Snow Cemetery

The Snow Cemetery is a private family cemetery located off Hemenway

Road, south of Winlock.  A local timber company owns the land where the cemetery is located.

Information provided by descendants of the Snow family.

Carns, II, William C. 1871-1904

Carns, Leo O.         1872-1892

Carns, Lucy           1892-1892

Carns, Margaret L.    1855-1887

Carns, Susan V.       1890-1892

Chevel, Margaret N.   1915-1997

Henderson, Elizabeth  1837-1915

McGill, Ella          ?-?

Snow, Barbara C.      1817-1908

Snow, Earl R.         1904-1996

Snow, John H.         1877-1944

Snow, Joseph          1843-1910

Snow, Leroy           ?-?

Snow, M. R.           1898-?

Snow, Margaret E.     1848-1928

Snow, Mary E.         1851-1923

Snow, Sarah (Sally)   1837-1900

Snow, Thomas          1840-1910

There is a plaque in the cemetery that lists all of the names of people buried

or have had their ashes scattered there.  On this plaque is a poem:

Dear Ancestor

Your tombstone stands among the rest:

neglected and alone.

Your name and date are chiseled out

On polished, marble stone.

It reached out to all who care

It is too late to mourn.

You didn't know that I exist,

You died before I was born.

Yet each of us are ells of you

In flesh, in blood, in bone.

Our blood contracts and beats a pulse

Entirely not our own.

Dear Ancestor, the place you filled

one hundred years ago,

Spreads out among the ones you left

Who would have loved you so.

I wonder if you lived and loved,

I wonder if you knew

That someday I would find this spot,

and come and visit you.