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[[Category:Cemeteries]]
[[Category:Cemeteries]]
[[Category:Fort Hoskins]]
Kings Valley Cemetery is situated on a hill rising about 75 [feet] above the Luckiamute River on
the south (or here, the east) bank about midway between the villages of Hoskins and King Valley, Oregon. The site
is on the Charles ALLEN donation land claim.
The cemetery has only one gravestone for U.S. Army personnel stationed at [[:Category:Fort Hoskins|Fort Hoskins]]. That gravestone is for Lt. H. H. Graber (Tombstone inscription reads H. H. Gasber) who died 12 Oct 1859 in the Fort Hoskins Hospital.
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Image:Fort Hoskins - Kings Valley Cem - 6.jpg|Kings Valley Cemetery Gate
Image:Fort Hoskins - Kings Valley Cem - 1.jpg|Kings Valley Cemetery Grave Locator
Image:Fort Hoskins - Kings Valley Cem - 2.jpg|Kings Valley Cemetery Grave Locator
Image:Fort Hoskins - Kings Valley Cem - 12.jpg|Kings Valley Cemetery - Lt. H. H. Graber Gravestone
Image:Fort Hoskins - Kings Valley Cem - 7.jpg|Kings Valley Cemetery - Lt. H. H. Graber Gravestone
Image:Fort Hoskins - Kings Valley Cem - 8.jpg|Kings Valley Cemetery - Lt. H. H. Graber Gravestone
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Latest revision as of 13:09, 4 August 2006


Kings Valley Cemetery is situated on a hill rising about 75 [feet] above the Luckiamute River on the south (or here, the east) bank about midway between the villages of Hoskins and King Valley, Oregon. The site is on the Charles ALLEN donation land claim.

The cemetery has only one gravestone for U.S. Army personnel stationed at Fort Hoskins. That gravestone is for Lt. H. H. Graber (Tombstone inscription reads H. H. Gasber) who died 12 Oct 1859 in the Fort Hoskins Hospital.

<gmap lat="44.678442" long="-123.440087" zoom="1" helper="none" width="500" height="400" type="hybrid"> points: 44.678442|-123.440087|Kings Valley Cemetery </gmap>

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Lat: 44.678442 Long: -123.440087

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