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BOOT HILL CEMETERY
A
Deserted Cemetery
The old, deserted cemetery on the Folsom
road about a mile from Roseville, for
years abandoned as a burial place, now
presents a desolate and dilapidated
appearance. The undergrowth has been
allowed to grow unhindered while the
fence of barb-wire is broken down. To
add to the desolation, fire swept over
the cemetery some years ago, and charred
posts and pickets are frequently seen.
It is certainly a deserted cemetery. At
one time many bodies were buried but
excavations in many places within the
enclosure show that surviving relatives
have removed the remains of their
beloved ones to some more inviting
places, and now not over a dozen graves
remain. One of the remaining tombstones
shows that the remains of a
two-months-old son of John and Eliza
Freeman died July 7, 1857. Another
tombstone shows that John and Rose Bane
were terribly afflicted, for they lost
three small sons within six weeks; two
of them dying on July 2, 1873, and the
third on August 11th following. At this
date it is quite probable that none of
the present residents of Roseville
remember the parents of the children
above referred or what became of them.
Maybe they, too, have gone to their
final reward.
[Roseville Register, 11-18-1909.
Submitted by K. Marynik]]
CHINESE CEMETERY
Cemetery Sheep “Mowers” Give Highway 49
Drivers Something to Chew On
An overgrown lot off Highway 49 in
Auburn is getting plenty of double-takes
from motorists since a herd of sheep
moved in and started chewing away
Tuesday. The 25 sheep and one guard
llama are making quick work of the star
thistle, vetch, and other weeds in the
Chinese Cemetery, an oak dotted, 2-acre
parcel near Nevada Street. The sheep and
Clara, a 200-pound-plus llama, were
delivered to the property Tuesday by
North Auburn farmer Dan Macon and were
soon grazing on the undergrowth,
oblivious to the heavy traffic rolling
along Highway 49 nearby. Macon’s Flying
Mule Farm hires out the herd to property
owners as an alternative to mowing or
spraying. It’s also seen as a way of
reducing fire danger by controlling dry
grass and brush. Richard Yue, a member
of the Joss House Museum Society in
Auburn, said Flying Mule Farm and its
sheep just made sense the 2-acre
property, near the Nevada Street
crossroad. “I try thinking out of the
box occasionally,” Yue said. “It seems
the main watchword these days is ‘Go
Green.’” The century-old cemetery –
bought by Yue’s grandfather for $10 in
gold – holds 11 members of pioneer
Chinese-American families in the area.
Upkeep has been done in the past by
volunteers and Placer County Jail
inmates. Macon said that the two-foot
high range of grasses and weeds would be
chewed down to the ground within a week.
More ewes are expected to arrive soon
from another area being grazed in the
Robie Point neighborhood, swelling the
number of sheep on the property to 50.
An electric fence keeps the sheep from
wandering out. Clara and the fence keep
predators from coming in. Dogs would be
the most likely attackers in the urban
Auburn environment, Macon said. “She’s
very territorial,” Macon said. “We
thought of bringing in dogs but they
would be stressed because of the level
of traffic.” Macon said that because of
the regular rain that has fallen on the
foothills throughout the spring, it has
been an amazing year for grass growth.
“But it also means there is a lot of
this stuff to control before it dries
out,” he said. The sight of livestock on
Highway 49 through Auburn is something
that hasn’t been seen for at least two
decades. “We’ve done public projects in
the past and people are just excited to
see them,” Macon said. “It’s something
you don’t see every day.”
[Auburn
Journal, 5-18-2010. Submitted by K.
Marynik]
COLFAX CEMETERY
Vandals Topple Headstones -
Several Suspects Are Believed to Have
Spent Two Hours Destroying Colfax
Cemetery's Historic Grave Markers.
Vandals who
toppled dozens of century-old headstones
at the Colfax Cemetery
have caused at least $100,000 in damage
and spurred a reward effort for
information leading to their arrest.
"I've never seen anything like this,"
said Craig Ballenger, superintendent of
the 20-acre cemetery on North Canyon Way
just off Interstate 80. "It's as if they
deliberately went after anything that
was old just to destroy it." Eighty-one
headstones were knocked over by what are
believed to be several suspects who
spent at least two hours destroying the
Gold Rush-era cemetery the night of Oct.
4. Among the headstones toppled was one
that marked the grave of an 8-month-old
infant who died in 1869 and markers for
a husband and wife buried in the late
19th century. Ballenger said damage to
just two of the old headstones could
total about $20,000. Several of the
headstones were made overseas decades
ago and cannot be duplicated. "I can't
figure it out," he said of the
vandalism. "It just almost makes you
sick." Placer County Crimestoppers is
offering a reward of up to $1,000 for
information leading to an arrest in the
incident. Callers can contact
Crimestoppers anonymously at (800)
923-8191. "I hope somebody with a
conscience will come forward," Ballenger
said. Many tombstones can be reset, but
about two dozen will require repair.
Those costs could be borne by someone
convicted for the vandalism, but the
cemetery district will not pay for the
work. Marie Hills, 84, who lives near
the cemetery, said she is puzzled by why
anyone would damage the site. "It's just
a shame," she said. "I can't even
understand what kick they got." Ocho
Bravo, 71, went to the cemetery Thursday
and saw that the grave site of his
uncle, Roque Bravo, had been spared.
"It's terrible what they've done," he
said of the perpetrators. Law
enforcement officials said they have
some physical evidence but are looking
for someone to help identify the
suspects. The vandalism included
toppling a headstone that reads, "An
Honest Man is the Noblest Work of God."
[Sacramento
Bee, 10-13-2002. Submitted by K.
Marynik]
COLFAX INDIAN CEMETERY (aka COLFAX
INDIAN BURIAL GROUNDS)
Why Lock Cemetery Gate? Native Americans
Want Answers – Community, Colfax City
Council Upset
For reasons that are not entirely clear,
the Colfax-Todds Valley Consolidated
Tribe has been locked out of the Colfax
Indian Cemetery since January. About a
dozen members and friends of the tribe
asked the Colfax City Council Tuesday
night to unlock the gate to the
cemetery. Council members listened in
surprise and shock as tribal spokeswoman
Judy Marks read a prepared statement:
“[The cemetery] has long been the
cremation and burial site of our
ancestors — the Miwok, Maidu and Nisenan
— who once lived in this region. They
used the area for spiritual and
ceremonial purposes, and our rights to
continue to do so have been ignored and
terminated. “It has been told to us that
if we were to lose a loved one, at this
point we would not be able to bury them
alongside their family,” she continued.
“We would like to reach some common
agreement with the city to let us gain
access to the land that was taken away
unjustly and without warning.” Other
members of the tribe and friends, some
near tears, explained how important the
cemetery is to them and why they want to
be allowed to tend the graves and
conduct ceremonies sacred to their
community. According to a March 16
letter Marks wrote to the city, “Placer
County has issued a request through
Craig Ballenger, Colfax city cemetery
manager, to have the tribe purchase the
land containing the Indian Cemetery ASAP
due to … the liability to the county.”
“The city will do what it can,” Council
member Steve Harvey pledged, adding, “We
don’t hold the strings on this.” About
size of a house lot, the Indian Cemetery
is just outside the city limits at the
intersection of S. Canyon Way and Iowa
Hill Road. The city has no jurisdiction
over the cemetery. Rob Haswell, Placer
County Supervisor Jennifer Montgomery’s
aide, told the Record Wednesday morning
that Colfax’s cemetery district is an
independent entity. “We [the county]
don’t really have any jurisdiction at
all.” Cemetery District Manager
Ballenger responded that the county
counsel’s office advised the district to
lock the cemetery because the liability
risk was too high. He said the tribe had
clear-cut about 10 Ponderosa pines
without consulting the district.
