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 Percy T. Booth - Croxton Memorial Park - Grants Pass, OR
N 42° 26.908 W 123° 18.904
10T E 474090 N 4699619
Croxton Memorial Park contains a boulder with a plaque and poem written by Percy T. Booth.
Waymark Code: WMN731
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 01/08/2015
Views: 1
Located in the heart of Croxton Memorial Park is a boulder with a plaque monumented in front. Originally a cemetery, this small lot was converted to a park and all the graves were imbedded in a concrete circle near this boulder in 1975 to prevent further vandalism of headstones of the deceased. The land was donated to the City of Grants Pass by Thomas Croxton. Croxton and his wife were exhumed many years after their deaths from this former cemetery and moved to the Masonic Cemetery on Foothill Blvd.
The plaque on the boulder contains a poem by Percy T. Booth and reads:
OREGON TRAILBREAKERS
If in my haste I chance to pass
Smug with speed in chrome and steel
I'll mark the place where last you sleep
Tucked -in with flower blankets sweet
Soft touched by breath of early spring
As altar cloth, unfurled in peace
Across the pain of yesteryears
Your debt full paid, your work complete.
This land you loved and held so dear
Now holds you safe, in warm embrace
And in the place He fixed for you
He hung an arch of promise there
And shared His robe of royal blue,
A piece of sky, torn loose and tossed
With loving gentleness, across
Your throne, a Godly gift to you.
O Pioneer, have patience, please
With those of us who in our ease
Forget your fingers brushed the dust
Of unreached stars, then passed to us
A heritage of precious hope
That we might face our tasks today
Because you walked ahead of us
And broke the trail and led the way.
Percy T. Booth
Percy Booth is an author of a number of historical books of the local area including The Legend of Indian Mary and Umpqua Joe, Valley of the Rogues, Until the Last Arrow and Grants Pass: The golden years, 1884-1984.
Address:
Croxton Memorial Park
NE Memorial Drive
Grants Pass, OR
Website: Not listed
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