Belle Center Cemetery

Location:  Belle Center Road, approximately 2 miles from junction with State Route 14, and 24 
miles west of Stevenson, Washington near the Clark/Skamania County line.  Legal description: 
Township 1 North, Range 6 East, W.M., Section 8 (NE 1/4 of NW 1/4).

The following information was compiled by Daphne Ramsey in 1976, and is from the records of the 
Skamania County Historical Society, Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center, Stevenson, Washington.  
Ramsey noted that "A fire has gone through this cemetery and the wooden markers are burned so 
badly that most of them are not legible." 

Belle Center Cemetery was officially established by members of the Belle Center Congregational 
Church on March 16, 1905.  The cemetery property was purchased from Charles Peterson and the 
price of individual 10 ft. by 16 ft. lots was placed at $5.00 each.

Names associated with graves are listed in alphabetical order.  b. = date of birth; d. = date of 
death. 
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Fitzgerald, Wallace 					d. Mar. 25, 19051 	 

Green, Donald Ray		b. 1914			d. Nov. 1914
Green, Elias T.  		b. 1861			d. Dec. 2, 1937
Green, Clara			b. 1874			d. Dec. 2, 1966

Husted, Della Warren 		b. Sep. 5, 1900		d. Feb. 15, 1922

James, Julia May Warren2
James, Francis Edward
James, David John					d. 1914 or 1915
James, Elmer3			b. April 16, 1860	d.  Dec. 6, 1918			

Marble, Lionel Lloyd		b. April 19, 1922	d. May 22, 1927
Marble, Lloyd

Morris, (unknown)					d. 1913

Raen (or Rean), Otto					d. Feb. 23, 1914

Siegerist, Arnold		b. 18554		d. Jan. 12, 1908

Scharzman, Earl		b. 1908			d. 1919

Strunk, Chester						d. Oct. 27, 1912

Thompson (?), Richard L.				d. May _____

Warren, Clifford S.		b. July 7, 1916		d. Aug. 25, 1917
1  Infant son of Walter D. & N.M. Fitzgerald.
2  James family information added to Ramsey's list in a note dated Aug. 9, 1988.
3  From a notice in the Skamania County Pioneer (newspaper).
4  Birthplace: Kanton Argan, Switzerland