Additionally, hand-digging graves and
bonfires are considered dangerous
activities at the cemetery. “We’re lucky
nobody’s been hurt,” he said, explaining
the district could not afford to be sued
again. He emphasized he is personally
sympathetic to the tribe’s plight.
Apparently, there is a $3,000 mall
claims court decision against the
district for a tree that blew down in a
storm and damaged a neighbor’s fence.
Ballenger said that incident made the
district realize it could not afford the
risk exposure. County counsel’s advice
to the district was to sell the
property. Haswell indicated Wednesday he
was unable to find evidence the county
counsel’s office had — or would — advise
the district about how to handle the
liability issue. Meanwhile, Ballenger
stated the district offered to sell the
property — appraised at $80,000 to
$100,000 — to the tribe for $37,000.
Ballenger asserted the Auburn Indian
Community is in the process of buying
the property. However, the Record was
unable to confirm this information as of
press time. In her presentation Tuesday
night, Marks noted her tribe could not
afford to buy the cemetery. She
acknowledged that some members of the
Auburn tribe are buried there, but she
said the Colfax-Todds Valley tribe wants
to own their ancestral burial ground.
Tuesday night, community members Robbie
Robinson and Elan Vitkoff both spoke out
in support of the tribe. Vitkoff
announced she was organizing a community
meeting with the tribe at 7 p.m. on
Thursday, May 7 at the old Colfax
Pharmacy building, 30 N. Main St. Mayor
Suzanne Roberts explained that, as much
as the council members wanted to, they
legally could not vote on a resolution
of support since the issue was not an
action item on the agenda.
[Colfax
Record, 4-30-2009. Submitted by K.
Marynik]
Little Peace for Colfax Indian Cemetery
- Suit Raises Access, Ownership Issues
When a tree falls in the Colfax Indian
Cemetery, who hears it? Kathy Keck and
her dogs, cats, goats and horses did
when one of the cemetery's giant
Ponderosa pines crushed part of her
fence one stormy February night in 2007.
So began a controversy that closed the
cemetery where local chiefs are buried
and raised an outcry from area Indians
who claim their religious freedom is
being violated. Keck, whose family has
lived in harmony with the cemetery and
the Maidu, Miwok and Nisenan who have
used it since the 1800s, sued in small
claims court and won $3,000 from the
Colfax Cemetery
District. Until Keck's suit, both the
district and the Colfax Todds Valley
Consolidated Tribe believed the Indians
owned the cemetery. The Indians still
think so, but the district had to pay
off Keck's lawsuit, forcing it to lock
the cemetery in January because it had
no liability insurance and couldn't
afford to pay off any more lawsuits.
"It's a story about a clash of culture,"
said Helen Wayland of the all-volunteer
Colfax Cemetery
District board. Fellow board member John
Dugan said he feels like he's been
demonized as "the hated white man."
Dugan, a retired auto parts manager for
a Bay Area Cadillac dealership, rues the
day he volunteered for the cemetery
board, which he calls "the most
thankless job I've ever done in my
life." The district recently bought
month-to-month insurance and unlocked
the cemetery gate May 14, but the
conditions only inflamed the CTVC tribe,
the unrecognized band of Indians who are
the primary users of the burial ground.
To insure the property, the district had
to agree graves could no longer be dug
by hand, and no alcohol would be allowed
on the grounds. If the Indians don't
sign a letter agreeing to these
conditions, the locks will have to go
back on until somebody else buys the
half-acre cemetery for $37,000. Steve
Prout, vice chairman of the 300-member
tribe, nearly wept after reading the
conditions next to his father's grave
last Wednesday. "We don't even drink, we
don't allow that," he said. Prout and
other members are hurt more by the ban
on traditional Indian burials. Prout and
his family hand-dug his mother Lola
Prout's grave in December 2007, just
before the tree fell on it. "It's
heartbreaking to lose our traditions,"
said Judy Marks. "We have -- ever since
anyone can remember -- hand-dug graves.
That's not just our tribe but all native
tribes." Wayland said the ban on alcohol
and hand-dug graves applies to all
Colfax cemeteries. "We have the same
guidelines for our cemetery where the
white people are buried," she said. "We
don't allow parties out there with
alcohol on the premises, and digging
graves by hand is against state law."
Wayland, who has lived in Colfax since
1955 and belongs to the Colfax
Historical Society, recognizes the
native burial ground's long history.
"Since the late 1800s, the Indians have
pretty much had free rein and done their
own burials and their own digging," she
said. "It's almost full." The tribe,
like dozens of other bands of landless
California Indians, was given a
rancheria. It was located on Highway 174
along the Bear River, but the tribe
never occupied it because it sits on a
cliff. "It was undesirable back then and
it's probably worse now," said Marks.
"Because we never lived on it, the
property was sold and we lost our
federal recognition when the federal
government terminated the rancheria in
the 1960s." The tribe, which has traced
its local ancestry back to the Gold
Rush, has been working on federal
recognition for eight years, Marks said.
But the tribe, whose members are
scattered throughout the foothills, has
no money for lawyers, let alone the
$37,000 the district is asking for the
cemetery, Prout said. Dugan said the
district -- which was deeded the Indian
cemetery in 1961 -- can't just give the
land to the Indians for free. The
recession has taken its toll on the
cemetery business. "People can't afford
to die -- we've had one full burial this
year," he said. More people are opting
for cremation, given the average $2,000
price of a full burial, said cemetery
manager Craig Ballenger. The district
board would love to see the tribe -- or
another tribe -- take ownership and
responsibility for the half-acre plot
dotted with yellow California poppies.
Then the Indians could bury their dead
however they saw fit, Dugan said. "We
want the Indians to own the property and
be gone and done with it." "We're not
selling it to developers from Reno,"
added Ballenger. The United Auburn
Indian Community -- which operates
Thunder Valley Casino -- also has
ancestors buried there and is
considering buying the property, said
spokesman Doug Elmets. "We're in
discussions with the cemetery district
to possibly assist in preserving the
cemetery for Native Americans who may be
buried there in the future," Elmets
said. "It's yet to be defined what roles
the district and the tribes will play."
The Colfax-area tribe has cut down
several other giant Ponderosa pines in
the cemetery to minimize the liability,
said Prout. The 100-foot-tall tree with
the 6-foot base that crushed Kathy
Keck's fence also fell on the graves of
Prout's mother and brother. Prout's
nephew, Clyde Prout, was finally able to
get into the cemetery on his 18th
birthday, so he could honor the memory
of his mom, who died when he was about 6
years old. The need to preserve the
native cemetery has taken on a sense of
urgency in recent years as elders are
stricken with diabetes and heart
problems, "which often are hand-in-hand
with native peoples," Marks said. Keck,
who has lived across the street for 50
years, was friends with Prout's mother
and gave the Indians a large military
flag to put in the cemetery. She said
the Indians have always dug their graves
by hand except for one chief from
Foresthill whose grave was dug by a
backhoe last year. Keck makes no
apologies for her lawsuit. "If that tree
fell the other way they'd have been
after me like a duck on a June bug," she
said.
[Sacramento
Bee, 5-26-2009.
Submitted
by K. Marynik]
Deadline Set for Sale of Indian Cemetery
– Tribe Given Until August 1 to Obtain
Funds
The
Colfax Cemetery
District
board has set a deadline of Aug. 1 to
resolve ownership of the Colfax Indian
Cemetery. Members of the Colfax-Todds
Valley Consolidated Tribe have been
attempting to acquire the property since
last spring’s controversial decision to
lock the gates to the burial grounds on
So. Canyon Way near Iowa Hill Road.
