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Hales Passage Scandinavian Lutheran Cemetery / Cromwell Cemetery

Hales Passage Scandinavian Lutheran Cemetery is also known locally as Cromwell Cemetery. It is a rural country cemetery located in an area called Cromwell on the outskirts of Gig Harbor Washington near the Fox Island Bridge.

The Cemetery Association was first formed on January 3, 1903, with land donated by Gabriel Evje and F. W. Samuelson. Samuelson and Gabriel Evje each offered to donate one acre of land at the point where their respective lands joined at the county road, on the west side thereof, north of Calvert schoolhouse for cemetery purposes. Said land to be so bounded that the length of the entire tract from north to south shall be 330 feet and the width thereof (east to west) shall be 264 feet.
From original records of 1903

Original members of the Cemetery Association were F. W. Samuelson, Gus Carlson, Julius Bernt... Read More