Linkville Cemetery tour offered July 21

A tour of Linkville Cemetery will be offered at 6 p.m. Sunday, July 21, by the Klamath County Historical Society. (Submitted Photo)

A walking tour of Linkville Cemetery will be offered at 6 p.m. Sunday, July 21, by the Klamath County Historical Society. Society members will discuss about a dozen early-day residents of Klamath County who are buried in the cemetery.

“We’ll examine the fate of two young boys, Joe and Lee Laws, who died when they were just teenagers,” said Carol Mattos, one of the tour organizers. “We’ll ask the question of whether they were really killed by masked assassins, as their tombstone indicates.”

Other important figures from local history to be discussed are George Washington Smith, who conducted business in the town of Altamont, cattleman Charles Ellery Drew and flour mill operator Thomas Martin.

The tour will begin at the flagpole near the cemetery entrance. The tour is free and open to anyone interested. Most of the tour will be on paved roads, with brief portions off the road.

For more information contact Mattos at (541) 884-4032.