After settling a lawsuit over property
damage caused by a tree falling into a
residence next to the property, the
cemetery board realized it could not
afford liability insurance on the land
and closed it to the public. Angry
feelings ran high for several months
until the board obtained insurance and
unlocked the gates in time for 2009
Memorial Day ceremonies. Since then,
tempers have cooled between the district
and the tribe, but the issue remains
unresolved. The board has offered to
sell the land to the tribe for $30,000.
Several reported deals to purchase the
cemetery have fallen through, but
increasingly, the district and tribe are
working together to find a common
solution. “We want the tribe to have the
cemetery, but we can’t give it away,”
board member John Dugan said in an
earlier interview. As he explained at
the April 29 meeting, the law requires
the district to sell the property to a
legal entity. Loomis resident Judy
Marks, a member of the tribe, confirmed
the existence of the Todds Valley Miwok
Maidu Cultural Foundation, a non-profit
corporation that may be able to enter
into a purchase agreement. Marks said
the tribe is working with the LaPena Law
Corp. of Sacramento to develop a plan
for transfer of ownership. At last
week’s meeting, Dugan offered Marks a
number of documents, including
information on how the tribe could
obtain a $30,000 “minority small
business loan.” Dugan’s plan suggested
that if 50 members of the 300-member
tribe each pledged $10 a month for five
years, the purchase could be completed.
Trustee terms in office have expired.
The terms of the three cemetery district
trustees expired on May 1. However, the
three trustees – John Dugan, Helen
Wayland and Charles Gray – are expected
to remain in office until the Placer
County Board of Supervisors either
reappoints or replaces them. Dugan and
Wayland hinted they might not accept
reappointment. Gray, who is recovering
from triple bypass heart surgery, was
not available for comment. Pat Mahlberg,
field representative for Placer County
District 5 Supervisor Jennifer
Montgomery, said Tuesday there are
currently six applications on file for
appointment to the board and
applications are still being accepted.
An applicant must live within the
cemetery district boundaries. The Bear
and American rivers delineate the east
and west boundaries, while the north and
south boundaries range from Alpine
Meadows to Heather Glen. Supervisor
Jennifer Montgomery will submit the
proposed board members to the Board of
Supervisors for approval. Applications
can be obtained from the Clerk of the
Placer County Board of Supervisors, 175
Fulweiler Ave. in Auburn. Call 889-4020
for more information.
[Colfax
Record, 5-6-2010. Submitted by K.
Marynik]
DEADWOOD CEMETERY
Getting Out From Under a Cemetery -
Owner Can’t Sell It, Can’t Give It Away
Rod Delmue can't sell off a 60-acre
parcel he owns here because it contains
the local cemetery. His options are to
go into the private cemetery business or
give the historic, 130-year-old cemetery
away. Delmue has told officials he
doesn't want to be in the burial
business, and there's nobody to give the
graveyard to. So this week he carried
his Catch-22 to the Placer County Board
of Zoning Appeals. The matter couldn't
be untangled in an hour-long discussion,
and it was continued to July 15. The
cemetery, which has only eight to 10
burials per year, is the stumbling block
in Delmue's plan to split the 60-acre
parcel four ways. The 2.5-acre cemetery,
dating from the 1850s, would be part of
one of the newly created lots. Delmue
only recently bought the land for
resale, but under county Planning
Commission conditions that he appealed
Wednesday, he must either operate a
private memorial park or donate the
grave sites to a cemetery district.
Although preliminary talks are under way
to form one, there's no such district in
the Foresthill area. The cemetery is on
a hillside on the east edge of this
unincorporated community of 4,000.
According to an Auburn mortician,
Foresthill families historically have
been able to claim burial plots of their
choosing at no cost -- so long as the
site had no previous occupants: Although
there are some head stones and other
markers, many of the graves date back
more than a century and there are no
records to refer to. "It's been going
since the 1850s, and it's pretty darn
full,'' said Foresthill resident George
Grant. "It is sort of a non-cemetery
cemetery,'' said Planning Department
spokesman Dean Prigmore. "It does not
exist under state law, but it is
there.'' "We do have a unique situation.
It is neither a private nor a public
cemetery,'' added Lyle Rose, deputy
county counsel. And Rose told the zoning
board that the matter may get even more
complicated for Delmue: The cemetery is
almost full, and in order to donate it,
Delmue would have to add more property
so it could accommodate more burials.
Gerda Percival, a member of the appeals
board, said Foresthill's is one of many
old cemeteries maintained by volunteers.
"This has been a terrible problem for
Mr. Delmue. I believe he is caught in
the absolute Catch-22 situation.'' Legal
counsel Rose said cemetery records are
virtually non-existent. "There have been
people buried there within the last
month. There are no plots and no records
that identify who may be there. It's a
guess,'' Rose said. Rose suggested
Delmue may be able to proceed by
submitting a new map with four parcels
and a so-called "remainder'' containing
the cemetery. The remainder couldn't be
sold but might be deeded to a cemetery
district. For Delmue, a
fourth-generation Foresthill resident
whose father is buried in the cemetery,
his efforts to get what he hoped would
be normal approval have turned into a
frustrating ordeal. He started dealing
with the county Planning Commission in
January, and said Thursday the delays
are "costing us thousands of dollars a
month'' because he must keep up the
payments but still cannot sell the lots.
"We're just frustrated beyond what we
could have imagined.'' Delmue said he is
working on a plan that would include the
four-way split with the cemetery
separate, as recommended by Rose. A
committee headed by George Grant is
working to determine the feasibility of
a cemetery district. He said any
election to form a district would be at
least a year away. Other cemeteries in
the area include the Foresthill Catholic
Cemetery and graveyards at Spring
Garden, Todd Valley, Michigan Bluff and
Yankee Jim's. "There's lots of those
throughout the foothills, and from
Alturas to Imperial,'' said John Gill,
executive officer of the State Cemetery
Board in Sacramento. He said his board
doesn't govern cemeteries of less than
10 acres or those operated by public
agencies, districts or religious groups.
By Gill's estimate, there are 2,000
cemeteries in California. About 10 per
cent of those, with 10 or more burials
per year, are considered active, he
said.
[Sacramento
Bee, 6-19-1987. Submitted by K. Marynik]
CEMETERY DISTRICT IN PLACER URGED
Residents of the Foresthill Divide
would abandon their do-it-yourself
cemetery system in favor of an
official district under a proposal
headed for a Dec. 1 meeting of the
Placer County Local Agency Formation
Commission.
The taxing plan, if approved by the
commission and by voters in a
subsequent election, would be a
low-budget measure, raising $18,650
per year to provide insurance and
maintenance on nine small but still
active cemeteries. "They really
require low maintenance because it's
a natural environment, with no
lawns,'' said Ruthe McKee, assistant
executive officer of the commission.
""Some of the cemeteries haven't
been maintained at all. They're
under the underbrush.'' The
cemeteries are in mountain
communities such as Foresthill,
Spring Garden, Todd Valley and
Yankee Jim's and date from Gold Rush
days. In an age of government
restrictions, the graveyards still
operate under a single, simple
guideline: Select a grave site
that's not occupied.
A
group of Foresthill citizens
petitioned LAFCO to establish the
district in order to preserve the
sites and keep them open for future
use, according to McKee. If
approved, the measure to form an
83-square-mile cemetery district
could be on the June primary ballot,
said McKee. The sparsely settled
district has 3,765 residents, who
would pay an annual assessment of
$10 per developed parcel and $3 for
each undeveloped lot, she said. The
district would be run by a
five-member board of directors
appointed by the Placer County Board
of Supervisors.
