Except for horror movies, corpses mostly stay put. Yet without becoming the walking dead, John and Marguerite McLoughlin were resurrected and moved twice.

It wasn’t restless spirits causing the Vancouver pioneers’ wandering, but progress. After John died in 1857 and Marguerite in 1860, they’d rested in the old St. John the Apostle Catholic Church at Oregon City, Ore. Their remains were moved in 1909 from their original location on the east side of Main Street between Second and Third streets to the higher bluff at 15th and Washington streets. Finally, they were laid to rest in the yard of their historic house at 713 Center St., overlooking the Willamette River.

Baptized Catholic, McLoughlin was raised Anglican. Yet he brought Catholicism to the Pacific Northwest while he was the Hudson’s

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