Seabeck Cemetery
N 47° 38.040 W 122° 49.938
10T E 512597 N 5275635
By 1877 Seabeck was a town of 400 population, boasting four saloons, two hotels, two stores, a church, a little red schoolhouse and a five-acre cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM5A0C
Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 12/04/2008
Views: 43
The Seabeck mill wasn't the first to begin gnawing into the virgin forests of the Puget Sound country. In 1847 Michael Simmons had harnessed the power of Tumwater Falls at the southern tip of the Sound to a crude log cabin sawmill, and Henry Yesler's steam mill had been bringing coastwise lumber ships to the town of Seattle on Elliott Bay for three years, but Marshall Blinn's Maine-built machinery was the finest and most modern and no town on Puget Sound was more prosperous than Seabeck. Before the settlers came to this peacefull little harbor, the Indians called their home here Scabock.
An ornately carved wooden marker from that pioneer burial ground is preserved to tell its mute and concise tale of sudden death in boom town Seabeck, "Sacred to the memory of Hyram Bryant, age about 45 years, who was killed in a dispute on the 26th day of January, 1868."
Now a days, except for some of the old residents of Seabeck, this little cemetery is unknown and lies only 1/4 mile South of Seabeck Store. Virtually abandoned, there are times that some one is buried here along side a pioneer family member. My Grandparents and an uncle are buried here also.
Earliest Burial: 01/26/1868
Latest Burial: Not listed
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