The
bygone age of unrestricted
graveyards clashed with the present
era of complicated land-use planning
procedures last July during a Placer
County Board of Zoning Appeals
hearing in Auburn. Foresthill
resident Rod Delmue sought county
approval for a four-way split of a
60-acre parcel on which the 2.5-acre
Foresthill Cemetery
is located. During those
proceedings, the board found itself
giving official notice to an
unofficial cemetery, one that
technically is neither private nor
public. Plot maps and burial records
have never been kept on the site,
the board noted. At one point it
appeared that Delmue would have to
go into the cemetery business or
give the graveyard away -- but there
was no entity to take the donation.
The parcel split eventually was
approved with the proviso that the
cemetery would be set aside and
absorbed by a future district. "I
think that the cemetery district
would just make things a little more
organized,'' Delmue said Tuesday.
""The way it is now, I guess I'm
still officially responsible for it.
But I don't want to know if
somebody's buried. I don't really
want the responsibility.''
[Sacramento Bee, Wednesday, November
18, 1987. Submitted by Kathie Kloss
Marynik.]
LINCOLN CEMETERY
Cemetery Is Short of Space, Records
The unmarked graves of Lincoln Cemetery
tell no tales, so officials are relying
on the living to help fill in the holes
about who's buried where. Placer County
Cemetery District No. 1, headquartered
in Lincoln, has a dual problem: Burial
records were destroyed by a fire in the
1950s, and the main cemetery in Lincoln
is running out of room. The 11-acre
Lincoln Cemetery
will use up its space in six to eight
years, and perhaps sooner if the city of
6,225 continues its rapid growth. But
District Superintendent Roger N. Jerez
just isn't sure how much undisturbed
soil is left. It is a matter of probing
unmarked ground and prodding the public
to help piece together the puzzle. "In
certain areas we have to probe more to
see if there are graves,'' he said. "I'd
say there are 25 to 30 percent of the
graves that are unmarked.'' The
district's three cemeteries -- Lincoln,
Sheridan and rural Manzanita -- hold an
estimated 7,000 or 8,000 graves, Jerez
said. While the latter two still have
ample space, the majority of district
residents are Lincolnites who want to be
buried in their hometown, he said. "The
records we'll never get back. And a lot
of old folks that do know just never
make it over here to tell us,'' Jerez
said as he sat at his desk in the
district's new office at the
Lincoln Cemetery
"It's a shame because we're just losing
history here. A big chunk of Lincoln's
past is missing,” he said. "Anything
from the late 1950s I have. Prior to
that, it's hit and miss.'' Lost are
names of people originally buried in
unmarked graves or beneath wooden
placards. "We probably have more space
here than we think we do; we just have
to know for sure,'' said Melinda
Landrith, the district's
secretary-bookkeeper. ''You have to
probe to make sure. If we do hit
something we have to leave it alone and
go to another spot. With the growth
that's occurring, we don't know how fast
we are going to fill up,'' Landrith
said. Manzanita has a lot of ranch hands
who were buried in the family plots of
the ranchers, but there are no
markers,'' she said. “A lot of the
old-timers are gone. There's not a lot
of people left to say somebody's buried
right here,'' she said as she meandered
through 10-acre Manzanita Cemetery.
Manzanita, on a knoll in pastureland
north of Lincoln, looks like a gold
rush-era Boot Hill. It dates from the
1850s, when the Lincoln area lured gold-
seeking immigrants. The six-acre
cemetery for the community of Sheridan,
located a few miles to the northwest,
has a section containing the graves of
Russian immigrants and succeeding
generations. "This area was a melting
pot because of the mining, but not all
of the people mined. They had stores and
made their living that way,'' Landrith
said. She has done extensive independent
research on the cemeteries of the Sierra
Nevada foothills. She and her partner in
research, Anita DuVall, have compiled
data from the headstones of 300
cemeteries from Tuolumne County to
Plumas County. "I have been chased out
of cemeteries by pot farmers, and I have
been chased out by gold miners with a
gun,'' Landrith said of some of her
backwoods excursions. In places where
burial records are gone, the research
narrows down to the grave marker.
"There's just the headstone. If there's
no other record, there's nowhere else
you can go,'' she said. That is the
situation in the southeast sector of the
Manzanita Cemetery, where large oak
trees have grown up in the hard, red
dirt holding some of the earliest
graves. Rain, wind, sun and vandalism
have taken their toll, destroying,
breaking, or scattering the markers, and
hindering research, she said.
[Sacramento
Bee, 9-17-1988. Submitted by K. Marynik]
Empty Grave – Lawsuit Finds Holes in
Historical Record -
Father's Body Missing at Lincoln
Cemetery – Family Frustrated That Last
Wish of Mother, 105, Can’t Be Fulfilled
A body
recently discovered missing from a
Placer County cemetery has raised
questions over the whereabouts of others
buried there more than 100 years ago.
"We don't know where he is," said Mario
Farinha, the 75-year-old son of Frank
Farinha, who died Dec. 3, 1947, and was
buried at the Lincoln Cemetery. The
father's remains were discovered missing
in late January when family members
attempted to disinter the body from the
11-acre Lincoln graveyard. They want to
bury him next to his wife in a cemetery
in Auburn. Mary Farinha's last wish was
to be buried next to her husband at the
Lincoln Cemetery, but cemetery officials
said that because of missing burial
records, the adjacent plot was sold to
another woman. The mix-ups have sparked
a lawsuit in Placer Superior Court,
focusing attention on record-keeping
irregularities at historical cemeteries.
Thinking that the other woman had been
buried over Frank Farinha, whose
62-year-old double tombstone had been
moved slightly, the family had the
woman's grave opened. Another later
excavation and ground probing also
yielded no sign of Frank Farinha, who
the family says was buried in a metal
coffin. "To watch them digging and then
to find there wasn't anything there was
traumatic," said the 70-year-old
daughter, Teresa Farinha, her eyes
welling with tears as she talked about
the diggings in January and February
witnessed by at least 15 people,
including an anthropologist and a
mortician. Named as defendants in the
legal action are the Lincoln Cemetery
and the Placer County Cemetery District
No. 1, the agency that runs the public
memorial park. Placer County, which
appoints the agency's five trustees,
also is named, but attorneys for the
county contend the cemetery district
operates independently. Robert William
Hunt, the Roseville attorney who
represents the Lincoln cemetery
district, along with 25 other cemeteries
in the region, said records exist for
Frank Farinha's plot, but no documents
or receipts have been found showing a
burial site was purchased for his wife.
Various cemetery records over the years,
including large ledgers filled with
pages of hand-drawn plots and scribbled
names, are missing, Hunt said. They are
believed lost in a fire or misplaced in
a transfer of ownership, he said.
According to local historian Jerry
Logan, the Lincoln Cemetery was
established in 1867. From the beginning,
the site was operated by six
organizations, including the Masons, the
Odd Fellows, and a Catholic church that
oversaw a one-acre parcel called the
Catholic section. "There was not much
record keeping done by the
organizations," said Logan, a former
Placer County cemetery district trustee.
The Catholic section, where Frank
Farinha was buried, now holds the
remains of about 600 Catholics. In 1954,
the Catholic section was transferred to
Placer County, both sides in the lawsuit
agree. "When that transfer took place,
there was no transfer of documents,"
Hunt said. "Over the years, we have
attempted to create some records, and in
the intervening years, this is the first
problem we have encountered," Hunt said
of the Farinha suit. The cemetery's
recently retired senior manager, Sandra
Calise, found a record that shows a plot
was sold for Frank Farinha, but other
questions remain. "It is not known when
the plot book was received by the church
or whether it was created after the
transfer," Calise said in a declaration
contained in the suit. Ralph E. Laird,
the Farinha family's attorney, said the
Farinha tombstone has been in the
graveyard for six decades. It is strong
evidence that supports the family's
contentions that both the father and
mother would be buried there, Laird
claims. The double headstone was
inscribed with the family name on top,
the father's name on the left side and a
blank space on the right for the
mother's. "They considered it bad luck
to put someone's name on a headstone if
they weren't dead," said Teresa Farinha.
