His grandmother, Daisy May Young Mee, is one of those buried there. The Charles Athay family, recorded owners of the property, refused to respond to Joe Mee’s attempts to gain permission for fencing, and he proceeded without it. Joe estimated the metes and bounds to the best of his ability and staked the corners for the fencing contractor. He determined that the size of the cemetery would be 100’ x 120’, as otherwise identified in a survey performed 29 October 1987 by Tenneson Engineering in The Dalles, without exact start and ending corners. In 1997, Joe Mee took it upon himself to preserve this little cemetery. Athay, joint tenants: “Excepting therefrom a tract of land described as commencing at a rock at the northeast corner of the Rufus Cemetery, thence south 82 feet to the true point of beginning thence west 12 feet thence north 12 feet thence east 12 feet to the true point of beginning, containing two burial lots, numbers 13 and 14, conveyed to Sherman County, Oregon, by deed recorded in Volume L., page 569, on October 2, 1906.” Following the above directions, one concludes an error exists.Ī description of the cemetery is found in a 1989 Quit Claim Deed between the United States of America General Services Administration and Charles W. Fowler) et ux deeded to Sherman County in consideration of $6.00 the following described real estate: commencing at a rock at the North East corner of the Rufus cemetery running South eighty two (82) feet thence West twelve (12) feet thence North twelve (12) feet thence East twelve (12) feet thence South twelve (12) feet to place of beginning containing two burial lots numbers thirteen and fourteen all being and lying near the Northeast corner of the South West quarter (1/4) of the Northeast quarter (1/4) of Section Six (6) of Township Two N (2N) of range seventeen (17) E W M. It is estimated that as many as 60 graves may be in this cemetery, perhaps 40 in the east half.Ī warranty deed filed for record October 2, 1906, shows that T.A Fowler (Thomas A. Additional information was contributed by Mattie McDonald, Harland McDonald, Tracy and Nellie Fields, Georgia (Striker) Klindworth, Bea Richelderfer, Giles L. Gravestone inscriptions were recorded by Sherry Kaseberg in 1966. This small cemetery on private property on the hill south of Rufus, T2N, R17E, SW ¼ of NE ¼, Section 6, offers a spectacular view of the Columbia River. Rufus Pioneer Cemetery, 1965 Survey with Notes
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