raised in Madison, Wisconsin.

Larson, David
Born: May  7, 1888
Died: April 18, 1897

Nine-year-old David was living at Hilton Ranch, three miles south of Snohomish, when tragedy struck. The Tribune reported,

"“Little David Larson, the nine year old son of Mr. and Mrs. David Larson, living in south Snohomish was drowned last Sunday in Blackman’s slough. He was wading with some other children and slipped and fell into a deep hole, and before help could come, he was drowned. The funeral was held Tuesday at the home. His schoolmates sent many tributes of flowers for the coffin, and at the school the teacher draped his seat in black.”

His headstone is at Marshland Cemetery, though it didn't open til 1899. He was likely buried at Snohomish Cemetery.

Laveille, Raphael
Born: 1833, Canada
Died: October 1, 1889, Snohomish

The first trace of Raphael Laveille was when he was 16, living in Beekmantown, New York with Matilda and Louis Paro. The Paros were from Canada and Louis was a shoemaker by trade. It is probable that Raphael, was living with them as an apprentice and working in Louis’ business.

In 1860, Raphael, 27, had a career as a shoemaker in Plattsburgh, New York with Catherine LaValle, 67, and Rose LaValle, 32, a seamstress. Their relationships are not explained.

In October 1889, Raphael passed away. The announcement of his death came with a strong judgement from the newspaper editor:

“A shoemaker name Laveille, who for the past five months has been in the employ of William Patterson, died Tuesday at twelve o’clock from the effect of too much liquor. He was fifty-six years of age and when sober was a good and faithful workman. Such instances as these are whole prohibition sermons in themselves.”

He likely rests in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Lebel, Mary
Born: October 16, 1862, Odanah, Wisconsin
Died: April 10, 1896, Snohomish
Headstone

Mary Adeline Brisette—also known as Madeline—was the daughter of Charlotte Cadotte and Charles Bressette. Her ancestry was both Native American and French Canadian. Through her paternal grandmother, Catherine Oginiakwe (daughter of Minzai Ojibwe, Chief of the Chippewa), Mary was a descendant of the Red Cliff Band of Chippewa.

She married Louis Alphonse LeBel, a French Canadian fisherman, on September 19, 1879 in Ashland, Wisconsin. The couple had four children: Anna (b. 1881), Edward (b. 1890), George (b. 1894), and Rosa (b. 1897). The family moved west to Washington State by the mid-1890s, eventually settling in Snohomish.

Mary died just two months after Rosa’s birth, at the age of 34. She is believed to be buried in the Snohomish Cemetery. A memorial headstone stands in the Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery.

Leighton, Joe
Born: unknown
Died: April 20, 1879, Snohomish

Very little is known about Joe Leighton beyond what was written in the Northern Star on April 26, 1879:

“On Sunday morning, April 20th, at about six o'clock, a man by the name of Joe Leighton, for some time a resident of this place, was found dead in his room at the Snohomish Exchange. It is supposed he died of heart disease. He was dressed and had evidently slept in his bed the night before and suddenly dropped dead on the floor just after dressing himself that morning.”

With the Snohomish Cemetery as the only burial ground available at the time, it is presumed Joe Leighton was laid to rest there.

Light, Harvey
Born: 1825, Chautauqua County, New York
Died: January 5, 1891, Snohomish

Harvey W. Light had a long and eventful life. His father was born in Maine and his mother in New Hampshire. Around 1848, he married Susan Mary, born in 1827 in New York. By 1850, they were living in Fayette County, Iowa, where Harvey worked as a farmer while sharing a household with a German shoemaker and his wife.

In June 1854, Harvey was appointed U.S. Postmaster of Lima, Fayette County, a position he held briefly. He and Susan Mary had three daughters, all born in the 1850s: Hellen (1853), Emma (1855), and Caroline (1859). By 1860, the family had moved to Westfield, Iowa, where Harvey worked as a harness maker.

On October 13, 1864, Harvey enlisted in the Union Army, and mustered in on November 19 as a private in Company E, 7th California Infantry. During his service, Susan Mary died.

By 1870, he was living in Salt Point, California, in the home of his eldest daughter, Ellen, and her husband, Edward Shone. Harvey's younger daughters, Emma and Caroline, also lived there. Edward ran a hotel, and Harvey worked as a lumberman.

A few years later, Harvey and Edward formed a business partnership in Snohomish. Their dealings weren’t without controversy. On September 8, 1878, the Northern Star reported that “M.W. Packard and D.B. Jackson, partners” were suing Light and Shone for recovery of $100 in U.S. gold coin, plus interest dating to April 6, 1877.

One month earlier, Harvey had married Theresa Adams (1849–1910) on March 13 in Semiahmoo. By 1880, the couple was living in Snohomish, farming. They lived next door to Christina and John Harvey.

Harvey died suddenly of apoplexy at home on January 5, 1891, at age 66. A fuller tribute appeared in The National Tribune on January 29, 1891:

“Light – Near his home, in Snohomish, Wash., Jan. 5, of heart failure, H. W. Light, Co. C, 7th Cal. Comrade Light was a charter member of Morton Post 10, Department of Washington and Alaska. He was a gallant soldier, a model citizen and a loving husband and father, and Morton Post lost a working member by his death. He was buried with the honors of war by the Post.”

Theresa received his veteran’s pension. In his will, Harvey left $5 to each of his daughters and bequeathed all remaining property to his wife.

Lindahl, Charles
Born: c. 1870
Died: July 25, 1893, Snohomish

Charles Lindahl is another immigrant who came to Snohomish and died without evidence of a familial history. It is known that he was a 23 year old laborer from Sweden and died of acute nephritis. He was residing at the County Poor House at the time of his death and was likely buried in the county-owned plots of the Snohomish Cemetery.

Little, John
Born: February 5, 1813, Newcastle, Maine
Died: March 23, 1890, Snohomish

John Little was born to Katherine Tufts and Samuel Little. On March 5, 1841, he married Roxanna “Roxy” Smith Hall in Nobleboro, Maine. The couple remained in Lincoln County for at least a decade, raising a family that included Truman, born in 1841 in Bristol; Ellen, born July 8, 1843; and Freeman, born in 1846. Their son Truman died in 1845.

The family’s whereabouts over the next two decades are unclear, but Ellen later married Isaac N. Mudgett in 1866 in Boston. In later years, John was described as one of the “’49ers” — men who headed west in search of gold during the California Gold Rush. While it appears his family remained in the East, John eventually made his way to Washington Territory, settling in Snohomish by 1870, where he worked as a farmer.

By 1880, he was still living in Snohomish. By 1885, Roxy, along with daughter Ellen, Isaac, and their children, joined him in Snohomish. Sadly, Roxy passed away later that year on November 7 in Darrington.

John Little died at the age of 77, of dropsy. His funeral was held at the Mudgett family home, and he is believed to have been buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️ Loken,  Albert
Born: January 28, 1884, Minnesota
Died: October 9, 1897, Snohomish

Albert Loken was one of 13 children of Oline Eriksdatter (1858 – 1947) and Ole Gulbrandson Johnsen Loken (1852 – 1932). Albert’s Norwegian parents had immigrated to the United States in 1882. They first lived in Minnesota, then removed to South Dakota, and had come to Snohomish County in 1896 where Ole worked as a carpenter for M. J. Bird. They were living in South Snohomish when Albert became ill. After a year, at age 13, he succumbed to Bright’s Disease and was buried at the Snohomish Cemetery.

The Loken family moved to Seattle and eventually bought a home in Ballard where both parents lived until they passed.

☑️  The Low Family
Headstone 1 / Headstone 2 / Lydia's Obituary

Five members of one of Seattle’s founding families rest in a plot at the southern edge of the Snohomish Cemetery. John and Lydia Low were among the earliest settlers at Alki Point in 1851, arriving with their children after a long overland journey from Illinois. Lydia later gave birth to the first white child born in what became King County.

Not long after, the family moved to Thurston County, then north to Snohomish in the early 1870s to be near their eldest daughter, Mary, who had married early settler Woodbury Sinclair. They farmed along the Pilchuck River and briefly ran a hotel and store.

In 1876, their youngest son, Horace, died tragically after falling through thin ice while skating on Blackmans Lake. John passed in 1888, Lydia in 1901. All three are buried beneath a shared stone reading, “Here is rest for the weary.”

Two more children—Alonzo and Mary—were later cremated, their urns interred in the same family plot. Alonzo, a miner and storekeeper, had returned to Snohomish late in life to live with his widowed sister. He died in 1921; Mary followed in 1922.

Read more about the Low family and their connection to the cemetery in Lost & Forgotten.

Mable, John
Born: unknown
Died: September 28, 1892, Snohomish

John Mable was the victim of a drowning, and his body was found by steamboat engineer W. B. Simmons. After summoning assistance, it was determined that it was “John Mable, a fisherman, who was last seen, in rather an intoxicated state on the evening of September 27th at Biggers saloon. There were some marks or scars upon the head which would indicate violence and his partner, John Mattison, was taken into custody and held until after the inquest which took place Monday afternoon. The jury returned a verdict of accidental drowning, which is perhaps correct, as Mable was in the habit of coming up town and getting full and going down to his shack in his row boat. His boat was found all right, minus seat and oars, but no further damage.”

Mr. Mable was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery. Biggers & Lamb Saloon was located on First Street at the southwest corner of Avenue B.

☑️  Macintosh, Thomas and Unknown
Newspaper Article

Thomas Macintosh was born about 1855 in Canada. His family came to Snohomish County to work in the mining and logging industries. He was described as a "very quiet, resolute man, who always acted first, and seldom spoke of his plans." One day in early October 1882 he went prospecting in the Snohomish Valley with a group, wherein he was the only one who couldn't swim. Their boat capsized on the Stillaguamish River and his body was found by Mr. Elwell on a sand bar.

At the time of his death, Thomas had a bit of cash in his possession, and in the bank: about $800. His friend Alonzo Eddy appointed himself executor and made plans to make a headstone, grave fence, and send any remaining money and belongings to Thomas’s parents. For some reason, nothing happened. Years later, Thomas’s dad came calling and appointed Isaac Cathcart as his attorney to claim the estate that what was rightfully his.

Alonzo Eddy had failed to account for or pay over the funds from Thomas's estate, and seems to have given the wrong name of the father, perhaps on purpose.

The newspaper reported Thomas was unmarried. He did have a fiancee and, though she remarrried, she requested to be buried beside him in the Snohomish Cemetery plot upon her death in 1918.

Mack, Julia
Born: 1833, North Carolina
Died: December 11, 1881, Snohomish
Headstone

Elizabeth Julia Silliman was born to Elizabeth J. Spencer (1792 - ) and John Silliman (1786 -1838). Shortly after her father’s death, when Julia was five years old, the family moved to White County, Illinois where her brothers lived with their families.

In 1869, Julia became the second wife of Reverend John Mack (1822 - 1904) and they immediately removed to Burlingame, Kansas. In 1880, they had moved onto Los Angeles where John was listed on the census as a “Retired Clergyman” and “Farmer”.

Soon after they had moved to Snohomish, where in 1881, Julia, aged 48, died and her passing was noted in newspapers as far away as Anaheim: “It becomes our sorrowful duty to note the death on December 11th , in Washington Territory, of Mrs. Rev. John Mack, formerly of this place.”

Originally interred at the Snohomish Cemetery, Julia’s headstone stands in the G.A.R. with the inscription: “Absent from the body, Present with the Lord.”

☑️  Manning, Frankie
Born: unknown
Died: January 1, 1890, Snohomish
Death Notice

Frank Manning was not well known to his neighbors in Snohomish and when he died in 1890, The Sun candidly shared their opinion, “He was practically a stranger, and were it not that he had a staunch friend in Bob Biggers he would probably have suffered for the bare necessities of life. Mr. Biggers supplied him with everything he needed during his illness." Biggers was the owner of a First Street saloon.

Frank Manning died of consumption at the Esmond House and “was buried at the Union cemetery”.

Marlow, John
Born: 1838, England
Died: November 11, 1898, Snohomish

In 1898, John Marlow was living in Snohomish and working as a lumberman. He died at the Penobscot Hotel on First Street in November of that year without much known about his life or family. His death return indicates the cause was alcoholism. It is most likely that he was buried at the Snohomish Cemetery.