Bob La Perriere, an expert on historical
cemeteries in the Sacramento region,
said it is not uncommon to use a
headstone as documentation when records
of graves have been lost or damaged.
"Unfortunately, poor record keeping is
not unusual," La Perriere said. Lyndell
Grey said her family discovered there
were problems with Lincoln Cemetery
records in 1998 when looking for a place
for her father's ashes. "We couldn't
tell where our plots began and others
ended," Grey said. The questionable
record keeping was particularly
distressing because Grey's grandmother,
Mildred Grey, was the Lincoln city
clerk, whose duties included keeping
cemetery records. She was clerk for 28
years, beginning in 1924. The
grandmother was married to Ed Grey, a
former justice of the peace then known
as the unofficial "mayor of Lincoln,"
local historians said. "I remember when
I was a girl, she would be working on
the ledgers on the kitchen table,"
Lyndell Grey, now 62, said of her
grandmother. "She would keep them at
home because there was no office at the
cemetery," Grey said. The Grey family
handed over the ledgers to the cemetery
district in 1952 when Mildred Grey
retired, the younger Grey said. Hunt
said there are unconfirmed reports that
ledgers other than those for Catholic
section were destroyed in a fire in the
1950s. Teresa Farinha said her mother,
who died in January 2008 at age 105,
would have wanted to get to the bottom
of the mix-up. "She was a fighter, a
fighter big-time," Teresa Farinha said.
"Things like this are not supposed to
happen."
[Sacramento
Bee, 3-23-2009. Submitted by K. Marynik]
Frank Farinha’s body is still missing
but his descendents have settled a legal
dispute with the Lincoln cemetery he was
buried in 64 years ago. According to
terms of a settlement made public
Tuesday, four Farinha family members –
Terry, Ernest and Mario, of the Auburn
area, and Lorraine Adams of Southern
California – are being paid a total of
$200,000. The Roman Catholic Church’s
Northern California diocese will pay
$25,000 and Placer County Cemetery
District No. 1 will pay $175,000. Ralph
Laird, Auburn attorney for the Farinha
family, said extensive efforts were made
at the cemetery to find the body of
Frank Farinha, who died in 1947.
“Unfortunately, they never did find the
remains of Mr. Farinha and at this
point, I doubt they ever will be found,”
Laird said. The family sued after the
death of Frank Farinha’s widow, Mary
Farinha in early 2008. She had lived to
be 105 and the family requested she be
buried next to Frank’s plot. The
cemetery refused the burial despite the
fact that Frank Farinha’s grave marker
in Lincoln was a double headstone, with
room on one side for his wife’s name and
dates of birth and death. When the
cemetery said there was no record of a
second plot for Mary, the family asked
for Frank’s body to be exhumed so it
could be placed next to Mary’s at the
New Auburn Cemetery in Auburn. According
to Laird, the Farinha family’s attempts
to have the cemetery district exhume the
body under the marker were not
successful. An adjacent vault for a
resident buried in 2007 was opened on
the premise the Farinha body rested
underneath it. But nothing was found,
Laird said. The cemetery district dug up
adjacent plots in an attempt to find the
Frank Farinha remains and also probed
with sonar in other nearby locations
without success, Laird said. The family
sued on the grounds that Frank Farinha’s
remains had been mishandled, leading to
the recent six-figure settlement. The
Catholic Church was the original
operator of the cemetery and it was
later taken over by the cemetery
district. Complicating the case was the
initial stance by the cemetery district
that – despite the double headstone –
proof was needed in the form of a
receipt to show that two plots had
initially been purchased. The plot next
to Frank Farinha intended for Mary
Farinha had been used for another
burial. Mary Farinha’s daughter, Terry,
eventually did find a receipt, some time
after the family decided to disinter
Frank Farinha’s remains for reburial in
Auburn – resulting in the discovery that
the remains of a man who had died in
1947 were not there. Attorneys for both
the church and cemetery district could
not be reached for comment.
[Lincoln News-Messenger, Tuesday, 1-18-2011. Submitted by K. Marynik]
MANZANITA CEMETERY
Oldest Cemetery Quiet Reminder of Past
Manzanita Cemetery is the oldest in
Placer County Cemetery District No. 1.
Founded in 1855, its gravestones are
memorials to a community as well as to
the individuals who lie beneath them.
The history of the farmland of northern
Placer is written on the granite faces
of the markers, where the passage of
plagues can be gauged by the lists of
dead children. A certain artistry is
recorded as well, from elaborate granite
curls marking a grave to the concrete
tree stump and its imitation rough-hewn
rope and wood sign bearing the names of
the dead to the hand-carved fence
surrounding the plot of a nameless
family. But the burial ground is not
just a historical site; plots still are
being sold to the 10,000 to 15,000
people who live within the cemetery
district boundaries. Only 1,000 plots
remain, Talbot said. A few hundred more
are available at the district's other
two cemeteries in Lincoln and Sheridan.
Land has not been reserved for
cemeteries in new developments in South
Lincoln, such as Twelve Bridges, where
as many as 38,000 people are expected to
live and, perhaps, die. "We've got the
baby boomers coming of age to get
buried," said Dave Talbot, manager of
grounds for the district. "There's a
bunch of us." "Most people don't like to
think about the fact that they will be
in a cemetery," said district board
member Barbara Vineyard, noting the gaps
between supply and potential demand for
grave sites.
[Sacramento Bee, 11-10-1994. Submitted
by K. Marynik]
Manzanita Cemetery Vandalized
More than 150
gravesites at Manzanita Cemetery were
vandalized this week. Headstones,
fences, and flower vases were knocked
over and several stones were broken.
Some of the headstones date back to the
1870s. The damage was discovered Sunday
afternoon by Michael Lane, according to
Lane’s sister, Ann Lewis. “He got there,
and as soon as he pulled up, he could
see it (the damage),” Lewis said. Peter
Barmettler, the Placer County Cemetery
District One manager, said the damage
”is believed to have happened Saturday
night” because Lane visited the cemetery
Saturday at 5:30 p.m. and “everything
was fine” but saw the damage at 2 p.m.
Sunday.
Manzanita Cemetery
is near the corner of Gladding and
Manzanita Roads. Barmettler estimates
the damage is $100,000 and said some
stones can be uprighted while others
will have to be repaired. “I’m
estimating 150 to 200 grave sites were
damaged, and a lot of them are in the
historic part of the cemetery. Some are
150 years old,” Barmettler said. Some
older headstones broke into pieces,
according to Barmettler. The Placer
County Sheriff’s Department is
investigating the vandalism, according
to Barmettler, and those arrested could
face up to one year in prison. “I think
it’s pretty disgusting and it’s pretty
thoughtless. Whoever did this had to
have not thought about how the families
would be affected,” Barmettler said.
While cemeteries “get vandalism from
time to time,” Barmettler said, “there
hasn’t been vandalism to this degree at
any of our cemeteries.” Crews have
started cleaning up the cemetery, making
small repairs and putting some grave
markers back up as of Wednesday,
according to Barmettler. Pat Clinton of
Lincoln was at Manzanita Cemetery on
Tuesday afternoon to make sure the
gravesites of his family members were
not harmed. “We’re fortunate that
nothing happened to ours,” Clinton said.
