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February 2022

Salem’s Emancipation Jubilee Celebrations
Salem’s Emancipation Jubilee Celebrations

Community Memories, Salem History Hub

Salem’s Emancipation Jubilee Celebrations

Heritage Center2023-01-23T12:08:58-08:00February 15th, 2022|Categories: Community Memories, Salem History Hub|Tags: African-Americans, Bayless, Black History, Emancipation Jubilee, Emancipation Proclamation, Racism, Reverend Daniel Jones, Salem, Slavery|

By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation…That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one [...]

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May 2016

Memorial Day – Odd Fellows Rural Cemetery
Memorial Day – Odd Fellows Rural Cemetery

History Tidbits

Memorial Day – Odd Fellows Rural Cemetery

Heritage Center2020-12-28T20:25:01-08:00May 16th, 2016|Categories: History Tidbits|Tags: Adelia Judson Leslie, African-Americans, Alcinda E. Lawrence, Chemeketa Lodge No. 1, Chinese, Civil War, Decoration Day, Ethel Veatch Timmerman, Grand Army of the Republic, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, indigents, James Pinckney Veatch, Japanese American, Jeannette May Veatch, John A. Logan, Mary Kinney Leslie, Masonic Lodge, Memorial Day, Minnie Myrtle Veatch, Odd Fellows Rural Cemetery, orphans, public institutions, Rev. David Leslie, Salem Pioneer Cemetery, vagrants|

Memorial Day observance at Odd Fellows Rural Cemetery circa 1885. WHC 1995.022.0003 “Cover them over with beautiful flowers, [...]

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