Miscellaneous
Dates of Existence: various.
Location: various.
Number interred: various.
Moved to: various.
“A CEMETERY. A committee has been appointed by the Protestant, Episcopal Church to confer with other city churches on the propriety of memorializing the Ayuntamiente to set aside a portion of the public domain for the purposes of a burial ground. We trust this worthy work will be carried forward, and we have no doubt the council will cheerfully pass the necessary regulations.”
Source: Daily Alta California, 16 August 1849.
“… At the junction of Stockton and Market streets, several graves have been discovered, and the bodies exposed. It of course is only necessary to call attention to the matter to have it remedied …”
Source: Daily Alta California, 31 July 1853, page 2.
“A NEW CEMETERY.—Observing a notice in the newspapers that a cemetery is about being established near this city [Lone Mountain], I owe it to the public, myself, and the gentlemen connected with me in a similar enterprise, to publish the following[:] Card: Some twelve months since, I proposed to several leading men in this city to establish a cemetery which would secure a desirable resting place for the dead … We propose that a mutual join stock company be formed … We are now in treaty for a piece of land with a good title, free from pre-emption, city, or Mexican claims, which we expect to purchase as soon as the owners returns from the States … B. SCROYER, Corner of Battery and Jackson streets.”
Source: Daily Alta California, 13 December 1853, page 2.
“BODY FOUND. —Yesterday afternoon Mr. Stedman, while engaged in digging earth for the purpose of filling in his garden, on the corner of Union and Trinity streets, discovered a large box, made of red wood, about six inches below the surface. On opening it, the body of a man, apparently a Spaniard, enveloped in blankets, was found in it. There were no marks of violence upon the body, and, from the condition it was in, it seemed to have been buried there about a year since. There was nothing by which the body could lie identified. Coroner Whaling took it in charge, and had it interred in Yerba Buena Cemetery.”
Source: Daily Alta California, 22 November 1854, page 2.
Kari Hervey-Lentz, in her 2022 thesis, identified 22 human remains found outside known cemeteries, spanning from 1850 to 1919.
Source: Hervey-Lentz, Kari L. (2022) “Remaking an Unmade Cultural Landscape: Mapping the Space and Exploring the Meaning of San Francisco’s Historical Cemeteries.” [Masters Dissertation, Sonoma State University] (San Francisco Cemetery Records)
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