“I think it’s devastating. A lot of the
old stones, I don’t think they can be
repaired.” Barbara Vineyard, a cemetery
trustee, said some of the first pioneers
are buried at the cemetery. “I think
it’s a terrible destruction of history
and it’s not just history,” Vineyard
said. “To me, it is a sacred place and
to destroy monuments in that sacred
place is unbelievable.” Lewis said her
brother visits the grave of his son,
Michael Lane, Jr., daily, and his
headstone was damaged as well. “We have
two benches out there and they weren’t
able to pick them up and throw them, so
they flipped them over and broke
everything they could,” Lewis said. The
vandals gouged her nephew’s headstone,
according to Lewis. “I’m in shock right
now,” Lewis said. “I can’t believe
somebody would be that hateful and mean
and uncaring.” Anyone with information
and tips about who committed the
vandalism are urged to call 1 (800)
78-CRIME or go online to wetip.com to
leave an anonymous tip. [Lincoln
News-Messenger, Wednesday, 11-17-2010.
Submitted by K. Marynik]
NEWCASTLE CEMETERY
Newcastle Cemetery Rests in Peace
If you've got a question about
cemeteries, ask Gene Gieck. "You're not
inclined to see cemeteries," said Gieck,
a Rocklin resident who serves as a
trustee on the Newcastle, Rocklin,
Gold Hill Cemetery
District. "I see them all the time
wherever I go. If you drive a Ford you
notice other Fords," added Gieck,
explaining that as a cemetery district
trustee he notices gravesites. The usual
public profile for the five-member
cemetery district board is as low as the
gravestones that dot the agency's four
cemeteries, although a controversy hit
the neighboring Roseville Cemetery
District last year. Board members in
Roseville a separate agency from the
Newcastle-Rocklin district fired a
supervisor in a dispute some saw as
mostly local politics. The discord was
the first introduction for many people
to the property-tax supported agencies,
whose members are appointed by the
county Board of Supervisors. More
typically, the cemetery districts
operate as quietly as a graveside burial
ceremony, although even those don't
always go to form. At the Newcastle
Cemetery, a funeral for a gypsy included
a family member chopping off a chicken
head as part of the ceremony. A biker's
burial was marked by sprinkling whiskey
over the casket. Normally, however,
Newcastle and the other cemeteries
operate with the decorum associated with
such places. Nearly 200 people are
buried yearly, most at the hillside
Newcastle cemetery. Ophir, added to the
district four years ago, hasn't had a
burial since 1902. The
Gold Hill Cemetery
averages about one burial a year. The
largest of four cemeteries in the
Newcastle-Rocklin-Gold Hill Cemetery
District, Newcastle could persuade a
just-scatter-my-ashes-when-I'm-gone type
that maybe a burial plot and gravestone
really is a proper final resting place.
"It's a beautiful cemetery," said
cemetery district trustee Gordon
Takemoto of Loomis. Some residents of
Rocklin choose burial at the Newcastle
site. "People like the hillside," said
Linda Johnson, district secretary. On a
January morning, amid the rolling green
foothills that surround the grounds,
it's easy to understand why some
gravesites at the century-old cemetery
are visited daily by family members.
"We're glad to have them come out," Bill
Emerson, district superintendent, said.
Some bring music, some lunch to eat
beside the graves. "You never get over
it, because they're gone," Emerson said
of losing loved ones. For visitors to
the cemetery, off Taylor Road a mile
from downtown Newcastle, "we just try to
make it as pleasant for them as
possible." Emerson, 37, who began
working at the district as a
groundskeeper, moved up to foreman and
now as superintendent, oversees the four
cemeteries in the district: Newcastle; a
Rocklin cemetery on Kanasto Street; one
in Gold Hill, between Newcastle and
Lincoln; and one in Ophir, off Boot Hill
Lane. "Two wet ones and two dry ones,"
said Gieck referring to water supplies
available to the cemetery sites. The
older, rarely used cemeteries lack water
supplies. More than two dozen people a
day may visit the cemeteries, where each
gravestone is its own story. "Born 1925,
Died 1925," reads one in Newcastle. "To
the memory of my husband," reads another
marking the death of a Norway native who
died in 1880 at the age of 52. "Sleep in
Jesus' blessed sleep, from which none
ever wake to weep." A 1922 Civil War
Memorial, dedicated to the patriotism of
Union soldiers, is at the Newcastle
Cemetery, which is also the burial spot
for many Japanese-Americans. The Placer
Buddhist Church often holds burial
ceremonies at the cemetery. Residence
within the district's boundaries ensures
the right to burial at the local
cemeteries. Former residents can also be
laid to rest there as long as a relative
is buried at the cemetery. Cemeteries
have their own seasonal rhythms.
Summertime when some elderly succumb to
the heat and flu season are peak burial
times. Residential development in the
foothills may have slowed, but the
Newcastle Cemetery is expanding, adding
20 acres. Trustee Takemoto said
officials want to be sure the district
doesn't get caught in a land crunch.
Wait too long to acquire property, he
said, and "you won't be able to find it
when the time comes."
[Sacramento
Bee, 1-28-1993. Submitted by K. Marynik]
$1,000 for Return of 2 Cannons
The people of Placer County want their
cannons back - and they are willing to
pay a $1,000 reward for the guns'
return. Thieves sneaked into the
Newcastle Cemetery in April and stole
two cannons from near a veterans’
memorial. The offer of a reward has
produced no clues yet. Detective Mike
Thompson of the Placer County Sheriff's
Department said the cannons were stolen
during the night of April 13-14. The
theft was discovered in the morning,
said John Marquis, foreman for the
Newcastle-Rocklin-
Gold Hill
Cemetery District. "Somebody during the
night, when the gates were locked,
knocked out the concrete around the
cannons with a sledgehammer or
something," he said. The two cannons are
believed to have been used in the Civil
War, Marquis said. They were donated
when the veterans’ planter was built in
February 1922. The identical 1860s
vintage cannons weighed about 100 pounds
each and were worth $3,000 apiece,
Thompson said. The 28-inch-long bronze
cannons have 4-inch-diameter barrels and
are marked "U.S. 198. They were solid
brass or bronze, so it would take a
couple of good-sized guys to carry them
away," Marquis said. "There was no other
vandalism. They just came in and took
the cannons, so they knew what they were
coming for." The cemetery district
publicized the offer of a $1,000 reward
in the local papers, but got no
information, Marquis said. The offer did
inspire Dave Richardson to put up three
signs on his property along Interstate
80 between Auburn and Roseville. "It's
nothing more than a blatant attempt to
arouse community interest," Richardson
said. "I wanted people to keep their
eyes peeled for two loose cannons."
Richardson said that his
great-grandfather, George D. Kellogg,
was a captain of the 23rd Regiment of
the Wisconsin infantry during the Civil
War. "I know (the cannons) were set
there by Civil War survivors in honor of
the Grand Army of the Republic,"
Richardson said. "My part is just to
ensure that the desecraters don't blot
out the real heroes." He established a
"monument account" at the Newcastle
branch of the Placer Savings. "We don't
have any clues," Detective Thompson
said. "It makes me mad. I am a Vietnam
veteran, so it's near and dear to me."
Anyone with information about the
missing cannons is asked to call"
624-2760.
[Sacramento Bee, 7-8-1994. Submitted by
K. Marynik]
OPHIR COMMUNITY CEMETERY
Tribute to Ophir Pioneers
Ophir, once
one of the liveliest of Placer County
communities, will celebrate its quiet
cemetery Saturday. A 10:30 a.m. ceremony
is scheduled on Boot Hill Lane to
rededicate the once-forgotten but now
spruced-up site to the pioneers of the
Gold Rush town that, in 1852, was Placer
County's biggest settlement. "So many
people in the
Ophir
area lived within a quarter of a mile of
it and didn't know there was a cemetery
there,'' said Slim Goodall, a retired
Ophir
resident who spent three years hacking
away at the brush and weeds that hid the
hillside site above Auburn Ravine Creek.
