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Medical Lake Cemetery
Medical Lake, Spokane County, Washington
Lat: 47° 36' 50"N, Lon: 117° 42' 21"W
T24N, R41E, Section 1
Transcribed by Maggie Rail, © Aug 13, 1999, last edited Feb 14, 2010 [mrail@asisna.com]. Total records = 1,012.
Medical Lake Cemetery is located about two miles north of the town of Medical Lake, south on Thorpe Road and about 1/2 mile west of Brooks Road.
The land for the Medical Lake Cemetery was donated in 1881 by the Northern Pacific Railroad. It contained 12.7 acres and has been known as the Medical Lake Cemetery since that time. On Jun 13, 1888, before statehood, individuals made the cemetery legal by filing a plotted tract of land with the Spokane County Courthouse, Territory of Washington for the Medical Lake Cemetery.
For years the records for this cemetery were kept by several different businesses. Due to the continued change of ownership, a complete and accurate listing is not available. In the last years a Medical Lake Cemetery Association has been formed and it is trying to recover as many records as possible. There may also be some of the burials removed from Fairview to this cemetery, these records also are unavailable. (Fairview borders on Medical Lake Cemetery.)
It is said that around 1934 all the burials from Deep Creek Cemetery were removed to Medical Lake Cemetery. I found only one or two that reflected that when transcribing. While they may indeed be in here, no mention is made of the transfer in the records.
Some listings may have more than what the stone had on it, for various reasons. There were new stones in some cases, in some cases it was info from the sexton files. I tried to place most of this added info in parenthesis. Contact people for this cemetery are: Janice Radmer, 509-299-5269, or Eleanor Ahlf, 509-299-3497
Those with an asterisk * following the entry, I was not able to find this time, so I have no photo for those. I will share photos that I do have for a donation. Many were illegible stones. We are missing many from this listing which either have no stone or it is broken or illegible. Please contact me if you see an error or you have a name I do not have and proof it should be listed here.
I did a complete physical survey of this cemetery on Aug 13, 1999, comparing this with the current sexton files. Transcribed and compiled by Maggie Rail © 1999. I revisited this cemetery on Sep 24, 2004, using my digital camera to read it again. I found 29 new names but have eliminated about 36 of the previous listings due to duplications or errors.
- Maggie RailLegend:
c/o = child of
d/o = d/o
h/o = husband of
s/o = son of
s/w = stone with
w/o = wife of
sss = shared surname stoneB = Block
N = North
L = Lot
E = East
S = South
W = West
* = no photoRecords Index: