https://www.friendsofbridalveilcemetery.org/home daily 1.0 2025-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6836483e84628c7ee22151ed/fcd3aa05-b5d8-4c2c-ab30-208e0de6cd04/Bridal+Veil267.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6836483e84628c7ee22151ed/b6583eb1-90bc-4c64-bbe8-b17c885fe6e8/IMG_6799.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6836483e84628c7ee22151ed/a979b6a3-30d6-4f10-8955-502ff19857c0/AdobeStock_935619944.png Home Dr. William Horton - Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1814. William Horton immigrated to Ohio as a child, where his family aided the Underground Railroad. By 1850, he was a practicing doctor. He continued his medical work into his sixties, eventually moving to Cape Horn, Washington. William died in 1899 at age 84 and was buried in the Bridal Veil Cemetery, likely near family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6836483e84628c7ee22151ed/7acb5d4b-1a4c-462b-9af4-42599d73a097/AdobeStock_935619944+copy.png Home Luscher Children - In one week during a diphtheria outbreak in December 1894, four Luscher siblings—August, Frede, Julie, and Emma—died in Bridal Veil. Their sister Marie and father survived, while their mother and uncles were unharmed. The home was fumigated and belongings burned. The family later welcomed three more children, continuing their legacy in the community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6836483e84628c7ee22151ed/267e48df-4857-4cba-a079-0b498bc3087d/AdobeStock_935619944+copy+2.png Home Olive Hall Phillips - Born in Pennsylvania in 1842. Olive and her family crossed the entire U.S. and eventually settled in Bridal Veil. In her lifetime she experienced her husband going off to fight in the Civil War as a Union soldier, the birth of nine children and the death of two, and living the hard working life of a pioneer wife and mother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6836483e84628c7ee22151ed/80eea2d0-dac2-461d-8861-93624b2006f7/AdobeStock_935619944+copy+3.png Home Willie Proctor - Born in Michigan in 1862, Willie Proctor lost three siblings to typhoid fever before age twenty. By 1900, he was working as a fireman in Bridal Veil’s lumber camp. In 1901, he was fatally injured by a falling tree and died soon after. A husband and father of two, he was 39. He is buried in Bridal Veil Cemetery and was a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6836483e84628c7ee22151ed/a2e4bd74-e667-4d13-b050-e5f5cc86018d/AdobeStock_935619944+copy+4.png Home Henry Swain - Born in Bridal Veil in 1888, Henry lived only two weeks before passing away. Though no death record exists, he may have been one of the first burials in the Bridal Veil Cemetery. His family had moved to the area for work in the paper mill industry, a central part of the community at the time.