Goodall believes about 70 people are
buried in the
cemetery. The
first burial was sometime around 1850;
the last interment occurred about 1905.
By then, cemeteries
with better public access had been
established in nearby Auburn, Newcastle,
and Gold Hill. “There was no road here
into the place, except across a ranch,''
Goodall said. "If you took anybody in
there, you had to carry the coffin about
250 yards. And the people who owned it
once upon a time didn't want anybody
putting footprints on their soil.'' The
2.5-acre site once was surrounded by
orchards, and neighbors apparently found
the abandoned
cemetery
a convenient place to dump unwanted
granite. Goodall, in his cleanup effort,
didn't want it either, and he had an
estimated 200 tons of rock hauled away,
saving only enough for some masonry
gateposts.
Ophir,
with 500 registered voters, ranked as
Placer's biggest town in the early years
of the Gold Rush. Its hills later were
covered with orchards. Now its
population of several hundred lives
mostly on small-acreage, rural
ranchettes. The old graveyard, to be
rededicated Saturday as
Ophir
Community Cemetery,
doesn't have any green lawns. Goodall
expects the close-cropped dry weeds to
stay that way. "The old
cemetery never had
any water on it. We want it to be like
it was in 1850,'' he said. On his first
visit, he found the cemetery overgrown
with vines, poison oak and scrawny
trees. Now, it has a park-like look with
larger oaks shading the dozen tombstones
he repaired and placed in concrete. With
county financial assistance, a fence and
a small, paved parking area were added.
"A cemetery is a cemetery, no matter
whether it's
Ophir
or Sacramento or Arlington,'' Goodall
said. "The people buried there are human
beings. The people are pioneers. I think
it's something that should be
respected.''
[Sacramento
Bee, 10-13-1987. Submitted by K.
Marynik]
PLACER COUNTY
HOSPITAL CEMETERY (aka PAUPER’S
CEMETERY)
Placer
Pioneers Again Face Move by the Road
AUBURN - The
forgotten pioneers of Placer County
history are buried in a pauper's
cemetery near Elm Street, where only two
of an estimated 1,500 graves are marked
by wooden headstones. Transients sleep
in the sloping, litter-strewn field,
apparently unaware it is a graveyard
filled with another generation of the
poor and the homeless. No one has been
buried in the old graveyard since the
late 1930s. But once again, the road
that pioneers followed to a new future
more than a century ago will move some
of the county's early settlers.
Stretches of Interstate 80, the modern
successor to the wagon trail that
crossed Donner Summit, will be widened
during the next 18 months. The freeway
will cut a swatch from the old cemetery
where the county once buried its
paupers. No one knows how many people
are buried in the cemetery. Incomplete
records list at least 1,200 burials from
the 1860s to 1915, but historians say
the county continued burying its poor
there for at least another 20 years.
Other information, including a survey of
depressions in the earth, put the number
of graves closer to 1,500. A small
number of remains were moved from the
old cemetery in 1946, when Interstate 80
was first built. Officials estimate they
must relocate the remains of 300 persons
to the New Auburn District Cemetery, two
miles away. The work, to begin next
month, will be the largest relocation of
graves in the history of the state
Department of Transportation. "We're
trying to play this low-key, ' said Don
MacIvor, Caltrans right-of-way agent,
who added that the agency avoids the
relocation of gravesites. 'We
don't want to disturb anybody." He said
he has received only one call from a
person who had a relative buried in the
cemetery, and that caller was in favor
of the move. Most of the information
about people buried in the old cemetery
comes from the old county hospital,
which was located next to the cemetery
until the hospital closed in 1975.
Before the hospital was built, a private
doctor's office, a clinic, and the
county poor farm operated on the same
site. "It used to be a poor farm, where
people used to live (because they) had
no place else to go," said Dutch
Thompson, Placer County health director
and former
hospital administrator.
"They were just misplaced transients.
You would call them 'homeless' now." The
records show most of the people in the
graveyard were men, most of them
immigrants. Many died of consumption;
others were hanged, shot or even run
over by trains. "The people who died in
the hospital, if they had no funds or no
family, were buried there," said
Thompson. "If you looked at the list of
the causes of death, you might see,
'laid down on the railroad track' or
'shot in a bar.' " A sweep of the
grounds with a metal detector revealed
large masses of metal, probably four or
five crypts, said MacIvor. The rest of
the remains were probably buried in
simple wooden caskets or cloth shrouds,
he said.
John Marin, Placer County facility
manager, said he understood many wooden
grave markers
had been destroyed by grass fires. State
law requires Caltrans to place markers
at the new gravesites, identifying the
remains whenever possible. Hospital
records identify the plot where each
person was buried, but no plot map of
the cemetery has surfaced. MacIvor said
counties sometimes placed metal
identification tags in paupers' graves,
and he hopes that practice was followed
by Placer County. "If there is
identification, we'll put a marker on
each one," he said. "Otherwise, we may
just have to put up one marker that
says, 'These are the remains of 300
Placer
County pioneers.' . . . We have no idea
what we're going to find." Copies of
cemetery records have been turned over
to the Placer County Genealogical
Society,
which is compiling a directory listing
where people are buried in all the
county's cemeteries, said Linda Nelson,
the society's treasurer. MacIvor said
four companies that have expertise in
moving
human remains have approached Caltrans
about doing the work. The state probably
will award the contract later this
month. Relocation
should take two months and cost about
$300,000, he said.
Work on widening
Interstate 80 to three lanes and
building two new$ interchanges is
expected to begin in early 1986. The
project is expected to take 18 months
and cost $50 million.
[Sacramento
Bee, 8-13-1985. Submitted by K. Marynik]
Lost Connection – He Can’t Find his
Grandfather’s Grave
About seven years ago, Willis
Dunston-Korff got his first sense of the
grandfather he never knew when he
visited the old Placer County cemetery
in Auburn. He traced William Dunston, a
horse wrangler who was penniless and
estranged from his family when he died
in 1935, to the pauper's cemetery next
to what had once been the county
hospital. "Even just sitting there, I
could feel history all around me, my
grandfather and the other people who
lived in his day,'' said Dunston-Korff,
a 64-year-old prospector who grew up in
Placer County and now lives in a remote
area of British Columbia. But when he
returned last week, he found the
cemetery partly bulldozed, the worn
picket fence knocked over, and the
leavings of transients strewn among the
cemetery's unmarked graves. And now
Dunston-Korff isn't sure where his
grandfather is. Two years ago, the state
Department of Transportation moved the
remains of 268 people to make way for
the widening of Interstate 80. About
1,300 graves were not disturbed. The
graves have not been marked since a
grass fire burned the wooden stakes many
years ago. No one knows whose remains
were moved or whose were left
undisturbed. Dunston-Korff said it is
likely that his grandfather's remains
are still in the old cemetery. He was
told that the graves that were dug up
were in an older section, and his
grandfather was one of the later
burials. The remains were placed in
individual wooden boxes, which were, in
turn, buried in vaults at the
New Auburn
Cemetery
across town. The relocated remains are
marked "Unknown'' with the notation that
they are "Pioneers of Placer County''
moved from the old cemetery. "They did
it properly, I understand. They did it
quite meticulously, and I approve of
that,'' Dunston-Korff said. "He may
still be here (in the pauper's
cemetery), but how are you going to
know?'' It is not just the uncertainty
that bothers Dunston-Korff. It is also
the neglect evident on the grassy
hillside squeezed between the freeway
and a shopping center. "It was a really
beautiful little cemetery,''
Dunston-Korff said, recalling the first
time he saw it. "There were no
headstones, but there was nice green
grass and trees . . . a nice little
white picket fence around it. Now you
would never know it was a cemetery.''
