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Greenwood Memorial Terrace Spokane, Spokane County, Washington 211 N Government Way Spokane WA 99224 509-838-1405 Lat: 47° 39' 25"N, Lon: 117° 28' 15"W T25N R42E Sec 14 Transcribed and compiled by Maggie Rail © 2001-2016, last edited Dec 06, 2016 [mrail@asisna.com]. Total records = 22,650. To reach this cemetery in Spokane, drive north on Monroe Street, turning left onto Northwest Boulevard for a mile or so. Then turn left onto Meehan Drive, and continue past the Community College. Turn left onto Government Way and continue, until you see the cemetery on your right. It will be across from Riverside Memorial Park and past Mount Nebo Cemetery. This Endowment Cemetery was established on May 12, 1888 as Greenwood Cemetery, spearheaded by C.M. Cannon. In about 1962 the name was changed to Greenwood Memorial Terrace. In recent years it has become a part of the Fairmount Memorial Association, which includes about 7 cemeteries. In 2016 there are about 85 developed acres out of the 151 total acres that make up this cemetery. The office for this cemetery and Riverside is in the same office at Greenwood. The first work I did in this cemetery was mostly of the Non-endowed section of Greenwood which I did in 2001. Here most of the markers have "no dates" most were a simple cement marker with just names and a number for the location in the cemetery nor could I always read the location number. This section holds those who for one reason or another chose not to be in the Endowed section. Occasionally a marker was later placed beside the small cement marker with dates. Some by no fault of their own could not afford the higher cost of a marker, some preferred not to be in the Endowed section. Some were from the poor farm of years ago. No one reason placed them in this section. I have used the abbreviation n/e to show the section they are in. I am slowly reading the lawns as I have time. Some of the stones are buried, some missing and others very difficult to decipher. In Lawn #02 there were about 100 stones etched in Japanese, a few others with a surname and the rest in Japanese, so I was unable to transcribe those into English and include them. In lawns where the stones are older and so difficult to read, sometimes I could be incorrect in what I transcribed. In some of the older sections I did my best, and again could be incorrect on what I transcribed. Many stones are illegible, or partly illegible, worn or covered with lichen or something to blur the reading. Others are completely buried, gone or overgrown with shrubbery. If an upright stone falls over, they lay it flat and let the grass grow over it. Sometimes the stones are cracked from driving over them, when they mow the lawn. If a name is listed in more than one lawn, that is because I could not tell which lawn it was. I tried to catch all but may have missed some. As of Nov 02, 2012 I have walked all of the lawns on the two lower levels and a few lawns on the top terrace. Not able to continue, I do add from obits at times. Since I read the non-endowed section, I have added records from obituaries or from family, and these have no location in the cemetery. Those with and asterisk * were acquired from obits, sometimes I forgot to add the asterisk, so any without a locations would be from obits. I also am taking one lawn at a time as I am trying to read this cemetery. This will be a slow process, the map I have shows at least 50 lawns, gardens or sections. I do have a photo of all of the legible stones in the lawns I have read. I am always willing to add names that I am missing if sent to me with proof. Sometimes when I walked a lawn I added markers which had names only, which may or may not be buried here. Some are and some may only be a purchased lot with no one buried there yet. If anyone knows more info on these I would like to |
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Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], Greenwood Memorial Terrace, Office of Secretary of State, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://digitalarchives.wa.gov, [date accessed].
Source: Index and transcription notes donated to the Washington Historical Records Project by Maggie Rail, 2017. |
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