Mathews, Edwin
Born: February 22, 1875, unknown
Died: December 19, 1877, Snohomish

Edwin Wilbur Mathews was the son of Catherine and Frank Mathews. He was only two years old when he died of diphtheria during the epidemic of 1876-77. The death notice was brief: “Died At Qualco, Snohomish Co. Dec. 19th, of diphtheria, Edwin Wilbur, son of Frank and Catherine Matthews, aged 2 years, 9 months and 24 days. His parents have our sympathies, in this their affliction.”

He was likely laid to rest at the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️  Matuda, C.
Born: about 1876, Japan
Died: November 5, 1901, Robe, Washington
Newspaper Article

C. Matuda, a 25-year-old from Japan, had been in the United States for three years when he was hired by the Northern Pacific Railroad as a section hand, maintaining the Monte Cristo Railway near the town of Robe. In November 1901, after heavy rains, a landslide swept through the narrow canyon. “In attempting to escape from the debris,” the newspaper reported, “the Jap was struck by a stray rock and killed instantly.” His remains were “turned over to his Japanese friends for burial.”

McClain, Charlie
Born: unknown
Died: late July 1883, Ebey Slough, WA

A Native logger employed at Al Jones’ camp on Ebey Slough, Charlie McClain was killed in a logging accident in late July 1883 when struck by a falling tree. He was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery, though no marker has been found.

McDougall, Daniel and Frankie

Born to Coll and Ann Clark McDougall in 1844, Daniel was one of five children who immigrated with their parents from Scotland to Bruce County, Ontario around 1848. In total, the couple had twelve children, including Allan (1852–1917) and Sarah (1858–1944), who were later named in Daniel’s will.

By 1872, Daniel had settled in Snohomish. On November 17, 1877, Daniel died of unknown causes. In his will, he left two city lots and 152 acres of additional land to his brother Allan.

Daniel was buried the next day, likely in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Daniel's nephew, Frankie, is the first son of Allan and Jane McDougall, who were married on December 12, 1876 in Ontario, Canada. Frankie was born about 1877 and shortly after the family moved to Snohomish. Frankie McDougall lived about 5 months and is likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️  The McGinnesses
Mary Ann's Headstone 

James, the infant son of Mary Ann O’Brien (1863–1896) and Michael Joseph McGinness (1858–1926), was born in Snohomish on May 17, 1893 and lived only a single day. The cause of death was listed as a “malformation of the rectum.” Though originally buried at the Snohomish Cemetery, James’s headstone is now at the G.A.R., where both his parents are interred.

Michael McGinness, James’s father, was born in Ireland and arrived in the United States in 1879. He married Mary Ann—herself the daughter of Irish immigrants—in 1881 in St. Joseph, Missouri. Mary Ann had been born in Elgin, Illinois and graduated with high honors from the academy in St. Joseph the same year she married.

The couple made their way west, settling in Snohomish by 1889, where they raised a growing family. James was their fifth child. Two more children were born after him, the last in July of 1896. Tragically, Mary Ann died just two months later, on September 24, 1896, exactly fifteen years after her wedding day.

Her obituary, published in The Tribune on September 26, 1896, reflects the high esteem in which she was held:

“Mrs. Mary A. McGuinness was buried in the old cemetery Saturday morning at 11 o’clock, the service being held in the Catholic church and the Knight and Ladies of the Maccabees attending in a body... She was a highly educated lady, having finished the classical course and graduated with high honors... About six months ago she was taken with la grippe which gradually developed into consumption... she died on the morning of the 24th inst., just 15 years to the day from the date of her marriage. Mrs. McGuinness leaves a bereaved husband, three little children and an aged father to mourn her loss. The sincere sympathy of the community goes out to the bereaved one in their great loss.”

Michael later remarried to Eleanor Donaldson. Together, they raised the surviving children from his first marriage—Patrick Andrew (1886–1955), Joseph Michael (1891–1972), and Margaret (1894–1916)—and had three children of their own: William Edgar (1898–1900), Ellen (b. 1902), and Charles D. (b. 1903).

Their son William Edgar died at just over a year old. According to the Tribune in January 1900:

“Mrs. McGuinness was visiting with her parents in Seattle having the baby with her. Friday night the little fellow was taken with convulsions from which he was unable to rally, dying Saturday evening of brain fever. The funeral took place from the house Tuesday afternoon, interment being made in the old cemetery.”

Michael served on the board of the Snohomish Cemetery Association, back when the cemetery was first founded.

☑️  McKenzie, Charles and Parker

Charles and Parker were sons of Hector Boyce MacKenzie (1833–1911) and Loraine Bigelow Parker (1839–1909), a Congregational family from Shipton, in eastern Quebec. Their parents had raised seven children with the help of their widowed grandmother, Barbara, a fixture in the household during their childhood.

Like many Canadians in the late 19th century, Charles and Parker followed the pull of opportunity to the American West, settling in Snohomish. Their time here was brief and unfortunately ended in the untimely death of both of them.

Born March 2, 1864, Charles trained as a civil engineer and arrived in Snohomish to work in that capacity. He married Martha Alice Hatten on June 24, 1891. Scarcely seven months later, on January 28, 1892, Charles was found dead along the Silverton Trail under “mysterious” circumstances. He had been on his way to join Parker at Independence Camp, navigating a snow-covered and uneven trail. According to testimony given at the time, the trail was buried under three to four feet of snow, with patches of loose gravel below. The trek may have been too exhaustive even for someone in good health.

A coroner’s inquest, led by S. B. Limerick, was convened to determine whether his death was truly accidental. As his personal estate was valued at over $11,000 and he held multiple accident insurance policies, the stakes of the ruling were high. Physicians Dr. N. S. McCready and Dr. Emil Bories examined the body. The final verdict found that Charles had died “by receiving an accidental injury on his head… [which] resulted in hemorrhage, thereby producing death.”

Charles was initially buried in the Snohomish Cemetery on February 1, 1892, according to Bauer funeral records. He was later reinterred in the G.A.R. Cemetery. His daughter, Inez Lorraine McKenzie, was born just over five months after his death.

Parker, the younger brother, born August 4, 1866, was a surveyor and contractor. He co-owned the Silverton townsite, a venture tied closely to the fortunes of the Everett & Monte Cristo Railway. When that line was destroyed and Silverton’s prospects diminished, Parker turned his sights north, joining a party preparing to enter the Yukon during the gold rush. His journey was cut short in Victoria, B.C.

A report in The Eye, dated January 11, 1898, was headlined: “Death of Parker McKenzie”. It read:

“He went to bed shortly after 1 o’clock this morning. Late this afternoon the clerk noticed a strong smell of gas in the hall, and opening the room occupied by Mr. McKenzie found him dead. He had turned out the gas, but in doing so turned the key back again. He evidently died in his sleep.”

The cause of death was asphyxiation.

Parker’s body was returned to Snohomish, and according to Congregational Church funeral records, he was buried in February 1898, six years after his brother. He was likely first interred at the Snohomish Cemetery and later moved to the G.A.R. 

McMillan, Hector
Born: 1847, Canada
Died: July 12, 1884, Snohomish County
Newspaper Article

Hector McMillan came from St. Johns, New Brunswick to the Puget Sound region in 1871. At 37, he was working at the logging camp of E. D. Smith on Ebey Slough when he was tragically killed. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer graphically depicts his death:

"He was last seen alive at 11 o’clock a.m., when he started from the woods with a car of logs drawn by a six-mule team. He was later found lying upon his back across the right rail, with his body cut almost in two by one of the wheels of the forward truck. Mr. McMillan was alone at the time of the accident, and how it happened will never be definitely known... Death must have been almost instantaneous."

The funeral took place from the Presbyterian Church, and he was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️  McSorley, Mathew
Born: about 1840
Died: October 27, 1894, Seattle
Newspaper Article

A rancher on Russell Road in Machias, Mathew McSorley was sadly the victim of a catastrophic hotel fire in Seattle. His body was shipped by rail to Snohomish and interred in the Snohomish Cemetery, at the request of Mayor E.C. Ferguson.

Read more about Mathew McSorley in Lost & Forgotten.

☑️  Miller, Albert
Born: May 31, 1823, Hancock, New York
Died: October 27, 1889, Snohomish
Obituary

Colonel Albert Gregory Miller married Caroline Fuller on July 14, 1844. Together they had five children, though sadly Caroline died in about 1855 in New York. Two years later, Albert remarried to Emily Gee, with whom he had six more children.

In 1864, the Miller family removed from New York to Chickasaw, Iowa where Albert worked as a house carpenter. In 1880, the census lists him as having been out of work for several months, sick with consumption. His son, appropriately named "Colonel," and his wife, Carrie, lived next door.

In 1883, they arrived in the Puget Sound area and resided in a home near the “Pillchuck school house,” where he died of heart disease on October 27, 1889. His funeral was held at the school house and “his remains laid away to rest in the Union Cemetery.”

Emily remarried to Cheney Luce, Jr. and it is possible Cheney was also buried at the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️  Moe, Maggie
Born: about 1863, unknown
Died: November 1, 1889, Snohomish

The only reference to the life and death of this young woman is the announcement in The Snohomish Sun: “Maggie Moe, age twenty six, died Monday at the residence of Chas. Noble. The funeral was held Wednesday. She was buried in the Union cemetery at this place.”

The official date of death was November 1, 1889.

☑️  Mooney, Baby Boy
Born: unknown
Died: October 5, 1890, Snohomish

The infant son of the Reverend R.J. Mooney and his wife died on October 5, 1890. It was reported that he had been sick for quite some time, having suffered with whooping cough and never fully recovered. The parents hoped the move from Ellensburg to west of the mountains would be a healthier environment, but it was to no avail. This was the third child they had lost in the past seven months.

Originally placed at the Snohomish Cemetery, “Baby Boy Mooney “ is now remembered at the G.A.R.

Moran, Allen and Leila
Allen's Headstone / Leila's Obituary

Allen Moran was born February 13, 1843 in New Brunswick, Canada and was the son of Catherine Isabella Grant (1801 - ) and Peter Moran (1795 – 1875). Allen married first to Susan Ann Duplissey on August 3, 1865 and they had two sons, Marshall and August.

He married secondly to Dorothea Amelia Oppor (1847 – 1910) in October 8, 1872, and within seven years they added three more children to the family, Allen, Burt and Cora, and had moved to Peshtigo, Wisconsin. In 1887, they welcomed their last child, Leila Elizabeth, and two years later had moved on to Snohomish, Washington.

Allen found employment as a member of the police force. For some time he had suffered with stomach troubles, which eventually resulted in his death. He had cancer of the stomach and succumbed February 17, 1895. As a member of the Grand Army and Odd Fellows, he requested the organizations to take charge of his funeral, which was held under the auspices of Lodge #116, IOOF. The funeral took place from the Snohomish Methodist Episcopal church on a Tuesday and was largely attended.

Leila Elizabeth Moran, born July 9, 1887 in Peshtigo, was only an infant when the family left Wisconsin. She spent her childhood in Snohomish, interrupted by the death of her father from stomach cancer. It wasn’t long before tragedy struck again, when Leila passed on March 24, 1897.

The Post-Intelligencer wrote, “Little Leila Moran, aged 9 years, died at the home of her mother in the Third ward, Wednesday morning, of membraneous [sic] croup. The funeral was held at the Congregational church Friday morning at 10 o’clock, the Rev. W. C. Merritt officiating.”

Both Morans were likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery. Allen's headstone now rests at the G.A.R.

☑️  The Morgans
Headstone 1 / Headstone 2 / Headstone 3
Hiram's Obituary / Mary Jane's Obituary

Hiram D. Morgan was born to Nancy Craig and Calvin Morgan on October 1, 1822 in Coshocton, Ohio. He first married Ann Mariah Van Arsdale and their daughter, Olive, was born in 1845. Following Ann’s death in 1846, young Olive was raised by her maternal grandparents, Catherine and Peter Van Arsdale, in Wisconsin. 

On October 21, 1848, Hiram married Mary Jane Trout (1829–1903) in Oskaloosa, Iowa. The couple had seven children together while steadily migrating westward. Their first two children, Lucretta Gertrude Morgan (b. 1849) and John D. Morgan (b. 1852), were born in Iowa.

Hiram arrived in Olympia around 1853 and is counted among the city’s early pioneers. Trained as a carpenter and cabinet maker, he constructed sailing vessels and flatboats, and took on the contract to complete the territory’s first Legislative Hall that same year. His skill and reliability won him a commission to construct desks for the legislature and, in 1856, he was appointed by Governor Isaac Stevens as head carpenter for the Squaxin Reservation. He later erected homes for both the Squaxin and Puyallup reservation residents.

