IOOF Cemetery in South Bend
South Bend, Pacific County, Washington 98586
Also known as Odd Fellows Cemetery and South Bend Cemetery.
In 1897 the land for this cemetery was deeded to the local lodge #33 in South Bend. The cemetery has all but gone to waste. Briars and tall grass/weeds cover the whole lot, and vandalism has occurred. Tombstones are marked with holes or pock shot marks, stones lay broken on the ground, and litter seems to find its way to rest along the perimeter of the cemetery. The plots were purchased by various fraternal organizations, but no family plots were sold. Records of this cemetery are available, but are extremely sketchy and quite incomplete.
From the South Bend Journal, the local paper, appearing in 1891: "A long neglected duty has been the organization of a cemetery and the platting of Deaths Addition to South Bend........ The land chosen is the SW corner of Sec 25, about two miles from South Bend on the county road to Willapa....... a ten acre parcel adjoining Sec 36, a school section."
Restoration underway at Odd Fellows Cemetery in South Bend
https://www.chinookobserver.com/news/local/restoration-underway-at-odd-fellows-cemetery-in-south-bend/article_99e6601a-9bed-11ed-bd37-9bd08c4ead3c.html
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