Deadwood Pioneer Cemetery

We are located between Eugene and Florence (by way of Triangle Lake), established in 1883 with about 300 known burials.
  
As we are a non-profit, all-volunteer cemetery, families are encouraged to maintain their loved ones’ sites, but we recognize that it’s not possible for everyone.  If you have family buried in other states and can't get to them, please consider "paying it forward" - volunteer to help a little here, while you trust that others are doing their part where your loved ones are interred. 
  
Deadwood, Oregon

We are currently improving our map of Deadwood Pioneer Cemetery,
and hope to make that available on this website soon!  

  
OTHER RESOURCES FOR BURIAL INFORMATION:

FindAGrave is a free online resource with tons of information!    http://www.findagrave.com/
Please use this link to see or request photos, search for specific information on the Deadwood Pioneer Cemetery, share memories, add  information and 'virtual flowers' to your loved ones' page, and more.

Siuslaw Genealogical Society members provide FREE family research help at the Siuslaw Public Library.   Click this link for their web page. 

The Siuslaw Pioneer Museum,  www.siuslawpioneermuseum.com , located in Florence OR, also offers assistance with research
in their Kyle Memorial Research Library.
  
 We are hard at work researching the records and families at the Deadwood Pioneer Cemetery (DPC), and thought you might enjoy this excerpt about the first family that buried their daughter at DPC...  
(The Siuslaw Pioneer 1980, The Story of Deadwood Creek, pg. 20-23) 

POPE, THOMAS (1827-1891), whose farm located on the confluence of Deadwood and Lake Creeks was the first on Deadwood, was the central figure in the early history of both Deadwood and Lake Creek. 

Born in Ohio, Pope had eight children by his first wife, Eleanor Reed, all born in Ohio- Nancy (Horn), John, James, Lucy (who married Lawrence Lamb), Ambrose, Elinora (Clark), Howard, and Eva (Noffsinger).  John, James, Lucy, Ambrose, and Howard all came to reside on Deadwood, while Nancy lived in Noti/Elmira area and Eva on the Siuslaw.  The marriage of Eva and Martin Noffsinger in 1883 was the first performed on Deadwood.  By his second wife, the widow Nancy Dysinger, he had two daughters- Estella (who married Gerhard Steinhauer) and Neva (Kimmel).  In addition they had a son born in 1883 at Deadwood, the first in the area, though he died as an infant.  By her previous marriage to Isaac Dysinger, who died of illness while serving in the Civil War, Nancy had four children- Martha Ann (who married John Pope), Alice Olivia (Rhoads), William Lee, and George James, who homesteaded on Deadwood. 

Thomas Pope, a Civil War veteran, moved his family to Kansas in the 1870's and then to Oregon in 1881 or 1882. In March 1882, he took up his homestead at the mouth of Deadwood.  When a Post Office was established at Deadwood in 1884 he was named the Postmaster, a position which he held until his death.  Likewise, when School District 91 was established in 1884 he became the School Clerk.  When Lake Creek precinct was established in 1886, his residence was set as the polling site.  He became the first Justice of the Peace of the precinct and held the position from 1886-1890.  He served on the election board in 1886, 1888 and 1890.  In 1886 he represented the Republicans of the precinct at their county convention.  At the time the Republicans greatly outnumbered the Democrats of the precinct, and in the Presidential Election of 1888, the Republican Harrison captured thirty-one votes to only five for Democrat Cleveland. 

After Pope's death in 1891, his widow Nancy continued to live on the farm and when she proved up the homestead in 1892, there were twelve acres in cultivation and an orchard of one hundred trees.  In 1894 she married Thomas Tabor, a brother of Henry J. Tabor, who homesteaded on Deadwood, and they moved nearer to Eugene.  Portions of Thomas Pope's original homestead were set aside early in the 1890's and in 1901 respectively for the Lake Creek Presbyterian Church and the Deadwood Cemetery, which had begun apparently as a family cemetery for the Popes.  (The Siuslaw Pioneer 1980, The Story of Deadwood Creek, pg. 20-23) 

This book is available from the Cemetery Board of Trustees, as well as the Siuslaw Pioneer Museum in Florence for just $5.