In 1858, Hiram briefly returned east—traveling through the Isthmus of Panama, landing in New York, and then settling his family in Kansas—where son Charles was born. The family soon returned to Puget Sound, and four additional children were born: Benjamin Harned Morgan (b. 1861), Alonzo W. Morgan (b. 1863), Lillian Maude Morgan (b. 1866), and Marshall B. Morgan, who died in childhood.

In March 1876, the Morgans relocated permanently to Snohomish. That fall, Hiram partnered with E.C. Ferguson to purchase a local sawmill. When Ferguson sold his interest, Hiram's sons—John, Benjamin, and Alonzo—became proprietors of the renamed Morgan Brothers Mill.

Daughter Lillian was ten when the family arrived in Snohomish, but died two years later, in 1878, likely of diphtheria. She was the first of the Morgan family to be buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Son John married Zellah Getchell in 1874 and had two children: John Emry Morgan (1876–1880) and Nettie Maude Morgan (1877–1932). In addition to work at the mill, he served as Snohomish County treasurer and operated a farm. John died suddenly in 1880 at age 28 and was buried at the Snohomish Cemetery. His son John Emry died around age 4 and was also buried there.

The infant son of Alonzo and Carrie Morgan died two months after birth, in the fall of 1892. 

Hiram's son Charles married Clara Niemeyer in 1881, celebrated as one of the first marriages in the burgeoning Snohomish County. Their children were Francis, Hiram E., Ethel, Claud, and Eunice Anita Morgan. Eunice died of peritonitis as an infant and was buried at the cemetery in 1894. Charles died in 1897 of diphtheria.

Mary Jane, Hiram's devoted wife, died after several weeks of illness on October 21, 1903, having been married to Hiram for 55 years. The Bauer funeral record and her husband's obituary place her burial in the "Old Cemetery," though her death record states she was interred at the G.A.R.

Preceded in death by several children and grandchildren, Hiram finally joined them in October 1906. He was laid to rest in a concrete vault at the Snohomish Cemetery, though a commemorative pillar now stands at the G.A.R. along with markers for his wife and children.

Morrison, Duncan
Born: about 1875, Canada
Died: May 23, 1895, Snohomish County

Duncan W. Morrison was the son of Catherine and John Morrison from Ontario Canada. His last residence before coming to the United States was Winnipeg, Canada where he was “well known.” He had organized the National Baseball Club in 1893, and was elected their first captain. He played second base that season. Duncan was employed by W.J. Boyd in Winnipeg, the maker of "fancy cakes and confections."

Around 1895, Duncan left Canada “for the Pacific Coast to benefit his health”. Evidently, the move didn’t get Duncan the improvements he was seeking and he died of tuberculosis. He was most likely buried at the Snohomish Cemetery. His father had preceded him in death by a few months, leaving his mother and three brothers to mourn the loss of them both.

☑️  Morse, Alice
Born: February 22, 1858, Minnesota City, Minnesota
Died: May 21, 1900, Snohomish

Alice Mathews was the daughter of Maria Jane McCormick (1831 – 1878) and Levi Calvin Mathews (1818 – 1877). As a child, her family moved from Minnesota to Michigan, then onto Sacramento, California. In about 1877, Alice married Hiram Henderson who worked for the street railway in Sacramento. When he died two years later, Alice was running a boarding house.

She married secondly to William Turney and they came to the Puget Sound area, eventually settling in Snohomish to help open a glove factory. They also accepted employment at the Exchange Hotel, run by Isaac Cathcart. William died suddenly of apoplexy.

Alice married for a third time on June 10, 1885, to Eldridge Morse, a well-known lawyer and newspaper editor in Snohomish. Alice was also Eldrige’s third spouse. Together they had five children, Belle, John, Arthur, Harley, and Roland. 

Alice died at age 42 from pneumonia and heart failure. Two days later her “body was laid to rest beside the grave of Mr. Morse’s first wife, Martha A., in the family burial ground, in the old cemetery”. Eldridge was buried at the G.A.R. in 1914. Martha was reinterred there as well, but it is uncertain if Alice was also moved.

Alice’s brothers, Leander William Mathews (1852 – 1941) and Arthur Jackson Mathews (1854 -1929), both lived just north of Snohomish at the time of her death.

☑️  Morse, Martha Ann
Born: December 1, 1851, Uhrichsville, Ohio
Died: March 11, 1876, Snohomish

Martha Ann “Mollie” Turner was the first wife of Eldridge Morse (1847 – 1914) and the daughter of Mary Wales (b. abt 1820) and Isaac Turner (b. 1807), both born in England and immigrants to the United States in 1851. The Turners lived in Iowa, where they raised their thirteen children on a farm.

While attending university in Michigan, Mollie’s future husband, Eldridge Morse, asked her to be his wife. On April 26, 1871, they married in Albia, Iowa. Their only child, Edward Coke Morse was born in April 1872. Soon after, the young family moved to Seattle, then to Snohomish. Eldridge was eager for the opportunity to practice law, but Mollie became very ill soon after their arrival. In 1876, Eldridge started the first newspaper published on the Sound, calling it "The Northern Star." That same year, Mollie died.

The obituary in the Puget Sound Dispatch in Seattle, simply posted, “Died – At Snohomish City, Saturday, March 11th, Mrs. Martha E. Morse, wife of the editor of the Star, aged 24 years.”

Martha was interred in the Snohomish Cemetery, but her remains were moved to the G.A.R. by Eldridge.

Murphy, Daniel
Born: about 1867, Ireland
Died: December 16, 1893, Snohomish County

Daniel Murphy is another poor soul who came to this place at an early age without friends or family. Without knowledge of their next of kin or from whence they came, their account is often too short.

The details that are known of Daniel Murphy is only that he died of tuberculosis at the Snohomish County Poor Farm. He is likely buried at the Snohomish Cemetery.

Nelson, Anna
Born: 1859, Sweden
Died: November 26, 1893, Snohomish

Anna (Peterson) Nelson died at age 34 during childbirth from shock and internal hemorrhaging. She may have been the wife of George Milton Nelson, who wrote an angry letter to the Herald about the decrepit state of the cemetery around 1900, though no definitive clues have been found.

The funeral "was held at the residence this afternoon at 2 o’clock, Rev. Cairns Officiating.”

Nelson, A.
Born: 1848
Died: July 20, 1893, Snohomish

The death notice is the only source to provide details of the life of Mr. A. Nelson. The Washington Standard, dated July 28, 1893, writes, “ The dead body of A. Nelson, a railroad laborer, 45 years old, was found under a Great Northern trestle near the Pilchuck bridge, near Snohomish, last Friday morning. While drunk he had fallen head foremost from the trestle. The neck was broken and the head was driven up to the ears into the sand.”

He was most likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Noble, Hannah and Janette
Janette's Headstone / Death Notice

Janette (also spelled Jenet, Genet, Janet, Jannet) was born in Scotland in 1814, but her family later immigrated to Canada, where, on December 27, 1833, Janette married Robert Noble (1809 -1873) in a Catholic ceremony. They raised a large family in the town of Prince William, New Brunswick; twelve children in all, who now professed a Presbyterian faith. After Robert died, the family began to scatter. A few stayed in Canada, others went to northern California, and four of them to Washington: Christina (1839 – 1892), who married John Harvey (1828 – 1886) and secondly, Asa Robbins (1844 – 1914) (all on this list); Mary (1842 – 1909), who later moved to King County with her husband Alexander Adair; John (1844 – 1914), husband to Hannah Hanson; and  Janet Catherine (1847 – 1923), who lived in Snohomish for over 20 years with her nephew, Noble Harvey (1873 – 1952).

Matriarch Janette moved to Snohomish to be with her children, and died there on August 17, 1891. The announcement read: “Mrs. Jennie Noble, Mother of John Noble, Mrs. Robbins and Mrs. Adair, died in this city on Monday, aged 78 years.” She was likely buried at the Snohomish Cemetery with a headstone since moved to G.A.R. memorializing her: In Loving Memory Mrs. Janette Noble.

Janette's son John married Hannah Hanson, born in California around 1853. On their November 1873 marriage license, it states that,  “Her father’s consent being given [since] she being under eighteen years of age.” Hannah was only 15.

Hannah and John lived first in Eureka, California, and lost two infants: an unnamed daughter in April 1874 and an unnamed son in June 1876. By 1879, the couple had moved to Washington with a baby girl named Ivey Jane and, by 1880, had an adopted daughter, Carrie Hayes, 16, living with them in their home in Snohomish. The next year, they welcomed another baby girl, Annabelle.

In 1883, while expecting twins, their lives took a tragic turn. The Eye printed one announcement above the other:

“Born. NOBLE – At Snohomish City, July 28, 1883, to the wife of John Noble, a son and a daughter.”

“Died. NOBLE – At Snohomish City, August 2, 1883, of Puerperal septicemia, Hannah M., wife of John Noble, age 25 years, 8 months and 22 days.”

Hannah was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

John Noble married again the next year to Sarah Hoskinson (1853 – 1908) and they had one son: Elmer “Cy” Noble (1892 – 1918).

It is a mystery what happened to Hannah’s twins, as they are not found with their father in records of subsequent years. His Last Will and Testament, probated in 1914, only named three children: Elmer, 21; Annabelle, 32; and Ivy, 35, who was living in Elbe, Washington.

Nolles, Valentine
Born: unknown
Died: August 2, 1878, Snohomish
Newspaper Article

Eight days after his death, the Northern Star posted this story on page four:

“On Tuesday last the body of Vallentine Nolles . . . .was found in the Snohomish river, not far from the residence of Mr. Low. It is supposed that he went into the river for a bathe, as his body was naked; there were no marks of violence, and his clothes were found undisturbed on the river bank; being unable to swim and slipping off the clay bank into deep water, he was unable to got [sic] ashore.”

A coroner’s jury convened to determine the cause of death and their verdict was "from appearance of body and testimony given, that death was caused by drowning." Doctor A.C. Folsom signed the paperwork.

Vallentine Nolles, or “Dutchy” to his friends, was most likely buried at the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️  "Old Doctor"
Born: Unknown
Died: November 8, 1893, Snohomish
Newspaper Article

On November 8, 1893, a Coast Salish man, member of the local Pilchuck tribe, passed away from unknown causes. The newspaper said he was living near the "light station" and was possibly "90-100 years old."  In an unusually detailed summary, the reporter wrote:

"Undertaker Bakeman took charge of the body at the request of some of the Doctor's pioneer white friends, who had raised a purse by subscription to defray the expenses, and furnished a handsome coffin, together with the hearse and a team of four white horses. The procession from the cabin to the cemetery consisted of about 200 white and a few Indians. The Indians had intended taking the body to Tulalip for burial, but Mayor Ferguson intervened, the old Doctor having frequently requested him to see that he was buried here, near those who had befriended him and where he had always lived."

He was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️  The O'Neals
Daniel's Death Notice / Jane's Death Notice

Charles O’Neal was born January 19, 1819, to John O’Neal, Sr (1775 – 1861) and Margaret May Frederick (1784 – 1874) in Monroe, New York. He was the youngest of their six children.

Around 1855, Charles married Jane Reynolds (1818 -1895) and they lived in Warwick, New York as farmers, with five children: James (1842 – 1920), Horace (1843 -1863), Mary Ann (1846 – 1865), Daniel (1851 – 1885), and Hannah (1853 – 1885). Horace and Mary Ann both died as young adults.

From 1860 through 1882, the O’Neals were residents of Pennsylvania and then moved to the banks of the Snoqualmie River.

The youngest, Hannah, married George Walter and they had three daughters. George died in early 1885 and Hannah drowned right before Christmas of that same year. Her brother Daniel was in the boat when it capsized, but survived. He and Mrs. M. J. Hilleary “were swept into the swift current and carried . . . down the river” and rescued. (See Hannah Walter, on this list.)

Ten days after losing Hannah, the O'Neals' son, Daniel, also drowned. The newspaper said, “On New Year's Eve, Mr. O’Neal was assisting the crew Little Eagle... over the riffle at the Skykomish cut-off, which is one of the most dangerous points for navigation on the river... Mr. O’Neal who was standing on the bow, let the line go; in doing so he stepped into one of the coils... and was dragged overboard... Mr. O’Neal was an expert swimmer and could have easily swam ashore had he not been entangled in the line.”

He had invited friends, neighbors, and family to enjoy New Year’s Day at his home, but instead they spent the day searching for his body, which was found at 2 p.m. “a few feet from where it sank”. The funeral took place at Tualco (near Monroe) and the body was brought to Snohomish for burial.

