Abigail Scott Duniway is remembered as Oregon’s Mother of Equal Suffrage and “the pioneer Woman Suffragist of the great Northwest.” As lecturer, organizer, writer, and editor, Duniway devoted over forty years to the cause of women’s rights. Duniway toured the northwest to give speeches/lectures advocating for voting rights for women. She would write about her…
Determining the builder of a 1910 house is not an easy task and honestly, I have struck out often in my attempts. Building permits were not yet a thing at that time. But in the case of the Sholes house in Cornelius, a bit of luck followed by a bit of research allowed me to…
Nothing beats my mom’s potato salad. I can make her recipe, but she must have held onto a secret or two, because mine never quite tastes the same. I wonder if the Reser kids felt the same way about their mother’s. Many of you already know the connection between Cornelius and the Resers, but for…
Long-time members know I love researching the people who lived in Cornelius before us. This is the real history, not presidents and generals, but ordinary families who worked, loved, suffered, and persevered. I picked this grave in our Methodist Cemetery because Peter Brooks served in the Civil War, yet he’s buried alone here, no other…
In Cornelius Methodist Cemetery lies a weathered metal grave marker, rusted and broken, half-buried in the grass. The inscription reads: MABLE M. EVERITTDied AUGUST 2, 1965Aged 86 Yrs. She rests there alone – no family plot, no other Everitts nearby, no permanent headstone to replace the temporary marker from 59 years ago. But Mabel’s story…