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Evergreen Cemetery DIG - not LA EC - so many Evergreen cemeteries, seems very interdasting…

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/forgotten-grave-reveals-a-local-link-to-obama/

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“We have both Republicans and Democrats who work here but everybody was excited by it,” said Allen Ice, general manager of the Evergreen Funeral Home and Cemetery.

Shipman said it is rare to find an ancestor five generations removed from a national figure in cemeteries in Washington state, which became a territory in 1853 and a state in 1889.

“It’s like a needle in a haystack,” he said.

“What you found is accurate,” said Joshua Field, campaign director for Obama’s campaign in Washington state, after checking records. “It’s interesting. I don’t think people realize his Washington state ties.”

Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, lived on Mercer Island before moving to Hawaii after she finished high school. Obama’s mother died in 1995 of ovarian cancer. Obama took time off the campaign trail Thursday and Friday to fly to Hawaii to visit his ailing 85-year-old grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, who helped raise him. Rachel Wolfley is a great-grandmother to Madelyn Payne Dunham.