Allen Hash - Gray Butte Cemetery - Jefferson County, OR
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member NW_history_buff
N 44° 27.796 W 121° 05.952
10T E 651204 N 4925086
One of a few homemade tombstones within Gray Butte Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMPQTJ
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 10/09/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member Manville Possum
Views: 1

This homemade tombstone is of Allen "John" Hash. FindaGrave.com had two obituaries on Hash, one of them reads:

ALLEN HASH FOUND DEAD IN HIS CABIN
Aged Pioneer Dies Alone at Mining Camp Near Hay Creek

The body of Allen Hash, one of the pioneer settlers on Willow Creek, was found in his mining camp on Hay Creek last Wednesday by a boy who carried his supplies. The old man lived at the camp alone and on the last trip of the young man who carried his supplies, a week or more prior to the day the body was found, he had complained of having a bad cold and a touch of the grippe. He was not feeling badly enough, however, to go out to one of the neighboring ranches, and said he thought he would be all right in a day or so. When the boy returned on his next trip, he found the body, Mr. Hash having been dead for several days.

Mr. Hash was one of the oldest settlers of the Willow Creek country, and was 93 years old at the time of his death. He was the father of the late Mrs. J. H. Garrett of Cross Keys. The body was interred in Grey Butte cemetery last Friday.

Children at time of death:
Sarah Jane Huston, 72, Rochester, Oregon
Martha Ann Strait, 64, Lamonta, Oregon
Arminta Evans, 57, Mitchell, Oregon
Etta Chitwood, deceased.

Allen had a wife, Elizabeth, who he was separated from for many years. She passed away just a few months before he died.

Date of Birth: March 1819

Date of Death: March 4, 1908

Material: Concrete

Web Site: Not listed

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