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Taylor Family Cemetery

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Location	:	Mitchell, Wheeler County, USA
Description	:	From the Ochoco Highway turn onto West Branch Road near MP 57 and drive about 2.7 miles + 50 feet down West Branch Road (just past the turnoff for the West Branch Cemetery). There is a wire gate on the right side of WB Road on private property. You must get permission to enter this property. After entering the gate, walk about 1/4 mile uphill to a picket fence built by the Mitchell Lion's Club in August 2004 and inside are the 2 Taylor children's graves Central Oregonian, Prineville, Crook, Oregon September 24, 2004: "For about 30 years, the deteriorating... Read More	From the Ochoco Highway turn onto West Branch Road near MP 57 and drive about 2.7 miles + 50 feet down West Branch Road (just past the turnoff for the West Branch Cemetery). There is a wire gate on the right side of WB Road on private property. You must get permission to enter this property. After entering the gate, walk about 1/4 mile uphill to a picket fence built by the Mitchell Lion's Club in August 2004 and inside are the 2 Taylor children's graves Central Oregonian, Prineville, Crook, Oregon September 24, 2004: "For about 30 years, the deteriorating grave site on Don Geer's ranch property in Mitchell haunted him. What was once a beautiful wooden fence was reduced to a pile of rotting timber on the ground circling the mossy headstones of two children who passed away more than 115 years ago from diphtheria." "Every time I passed it or had cattle up there, I'd think someone should fix it up," Geer recalled. A member of the Mitchell Lion's Club, Geer told the organization of the deteriorating grave site and the group took it upon themselves to restore it." "It was in disrepair and out of respect for the pioneer settlers of our country we felt it should be maintained and kept up," said Fred Carlson, a Mitchell Lion's Club member." "In August, five volunteers from the Mitchell Lion's Club decided to restore dignity to the small burial grounds." "The group took down the old fence and dug holes for a new white picket vinyl fence." "The main headstone was busted from the stand it was once cemented to. The club had the main headstone refinished by Cody Jessee of Prineville. "Cody Jessee was nice enough to give us a pretty good price to clean the headstone," said Carlson. Altogether, the project cost the Mitchell Lion's Club about $400." " 'It was just a project that needed to be done and the Lion's club volunteered to do it,' said Geer." "The project is finished for now, but in the spring Geer wants to put a wire fence around the whole grave site so cattle and other wildlife will leave the children's resting ground in peace." "The two children were Willie F. Taylor and his brother James O. Taylor. Willie was born Dec. 8, 1876 and died Sept. 28, 1879 and James was born Nov. 16, 1878 and died Nov. 14, 1879, two days before his first birthday." (Note: These dates do not agree with the headstone.) "According to a press release from the Mitchell Lion's Club, after the children died, the parents burned the house and its contents and moved down West Branch Road." " 'There are a lot of little graveyards around here. I think out of respect they should be maintained instead of neglected and overgrown,' said Carlson."

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