Knox Butte Cemetery
Albany, Linn County, Oregon, USA
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Albany, Linn, Oregon, 97322
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The Knox Butte Cemetery is situated on the slopes of the Butte of the same name and on a considerable rise at the extreme west end of the butte. This is in Section 35, Township 10 South, Range 3 West, Linn County.
The name Knox Butte Cemetery comes, of course, from the Butte on which it is situated. This in turn received its name from the Pioneer Knox family who settled here in the year 1846. James Knox was the head of that family. (He came to Oregon in 1845 and spent his first winter in the lower valley.) In the spring of 1846 he came on to Linn County and took up a claim on the foot of Knox butte, being, according to the claims of his descendents, the first permanent settler in Linn County. (Note: This honor is hotly disputed by members of the Earl family who settled east of Knox Butte, and the Milton Hale family who settled at Syracuse on the Santiam River. Since all three of these families entered Linn County on the same day the dispute is scarcely worth consideration. The honor should be given jointly to all.)
James Knox gave (or sold) the land for this cemetery. It was really a gift since the consideration, according to local historians, was one dollar and promise to fence.
The first burial of record here, and probably the first in fact, is that of Henry Spalding who died September 22, 1853. No information could be obtained concerning this boy's history. He was a son of H. & R. A. Spalding and was born July 3, 1843.
The second burial here was Albert Chambers, a boy of five years who was a son of M. C. & Margaret Chambers. M. C. Chambers was a pioneer of 1847 and his wife Margaret was a daughter of James Knox. Albert Chambers died on July 24, 1862.
Following the two above children's burials there is no recorded deaths here until the year 1874. In that year there were three adult deaths as follows:
James Knox, September 7, 1874. This is the man previously mentioned who gave the land for the cemetery. He was born on October 21, 1789.
Ann Cordelia Haight. Died October 11, 1874. Aged about 19 years. She was a daughter of Silas Haight who was another pioneer of the year 1845 and came in the same train with the Knox family.
Rev. Edward Evans Parrish. Died in 1874. (No month or day given.) Rev. Parrish was born in 1791. He came to Oregon in 1844 and settled in the Parrish Gap region of Marion County.
Two of the above mentioned persons were born before the year 1800. A third early birth date recorded here is Letitia, wife of James Knox who was born on Feb. 6, 1795.
The cemetery is now [in 1940] owned and administered by the Knox Butte Cemetery Association.
The Knox Butte Cemetery is situated on the slopes of the Butte of the same name and on a considerable rise at the extreme west end of the butte. This is in Section 35, Township 10 South, Range 3 West, Linn County.
The name Knox Butte Cemetery comes, of course, from the Butte on which it is situated. This in turn received its name from the Pioneer Knox family who settled here in the year 1846. James Knox was the head of that family. (He came to Oregon in 1845 and spent his first winter in the lower valley.) In the spring of 1846 he came on to Linn County and took up a claim on the foot of Knox butte, being, according to the claims of his descendents, the first permanent settler in Linn County. (Note: This honor is hotly disputed by members of the Earl family who settled east of Knox Butte, and the Milton Hale family who settled at Syracuse on the Santiam River. Since all three of these families entered Linn County on the same day the dispute is scarcely worth consideration. The honor should be given jointly to all.)
James Knox gave (or sold) the land for this cemetery. It was really a gift since the consideration, according to local historians, was one dollar and promise to fence.
The first burial of record here, and probably the first in fact, is that of Henry Spalding who died September 22, 1853. No information could be obtained concerning this boy's history. He was a son of H. & R. A. Spalding and was born July 3, 1843.
The second burial here was Albert Chambers, a boy of five years who was a son of M. C. & Margaret Chambers. M. C. Chambers was a pioneer of 1847 and his wife Margaret was a daughter of James Knox. Albert Chambers died on July 24, 1862.
Following the two above children's burials there is no recorded deaths here until the year 1874. In that year there were three adult deaths as follows:
James Knox, September 7, 1874. This is the man previously mentioned who gave the land for the cemetery. He was born on October 21, 1789.
Ann Cordelia Haight. Died October 11, 1874. Aged about 19 years. She was a daughter of Silas Haight who was another pioneer of the year 1845 and came in the same train with the Knox family.
Rev. Edward Evans Parrish. Died in 1874. (No month or day given.) Rev. Parrish was born in 1791. He came to Oregon in 1844 and settled in the Parrish Gap region of Marion County.
Two of the above mentioned persons were born before the year 1800. A third early birth date recorded here is Letitia, wife of James Knox who was born on Feb. 6, 1795.
The cemetery is now [in 1940] owned and administered by the Knox Butte Cemetery Association.
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- Added: 1 Jan 2000
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 39018
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