Wesley Everest Gravesite
The Wesley Everest Gravesite is a historic landmark located in a memorial park cemetery in Centralia, Washington and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1991. The burial plot is that of Wesley Everest, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) who was lynched in the aftermath of the 1919 Centralia massacre (Washington), Centralia Massacre. The gravesite, located in a pauper's cemetery, is the only existing site remaining that is connected to the IWW's role in the massacre, also known as the Centralia Tragedy and the Armistice Day Riot. History Wesley Everest Wesley Everest was born near Newberg, Oregon in 1890, becoming a farm worker in his adolescence. Everest began working in the timber and railroad industry in his late teenage years. Factual evidence of Wesley Everest's life before his lynching is scarce, but he was described as courageous, sincere, silent, yet passionate about the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The earli ...
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Centralia, Washington
Centralia () is a city in Lewis County, Washington, Lewis County, Washington (state), Washington, United States. It is located along Interstate 5 in Washington, Interstate 5 near the midpoint between Seattle and Portland, Oregon. The city had a population of 18,183 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Centralia is twin cities, twinned with Chehalis, Washington, Chehalis, located to the south near the confluence of the Chehalis River (Washington), Chehalis and Newaukum River, Newaukum rivers. History The area was first settled by the Upper Chehalis people with the first non-indigenous settlers arriving in 1845. In 1850, J. G. Cochran and his wife Anna were led there via the Oregon Trail by their adopted son, George Washington (Washington pioneer), George Washington, a free African-American. The family feared Washington would be forced into slavery if they stayed in Missouri after the passage of the Compromise of 1850. Cochran filed a donation land claim near the Borst H ...
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