Cemeteries of Umatilla County: Foster Pioneer
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Another seldom visited cemetery in Umatilla County. Please take care while looking for the cache. FTF "Find Me" the movie game card. BYOP
You will follow a flat gravel road for about .35 miles. A car, if it drives slowly, should be able to navigate the potholes. When you come to the last house, the main road turns into it. There is a faint road that leads straight ahead. Stay on it for a couple of hundred feet.
Several tombstones are standing in some high sagebrush, several have been broken and many missing. Two coffin size holes were visible (1965) in the west central part of the existing cemetery. Any wooden markers have been lost. There is a fence along the railroad and on the north side next to an alfalfa field. The original cemetery boundaries may have been larger than the existing area.
In 1937, as a WPA project M. Sophia Robertson listed Foster Cemetery as abandoned. She also stated that the graves occupied about an acre of land, with a few old picket fences
surrounding some of the lots. In 1937, the graves still having markers, in various stages of decay, were listed as follows:
Lousia A. Yerxa, wife of R.I. Yerxa
b. October 22, 1841
d. March 23, 1886
Martha J. Lisle
d. February 22, 1884 (not found in 1963)
S.P. Robertson
b. March 28, 1824
d. October 16, 1864 (only the dates were readable in 1963)
Mary A. Coffman
d. June 30, 1875 Aged 53 years 1 mo. 2 days
Thomas, son of David & Mary A. Coffman
d. January 9, 1880 Aged 25 years
(not found in 1963)
Andrew J. Oliver
b. February 26, 1856
d. May 11, 1871 (not found in 1963)
Andrew P. Tribble
d. 1872 Aged 49 years
(1963 record shows d. January 28, 1872, aged 49 years 5 months 29 days)
Patrick Tribble
d. 1880 Aged 30 years
(not found in 1963, could this be Patrick H. Tripte (?))
In 1870 census aged 21 b. MO.,
living with Allen Tripte (?) Aged 57 b. MO. (?)
David Miller
d. June 18, 1879 Aged 43 years
(not found in 1963)
Jonathan Raley
d. April 25, 1877 Aged 48 years
(not found in 1963)
Lavina Beaver
b. 1834
d. 1913
(marked as “latest burial on WPA, not found in 1963)
Mary W. Allen
b. November 5, 1863
d. January 5, 1873
(1963 only dates were readable)
Mary C., wife of A.V. Oliver
d. May 19, 1873 Aged 21 years
Memory of Polly, wife of Charles Riggs
b. May 21, 1813
d. January 10, 1880
"We know she will rise again"
In 1963, Mrs. Nana McFaul of Echo, Oregon copied the tombstone records of this
cemetery. She was unable to locate several of the above mentioned, however she
did locate the following not listed in the WPA record:
Shapleigh Geiger
b. August 6, 1826 Moscow, Lincoln Co., MO.
d. August 24, 1882
James, son of Henry and Libbie Baumgardner
b. April 6, 1881
d. January 5, 1885 (95?)
(1965 grave is now surrounded by a pipe framework)
Martha L., wife of James Taylor
b. September 30, 1850
d. July 29, 1890
Susan H., wife of James Taylor
(cannot read dates, probably the Susan H., wife of James Taylor, age 36 b. MO.
In 1870 census, James Taylor is said to have married 3 times)
James Taylor
b. January 4, 1824
d. March 11, 1901
Masonic Emblem on stone
Marcus Johnson
d. February 6, 1887
Cynthia A., wife of David Mitchell
b. February 3, 1800
d. January 10, 1881
(1870 census, Cynthia Ann Mitchell, age 70 b. KY. Was living with David J. Mitchell
age 34 b. KY.)
Lenore, wife of John Mitchell
b. February 16, 1828
d. July 26, 1884
Cora E. ___________
b. March 16, 1863
d. December 26, 1886
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