You may wonder why this site does not include photos of all the headstones in the cemetery. The reason is that the photos were taken while I was on vacation. I went to the cemetery merely to take a photo of my wife's ancestor's headstone. Upon seeing the condition of many of the headstones I decided to take pictures. Because of time limits and my camera's memory cards being almost full, I could only take pictures of those in the greatest state of degradation with an attempt to also capture other family buried near those deteriorating headstones. One or two are in such a bad state as to be unreadable and so were not photographed since no information could be obtained from them.
With respect to completeness, I want to again emphasize and gratefully acknowledge the contributions of John Planinshek and the Lewis County Genealogical Society who originally transcribed the cemetery. I could not have made the corrections and additions that I did without their ground-breaking effort to document. However, it is important to note that my efforts have identified a number of omissions in the data found at http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wa/lewis/cemetery/salkum.txt
The key point being that the omissions and corrections I found indicate that in spite of valiant efforts to record the contents of this and many other cemeteries by the USGEBWEB Tombstone Project and other worthy efforts, such efforts are a monumental task that can probably only be made entirely complete by the efforts of many individuals. The Salkum cemetery list (and I would add, probably all other cemetery lists) can only be made complete by repeated visits to the cemetery with checking and cross-checking of all data compiled. I would welcome any additional efforts to fully document the Salkum Cemetery in photos and would gladly share my originals with anyone who takes on the effort to do so. I am unable to do it since I do not live in the area.
I would note that I quickly identified the fact that ommisions had occurred because my wife's ancestor was not listed although I found his headstone on my visit. Even though the data currently on the web indicates in some places that it was contributed in 2000, my efforts convinced me that the data is only current through about 1984-1986, meaning that burials after that time period are not recorded in what has previously be available on the internet. Although some of the additions I have made are merely this type of addition, I would note that the majority of my additions are for burials well in advance of this time period and were plainly just missed by previous transcribers. Digital cameras sure are wonderful to help with such efforts and to reduce the number of visits required to completely capture the data in a cemetery.