Oklahoma Genealogical Society
Indian
Cemetery, Lewis County, Washington
From Oklahoma Genealogical Society
Quarterly Vol. 11, Nos. 3 and 4, September & December 1966
Transcribed to Electronic form by Jo White
The following record of the graves in the area of the Mayfield Dam and reinterrment (sic) in another cemetery in Lewis Co. was contributed by OGS member, Mrs. Francis Willard Clegg, Castle Rock, Washington on 29 Nov. 1965. The Indian tribe is the Upper Cowlitz. At that time Mr. C. Wilson of Kelso was President and Mrs. Evelyn Bashor of Longview, Secretary and Treasurer.
The Cowlitz Indians were first mentioned by Lewis
and Clark as “Cowelickee.” Later
Alexander Ross, Astor Company clerk who came in 1811, called them Cowlitz.
Material from Mrs. Clegg consists of Map of
Shaker Church cemetery; names and locations of graves; map of Harmony Cemetery
where the graves were relocated; map of Mayfield vicinity showing both
cemeteries; and record of names, grave numbers, inscriptions and contents. (The OGS editor has deleted all reference to
contents of general Indian character, but such information can be obtained by
those who are related or have a valid
inquiry.)
The file from which this report is compiled is
now in the possession of Mrs. Rella Looney, Chief of the Indian Archives
Division, Oklahoma Historical Building, Okla. City. Mrs. Bashor states there are descendants of their dead in
Oklahoma. The tribe is pleased to have
this record furnished to the Oklahoma Genealogical Society and the LDS Genealogical
Library at Salt Lake City by Mrs. Clegg who now lives on what used to be a part
of their old camping and hunting grounds.
SHAKER CHURCH CEMETERY GRAVES RELOCATED IN HARMONY CEMETERY, Lewis County, Washington
Row 1
Numbers are grave numbers in sequence of reinterrment (sic) from the Shaker Cemetery.
5. Charles
Shaniken – no dates
6. Addie
Ike, B 15 July 1862 – D. 3 April 1899
7. Sophie
Ike B 6 Sept. 1896 – D. 22 July 1899
8. Joseph
Sheancon B 28 April 1889 – D. 20 July 1900
9. Shaniken
Koatomi D. 1 Sept. 1905, aged 140 years
10.Jim Kinwa age 3, D.
2 Mar. 1906
11.Isaac Kinwa D. 17
Dec. 1910, age 75 years
12.Wallace Kinswa (sic)
D. 1913 age 6 months
13.Infant Kinswa D.
1920 4 days old
14.Ellen Kinswa B. 1922
– D. 1925 age 3 years
15.Elva Kinswa D. 1928
age 4 days
Row 2
1. Josie
Satanas B. 1909 D. 1925 (Casket contains a crucifix)
3. Harry Satanas (Father) D. 1912
4. Wilson Satanas D. 1911. Buried between parents & died same
year as his mother.
5. Mary
Satanas (Mother) D. 1911 (Casket contained crucifix)
(Mary reinterred beside husband, Harry
Satanas)
2. John
Satanas B. 1907 – D. 1921
6. Infant
Satanas
7. Infant
Satanas
8. Infant
Satanas
Row 3
8. Infant
Phillips – a boy B. 1908 – D. 1911
7. Salwah
Phillips (Father)
6. Alice Phillips B. 1902 (Casket contained
crucifix)
First Row
1. Infant
Eyley – a girl
2. Infant
Eyley – a girl
3. Adeline
Eyley
4. Unknown
– believed to be the grave of a grown man
Third Row
1. Lee
Castama B. 1905 D. 1919
2. Bernice
Castama B. 1911 D. 1918 (Casket contained picture locket)
3. Jack
Castama (Father) D. 1918 (These three Castamas may have died in the flu epidemic
of 1918-1919)
4. Infant
Castama D. 1907
(Concluded)
Noted on the Harmony Cemetery map are also these graves: Hasbold, Geo. Core, J. Rice, J.M. Core, Ernest Cooper, Guy Keene, W.S. Core, Geo. Jackson, Henderson, Flynn, Wilson, E.R. Fleming’s daughter’s grave, E.C, Dunn, A.T. McDonald, Jay Archer, D.E. Shuler, Jay Core, T.E. Core, Geo. Cooper, J.R. Sherman, John Sherman, C.S. Jackson, Ole Finstad, Ramey, and S.M. Dunn.
Supplemental material from Mrs. Clegg includes
(1) the obituary notice of Nellie Jane Sheahon age 67, d. 22 Nov. 1965 in local
hospital at Longview, Wash. She was
born12 Jan. 1898 in OKLAHOMA Territory.
Her survivors were a daughter, two sons, two sisters, two brothers (the
surname of ROUTH), 13 g c and 8 g g ch.
(From Longview Daily News [Wash.] Nov. 25, 1965) and (2) a
newspaper account of the “Cowlitz Indians Seeking Treaty,” giving much history
and containing a photograph taken about 1885 of Kathelene wife of Henry
Cheholtz, a Cowlitz Chief’s son. With
Kathelene are a boy and young man believed to be their sons. (This material has also been sent to the
Indian Archives Division, Mrs. Rella Looney, Chief. (Article comp. By D. Wilkinson, OGS Editor.)
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