Selah's First Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 46.655949, -120.522091
Location: Selah, Yakima County
Record count: 3

Directions: Note: GPS coordinates and map pin are an approximation based on the background below.

Background:

(From an article by Robert Lince published in the Yakima Valley Genealogy Society Bulletin Jan 1973).

"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."

Burial Records

• Genealogical Society Transcription, by Judy Schuster, September 27, 2000, (3 records)

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