Robert Sorimpt Cemetery
Ferry County, Washington

Map # 22
T28N R35E Sec 25

Contributed by Maggie Rail [mrail@asisna.com]. Total records = 3.

Transcribed from "Columbia River Cemeteries", a record of individuals moved from the banks of the Columbia River to make way for the rising flood waters of Lake Roosevelt, published in the 1976 book, "Stevens County Tombstone Inscriptions" by EWGS, Spokane WA., who acquired this record from the Spokane Garry Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution.

This cemetery is now located underneath the Columbia River. In approximately 1939-40, after the Grand Coulee Dam was built, the waters were raised, thus flooding the cemetery. Before the waters were raised, the Bureau of Reclamation, of the U.S. Department of the Interior, was responsible for relocating the burials.

It lists the place they were moved to as, New Keller Cemetery, but the name the cemetery goes by now is San Poil Cemetery #1081.

"M/T" means "moved to", and the Plot numbers refer to the location in the new cemetery. "d/o" means "daughter of", "h/o" means "husband of"

Wilson, Infant, son of William Wilson, M/T New Keller, Plot: not found
Wilson, Infant, son of William Wilson, M/T New Keller, Plot: not found
Wilson, William, father of Mary Hughes, M/T New Keller, Plot: not found

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