Malone Cemetery

27th Street & Highway 99W  |  Est. 1850 

Homesteader Madison Malone established this cemetery site for his first wife. This became the first dedicated cemetery between the north and south Yamhill Rivers. At the time, permanent headstones were not used and therefore the exact number of burials to have occurred here is unknown. The Inscription on one of the-headstones reads: “When a death occurred, the settlers nailed together a board coffin and a simple burial was made. When the first circuit riding preacher came by, a formal funeral service was held.” Only five markers remain; two have no inscription, two others are of sandstone and nearly illegible, and one is for a Malone daughter. Only one, in white marble is legible and reads “Britannia Hallstead, d 1860, age 29.” 

Twenty-five souls are believed to be buried here. The site is now curiously surrounded by commercial development on Highway 99, near the Winco store and is easy to miss if you aren't looking for it.

For images of the the property, and further details, check out the link below:

Historic Resources Inventory Documentation