Charles purchased Lot #37 in the Snohomish Cemetery in December 1886, likely retroactively for the burial of his children. By then, Charles and Jane, along with their oldest son James and his wife Sarah, were all living together in Snohomish with Hannah's orphaned daughters.

On the 12th of January 1895, Jane died of “chronic dyspepsia and general debility of old age”. Excerpts from the announcement of her death in the local paper include:

“Mrs. O’Neil, who has been sick for some time, breathed her last on Saturday morning. She and her husband... among first settlers in this valley... The interment took place Monday last, at Snohomish, the remains having been taken down by boat.”

On April 27, 1901, Charles died peacefully in his sleep, the cause simply stated, “old age”. He is buried in the Snohomish Cemetery, alongside Jane and his children.

☑️   Oberg, Louisa and John
Louisa's Headstone 

Louisa E. Adams was born in England on July 5, 1838. She married first to Charles Pink in Port Discovery, WA, but they divorced in 1879. The next year, Louisa remarried to John Oberg, also a resident of Port Discovery, and 9 years her younger.

John was born in Malmo, Sweden in 1847. He worked as a steamboat captain. In 1885 the couple was living in Snohomish County.

On Christmas Eve 1886, Louisa died of fibrous cancer. She was 48. Her headstone was discovered in the Snohomish Cemetery in 1965 and used for the headstone display on the northern half.

After the death of his wife, and the death of Capt. Charles Hudson LOW (family on this list), John Oberg moved to Alameda, CA with Charles' widow, Mary. John Oberg's will would later refer to her as his "esteemed friend", even though they were not married.

John died in Alameda of typhoid malaria at age 43. The Weekly Sun reported:

“The remains of Capt. Oberg arrived on the noon train Monday and were interred at the Union cemetery by the Masonic and K. of P. lodges of this city.”

Mrs. Oleson
Born: unknown
Died: October 1, 1890, Snohomish County

The Sun reported her death very simply, as: “Mrs. Oleson died at the residence of Mrs. Quimby, about four miles from town, last Thursday. She will be buried tomorrow.” She was most likely buried at the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️   Owen, Richard
Born: 1826, Ystradgynlais, Wales
Died: November 29, 1895, Snohomish

Richard Owen was a widower and a retired farmer when he came from Wales in 1895 to live with his daughter, Mrs. Owen Williams, in Snohomish. Sadly, his time there was short as he died by the end of the year of heart disease. The funeral was held at the Presbyterian church and the body was laid to rest in the old cemetery.

At some point, he was either reinterred or a grave marker was placed in his honor at the Woodlawn Cemetery.

☑️   Packard, Cynthia
Born: November 22, 1836, Braintree, Vermont
Died: December 12, 1875, Snohomish
Headstone

Cynthia Sarah Flint was born to Sarah A. (1812 – 1864) and Parker Flint (1810 - 1891). In 1854, the Flints moved to River Falls, Wisconsin where, on December 16, 1885, Cynthia married Myron Winslow Packard (1830 – 1907). By 1860, they had moved to Troy, Wisconsin, where they owned $600 worth of real estate. Myron was farming and they had one son, Clayton, born in 1859.

In 1870, they returned to River Falls and their family had grown substantially, to four sons and two daughters. Myron was clerking in "Burhyte's store" and owned $1,100 in real estate. They soon departed to Washington Territory, leaving one child, Daniel Dwight Packard, behind: he died in August 1870 at 9 months, and was buried at River Falls.

Five years later, in Snohomish, Cynthia passed away of “disease.” She was only 39, leaving her husband to raise the six children. The entire community felt the loss, as expressed in the newspaper:

"Her funeral was largely attended; the procession to the burying ground being the largest that ever followed the earthly remains of a fellow being from this town to Its last resting place. The scene at the grave was very impressive and will never be forgotten by any who were present. The trembling voice of prayer, the half choking voices of the choir, as they stood by the open grave . . . The grief-stricken husband and father, standing in the midst of his beloved and sadly bereaved children, the handkerchiefs raised mutely to streaming eyes, tears coursing down the furrowed and browned cheeks of stalwart manhood... She will sweetly sleep in her narrow home. The sparkling dews of heaven will fall from the evergreens and mingling with the tears of the bereaved, cause the grass and flowers to bring forth perennial green on the little mound that rests so heavily above her pulseless heart . . . May we all take the lesson to heart and be also ready when the pale messenger calls."

Cynthia Packard was buried at the Snohomish Cemetery, but, later, Myron Packard had his wife reinterred at the G.A.R. Cemetery in 1906, where he was also placed in 1907.

Packwood, Elisha
Born: July 2, 1805, Patrick County, Virginia
Died: May 27, 1876, Snohomish County

Elisha Packwood was the son of Mary Burnett (1783 – 1826) and Elisha H. Packwood (1773 – 1865), one of their fifteen children. In 1820, the Packwood family lived in Wood, Indiana.

On the 12th of February 1832, Elisha married Paulina Prothero (1816 - 1891) and they also had a large family: seven sons and four daughters, though four of the children did not survive into adulthood. The family moved to Missouri for a short time before settling in Champoeg County, Oregon in 1845. Although their time there was short lived, Elisha and Pauline are considered Oregon’s “early settlers.” Within three years, they had moved to California and, once again, early histories record the couple as “California Pioneers," where Elisha successfully raised livestock. In 1860, he reportedly owned $15,000 in real estate with another $10,000 in personal property. By 1870, they landed in Snohomish, now "early settlers" there. Here he farmed on Ebey Slough, with many of his children settling nearby.

In the spring of 1876, the Eye announced, "Mr. Elisha Packwood, an old settler in this county, a most estimable gentleman, is lying at the point of death at his home on Ebey Slough. He cannot survive many days."

A week later, the Northern Star shared the news of Elisha’s passing and included this kind description: “He was a most genial, agreeable gentleman; charitable and kind to all and liberal in his views. He was of strong intellect . . .well read . . . devoted to advanced ideas and free thought. He leaves a wife and several sons and daughter and grandchildren all living near him and all respectable, esteemed members of this community.”

Elisha was laid to rest in the Snohomish Cemetery, according to family history.

Palmer
Born: about 1885
Died: January 1894, Snohomish

The son of J.A. Palmer got lost in the woods and died of starvation and cold. He was 9 years old.

The family lived near Chain Lake and had been in Snohomish for 18 months. The boy left home on a Friday, and when he still had not returned by Sunday, the family sent out a search party. They found him dead, lying between two logs.

He was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️   The Parkers
Rosalie's Death Notice / Aaron's Death Notice

Rosa or Rosalie Parker was born in Iowa in 1859, marrying Palmer Parker when she was 19. Palmer was the son of Lucretia Inman (1828 -1902) and Aaron Parker (1823 – 1890), also on this list. Rosalie and Palmer’s first child, Ella, arrived in November 1879.

Palmer first worked as a saddler, and later as a carpenter. They had two more sons: Roy in 1881 and George in 1885. The family moved to Pleasant, Iowa, living next door to Palmer’s parents and his brother, Aaron E., his wife Zelia, and their three children. His father proved to be a very successful farmer, raising corn and grain and tending to livestock of cattle and horses. However, illness claimed his rigorous activity, so he sold his 210 acres and removed to Snohomish in 1888. He was hoping the move would strengthen his health.

In 1889, Rosalie and Palmer followed Palmer's parents to Snohomish. His father, Aaron, built four homes, one for himself and each of his children, on the east end of town. Palmer and his brother-in-law, James Harter, were leading members of the Star Shingle Company.

In August 1889, Aaron suffered what would be the first of three strokes, his second coming in June the next year, rendering him nearly helpless. The third episode, occurred two days before he died, on July 26, 1890. The newspapers were generous and complimentary calling him “a prominent citizen” and “an indulgent father and a faithful friend”. He was buried at the Snohomish Cemetery.

Less than a year later, Rosalie “was taken sick on Saturday last with inflammation” and died on January 14, 1891. She was buried at the Snohomish Cemetery.

After Rosalie’s death, Palmer married Ella Prince.

Palmer's mother, Lucretia (sometimes Lovina), died of "la grippe and old age" on December 13, 1902. The funeral was held at the home of her daughter, and interment was in the old cemetery. 

☑️  Patterson, William and son
William's Death Notice

In 1867, William Patterson entered the Royal Navy aboard the warship Excellent. Soon he'd moved on to the Warrior, then the Repulse and finally, the Tenedos, serving as the crew's shoemaker for six years. He was discharged in March 1873. William married Anna Sweatman (1859 – 1880) six years later on Whidbey Island. They had one son, William Cornelius Patterson (1879 – 1951), but sadly Anna died from complications of the birth. Anna's mother, Sarah Worsfold (1832 –1894), raised her grandson after her premature death.

On the 12th of January 1889, William married Anna Cyphers, the former wife of Michael Cyphers (1846-1896) with whom she had had four children. In 1890, Anna and William had a baby boy, but the November 20th edition of the Eye announced: “The little child of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Patterson, about three months old, died last Friday. The burial took place Sunday afternoon at Union cemetery.”

William Patterson was supporting Anna and his blended family as the proprietor of the shoe and harness shop on First Street. On February 18, 1893, he died at his home on Avenue C of inflammatory rheumatism and erysipelas, a bacterial infection of the skin. His funeral took place from the Congregational Church and his remains were taken to “their last resting place in the old cemetery,” as reported in the Eye.

In his will, dated January 11, 1893, William remembered his son from his first marriage with, “I give, bequeath and devise to my son William C. Patterson the sum of One Hundred Dollars lawful money” and to his widow, “Annie E. Patterson all of the remainder of my estate.”

☑️  Peck, Henry
Born: 1861, Germany
Died: October 3, 1890, Snohomish County
Headstone

Henry Peck immigrated from Germany. He married Ottiele Auguste Hohnke (1858 - 1898) and the couple was listed in the 1889 Washington census as living with “Gus” Peck, possibly Henry’s older brother.

In the fall of 1890, while Henry was cutting down a tree up the Pilchuck River, a short distance from the city, he was badly injured. The printed account said, “When the tree fell, it split and a part of it struck him on the shoulder, almost completely paralyzing a portion of his body and limbs. He was taken to his home, which was only a short distance from where the accident occurred, and lived until Sunday, when he died.”

The article continued, “He was well-known here as an industrious man, and had many friends . . . and leaves a wife to mourn his untimely death.” Henry's headstone still stands in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Ottiele married a second time to Fred Schafer in 1891, but died in 1898 (also on this list).

☑️  Peden, Edna
Born: 1847, Ohio
Died: July 14, 1871, Snohomish

Edna Martin married Abraham Peden in Ohio in 1868. He was the son of Margaret and Joseph Peden. By 1870, Abraham and Edna (listed as Ida in the census) lived in Snohomish where they farmed.

The following year, the Washington Standard reported her tragic death, “Mrs. [Peden] was drowned by the capsizing of a canoe in Ebey’s slough on the Snohomish. It seems she was going from her home, near Cadyville, to Mr. Howe’s place, on the Snohomish, with one of Mr. Lowe’s sons, in a canoe. In turning a bend in the slough, the canoe came in contact with a snag, capsized, and went down stream bottom up. The young man got ashore, but the body of Mrs. [Peden] was not found until Saturday, Her funeral took place last Sunday, at Cadyville.”

Edna was buried at the Snohomish Cemetery. Abraham married again to Sarah Turner in August 1896.

Read more about Edna Peden in Lost & Forgotten.

Penwell, Rebecca
Born: December 18, 1829, Shelbyville, Illinois
Died: December 30, 1893, Snohomish

Rebecca Nelson Howard was one of twelve children born to Margaret Verdin (1809 – 1888) and John Booth Howard (b. 1803). She married Silas Scott Penwell (1829 – 1896) on November 12, 1851 in Shelby County, Illinois. Rebecca and Silas had four children, Viola Ann, Anson Lorraine, Mary Unis, and Agnes. The last two did not survive a year.

During the Civil War, Silas enlisted as a private in the Kansas Cavalry in March 1864. They stayed on in Kansas through the mid-1870s, then removed to Fulton, Oregon. When a major winter storm hit the area, the Penwell's property was partially destroyed. According to the Oregonian: “Mr. S.S. Penwell, living on the old John Tice place, four miles south on the Boone ferry road, reports his large barn blown down. Four-fifths of the timber between there and town is prostrated.”

