SELAH'S FIRST CEMETERY
Yakima County, Washington

Submitted by Judy Schuster September 27, 2000.  

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Selah's First Cemetery
Yakima County, Washington

"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 and today 
there is no trace of the first cemetery at Selah."  (From an article
by Robert Lince published in the Yakima Valley Genealogy Society
Bulletin January 1973).  Permission for the use of that 
published information was granted by YVGS on November 6, 1999.  


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NAME                          BIRTH              DEATH

McALLISTER, Child                                1869
McALLISTER, Wife
HENSON, ALfred                                   about 1880