Contributed by Maggie Rail, © Aug 13, 1999, last edited May
25, 2012 [mrail@asisna.com].
Total records = 1,051.
To reach the Medical Lake Cemetery drive north of the town of Medical
Lake on Brooks Road for two miles, turn west or left onto Thorpe
Road for about 1/2 mile. Cemetery is on the south side of Thorpe
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
or write to PO Box 129, Medical Lake WA 99022
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 Rail
Legend:
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 stone |
B = Block
N = North
L = Lot
E = East
S = South
W = West
* = no photo |
