Cemeteries: Croxton Pioneer Memorial Park, Grants Pass, Josephine County, Oregon
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Croxton Pioneer Memorial Park  is no longer considered a cemetery, 
but as a City Park.  In 1856, this land was officially given by Thomas Croxton, 
one of many lasting ties between him and Southern Oregon history.  Those names 
marked with an asterisk no longer have markers, except for two plaques installed
with the names of all those known from the original cemetery.  The cemetery was 
mapped by Fred Warner and Ron Cogswell in 1961, but by the earlier ‘70s,  the 
cemetery had been so vandalized that  it was decided to gather the remaining 
stones and embed them in a concrete circle at the entrance to the area, and 
convert the remainder of the property into a park.  There are original lamp-posts,
cast by Grants Pass Iron & Steel Works throughout the park.  Some of our earliest 
pioneers and most haunting stones are in the circle.  Thomas Croxton and his wife 
were exhumed many years after their deaths and moved to the Masonic Cemetery on
Foothill Blvd.

The park is located on Memorial Drive, off NE 9th Street, in Grants Pass.


Abrams, Thomas*		
Baird, B H		1/1/1809		1864
Briggs, Ira				8/30/1877
Brown, Cora Maud*		
Brown, Martha*		
Brown, Infant Son*		
Carey, Joseph D				10/28/1873
Chiles, Willie				12/17/1885
Coffe, Lovoni*		
Colvin, Myrtle*		
Craft, Ruth				10/20/1888
Croxton, Ella*		
Cummings, James (Rev)			3/6/1872
Darneille, Mary Lane*		
Dimick, David		3/21/1844	3/28/1874
Dimick, Ebenezer	1836		1900
Dimick, Edward 				10/28/1862
Dimick, Frank				6/ (broken)
Dimick, Sarah		1844		1915
Dulybon, Orval*		
Dyke, G J (Sgt)*		
Eddington, James A			10/28/1893
Eddington, Jane				11/13/1893
Ellsworth, Ezra B		7/18/1818	3/16/1886
Flesher, Harry (Capt)		
Gano, Blanche*		
Gebers, Emma*		
Gibbs, Lucy Kate*		
Graves, Caroline				3/20/1890
Harkness, McDonough	3/16/1817 (?)	4/21/1856
Harkness, Morris M*	12/2/1844	4/5/1892
Harth, Daughter		9/28/1889	1/17/1891
Helms, Otis*		
Higdon, Cal*		
Hockett, Frank M		5/6/1859		10/4/1889
Hunsaker, Fannie*		
Hyzer J H  		7/6/1842		10/8/1892
Johnston, R S*		
Jordan, John*		
Jungen, Peter				12/15/1893
Kiessling, Edward E	12/22/1860	5/6/1888
Kingsley, Cyrus M	3/8/1831		10/26/1885
Laskey, Eliza(beth) T			5/20/1887 (?)
Lincoln, Frank*		
Lloyd, W W				1874
Mitchell, Hannah J	5/24/1828	6/25/1890
Nutt, Infant Son (Alfred)	11/10/1891	11/10/1891
Parker, Clarissa B*		
Perry, Ernest (W)				11/1/1891
Perry, Infant Son		5/20/1885	7/8/1885
Piatt, Mary P				9/4/1882
Piatt, William*		
Schroeder, Claus*		
Smith, H M*		
Spencer, Nellie*		
Strew, Moses*		
Taylor, Abigail G*		
Wade, James Sigel*		
Wade, Orville Conde*		
Wade, Phillip S*		
Wade, Susan E*		
Wade, William S*		
Walker, Dessa (M)	2/20/1892	3/11/1892
Walker, Mabel (A)	4/30/1890	7/9/1891
Welter		
Welter, Caroline*		
Welter, Medie*		
Wheeler, J G D*		
Wheeler, Rachael M*