Three years later, on Tuesday, September 4, 1883, the Oregonian posted “Rebecca Penwell vs. Silas S. Penwell” under "Docket of Equity Cases," suggesting that the Penwells were divorcing. Rebecca moved to the Seattle area by 1885 and seemed to be living alone. In 1889, she was residing at the "North side of 4th, west of Frank" and listing herself in the King County Directory as the "widow" of Silas. Other records show that Silas remarried and did not die until 1896.

Rebecca passed away December 30, 1893. She had been working as a laundress, but ended up living at the Snohomish County Poor Farm, where she succumbed to cancer. Rebecca was likely buried in the county's plot at the Snohomish Cemetery.

Peterson, Charles
Born: April 13, 1869, Aurora, Illinois
Died: January 4, 1895, Snohomish

Charles Victor Peterson was the second of ten children born to Carolina Charlotta Nelson (1841 – 1929) and Isak Christian Pettersson (1843 - 1912), recent immigrants from Sweden.

In 1880, the family live in Sycamore, Illinois where their father farmed. Twelve years later, Isaac, Caroline, and nine of their children were living in King County, where Isaac worked as a carpenter and Charles as a lather.

Only two years later, in the prime of his life, Charles, age 25, fell ill with tuberculosis. He suffered for 5 months, then passed away in the County Hospital. He was buried at the Snohomish Cemetery.

When the Department of Transportation moved graves from the cemetery, it was reported that a "Mrs. Peterson" showed up and “raised hades” because they were “desecrating the dead.” She located two graves off the right-of-way. They explained she would have to pay the cost herself if she wished them moved. It seems that Charles’ remains stayed where they were.

Read more about the grave relocation project in Lost & Forgotten.

☑️  Peterson, Swanson
Born: March 19, 1836, Lyngby, Sweden
Died: November 30, 1893, Monroe
Death Notice

There is little known about Swanson Peterson's life until he was living in Snohomish County. In 1880, he was "proving up" on 160 acres of land, 10 of it tilled, which carried a value of $2,200, with livestock worth $375. His ranch was between Monroe and the City of Snohomish, an area they called Cochran Prairie.

On August 20, 1882, Sven married Emma Charlotte Larson (1858 -1897) in Snohomish County. Emma was 20 years younger than Sven but was also born in Sweden, in Westervick.

The next year, in January 1883, Sven Peterson was issued the title to his land in Snohomish.

In 1893, Sven died after a week’s illness with rheumatic fever. He was buried at the Snohomish Cemetery. Unfortunately, Sven left no will, leaving his widow to petition for it. The assigned value of his personal property had doubled since last recorded, to $750, and the real estate at $3,800.

His widow, Emma, married John Gillespie (1853 – 1919) in October 1895, but died less than two years later. With Emma’s death occurring while Sven’s will was still in the courts, the final settlement was delayed and didn’t come until 1907. By then, the value of the real estate had grown to $15,000. It was equally divided amongst his heirs, the couple's five surviving children: Hannah (Hewitt) (1883 – 1971), Maud (1885 – 1963), Amanda (1893 – 1985), Andrew (1884 – 1963), and Sven(1887 – 1968).

Read more about Emma's death in Lost & Forgotten.

Pettit, Jane
Born: August 30, 1819, Quebec, Canada
Died: November 18, 1903, Snohomish
Photo

Jane Anna Brown was the daughter of Louise Conner (1773 -1850) and Charles H. Brown (1770 - 1850), both from Canada. Some records report that Jane was born in Quebec, while others give Vermont and a few even give both as “Can/VT”. Her parents immigrated to the United States in 1821, when Jane was about two years old. They settled in Alburgh, Vermont.

Many family trees say Jane married a fellow named Lucas, but he died in 1835, when she was just 16. The details of that union are vague. In 1836, Jane married Thomas Pettit (1794 – 1870). He was 42 and had been married previously to Phebe Hazen for twenty years. Phebe had just died in 1836, when Thomas remarried the 17-year-old Jane.

The couple stayed in North Hero, Vermont throughout their marriage. In 1850, both of Janes’s parents died and her sister, Sarah, came to live with them. Over the next twenty years, Thomas worked as a wheelwright, a farmer, and a carpenter. In August 1864, they lost their son, Thomas, who was serving in the Union Army and died at Andersonville, a Confederate prisoners-of-war camp.

When Thomas, Jane’s husband, died in 1870, she began to move west. In 1880, she was living in Luana, Iowa with her son, William, who was a druggist, and by 1885 they had arrived in Snohomish. The rest of her story was well covered in her obituary, published in The Post-Intelligencer on November 20, 1903:

“Grandma Pettit Dead - Was Popular Pioneer Resident of Snohomish, and Had Reached Ripe Old Age.

"Mrs. Jane A. Pettit, familiarly known to nearly everyone in Snohomish as Grandma Pettit, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. Hutchins in this city, after a short illness. Mrs. Pettit came to Snohomish from Vermont 18 years ago, and for many years has lived in her own little home by the side of her son, H.C. Pettit, on Avenue B. She was a very strong Christian woman, highly educated and forceful in character, and in the early days of Snohomish was a great worker in all Christian lines, being practically the starter of the Methodist church.

"Mrs. Pettit was 84 years old last August, and has generally been in good health until her last sickness, which began about three weeks ago. She leaves five children – C. D. Pettit, in Vermont; W. W. Pettit, in California; Mrs. B. W. Brintnall and H. C. Pettit, in Seattle; and Mrs. A. Hutchins, in Snohomish.”

It is believed she was laid to rest in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Pfueller, Emil Henry
Born: September 21, 1893, Snohomish
Died: September 5, 1894, Snohomish

Emil Henry Pfueller was the son of Augusta “Annie” Zelma Hecker (1857 -1938) and Christian Robert Pfueller (1855 -1908), both immigrants from Germany. They arrived in the United States in 1881 with their one-year-old daughter, Ida Emma.

The family settled in Kansas City, Missouri where Robert (the father) was a cabinet maker for C.H. Pries & Co. In September 1882, their first son Robert E. was born.

In 1893, the Pfuellers removed to Snohomish and their second son, Emil Henry Pfeuller was born. He died only 11 months later of “brain disease.” He was placed in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Tragically, in 1908, Robert Pfueller committed suicide, as announced in The Daily Herald, July 6:

“The funeral of Robert Pfueller, the dairyman who killed himself Friday afternoon, by blowing his head off with dynamite, was held yesterday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Bakeman & Purdy’s chapel. Rev. W.H. Warner delivered the funeral address. The body was buried in G.A.R. cemetery. Friends of Mr. Pfueller are convinced that he was mentally deranged, as there was no other reason for his committing suicide, so far as can be learned.”

Christian Robert Pfueller is buried next to his widow, Augusta, who died thirty years later, at the G.A.R. in Snohomish.

Phelps, Mary
Born: 1862, Iowa
Died: July 20, 1895, Everett

Mary Elizabeth Foye was the daughter of Margaret Buffington (1838 – 1898) and Ariel Welcome Foye (1829 -1910). Mary’s parents removed from Iowa to Snohomish County when she was 9 years old. According to Ariel’s obituary: “because of [Ariel’s] failing health [the family] decided to come to the coast. They came to this area in 1871, settling on a splendid farm tract at Tualco, which he owned to his death and which he took up as a homestead."

Mary and her siblings grew up between Monroe and Snohomish on what they called Evergreen Farm. Mary married Franklin Phelps (1851 -1926) on September 13, 1880 at the Presbyterian Church in Seattle. He was born in New York and came to Snohomish County to farm and, in 1880, was living a stone’s throw from the Foye family.

Mary and Franklin never had children, as she suffered with uterine fibroids, which eventually caused her demise. From her death announcement in the newspaper:

“Mrs. F.E. Phelps of Tualco died at the Everett Hospital on Saturday. For several years she has been suffering from a tumor. Over exertion while out berrying on Friday caused hemorrhage of the tumor. She was taken to the hospital for treatment, but her life could not be saved. The funeral took place from the Congregational church at Snohomish on Sunday, under the auspices of Golden Rod Chapter, Eastern Star, of which order she was a member.”

Although she was buried at the Snohomish Cemetery, Mary is now remembered with a marker at the GAR, shared with her husband.

Franklin remarried in 1899.

☑️  Pike, George
Born: unknown
Died: June 1, 1890, Snohomish

The June 1890 headline in The Eye newspaper was: “Within a week Snohomish has been the scene of three fatal accidents.” First, it was “Redmond, the aeronaut” who died when his hot-air balloon struck a grove of tall cedars and he jumped but missed the tree limb he aimed for and fell over 100 feet; then Frank Rose, a brakeman, was crushed by the morning train after slipping and falling across the track (his body shipped to his parents in Missouri); and lastly, George Pike.

The only biographical information available for George Pike is from the same article. It was reported that he worked as a logger for Mann Brothers lumber camp and that he was killed by a log coming down a chute, striking him while in the act of loosening another log which had become stuck in the chute. It "crushed him to death instantly/" His remains were brought to Snohomish and interred in the cemetery.

☑️  The Pilchucks
Julia's Headstone / Jack's Obituary

The Pilchucks were a group of people within the Snohomish Tribe who lived on the Pilchuck River. White settlers applied the name Pilchuck to native people who continued to live in this vicinity post-colonization.

Pilchuck Julia, her husband Jack, son Peter, and their extended family lived north of town, along the river, on acreage gifted to her by Emory Ferguson. To white residents of the town, Julia and Pilchuck Jack, were the stars of a romanticized, tongue-in-cheek vision of Coast Salish life, referred to as the “king and queen” of a “vanishing race.”

Jack worked as a logger and died in November 1903 after being struck by a train. His son Peter passed away in February 1907, after falling from the railroad bridge above the Snohomish River. He was survived by his pregnant wife, Hattie, two daughters, and two sons. (See Ray Jack, on this list.)

Julia passed away from smallpox in 1923, the final burial in the Snohomish Cemetery. The trio were reportedly moved to the G.A.R. Cemetery in 1947 during road construction. 

Other Coast Salish individuals buried in the Snohomish Cemetery were also given the last name Pilchuck. Charlie (Salah Gue) Pilchuck died in January 1891. He was 47, a laborer, and married to Jennie, with five children. He was found "dead by the roadside north of the city" by a farmer named White." Another Charles Pilchuck, whose native name was Yuck-o-lad-oos, was the maternal grandfather of Sarah Sheldon. She told interviewers in 1974 that he had been buried "in the old Snohomish Cemetery at Snohomish City."

☑️  Queckeme, Jerry
Born: 1849
Died: January 16, 1905, Snohomish
Funeral Record

Jerry Queckeme was also known as Pilchuck Jerry.  His death notice read, “Pilchuck Jerry died at his home below here on the Stillaguamish river Monday evening after a lingering illness of about two weeks. Jerry lived in this vicinity thirty years and his death is regretted by all who knew him. During the Indian troubles he was a constant friend of the whites. He leaves a widow, Mary and a son, Johnnie.”

In the funeral record for Jerry, it indicates he died from pneumonia and was interred at the “Old Cemetery” in a rosewood casket.

His widow, Mary, is included in these biographies as Mary St. Ledger, as well as his son Johnnie Jerry.

Richardson, Alice
Born: November 1864, Washington Territory
Died: March 9, 1883, Snohomish

Alice Richardson was born in Washington Territory in November 1864 to parents William and Martha Richardson. The census of Washington Territory enumerated in April 1881 showed Alice as a 17-year-old black woman living in King County, apparently by herself. The Snohomish Eye referred to a Mrs. M.E. Richardson, perhaps Alice's mother, as a black woman in an article about 1883.

Alice died on March 9, 1883 in Snohomish City of unknown causes. Little else is known about her life.

Roberts, Edward
Born: 1863, Washington Territory
Died: July 4, 1883, Snohomish

Edward “Eddy” Roberts was son of Joseph Benson Roberts and Mary (Adu-Litsa), and he grew up on his father’s expansive farm, four miles east of town. His father had owned a large logging operation before retiring to “Roberts Ranch,” one of the finest farms in the Puget Sound, known for its cattle, sheep, hogs, and especially its horses.

In 1883, Eddy brought one of the family’s “spirited” colts to the racetrack east of Blackmans Lake, hoping to win the annual Fourth of July race. Unfortunately he was gravely injured the race and was rushed to Seattle to seek surgical aid. Doctors could not save him. Eddy died the next day at noon. His body was returned by steamer, and buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Read more about Eddy Roberts in Lost & Forgotten.

