Prune Ridge Cemetery - Scotts Mills, OR, USA - Abandoned Cemeteries on Waymarking.com

The Prune Ridge Monthly Meeting of Friends were given the Northeast corner of the homestead land of the McCown family (famous for the 1600 acre McCown Fruit Farms down the Crooked Finger Road) on May 19, 1893 by warranty deed. The Prune Ridge Friends Church had already existed on this land, constructed by October of 1892. The first pastor of the P.R. Friends Church was Phebe Hammer, the aunt of Herbert Hoover (31st president). The church began meeting in the nearby Crooked Finger School , which was a little more centrally located for the churchgoers. The meeting was discontinued around 1900 because most of its members had moved away.

When one of the charter members of the church, Mary M. Doty, passed away in 1899, she was buried on the church grounds, and a headstone was placed to mark the burial. Local legend states that there was another burial made on these grounds, that of a very young girl. In 1971, Leona Gray Worth corroborated this, writing that she had “a baby sister” interred there. This burial was left unmarked.

Unfortunately, the solo headstone has since been removed (and is unaccounted for).

Burial sites have often been known to be of higher elevation and “planted in flowers,” if not otherwise marked. Upon visiting this site, which is a tree-farm at present, I found the most probable location for this site. It is of requisite distance from the supposed location of the church and the road.

The small knoll is visible on Google Earth as an anomaly in a field of small firs.

Earliest Burial: 01/20/1899 Latest Burial: 01/20/1899

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