Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery
The Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery is an urban cemetery in Santa Rosa , California . It was laid out in 1854 and today includes around 5,200 burial sites. In 1997 the cemetery was added to the California Historical Landmarks Register .
history
The cemetery was created in 1854 after a young Missouri man drowned in a pond near what was then downtown Santa Rosa. The man was buried on land that belonged to Doña Maria Ignacia Lopez de Carrillo, one of Santa Rosa's earliest settlers. In 1867 the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery Association was established, and official sales of grave sites began that same year.
By 1930, parts of the original property were sold and three other cemeteries ( Stanley , Moke , and Fulkerson Cemetery ) were established nearby. These cemeteries are now part of the entire complex of the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery.
After the cemetery had fallen into disrepair over decades, volunteers founded a Restoration Committee in 1994 , which has set itself the task of maintaining the cemetery and restoring the burial grounds. Today this volunteer committee organizes guided tours in the summer and autumn months, which introduce those who are interested in the history of the complex and those buried in the cemetery.
Graves and memorials (selection)
| People) | meaning | Year of death | Image of the tomb |
| Victims of the 1906 earthquake | Directly at today's entrance to the cemetery is a memorial for the 75 victims of the great earthquake of April 18, 1906, who were killed in Santa Rosa . In the immediate vicinity of the memorial there are anonymous graves for those victims who could not be identified. Many of the remaining victims are buried in the private family gravesites of the cemetery. | 1906 |
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| Colonel James Armstrong | James Armstrong (1824-1900) is the highest ranking officer of the Civil War , is buried in the cemetery. He was active in the Sonomas wood industry from 1874 and in 1880 donated an area of 490 acres of coastal redwood trees as the first part of the Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve, which is now 805 acres (equivalent to around 326 hectares) . | 1900 |
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| Albert Perry 'Boss' Overton | In 1873, Overton founded Santa Rosa's second banking house. In 1886 he held the post of mayor of the city. | 1898 |
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| Dr. Annabel McGaughey Stuart | During the Civil War, Annabel McGaughey Stuart (1840-1914) served as a doctor. She later became Santa Rosa's first female doctor. Her patients called her 'Dr. Dear '. | 1914 |
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| Mark Lindsay McDonald | For many years, the McDonalds were one of the defining families in the history of the city of Santa Rosa. Mark Lindsay McDonald, owner of the city's first waterworks, was the founder of the Santa Rosa tram (now defunct) and one of the most important citizens in the city's early history. |
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| Manville Doyle | Manville Doyle (1831-1916) founded the Exchange Bank in 1890 together with his son Frank. To date, the family's Doyle Scholarship Fund awards scholarships to students at Santa Rosa Junior College . | 1916 |
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| Alvina Nussbaum | Alvina Nussbaum worked as a cook on the ranch of the writer and journalist Jack London in Glen Ellen . | 1918 |
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| Fujimoto | The Fujimoto tombstone is one of the few tombstones for the numerous Asian residents in the history of the city of Santa Rosa. Chinese were barred from burials in the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery. |
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literature
- Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery. Historical Trail Self-Guided Tour (PDF; 49 kB), prepared by the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery Preservation Committee, City of Santa Rosa 2006.
Web links
- Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery , on the Santa Rosa City website.
Individual evidence
- ↑ On this and the following cf. About the Rural Cemetery ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from the City of Santa Rosa website, last accessed March 15, 2017.
- ↑ For information on these tours, see Tours and Events at the Rural Cemetery ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed on March 15, 2017.
Coordinates: 38 ° 27 '19.7 " N , 122 ° 42' 16.7" W.