☑️  Robins, Albert
Born: 1836
Died: July 5, 1875, Snohomish
Headstone

On his grave marker, Albert Robins is a “Native of Bloomingdale New York” while other reports indicate he was from Indiana. Both might be true, but finding evidence has been challenging. What can be proven about the life of Albert Robins is the puzzling way he ended it.

On the 4th of July 1875, Albert, a lumberman, summoned his friends to join him at a bar to share drinks and time, but at the end of the night he announced he intended to commit suicide. He kept his word.

By the next morning, Albert had shot himself. Two newspaper articles explain:

“Snohomish City, July 6. It is reported here that Albert Robbins of the Edry house, on this river, shot and killed himself this morning. Mr. Ross, the Coroner, has gone down to hold an inquest on the body. Particulars not known yet.”

Two weeks later, the Puget Sound Dispatch did a follow up:

“Suicide. – Robbins, who committed suicide at the Libby House on Snohomish River, made his will just before committing the fatal deed, giving his effects to Robt. Young and Frank Dolan. He called his friends to the bar and after drinking went into his room telling them he intended to kill himself and shot himself in the head. Cause –whiskey on the brain.”

Even more interesting was his last will and testament, evidently written on the day of his death. The will began, “In view of the certainty of Death and the uncertainty of life... I give, bequeath and devise all my Estate, both real and Personal... after my debts and funeral expenses are paid (reserving the sum of Fifty Dollars) to Frank Dolan and Robert Young – the Fifty Dollars reserved to be paid to Miss Ella Giddings for her wedding suit.”

This begs the question: who was Ella Giddings? Ellenora was the daughter of Anna Tu-Al-Co York (1845 – 1893) and Samuel Hitt Giddings (1826 – 1912). Three weeks after Albert’s suicide, Ellenora Giddings (1861 – 1916) married Thomas Adams, a witness to the will, in Snohomish.

Albert’s final resting place is in the Snohomish Pioneer Cemetery. His headstone was “discovered” in 1978, and placed in the northern half, where it stands today.

Ross, Hugh and Guy
Hugh's Obituary

Hugh Ross was the son of Jane McKay (1810 – 1893) and Alexander Ross (1811 – 1872), both born in Scotland and arrived to New Brunswick, Canada in 1836. They raised a family of nine children, with Hugh born on February 22, 1838.

Hugh grew up on the family farm in St. James, New Brunswick until he removed to the United States in 1864 He was living in Snohomish in 1871 where he met and married Mae Wellman (1857 – 1937) in May 1876. They had four sons: Guy (1876 – 1876), Emory (1878 – 1966), Ray (1879 – 1953), and Hugh (1880 – 1947). They lost their first child when he was only 1 month old.

The Rosses stayed in Washington Territory as Hugh’s business was in lumber, but they moved around from town to town. From Snohomish, they went to Port Gamble for several years, then to Skamokawa in 1885. When Hugh died at the age of 57 in July 1894, he was in a hospital in Seattle battling typhoid fever.

It is believed that Hugh was laid to rest in the Snohomish Cemetery as his obituary said "body brought back here for burial"and the funeral services were held at the Congregational Church. He was one of the original Snohomish Cemetery Association members - its initial president and also county coroner for a time. He owned five shares of stock in the Cemetery Association.

His headstone was later moved to the G.A.R.

Roussin, Howell
Born: 1860, California
Died: November 15, 1877, Lowell, WA

Howell Roussin was the only child of Emma Chilitha Packwood (1841 – 1915) and Sylvester Scott Roussin (1840 – 1868). His parents married in 1859 in Placer County, California, but they must have divorced fairly soon after Howell was born. On the 25th of November 1867, “Chiletha Emma Rousine” married Marcellus Barnettn (1841 -1917) in Union Oregon. Perhaps a contributing factor: in June 1866, Sylvester Roussin was charged with robbery in Placer County. He died there the next year.

Howell moved with his mother and stepfather to Snohomish County and by 1869, he had a baby sister named Ida. Two years later, Ida died (see earlier entry under Ida Barnett).

Even as a young man, Howell was well respected and conducting his life in an exemplary fashion, making the Honor Roll in 1876. When he died of diphtheria in 1877, The Olive Leaf Lodge posted in the Northern Star, “The death of Brother Roussin is a loss to the Order of Good Templars, and to this Lodge in particular, and that we deeply feel and mourn his untimely death.”

It is most likely that he was laid to rest in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Ruebenack, William and Baby Boy

William Ruebenack was born in 1891 and died on December 9, 1894. A baby brother was born the day after William’s death, yet died the very same day.

Their parents, Julia Piepert (1854 – 1940) and Frederick Hermann Ruebenack (1854 – 1931) were born in Germany. They both immigrated to the United States in 1880 and were married in February 1887 in Jacksonville, Florida. Their first child, Frederick, was born on December 19, 1887. William was born three years later, just before the Ruebenacks removed to Snohomish.

On December 11, 1894, The Tribune posted, “It is seldom that we are called upon to record a sadder bereavement and sorrow than that which has come to Mr. H. Reubenack. Leaving for a few moments the bedside of his sick wife, who was hovering between life and death, he yesterday . . . afternoon followed to its last resting place a little casket containing two of his children under four years of age. Kind friends and a sympathizing community tender to him their sincere sympathy in this time of deep affliction and anxiety. Mrs. Reubenack is resting very quietly this morning, and hope of her recovery has revived.”

Both boys are likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Julia and Herman divorced in 1911, as the Daily Herald reported: “A decree of divorce has been granted F. H. Rubenack severing the ties that bound him to Julia Rubenack. They were married in 1887 and have no minor children. The husband alleged cruelty and failure to treat him right.”

☑️  The Schafers
Ottilie's Headstone / Victor & Freddey's Headstone

Ottilie Auguste Hohnke was the daughter of Wilhelmine Wolf and Christian Friedrich Huhlnke, born on December 20, 1856 in Posen, Germany. In 1885, Ottilie departed from Bremen, Germany, sailed by way of Southampton, England aboard the ‘Werra’ and arrived in New York.

She married Henry Pech (1861 -1890), who also immigrated from Germany (on this list under Peck). After Henry’s death, Ottiele married Fred Schaefer, another German immigrant, in June 1891 and the couple had four sons: John, Freddey, Edward, and Victor.

Freddey was born on May 21, 1894 and died three weeks later of pneumonia. He was buried at the Snohomish Cemetery.

It was her last birth, of Victor, that ultimately caused Ottilie's demise, from pulmonary hemmorhage, in December 1898. Her death notice said, “Since the birth of the latter, Mrs. Shafer never rallied and death claimed her last Friday. She died after an illness of several weeks. The funeral was held at the residence Sunday afternoon, Dec. 25, Rev. Eberling officiating, and the body was laid to rest in Union cemetery.”

Her headstone reads, “Hopes once bright are now departed, since mother's numbered among the dead."

Another of Ottilie and Fred Schafer’s sons were buried beside her: Victor. He died from convulsions at just four months old (his headstone: "Gone to be with mother") on June 5, 1899. 

☑️   Scotney, Charles
Born: 1836, Robbinston, Maine
Died: May 29, 1899, Snohomish

Charles F. Scotney was the son of Elizabeth Hickey (1811 -1897) and Frances Scotney (1815 – 1862). Much of his biography can be attributed to the detailed account of his life written in his obituary in June 1899: “He spent his boyhood at his native home, coming west to California in 1850, where in partnership with Mr. Sullivan of Minneapolis, he spent seven years in the gold fields, returning home in 1857 well fixed financially.”

In 1867 he met and married Catherine Ellen Smith (1845 – 1928). They had four children and arrived in Snohomish in 1875. Charles “entered into the logging and timber business extensively and as his early training had been in ship building, gave much attention to... the construction of vessels.”

He and Catherine had two more children and was described as a “kind and attentive husband and a loving and affectionate father, ever indulgent with his children and solicitous for their happiness.”

In 1891, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer published:

"Some years ago, Charles Scotney, a hard-working poor man, came to Snohomish. He had then a large family of small children to support and but little more than his bare hands to do it with. He went to work digging ship knees, contract work, etc. Soon for $100, then considered a big price, he bought a Front Street lot, built him a home, raised and educated his children in good shape, and well supported his family by his labor. He acquired other valuable property. Last winter he sold to J. Otten & Co., merchants here, this Front Street home lot for $10,000 cash. He reserved all his buildings and improvements, and moved everything movable away onto other land near by. This shows what hard work and the growth of the country can do for even a poor working man with a large family."

In early 1899, Charles became ill with gastritis and after five months, died from “Catarrh of the stomach”. He was considered a county pioneer and was well liked. His funeral held at the Congregational Church on May 31st, “was largely attended”. His “interment, at his own request, was made at the Union cemetery.”

☑️  The Shaws
Headstone 

The Shaw family lost three of its young men to "the fever."

The first was Alexander Shaw, the son of Clara Maud Shaw (1866–1938) and George O. Shaw (1864 – 1904). [Shaw was Clara’s maiden name and her married name.] Clara was the sister of Frank Gordon Shaw (1873 – 1899), and the daughter of Elsie and Alexander Shaw (1833 – 1898).

Young Alexander was born in in New Brunswick, the middle child, having an older brother, Linn, and a younger sister, Beulah. His family had just come to Snohomish six weeks before Alexander died from typhoid fever on November 14, 1898. He was only 7 years old. He was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

His grandfather and namesake, Alexander Shaw, born April 1833 in New Brunswick, Canada, had been engaged in milling and mining as a young man. He married Elsie Giberson in June 1861 and they raised many children.

He passed away less than a month after his grandson, on December 5, 1898. Alexander’s funeral was held at the Congregational Church and “the body was laid to rest in the old Cemetery, beside the body of his grandson.”

In his obituary, the editor wrote “Death claimed Mr. Alexander Shaw, after an illness of about six weeks. When the fever became prevalent here some two months ago, the family of Mr. Shaw... [was] particularly unfortunate... three weeks ago his little namesake, Alexander Shaw, died. From that time on Mr. Shaw grew weaker... until death claimed him. Mr. Shaw came to Snohomish in 1893, following his oldest son, George, who had been here a number of years. When he came he brought his family with the exception of two daughters who had married at the old home. Last spring he went back to Lower Wakefield, N. B. and persuaded the other two daughters with their families, to come to Snohomish with him.”

At one time, seven family members were suffering with the illness. After his passing, there was a second unknown grandchild who died, and the last victim was his son, Frank Shaw.

Frank died on February 7, 1899. In the posting of his obituary, the Tribune printed a detailed history of this young man’s life:

“Frank Gordon Shaw was born in New Brunswick, in March 1873. He spent his youth and early manhood in his native town, working with his father in his lumber mill. In 1894 he came to Snohomish, joining some of his brothers who preceded him west. He immediately took up the express business of his father, relieving him much of the heavy work, and burden of the support of the family. His business increased in volume considerably, and his brother-in-law, G.O. Shaw, has been assisting him. His death is the fourth in the family in less than that many months, two little nephews and his father having succumbed to the dreaded fever. He leaves a grief-stricken mother, four brothers, Geo. W., Donald, Colby and Lee; five sisters, Mrs. Maria Nevers, Mrs. Clara Shaw, Mrs. Mame Cooper, Misses Ruth and Iona Shaw, besides a host of friends to mourn his loss.Almost his last words were 'I'm ready to die, but I can't leave mother." In his death the community loses a valuable citizen, and the heartfelt sympathy of the entire city is extended to the grief-stricken family. The funeral was held at the home this afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. Winchester officiating, and the body was laid to rest in Union cemetery.”

Shone, Susie
Born: September 2, 1872, Snohomish
Died: March 9, 1877, Snohomish

Susie Shone was born to Edward and Ella (Light) Shone, and she died in Snohomish City on March 9, 1877, at the age of 4. She suffered from acute bronchitis.

Her father, Edward, was born in Wales in 1843 and her mother, Ella, was born in Iowa in 1853 and both died in California around 1911. Edward and Ella moved to Snohomish sometime before April 1871, when the territorial census was enumerated. Edward and his brother were in the hotel business.

Edward and Ella welcomed another daughter, Corabelle, two months after Susie's death.

☑️  The Sinclairs
Woodbury's Headstone / Clarence's Funeral Record

Woodbury Sinclair, a native of Kenduskeag, Maine born August 4, 1826, died unexpectedly in June of 1872. He left a widow, Mary Low, as well as two young children, Clarence and Mabel. He was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery, alongside his first son Alvin, for whom the burial ground was founded.

