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Selahs First Cemetery

Selah, Yakima County, Washington, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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Said to have been on land on which the NPRR depot was built when the Railroad came through Selah about 1885. This cemetery no longer exists.

The only record so far obtained of a burial there came from the source of information about the Nile Cemetery abandoned - 3 internment listings

Submitted by Judy Schuster September 27, 2000.

"The first pioneers to settle in the Selah Valley, in 1865-66, picked a [cemetery] site on the McAllister homestead, located about in the middle of the Selah Valley. Mr. McAllister buried a child there in 1869 and later his wife. Quite a number of Selah's dead were buried there before 1885. However, with the coming of the railroad through the Selah Valley, which was laid out to pass through a portion of this cemetery, it was abandoned.

Some of the bodies were later removed and reburied at Yakima City (Now known as Tahoma Cemerery in Yakima, Washington) and today there is no trace of the first cemetery at Selah."

(From an article by Robert Lince published in the Yakima Valley Genealogy SocietyBulletin January 1973). Permission for the use of that published information was granted by YVGS on November 6, 1999.












Per Internment.Net:

Said to have been on land on which the NPRR depot was built when the Railroad came through Selah about 1885. This cemetery no longer exists.

The only record so far obtained of a burial there came from the source of information about the Nile Cemetery abandoned - 3 internment listings

Submitted by Judy Schuster September 27, 2000.

"The first pioneers to settle in the Selah Valley, in 1865-66, picked a [cemetery] site on the McAllister homestead, located about in the middle of the Selah Valley. Mr. McAllister buried a child there in 1869 and later his wife. Quite a number of Selah's dead were buried there before 1885. However, with the coming of the railroad through the Selah Valley, which was laid out to pass through a portion of this cemetery, it was abandoned.

Some of the bodies were later removed and reburied at Yakima City (Now known as Tahoma Cemerery in Yakima, Washington) and today there is no trace of the first cemetery at Selah."

(From an article by Robert Lince published in the Yakima Valley Genealogy SocietyBulletin January 1973). Permission for the use of that published information was granted by YVGS on November 6, 1999.












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