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The Summit Meadow Pioneer Cemetery is located near Barlow Pass, Oregon. It passes alongside the old former Barlow Road during the Oregon Trail days. This small cemetery contains three graves which include the following:
Perry A. Vickers
1845 - 19 August 1883
Baby Morgan Barclay
Infant son of W.L. Barclay - A mother's love
18 July 1882 - 14 September 1882
Infant Pioneer Unknown
Unknown - 1847
Perry Vickers, whom the dirt road to the cemetery is named after, settled here at Summit Meadow. He came to Oregon in 1865 & was arrested for horse thievery but made an escape. He climbed Mt. Hood in 1873 & was shot & killed in 1883 after pursuing a horse thief named Steele.
Source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54163209/perry-a_-vickers
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