ANDERSON FAMILY, Yakima County, Washington

Submitted by Judy Schuster September 27, 2000.  

upperwenas@fairpoint.net

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Anderson Family Cemetery
Yakima County, Washington

This inactive cemetery is considered by many to be in Yakima County,
since access to it is through the county.  But it actually lies just
inside Kittitas County, because the highway through the area is the
county line and land lying on the northwest side of the highway
belongs to Kittitas County.  Gravestone inscriptions were copied by
Mrs. Jan Weston, Mrs, Myrtle Steindorf and others of the Anderson
Family on October 25, 1969 and were published in the Yakima Valley
Genealogical Society Bulletin.  Permission for the use of that
published inforamtion was granted by YVGS on November 6, 1999.

The cemetery is about 2 miles West of the Naches Ranger Station on
the Chinook Pass Highway and just above and across from the Pine
Cone Inn.  To reach it from the highway, turn right on Gold Creek
Road and almost immediately turn right again at the first sign for
2-3 summer homes.  The cemetery is on the hillside in the forest
and is surrounded by a sturdy and attractive wire fence.  It
contains six graves and the enclosure is ornamented by a couple of
wild rose bushes and a lilac bush and is carpeted with pine needles. 
The Anderson family lived nearby until they built their home on the
land which has since become known as the Anderson Ranch.

I have not personally visited this cemetery, and I know that there
has been numerous changes to the area since the cemetery was
transcribed in 1969.
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NAME                        BIRTH              DEATH

ANDERSON, Jacob             1818               1906
     (Mrs. Steindorf's grandfather)
ANDERSON, Margaret C.       1838               1916
     (Mrs. Steindorf's grandmother)
ANDERSON, John W.           1863 in Norway     5 April 1948
     (Mrs. Steindorf's father)
ANDERSON, Allen             1903               1903
     (Mrs. Steindorf's brother)
ANDERSON, Petra Margaret    1860               1904
     (Mrs. Steindorf's mother)
JENSEN, Jens                1855               1932
     (father of Mrs. Steindorf's stepmother)
JENSEN, Mrs. Ingeborg       1856               1942
     (mother of Mrs. Steindorf's stepmother)