Clarence died in a tragic accident at age 38 and his body was shipped to Snohomish for burial in the family plot. Twenty years later, his mother, Mary Low, joined the family. 

Read more about the Sinclair family in Lost & Forgotten.

Smith, Johnnie
Born: November 29, 1883, Little Falls, Minnesota
Died: July 28, 1888, Snohomish
Headstone

Johnnie Smith was born in Little Falls, Minnesota to John P. and Eliza (Young) Smith, and died in Snohomish on July 28, 1888. He was 4 years old.

His father was born in August 1852, his mother in November 1858, and there was another son, Clayton, in July 1887, according to the 1890 census. The family came to Snohomish in 1888 where John worked as a butcher under the business name Smith & Sutton. 

John wrote a sweet poem in mourning for his son:

"Thou art gone sweet babe, to an early tomb, As a rose bud is plucked ere it opens to bloom; Thou art gone, dear babe, thou art gone to heaven, As a dew drop, haled from its earthly leaven. Ah! Yes; -thou art gone to thy home in the skies where the tears, dear child shall be wiped from thin eyes, Where thine innocent spirit shall blosom in bliss - In a world far brighter and better than this. Ah! beautiful babe; may thy heart’s pure love Expand like the rose,in those realms above; May the green turf be light o’er thy innocent breast. God love thee, sweet Johnie; O sweet be thy rest. As the praise which hath passed from an angel’s tongue, As a hymn which a spirit in heaven has sung, As a cloud dissolves in a boundless blue sky, As the tears which hath fallen from thy grieved mother’s eyes. As the star lost in light on the brow of the morning As a wild flower that fades while the forest adorning As a snow flake just melted away in the river, Thou art gone lovely boy, thou art gone for ever and ever."

The family relocated to Ketchikan, Alaska by 1900 following John, now an attorney, who had scouted it first in 1897.

Smith, Lewis
Born: 1826, New York
Died: March 9, 1876, Snohomish

Lewis P. Smith was born in New York in about 1826 and died in Snohomish at age 51 on March 9, 1876.

He was a gold miner who previously lived in Sonoma County, California, before moving to Snohomish some years before his death.

The newspaper said, “He was a kind hearted man, who never was known to withhold his services when sickness or distress overtook any of his neighbors.” Lewis lived on a ranch he owned just north of town and was planning on building a residence on a lot closer to First Street.

“He had been in poor health for years, but none expected his end was so near.”

Smith, Bertie
Born: July 1874, Snohomish
Died: November 4, 1877, Snohomish
Headstone

Bertie Smith was the 3-year old son of George and Sarah Smith. He died at the family home on the Snohomish River during the region's deadly diphtheria epidemic. Little else is known about baby Bertie.

☑️  Smith, Minnie
Born:  unknown
Died: February 2, 1890, Snohomish
Death Notice

Minnie E. Smith died from consumption on February 2, 1890, at the home of Dan Cook. Neither her age, her birthplace (possibly San Francisco), nor the names of her parents are known. It is known that she was interred at the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️  Sneath, George
Born:  Fall 1856, England
Died: August 20, 1883, Snohomish
Headstone

Reverend George Sneath, one of the first Presbyterian ministers in Washington, died suddenly in Snohomish at the age of 26. His death was unexpected and deeply felt throughout the region.

In the summer before his death, Sneath had been recovering from a case of scarlet fever and spending considerable time in Snohomish, in part due to his engagement to the niece of Mrs. John Harvey, whose family he lodged with. According to The Eye, his recovery took a turn for the worse and “he choked to death on phlegm in his throat.”

His funeral was held in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Read more about George Sneath in Lost & Forgotten.

☑️  St. Ledger, Mary
Born: about 1841, Washington Territory
Died: March 1, 1913, Granite Falls

Mary Quackiline St. Ledger died on March 1, 1913, in Granite Falls, Washington. She was 72, a daughter of the well-known Kanim family, and the cause of death was given as "ptomaine poisoning."

Mary was married to Martin St. Ledger in Snohomish in October 1907, and at the time she died she was living with him in Sultan City. Her husband and a son by a previous marriage, Johnnie Jerry, survived her.

She was buried by Bakeman & Purdy, with a funeral service in their chapel. (She had been married six years prior by Bakeman, as officiant.) The service was quite expensive—$247—and paid by Pilchuck Julia and Arthur Blackman. Two native attendees of her funeral were arrested for drinking after the funeral.

She was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Read more about Mary St. Ledger in Lost & Forgotten.

Stevens, Jerome
Born: 1868, Washington Territory
Died: November 25, 1882, Snohomish
Death Notice

Jerome Stevens was born to Winslow and Harriet (Berry) Stevens. He died of cerebrospinal meningitis on November 25, 1882. He was 15, and was their youngest son.

A few days before Jerome died he was wrestling with a companion and suffered a severe strain, but he did not tell anyone. He went hunting during a rain storm on Wednesday, November 22: “The next morning he complained of being unwell, and before noon his mind was wandering.” A doctor who was called assumed it might be typhoid, but “upon his arrival the doctor saw that there was but little hope of the boy’s recovery.” Jerome died on Saturday, November 25 and his funeral took place on Monday.

“'Rome’ was a general favorite with all and his sudden and unexpected death has cast a shadow of gloom over the community.”

He was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery. His father Winslow purchased a plot retroactively in 1887.

Stevens, Alfred
Born: August 3, 1890, unknown
Died: June 8, 1893, Snohomish
Headstone

Alfred A. Stevens was only two years old when he died in Snohomish on June 8, 1893.

Alfred was a son of William G Stevens (1860-1937) and Elizabeth Witherill (1859-1950). The cause of death was tubercular meningitis.

He was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️  Stewart, William P.
Born: about 1860, Canada
Died: March 8, 1886, at sea
Headstone

William Stewart, a 26-year-old native of Canada, had spent almost two years working aboard the steamer Nellie under the direction of Captain Charles Low. He was responsible for maintaining the fuel, water, and fire of the steam engine.

On March 8, 1886, while docked at Stinson’s Landing, just two miles upriver from Snohomish, a terrible accident scalded Stewart and the crew rushed to Seattle for medical help. Stewart died just before their arrival at 8:30 p.m.

His body was prepared for burial in Seattle. A last-minute telegram requested that Stewart’s body be sent back to Snohomish City and he was buried in the old cemetery. Stewart was later reinterred to the G.A.R. Cemetery at the request of the Masonic Lodge.

Read more about William Stewart in Lost & Forgotten.

☑️  The Stingleys

George Stingley was born in California in about 1868 to W.F. Stingley and Nancy Myler, and died of measles in Snohomish County on June 28, 1888. He was 20 years old. He was taken to the hospital at Seattle about two weeks before he died, after having had a relapse of the measles. He was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

George was the younger brother of William Stingley. William was born in 1858 and died of spastic spinal paralysis in Bothell on September 27, 1908. He was 50 and worked as a laborer. William married Lucy Rodgers in about 1878. The couple had three children, Leroy, Sarah, and Raymond, who predeceased him. George's funeral took place on September 29 and he was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery, beside his brother and son.

Raymond was 6-years-old when he died on January 2, 1889, of acute rheumatic fever.

George's wife and Raymond's mother, Lucy Belle (Rodgers), was born in Tennessee on November 14, 1857. Her father was Wiley Rodgers and her mother was Mary Wallace, both of Lowden, Tennessee. Lucy died just three months after her husband, on December 30, 1908, of cancer of the uterus. A funeral took place on December 31, and she was buried at the “old Union Cemetery."

The family was moved to the G.A.R. during the 1947 road construction.

Stinson, Christiana and George
George's Headstone

Christiana Stewart was born in Maine in 1839 and died in Snohomish on November 5, 1893. She was about 54 years old and was reportedly “bedridden with paralysis for a number of months.”

Christiana married Ulmer Stinson in Maine in August 1857 and they moved to Snohomish sometime between 1880 and 1883. The couple had three children, sons George E. and Merritt, and daughter Charlotte, and they lived at the northwest corner of Avenue B and Third Street.

Son George Edgar was born in Clinton, Maine in 1857 and also died in Snohomish on November 25, 1895, at the age of 37. Stinson was a logger who worked at his father's logging camp, Stinson & Cyphers. He died a few days after falling ill, and the cause of death was a fatty degeneration of the heart.

Both were likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

Swafford, James and Melissa
Melissa's Obituary

James Swafford served as a probate judge and postmaster in Snohomish County. He was born in Wayne County, Indiana, in 1814 and died in Snohomish on November 13, 1891. He was 77.

He married Melissa L. Hurst, born in Virginia in 1811. They lived in New Boston and had one son, Horace. In 1850, when the California gold rush was at its height, he headed west. He returned east after only two years, then the family packed up and moved to the Pacific Northwest. James headed a group “consisting of about sixty people, forming twelve families. They settled in the Willamette valley.” They arrived in October, and he purchased a farm.

Eight years later they moved to Portland and after three more moves settled in Snohomish in 1883.

“During the time Judge Swafford lived in this county he has held many public positions of trust. For a number of years he was probate judge and justice of the peace. On April 1 he was appointed postmaster of this city which position he filled up to the time of his death.”

His wife Melissa had suffered a stroke in October 1881 that left her partially paralyzed, and then another in February 1885 that left her unable to walk or feed herself. She died in June 1890 after another stroke from which she never recovered.

Melissa was a milliner and dressmaker until she married James in 1842. After moving to Portland she was a member of the Crusade Band during the “great temperance agitation,” and “with the rest of the crusaders [she] was locked up in the city jail.” Melissa’s name was “placed upon the records of the W.C.T.U. (Women’s Christian Temperance Union) as one of the heroic founders of their order.”

After her stroke, the obituary described, “For over five years she has been the most helpless object in Snohomish county. During the past eight years and over, her husband, ever since her first attack, has dressed and undressed her and cared for her every day, with greater care and closer attention than any mother has given to the infant at her breast.”

James “says that he thinks there never was a better woman than his wife.”

On October 15, 1891 James was struck by paralysis and died a month later. He was likely buried beside his wife in the Snohomish Cemetery. His son Horace Madison Swafford (1849-1911) survived him.

Swett, Fred
Born: 1875, Snohomish
Died: February 24, 1877, Snohomish

Fred Burnham Swett, aged 16 months, died in Snohomish City on February 24, 1877. He was the son of John Holmes (1841-1928) and Martha (Burnham) Swett (1843-1927). Both parents were born in Maine and the family came to Snohomish in the mid-1870s.

The previous summer John Swett had a leg amputated after it was crushed in logging accident. The newspaper said,

"The parents of little Freddie have our deepest sympathy.  It seems as if misfortunes never come singly.  Last summer Mr S received several physical injuries that came near crippling him for life, and now before he is recovered from those injuries he is called upon to mourn the loss of their bright, active little boy." 

The couple had two more boys after their loss of Freddie.

☑️  The Templers
Newspaper Article

Albert Cornelius Templer and two of his six children, sons Frank and Howard, died after their house caught fire and burned to the ground on December 23, 1890. Albert was a farmer, 37. Frank was 4, and Howard 2.

That day Albert, a laborer, brough some wet explosive powder home and put it under the stove to dry. “It is supposed that a spark from the stove fell into the box – at any rate there was a flash, and in an instant the room was in flames.”

Albert escaped with his youngest child, then went back for his two other boys, "but the terrible heat was beyond human endurance and he was forced out again.” Their bodies were found after the fire was put out. Albert was severely burned, and died the next day.

He had been a resident of Snohomish for about two years and was known as a quiet, steady, hardworking man. The family house and their belongings were a total loss.

The boys were buried in a shared casket in the Snohomish Cemetery, as was their father.

Albert was also known as Charles Alvin Templer. He and his wife, Electa Lydia Robinson, came to Washington from Iowa in about 1883. Electa died in 1927.

☑️  Thomas, George and Anna
Headstone

George Thomas’s birth date is uncertain. According to various census records, he was born in Wales between 1828-1831. He was living with his wife Anna in Whatcom County, in 1880, then in Skagit County in 1885, and Snohomish County in 1889.

He was accidentally killed in Anacortes on March 22, 1891 while horseback riding with a neighbor. Thomas was "galloping rapidly up the beach [when] his horse threw him violently off, inflicting injuries from which he died." He was well-known in Snohomish, where he lived on the Marsh, south of the city, but he had moved back to Anacortes a few months before he died.

Anna Thomas died March 29, 1898 at age 77. The cause of death was general debility and old age.

