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Crawford Family Cemetery
a.k.a. Reuter Ranch Cemetery
Located in Section 7, Township 2, range 14

This cemetery is located on what is now The Dalles Mountain Ranch State Park,
approximately 3.5 miles off of Hwy. 14 on The Dalles Mtn. Road.

This ranch was the Crawford Ranch from 1878-1935, the Reuter Ranch from 1935-1975,
and the Bleakney Ranch from 1975 to December 1993 when it became The Dalles Mountain Ranch State Park.

The Dalles Mountain Ranch, A Museum of Natural Heritage of the East Gorge,
by Darlene Highsmith Bleakney, 1992, pages 25-26.

CRAWFORD FAMILY CEMETERY

     The Crawford Family Cemetery was started when William N. and Julia's seven month old son, James, died of an epidemic shortly after they settled on the property. His grave and his sister's grave are marked with a single 3-sided stone. The south side says "James J. born May 6, 1880, died Dec. 12, 1888"; the north side says " Pearl born Aug. 13, 1877, died Jan. 16, 1881" (Mary Pearl Crawford) and the east side says "Children of W.A. and J.H. Crawford. Those whom God loves die young."
     The second grave stone is marked "Dewey E. Crawford Born February 13 and died May 9" and has a footstone marked "D.E.C." Dewey was child of #2 of William H. Crawford 29 and Lillian Emerson Crawford 23. William H. was William N.'s son and John's brother, and the birth records lists his occupation as "Sheep King". Dewey died of bronchitis in 1899 at the age of 3 months. Dr. V.T. Cooke signed his death certificate. The third stone marking the fourth grave, has a headstone with a Masonic symbol above "W.A. Crawford died Sept. 23, 1907 aged 78 years" and there is a footstone marked "Father". This cemetery was fenced by Bleakneys in 1980
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