Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2011.1.6974 |
Object Name |
Notecard |
Scope & Content |
Cemetery at Vancouver The original HBC cemetery lay on the slope above the church and slightly to the west; it can be made out in contemporary sketches of the Fort. Young John McLaughlin's body was brought down from St. Kine, + Pierre Pambrun from Fort Walla Walla "for the purpose of uniting church burials" and "inhumed on the eminence in front of the woods.' When the United States took over the fort and made the grounds a barracks, the graves were moved farther up the "eminence" to the brow of the hill. When the freeway cut through the "eminence" during the 1950's, the cemetery was again moved ("the peripatetic cemetery", one superintendent ruefully termed it), this time to an unmarked corner of the Military Cemetery. "Not very satisfactory," the superin- tendent conceded; not all the graves could be located and none identified. |
Title |
Fort Vancouver Cemetery (HBC) |
Collection |
Harriet D. Munnick Collection |
People |
McLaughlin, John Pambrun, Pierre |