Mary Gay Cogswell Pioneer Cemetery

Creswell, Lane County, Oregon, USA

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Get directions Creswell, Oregon, USA

Coordinates: 43.93984, -123.07727
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MARY FRANCES GAY COGSWELL, for whom this cemetery is named, was the eldest daughter of Lane County, Oregon pioneers Martin Baker Gay and Ann Evans (Stewart) Gay. Mary Frances Gay was born in Missouri and traveled the Oregon Trail in a wagon train with her family in 1851. She married native New Yorker John Cogswell on October 28, 1852. Theirs was the first recorded marriage in Lane County. They had nine children, with just four living to adulthood. Their two young daughters, Florilla and Mary Anne, were the first two burials in the cemetery in the fall of 1857.

This cemetery is located between Eugene and Creswell, "in the shadow of Spencer Butte mountain." The Mary Gay Cogswell Cemetery is mentioned in the book by Lois Barton entitled, "One Woman's West: Recollections of the Oregon Trail and Settling of the Northwest Country." This book was based upon the diaries of Martha Ann (Gay) Masterson, who was Mary (Gay) Cogswell's younger sister.

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