Both were buried in the Snohomish Cemetery, in the southern half, beneath a headstone with the Welsh phrase that said, "The end after all our doings is death."

Tolan, Lucy
Born: June 16, 1883, St. Peter, Minnesota
Died: August 14, 1897, Snohomish

Lucy Elizabeth Tolan was born in St. Peter, Minnesota, on June 16, 1883, to Edward and Helen (Colby) Tolan. The family lived in Craddock's Addition (3rd ward), and she died of tuberculosis there on August 14, 1897. Lucy was 14 years old.

Her father was a mason, born in Pennsylvania, and her mother was born in New York state. They came to Snohomish in 1891. Lucy was survived by her parents and four brothers. She was the youngest of the children.

Trask, Oscar
Born: about 1858, unknown
Died: January 4, 1891, Snohomish
Newspaper Article

Oscar E. Trask, a 33-year-old logger, was shot and killed by Dave Montgomery near the Bakeman Farm east of Snohomish, on January 4, 1891. The two had been in a fight a few days earlier when Trask assaulted Montgomery with a slingshot. The fatal altercation began after Trask climbed over a fence and came after Montgomery.

At Montgomery’s trial the following June, witnesses testified that “Trask was a man of bed reputation, frequently being into trouble and seeking notoriety,” who had threatened Montgomery’s life previously.

Just before the shooting, “Trask put his right hand in his hip pocket, and started for [Montgomery], saying, "I have you now, and I have partly fixed you, and now I will finish you." Montgomery testified. Thinking Trask was reaching for a revolver, he pulled one of his own and shot Trask five times. After the third shot, Trask said, “For God’s sake, don’t shoot any more.” Montgomery fired a fourth shot, and when Trask was down, fired again.

Montgomery went back to town and gave himself up. Trask died at about 6 p.m. that evening.

Trask was buried on January 8. “Attendance was very large and the funeral was one of the largest ever seen held in Snohomish. The casket was covered with flowers and wreaths, which were placed there by friends. Poor Trask!”

Udell, Alzina
Born: unknown
Died: November 12, 1877, Park Place (Monroe), WA

Alzina Udell, who was married to George Udell, died at Park Place (now called Monroe) on November 12, 1877.

Her husband, George Udell (1828-1911), remarried a year and a half later, on March 22, 1879, to Frezeline Richardsen (1857-1896). They raised four children. One of them, Mose Leonard Udell, was born in January 1877, before Alzina died, though he was adopted later by Frezeline.

No other records were found regarding Alzina or her history. She was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery, as Monroe did not yet have a cemetery.

Unknown #1
Born: about 1859
Died: Summer 1899, Snohomish
Death Return

The body of a man, about 40 years old, was found dead in the woods near Snohomish on February 9, 1900. He had been dead about six months and the coroner guessed he was a laborer. He was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️  Unknown  #2
Born: October 12, 1903, unknown
Died: January 7, 1910, Snohomish
Headstone

The headstone of a 6 year old female child sits broken in the Snohomish Cemetery. Details of the name are missing. 

☑️  Unknown #3
Born: about 1861
Died: Summer 1901, Snohomish
Death Return

The body of a man, about 40 years old and missing a finger on his left hand, was found drowned in a ditch near Snohomish. It was reported in the Herald in August 1901. Coroner Bakeman noted the contributing cause was "probably whisky" and the place of interment "old cemetery Snohomish."

Utchke, Jimmy
Born: unknown
Died: February 13, 1890, Snohomish

A Native American man who had been living at "Pillchuck Jerry’s rancheria" took his own life on February 13, 1890. “Utchke” Jimmy had been suffering from lung trouble and become despondent. “He placed the muzzle of a shot gun to his breast and pulled the trigger with his toe.” He was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️  Valparaso
Born: 1890
Died: June 9, 1890, Snohomish

An infant child of a Mrs. Valparaso was buried in Snohomish on June 9, 1890. No further information about the mother or her family was found.

The Vances
Death Notice 

Bessie, Isabel, and Willie G. Vance, the children of James V. and Annie Vance, all died within a week of each other during the diphtheria epidemic in January 1877.

Bessie, age 6, was the first to die on January 4; Isabel, 4, died on January 10; and Willie, 3, died the same day. They were the couple’s only children.

James, a farmer, was born in Ireland on July 12, 1839, and died in Elbe, Washington on July 2, 1926, at the age of 86. Annie (Cunningham) was also born in Ireland, and died in Everett on May 18, 1918, at age 67.

The children were reinterred to Woodlawn Cemetery on July 24, 1893.

Vivian, George
Born: 1847, Boston, Massachusetts
Died: August 31, 1893, Snohomish

George Vivian was born in Boston in about 1847. He appeared in the territorial censuses in Snohomish for 1883 and 1889, where he was described as a logger born in Massachusetts. In March 1886, Vivian was one of three men held on federal conspiracy charges, accused of the "forcible expulsion of Chinese from Snohomish." He was indicted in June 1886 and remained in custody for some time.

In the previous year, in April 1885, Vivian was working as a bartender at Ed Elwell’s saloon in Snohomish when, in a “drunken row… a bad man from Texas” named John Thompson stabbed him in the arm. Thompson was arrested but Vivian declined to prosecute.

He died at the County Poor Farm in Snohomish on August 31, 1893. He was 46 and the cause of death was a “disease of the right artery.”

The Wales
Rosa's Death Notice 

Jane Cragersite was born in Washington Territory in about 1850. She was a Coast Salish native, her parents unknown. In the 1870 census, she is living with a white man, William Henry Wale, a carpenter from New Jersey 17 years her senior. They had two children: Laura, born in about 1867, and Walter H., born in about December 1869. 

Jane married William on March 16, 1878. In the prior year, they'd lost two of their youngest: Rosa Wale, age 3, died in Snohomish City on July 5, 1877, followed by an unnamed infant on September 9, 1877. 

Jane herself died on August 10, 1878, only five months after her marriages. She was 28. The Wales were all likely interred at the Snohomish Cemetery.

William was living in Seattle by 1880 and the surviving children went to live with the Williams family.

☑️  Walter, George and Hannah
Death Notice

George W. Walter was born to George H. (1830-1921) and Jane A. (Britton) Walter (1834-1883) around 1853. George married Hannah J. O’Neal, born in New York in 1853, and the couple had three daughters: Julia A. “Lulu” (1875-1958), Lydia J. (1879-1947), and Martha (about 1882- ). George, Hannah and the girls were all born in Pennsylvania. George is listed on the census as a farmer.

The family moved to Snohomish County sometime before 1884, accompanied by Hannah's brother. George died of consumption at his home on January 15, 1885. He was 32, and described in an obituary as “one of the pioneer settlers on the big burn east of Snohomish City.” He was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

His widow, Hannah, died in canoe accident on the Snohomish River later that year, as she, her brother, and two others were returning home after a holiday shopping trip. On December 19, 1885, they were about two miles above Snohomish, near Fiddler’s Bluff, when the canoe hit a snag. Hannah and another woman, startled, stood up and upset the boat. All four were thrown into the river and swept downstream by the current. Mrs. J. Hillery “was carried some distance by the undercurrent and caught hold of something she thought was a log, but which proved to be the canoe, up side down.” Hannah’s brother, Daniel O’Neal, helped her to a log, “from which she was rescued in almost lifeless condition.” Then he tried to save Hannah, “but she floated away and sank before he could reach her.” Her body was recovered two days later and interred with her husband.

Hannah was about 32 years old when she died, and had recently been engaged to J. Stafford, of Tualco. Her parents were Charles O'Neal (1820-1901) and Jane Reynolds (1817-1895) of Pennsylvania.

The Walters' three daughters were orphaned.

Watson, Mary
Born: 1864, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Died: May 22, 1897, Snohomish

Mary Elizabeth (Miller) Watson, 33, died at about 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 22, 1897, an hour after taking strychnine. The coroner ruled her death a suicide.

She told a doctor who responded to a call for help that life was “a burden” to her, and said that “she and her husband were not happy together, and she had no friends here; therefor death was more to be wished for than life.” Mary had been sick and confined to bed for some time.

Mary was born in 1864 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. She and James L. Watson had married in King County in October 1892. Both were living in Everett at the time. The couple had an adopted daughter.

Her funeral took place at the Presbyterian church on May 24. She was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️  Williams, Morgan
Born: about 1889, unknown
Died: August 24, 1891, Snohomish
Newspaper Article

Two-year-old Morgan Everett Williams fell in a ditch and drowned in August 1891 while hunting for wild plums with his companions in a marsh near the home of his parents, Owen, a farmer, and Mary Williams. Morgan and his friends were about a half mile from his house when the other children missed him and went back to find him. The Eye captured the scene,

“It was not until the children again reached the ditch that they discovered his whereabouts, when they were horrified at seeing their companion lying face down in the bottom of the ditch, with only a trace of life discernable."

By the time help arrived Morgan had died. The ditch was about three feet deep, and it is likely that while wandering alone “he fell from the bridge into the ditch.” His parents were described as “nearly prostrated with grief at the sudden and untimely death of their child.” His funeral was held on August 25 and he was interred in the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️  Williams, Henry
Born: about 1828, Finland
Died: January 8, 1896, Snohomish County

Henry Williams, a fisherman from Everett, Washington, died from tuberculosis in the Snohomish County hospital. He was 68. Little is know about Henry, other than that he was born in Finland, as were his parents. He had lived in the United States for about 20 years, and in Everett for three, unmarried. He had been ill for about six months prior to his death. Henry was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery, likely in the county-owned plot 42 or 43, and was later moved to Woodlawn.

Wood, Peter
Born: unknown
Died: January 16, 1895, Snohomish

Peter Wood, of South Snohomish, died after falling from a railroad trestle. He was discovered by “one of the Ford boys” who were working around their farm early that morning. They spotted a man lying under the Lake Shore trestle near the Great Northern railroad tracks, “still breathing but unconscious.” Wood was unable to describe the circumstances of his accident and died about 7 a.m.

The previous evening, Wood left Snohomish and started walking home, and “it is supposed he stepped to the edge of the trestle to let a passing train by, when he lost his footing and fell to the ground, a distance of about 30 feet.”

Wood had been visiting with his brother in South Snohomish “for some time,”  but his age, occupation, and the names of his parents or other family members were not immediately available. Wood’s funeral was held on January 18 at the Catholic church and he was likely buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️  Wood, Nathan
Born: 1835, unknown
Died: July 30, 1890, Snohomish County
Newspaper Article

Nathan Wood, a farmer who lived on a ranch on the Skykomish River near Fern Bluff, died while delivering vegetables and other produce to Ashby’s meat market. He was about 55 years old.

Wood had traveled by canoe from his farm that day, but collapsed after carrying a sack of potatoes into the store. While weighing the potatoes he suddenly keeled over backwards and fell to the floor, apparently lifeless. Ashby and another man rushed to help, “and on lifting him up, [Wood] revived, staggered to his feet and attempted to speak but could not. A few seconds later he fell a second time to the floor and in less than two minutes he was dead.” No inquest was held, but the cause of death was presumed to be a ruptured blood vessel.

Wood had been a resident of the county for seven years. His wife and two children survived him. He was buried in the Snohomish Cemetery.

☑️  The Woods
Amarilla's Headstone / Adelaide's Funeral Record

Salem Woods was an early settler who made significant contributions to the growth of Snohomish County. A farmer by trade, Woods also served as the county’s sheriff in the early 1860s. Over the years, he took on various other civic roles, including postmaster, tax collector, and census taker, and was known for his meticulously detailed work. 

Born in March 1839 in Fredonia, New York, Woods filed his land claim in 1858. The present-day neighborhood of Woods Creek is named after him, as is Monroe’s Salem Woods Elementary, built near his original homestead. Woods married a Native American girl, age 12, later known by her American name, Adelaide. Their first child, a son named Emmersville, was born two years later, followed by three daughters and another son. They were legally married in 1870.

In 1881, their oldest daughter, Amarilla “Millie,” died at 19 years old. She was interred in the family’s plot at the Snohomish Cemetery beneath a headstone engraved, “A happier lot than ours, and a larger light surrounds thee there.” Salem died of pneumonia and was buried in the plot in November 1897. His wife Adelaide, after suffering from a mystery illness for two decades, finally joined him in April 1906. Youngest son Nelson, born deaf and mute, died in 1918. The family plot lies in the northwest corner of the cemetery grounds.

Read more about the Woods family in Lost & Forgotten.