KITTITAS COUNTY CEMETERIES
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Anderson Family Cemetery Blewett Cemetery Greenwood Cemetery (Cle Elum Cemetery) High Valley Cemetery Holy Cross Cemetery I.O.O.F. Cemetery Laurel Hill Cemetery McCallum Family Cemetery Nelson Family Cemetery Roslyn Historical Cemeteries (26 separate cemeteries) Spurling Family Cemetery Swauk Cemetery Taylor Family Cemetery Thorp Cemetery Thorp-Splawn Cemetery Known Burials Outside of Cemeteries ANDERSON FAMILY CEMETERY (Clicking on this link will take you to a different website which has indexed the cemetery.) This family cemetery is located off the Chinook Pass Highway near the Naches Ranger Station. It is very close to the Yakima and Kittitas County borders, but actually lies in
Kittitas County; T17N, R14E, S36. It is an inactive cemetery with only 7 graves. Surnames are Anderson (5) and Jensen (2). BLEWETT CEMETERY Blewett Cemetery was in Kittitas County, but is now in Chelan County. The histories are intertwined, so I have added that cemetery listing here. It is located on the west side of
Highway 97 near Culver Springs. Known graves (and dates of burial) are Tom B. Douglas (1906), Henry D. Earnest (1897), Tom D. Hall (1906), Joseph Thomas Hill (1910),
Tom Hill (1906), John Olden (1910), and Reginald Wilder (1897). GREENWOOD CEMETERY Greenwood Cemetery is also known as Cle Elum Cemetery. It is located on the West Side Road, just south of South Cle Elum. It is not maintained and has been overgrown; it was
abandoned by the City of Cle Elum. Some remains were moved to Laurel Hill Cemetery, some remain at Greenwood.
 Greenwood Cemetery |  Greenwood Cemetery |  Greenwood Cemetery |  Speaker grave |  grave |  Nelson grave |  grave |  grave |  grave | All Greenwood photos by Sally Robins |
 High Valley Cemetery | Photo by Lynn Blazek |
 Holy Cross Cemetery | Photo by Lynn Blazek |
show burials back to 1858. It is assumed these were transferred from their original burial site. The cemetery is still in use and there are close to 10,000 graves. A book of grave
listings has been published (see Publications page). LAUREL HILL CEMETERY This cemetery is located in Cle Elum; I-90 is at one edge. A book of cemetery listings is at the KCGS.
 Laurel Hill Cemetery |  Laurel Hill CemeteryVeteran's graves and monument |  Laurel Hill Cemeterysome Veteran's graves |  Laurel Hill CemeteryVeteran's Monument |
Photos by Lynn Blazek |
Buried there are Peter, Sarah B., and Sadie B. McCallum. NELSON CEMETERY This unmarked cemetery supposedly has 9 grave sites. It has no markers. It is located near the old Nelson School. ROSLYN HISTORICAL CEMETERIES
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This unique cemetery area has approximately 26 separate units. Three of the cemeteries (New City, Old City, and Memorial Gardens) are
owned and operated by the City of Roslyn. The other 23 are privately owned by various fraternal organizations, some of which are no longer
in Roslyn. Several cemeteries, therefore, have no existing formal documentation or maintenance. This means that the cemetery books by
the KCGS list only those graves which are marked legibly or are recorded in documentation. The boundaries between the Druid, Cacciatori
D'Africa, and Foresters cemeteries are not well-defined and interested searchers should investigate all three of those cemeteries. The
Kittitas County Genealogical Society cemetery index has listings both alphabetical and by grave location. The oldest grave appears to be that
of John B. Bourges (d. Nov 29, 1888) in Old Cemetery. Roslyn Cemeteries include many ethnic groups: Austrian, Belgian, Black, Chinese,
Croatian, Czechoslovakian, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Lithuanian, Montenegrin (Jugoslavian), Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Scottish, Servian, Slavonian,
Swedish, Syrian, and Welsh.
Clicking on cemetery name link will show you an enlarged photo. The cemeteries are:
 Cacciatori D'Africa |
 Dr. Starkovich #1 |
 Druids |
 Eagles |
 Foresters |  IOOF Lodge |
 Lithuanian |
 Masonic Lodge |
 Memorial Gardens |
 Moose Lodge |
 Mt. Olivet |
 National Croatian(Dr. Starkovich #2) |
 New City |
 New Knights of Pythias |
 Old Knights of Pythias |
 Old City |
 Old City |
 Old CityJones |
 Old CityPothecary |
 Redmen Lodge |
 Saint Barbara #39 |
 Serbian |
 Silvio Pellico |
 Slovakian |
 Slokol Lodge |
 Veteran's Cemetery |
 Veterans #2 |
 Veteran's Memorial
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 Single grave #1on map across road from Sokol Lodge cemetery |
All Roslyn photos by Lynn Blazek |
maintained by the families. The first grave is that of Mary Evans who died in 1884. It has approximately 212 graves of which 25 or so have not been identified; some graves are
unmarked. The cemetery has been charted and records are kept. The land was purchased from the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1902. It is located in the NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of
Section 29, Township 20 N, Range 17 E.
 Swauk Cemetery |  Swauk Cemetery |  Swauk Cemetery | Photo by Lynn Blazek |
York, gave land for the cemetery; he is buried in this cemetery. The title was transferred to the Thorp Methodist Episcopal Church. It was then operated by the Thorp IOOF until 1940.
In 1962 it began to be under the management of the Kittitas County Cemetery District No. 1.
 Thorp Cemetery | Photo by Lynn Blazek |
are decendants of F.M. Thorp, and two are unidentified. The marked graves are Dulcena Helen and Violet Vivian Splawn, and Fielden M. and Margaret Thorp.
 Thorp-Splawn Cemeterytaken from across freeway | Photo by Lynn Blazek |
gravesite. According to the Olstead sisters, it is the burial site of Mrs. Charles Williams and her baby. WYATT - Larry Wyatt, east of the summit of the Saddle Mountains.