What's
New
Sharon Cheney has a database of cemetery records up until
1976. She is willing to do lookups for people. She also has early marriage
records and can look those up also. Sharon now has the 1893 and 1905 city
directories for Union county. If you would like a hard copy she does NOT
charge a research fee and only asks for 25 cents per sheet for copying plus
postage money. If you do take advantage of this offer, I suggest you give her
a BIG thank-you! There are not many people in this world who are that
generous. She can be reached at Sharon
Cheney. Please put Union county in the subject line as I suspect she
volunteers for a lot more things.
Cove Volunteer
If you have family from Cove, Marjorie Rundall Campbell is willing to help out. My special thanks to her. Don't forget to give her a big thank-you for her efforts.
Cove,
Union County Births
by Holly Vonderohe
Books For Sale
The
Mitre's Touch Gallery owned by David and Trish
Yerges have just put out
a reproduction of the 1902 History of
Union County Historical Society
The UCHS has sent a current list of their publications. I thank them. It's so
hard to find local books to buy when you live out of the county. Just take the
above link to their page. There are also 2 people you can contact by e-mail if
you should choose to buy their books. I have all of them and they are very good
reference books and just good reading. - Janine
Regional Books of Interest - These are books from around
1889 History of Oregon and Washington - There are two volumes to this book. I have finished transcribing the second volume and am currently working on the first. They are both on-line. My thanks to Marjorie Campbell for allowing me to use her books. She's a jewel. If you use these, be sure and thank her.
Cove
Cemetery
This is a database I'm collecting on Cove. I used excell so it takes a
few
minutes to convert in your browser.
Elgin Cemetery
Sue Wells will do lookups for the Elgin
Cemetery. Please send her
a big thanks for helping out on the site. All our volunteers are
much appreciated!
Includes Ackles, Grandview, Hillcrest, Hillcrest East, Hillgard.
This database has almost 10,000 names in it and was donated by
Evelyn Hare and
Charles Smutz. This is a wonderful resouce. My sincere thanks to them!
More Union County Cemeteries
These are files generously donated to the Union County site. I
have split the
files so they download faster. The first three files contain actual names of
people in the cemeteries.
Cemeteries
1
Includes the following cemeteries:
Galloway Cemetery
Highland Cemetery - Also known as Cricket Flat Cemetery
Indian Creek Cemetery
Meacham Cemetery
Cemeteries
2
Mount Pleasant Cemetery - Also known as Scott Cemetery
Cemetery in "The Park"
Pine Grove Cemetery
Starkey Cemetery
Cemeteries 3
Wright Cemetery - Lower Cove Road
Wright Cemetery - Medical Springs
Isolated Graves
Big Creek Cemetery
Barham Bible
Union
City Cemetery Records
Please take time to read this. It gives credit to those who worked hard to
preserve history.
Union County Cemeteries - Locations
This file is a list of the locations of cemeteries and was
generously donated by Larry
Rader. If you ever go to Union county, copy this file off and take it along.
It's concise and to the point. My thanks!
Donated Family Genealogy - These are various files donated by people around the county. My sincere thanks to them.
Pam Brown has sent in
pictures that were kept by Mary
Gassett Talent Chambers.
A sincere thanks for her donation!
Mona
Pomraning's Family Genealogy.
This includes the Burnap-Cole-Clark-Kuhn-Courtright
and Ralls Families. Mona has put her family on-line. The people in all of
these sites were geographically located in
Sharon
Schooler Gallegos has donated her Father's 1942
induction papers. It has quite a few other La Grande names also. Also the
Swikert family home in Palmer Junction. It's very
much appreciated. The Vets aren't represented very well on the county pages.
Throe Family account
of their migration from
By
subscribing ($10.00/yr for individual) you can get their Museum newsletter
and calendar. I am currently writing a letter to them to find out what their
hours are.
Memoirs and Diaries:
Martha Hudnall Childers Memoirs. Donated by Gary Jaensch.
1923 Interview with
Maud Cole. - Generously
donated by Mona Pomraning.
Throe Family account
of their migration from
Clara Lureen (Womack) Wood, Finstad history letter donated by Gary
Jaensch.
MISC.,
A Moment in
Time.By
Holly Vonderohe. If you have family from
Douglas Co., MN, this will explain why they came to
Jasper Family Century
Farm - Article by Trish and Dave
Yerges. Proprietors of
Mitre's Touch Gallery.
Land Patents, Homestead Certificates,
Warrantees, etc. My thanks to Robin Church for starting this
page!
Union County Links - This is a page of on-line search sites that people have found useful for finding family.
Union County Queries - Looking for family? Put your query on-line so others can find you.
Joseph L. Schooler's
Induction Papers -
Ever seen a V-Mail? Sharon Schooler Gallegos sent one of her Father's, Joseph Schooler's, from WWII.
1976 Bicentenial Edition of the Observer,
On-line Newspapers:
(Please send me
your links and I'll put them on-line)
Wallowa County Chieftain:
Baker Beat - Includes
Links to the the Record Courier - Sent
by Timothy A. Keneipp.
LaGrande Observer : Sent in by Tom Childers.
Union
Cove:
Cove Pictures donated by Holly
Vonderohe. One is the Bible Class at the
Jason Gregg is sending pictures and stories of his family from Cove. We are just starting so keep checking back for what is new.
Peggy's Page. Peggy Lovelace Contreras has donated some really great pictures of her family and some really cool pictures of the ladies of Cove. There are also pictures from Grade School and High School in Cove. She has also donated some stories of the Cove area.
Pictures of Cove - sent by Rod Golay and his father. There are many, many school pictures in these files. In most of them, the people have been identified by Rod's Father.
Railroad being built through Cove. Sent by Jack Hillman.
Pictures from the Elgin
Area. These are some really
great photos of the
Eugene Hug Pictures - See if
you can identify the people in these photo's.
New Pictures from Donald Watson Jr. Please take a
look at them.If you can identify any of the people, it would be
much appreciated. There is also a picture of the Cantrell Family
Imbler
Mike Pugh has donated school pictures from the area, circa 1920's. My sincere thanks!
Tom Kassinger has sent some pictures of the Imbler School from around 1911-1912. Again my thanks to him for providing these photos.
LaGrande
Ads from LaGrande. Provided by Randal Symons.
Elizabeth Schooler Watkins has donated pictures from LaGrande from the 1960's.
Summerville
Businesses and History of Summerville:
1865 - 1906. Donated by Dave and Trish
Yerges. Again my many thanks. These two
have a love of county history which many of us should be thankful for.
Summerville photos and history. By Tom Kasinger.
Sandy Thompson
has sent
in photo's from
Summerville,
Union, Union Co.
Jack Hillman Pictures. These pictures are awesome. There is even the circus train which came to town!
Misc. Pictures
DeRoest Pictures. From the collection of Doug DeRoest. The DeRoests have sent some beautiful pictures that are a joy to look at. This will be an ongoing project by Doug and Jean.
William Burford's 800 lb. Pig.Sent to me by Marjorie Rundall Campbell.
Pictures of Cove - sent by Rod Golay and his father. There are many, many school pictures in these files. In most of them, the people have been identified by Rod's Father.
High Valley.
- School Souvenirs from
Union High School Graduation Announcement - 1937. Provided by Margaret Shinoki.