Tom Sun Ranch

Meeker was dead when this stone went up. He died on December 3, 1928, days short of his ninety-eighth birthday, and the association he had founded in 1926 set it in 1930. His visits are on record. He came through on his 1906 ox-team trek, setting a marker at Independence Rock on July 3, returned with oxen in 1910 and by automobile in 1916, flew over the trail in an Army plane in 1924, and crossed it a last time in a touring car at ninety-six. In 1930 President Hoover's proclamation commended him by name.

What the plaque says

Oregon Trail Memorial To the pioneers 1830-1870 Buried here on the Tom Sun Ranch Ezra Meeker often visited this spot Erected by Oregon Trail Memorial Association 1930

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sun Ranch and Devil's Gate — steps away
  Tom Sun's 1872 cattle ranch at Devil's Gate, sold in 1996 to the church for whom the cove nearby is sacred, and the fight over who should hold that cove.
• Independence Rock State Historic Site — 5.7 mi
  A granite whaleback named before the wagons came, by trappers in 1824 or Sublette in 1830, and polished by wind until it took names easily.

More markers nearby

• The Oregon Trail — steps away
• The Pioneer Women — steps away