(aka Odd Fellows Burying Ground)

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Dates of Existence: 1853 to ?
Location: Near Yerba Buena Cemetery.
Number interred: Unknown.
Note: This cemetery may never have existed.

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“Squatting on Cemetery Grounds. The climax of all outrages have been attained in the forcible seizure by the squatters of the Odd Fellows Cemetery Grounds. The cemetery was legally deeded by S[amuel] Brannan to the first Lodge established in the city more than two years ago, for the perpetual use of the Order, and has been in their possession since that time until the squatters seized it. They declare their intention of holding it at all hazards. In the mean time, the Order of Odd Fellows are taking steps to oust the sacrilegious wretches from the sacred resting place of the dead. If an argument had been wanting to show the depths to which perverted human nature can sink, it would have been furnished in this desecration of hallowed ground. It is bad enough for private property to be forcibly taken and held by armed bands of lawless desperadoes; but when even the hallowed spots dedicated to the burial of the dead are this outraged, patience ceases to be a virtue, and the public action is called for.”

Source: Daily Alta California, 22 July 1853, page 2.

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“ODD FELLOWS' BURYING GROUND.–Mr. Samuel Brannan has presented the I.O.O.F. [Independent Order of Odd Fellows] of San Francisco with a lot of ground near the Yerba Buena Cemetery, to be used as a burying ground.”

Source: Sacramento Daily Union, 28 November 1853, page 2.

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“The INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS dates its origin in this city from the same causes, for the same objects, and about the same time as the Masonic Order. In 1849, 'California Lodge, No. 1,' was established… Mr. S. Brannan, a member of “Templar Lodge, No. 17,” has presented the Order a valuable lot of ground on the Mission Road, for a cemetery.”

Source: Annals of San Francisco, Frank Soulé, et al. (1854), pages 712-713.

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