Cemeteries (San Francisco County)

There were once quite a number of cemeteries inside San Francisco's city limits. Since the entire San Francisco City and County consists of only forty-nine square miles, land began to become more and more scarce as the population grew in the early 1900s. About that time, work began to move most of these cemeteries to locations south along the peninsula, primarily to Colma (San Mateo County). By about 1940, the interments of all but three cemeteries (Mission Dolores, Old Sailor & Seaman's Cemetery, and Presidio) and one crematorium (Columbarium) had been moved outside of San Francisco.

Historic Cemeteries

Beth Olam, Bush Street, Caledonian, Calvary, Chinese, City, First Street, French Benevolent, German Benevolent, Golden Gate, Giboth Olam, Golden Gate, Grand Army of the Republic, Greco Russian, Greek, Green Oak, Home of Peace-New, Home of Peace-Old, Hills of Eternity, Indian, Italian Protestant, Japanese, Knight's of Pythias, Laurel Hill, Lone Mountain, Master Mariners, Masonic, Masons, Colored, Navai Shalome, Nebraska Street, North Beach, Odd Fellow's, Old Friends, Peaceful Abode, Potter's Field, Powell Street, Red Men, Russian Hill, Sailor's, Salem, Sansome Street, Scandinavian, Slavonic-Illyric, St. Andrew's, St. Michael's, Telegraph Hill, Yerba Buena, Yerba Buena Island.

For general information, please look at San Francisco Historic Cemeteries.

Records

Calvary
- San Francisco Colma Cemetery Index
- Calvary and Holy Cross Cemetery Registers, 1860-1911
Golden Gate (City Cemetery)
- Cemetery Registers - Laurel Hill, Lone Mountain, Golden Gate, 1854-1936
Laurel Hill | Lone Mountain
- LSan Francisco Cemetery Records, 1848-1863 (PDF)
- Cemetery Registers - Laurel Hill, Lone Mountain, Golden Gate, 1854-1936
- LCalifornia, San Francisco, San Francisco Laurel Hill Cemetery records, 1854-1936
- "...Annals of the Pioneers copied from Headstones and other Old Records" by Ann Clark Hart
- San Francisco's Laurel Hill by Ann Clark Hart
- Records from tombstones in Laurel Hill Cemetery, 1853-1927
- Alphabetical list of removals to Lawndale Cemetery, 1940 (From Laurel Hill Cemetery to Cypress Lawn Cemetery) (FamilySearch library)
Marine Hospital Cemetery
- Possible Marine Hospital Burial Index
Masonic
- Masonic Cemetery Removal Records (available only via a FamilySearch Center or FamilySearch Affiliate Library) Forward Sample
Oddfellows
- International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Cemetery, 1866-1932 (FamilySearch library)
- San Francisco Colma Cemetery Index (IOOF burial removals)
Spanish and Indian Cemetery (Presidio)
- Early California Population Project Database
- Find-a-Grave
Yerba Buena Cemetery

General
- San Francisco death index - the book of the dead (FamilySearch)
  - A collection of index cards that include burial information from the Lone Mountain, Masonic, Mission Dolores, and Yerba Buena cemeteries.

Current Cemeteries

Grace Cathedral Columbarium

Grace Cathedral Columbarium
1100 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
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Notes:

Established 1985.

Mission Dolores

Mission Dolores
3321 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
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Records:

Notes:

Established 1776.

Marine Hospital Cemetery

Marine Hospital Cemetery (aka Old Sailor & Seaman's Cemetery)
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Presidio, San Francisco, CA
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Records:

San Francisco Columbarium

San Francisco Columbarium (aka Neptune Society Columbarium)
1 Loraine Court
San Francisco, CA 94118
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Records:

Notes:

Cremated Remains only.

San Francisco National Cemetery (Presidio)

San Francisco National Cemetery (aka Presidio Cemetery, Post Cemetery)
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Lincoln Blvd and Funston Avenue
Presidio, San Francisco, CA
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Records:

Notes:

Established 1884.