The sign that marked the site as a
cemetery is gone, and there are
bulldozer tracks across the ground. One
can only guess that the depressions in
the soft earth are graves. Scattered
about are empty wine jugs, soup cans,
and the crushed cardboard boxes that
serve as mattresses in this open-air
bedroom for transients. The graveyard is
not part of any cemetery district, so
there is no ongoing maintenance, said
John Marin, facilities manager for
Placer County. "We go through in the
springtime with trusties from the jail
and they pick up everything they can,
and then we mow it,'' Marin said. "Quite
frankly, we do the minimum.'' After the
freeway project is completed in 1989 or
1990, Marin said he probably will
recommend that the county replace the
picket fence and install a metal sign
identifying the cemetery. Dunston-Korff
-- who was raised with the name Korff
and added his grandfather's name only
recently -- said he was saddened by the
situation. "That's the kind of thing
that kind of makes you sad, eh? That
they run big equipment over it. It
doesn't say much for our government,
what happens to you when you're gone. I
hear the Indians complaining all the
time because their cemeteries are being
flooded or bulldozed. Now I know how
they feel.''
[Sacramento
Bee, 2-7-1988. Submitted by K. Marynik]
ROCKLIN CEMETERY
Rocklin Cemetery a Link to City’s Past
Rocklin's past comes to life in the
Rocklin City Cemetery. Community
leaders, a slain marshal and just
regular folks are buried in the city's
resting spot, which was established in
1864. Members of the same ethnic groups
are buried together, shedding light on
early settlers' origins. Many left
Finland, Ireland, Spain and Japan to
live - and die - in Rocklin. "It's a
wonderful little snapshot on how people
lived their lives," said Lani Howes, a
member of the local historical society
and leader of its cemetery committee.
"You can tell people worked hard. Life
wasn't easy. People died of diseases
that are curable today. They died of
accidents, quite a few related to work
alls, struck by trains, wagons. From the
1920s on, you start to see car
accidents." To help visitors, members of
the Rocklin Historical Society put
together a self-guided tour brochure of
the cemetery detailing notable people
and interesting old monuments. It points
out the final resting place of Sam
Renaldi, a marshal killed in 1914 in a
shootout with a saloon owner. "They both
drew their pistols and shot at each
other. Sam was only 26 years old," said
Marie Huson, member of the City Council
and the historical society. A child was
the first to be buried in the cemetery
off Rocklin Road, Howes said. Olive Van
Treese, the 4-year-old daughter of
Daniel and Rebecca Van Treese, died in
1864. Peter A. Sonne, a native of
Denmark, rests beside his wife,
Josephine, who was born in Finland. The
Sonnes' unusual marker in the shape of a
tree trunk is referred to by Howes and
Huson as the "tree of life" with flowers
at the top. Nearby, Sierra white granite
forms a border around the plot dedicated
to the Alexson family. Names such as "Hjalmar
John" remind visitors of the Finnish
heritage of the Alexson family. Most
Finnish families were involved in one of
Rocklin's 63 granite quarries, Howes
said. Spanish and Asian families became
ranchers and farmers in Rocklin, she
said. In the area where families with
Spanish roots are buried, pots of
flowering wax begonias and cyclamens
grace the grave sites. In the Japanese
section, rose trees shade the graves of
former fruit farming families with names
such as Sasaki, Nitta, and Takuma. Some
who have been dead for decades - such as
Juan Garcia, who died in 1954 - still
are remembered by relatives who come and
put flowers on their graves. "In our
transient society, there are people who
have roots. Family is important; roots
are important. They come to honor and
respect their dead," Howes said. Irish
families with names such as Kelly,
Dempsey and Layton tend to be buried
together just as they worked together on
the railroads, Howes said. Five worn
wooden crosses spotted with lichen
barely reveal the names of Sheehan
family members, whose graves are lined
up near a road. Information is known
about some of those buried in the city
cemetery. Founders of Rocklin -
including Ira Delano Jr. and John
Sweeney - are buried in the city's
cemetery as well as state Assemblyman
Lewis Smith and Matt Ruhkala, who
established Union Granite Co. in 1904.
Then there's James O'Brien, a native of
Ireland who died in 1875 at the age of
43. A tall marble marker topped with
carved flowers suggests an important or
rich Rocklin settler, but members of the
historical society are baffled. "What do
we know about this man?" Howes asked.
"We don't know anything about him except
that somebody cared about him a lot to
put up that beautiful monument."
[Sacramento
Bee, 7-7-1995. Submitted by K. Marynik]
Vandals Shatter
Peace of Rocklin Cemetery
In a senseless rampage, vandals toppled
and broke 19 headstones, destroyed
memorabilia placed on graves and
scattered flowers in the Rocklin
Cemetery
sometime on the night of Jan. 18. "I
don't understand why these things
happened," said Marie Huson, a Rocklin
City Council member and community
historian. "What thrill do they get out
of knocking over these very, very old
stones?" A Santa Claus candle left on a
grave bedecked with Christmas tinsel was
smashed in the roadway as the vandals
circled the cemetery, randomly selecting
graves to damage. "Some of the new
graves we'd just done, they scattered
the flowers and kicked them all over,"
said Bill Emerson, superintendent of the
cemetery, which is located at 4090
Kannasto Street. The vandals were either
numerous or very strong. The waist-high
granite headstones were not easily
dislodged and required a backhoe to
right, said John Marquis, maintenance
foreman for the district. Groundskeeper
Henry Lorton, Marquis and Emerson
devoted most of Friday cleaning up the
mess. Huson joined them. "We have
children's plots," she said. "It would
break your heart to see the toys and
flowers people put on their graves just
thrown around. I picked things up and
tried to put them back." The vandals
broke in between 5 p.m. Jan. 18, when
Lorton and Marquis locked the gates and
left, and Friday morning, when they came
to work and found the damage. The gate
had been opened, a fountain pushed over
and the valve left open so the area was
flooded, Marquis said. Then, as the two
men looked around, they saw the rest of
the mess. A marker that had withstood
the vagaries of wind and weather for 110
years didn't survive the casual
destruction. Made of sandstone and
marking the grave of a woman, "Mary
Anne, wife of James H. Neely," the thin
tombstone split in half. Parts of the
stone shattered so pockmarks will
remain, even after Marquis, Lorton, and
epoxy do their work. Three tall, gray
granite markers otherwise unmarked by
the passage of time were discolored by
their night of lying face down in the
mud. The stones memorialized three
members of one family, whose lives
started in the East and ended in
Rocklin. An inscription read "a native
of California, born in 1859, died in
1878." Such incidents are uncommon in
Rocklin, Marquis said. Usually empty
beer cans accompany the broken
sprinklers, uprooted trees, and damaged
rosebushes, he said. This time, no
evidence of a party was found. "We've
been relatively vandalism-free," said
Emerson. The last incident was three
years ago, he said, when students from
Sierra College ran riot, loudly enough
to attract the attention of neighbors
who called the police. But no one
reported anything amiss at the cemetery
last week, he said, so chances are slim
that the culprits will be caught. "I
guess they haven't had anyone destroy
anything of their loved ones," Emerson
said. The most notable stones damaged
marked the graves of people buried
before the 1920s, Huson said. "They were
Irish, Finnish, Spanish, and Asian," she
said. "They would have been devastated
to see this. I cry my silent tears over
why someone would do this.”
[Sacramento
Bee, 1-25-1996. Submitted by K. Marynik]
ROSEVILLE ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY
General Clean-Up at Odd Fellows Cemetery
Saturday Afternoon
– Project Sponsored by American Legion – Odd Fellows and Boy Scouts to
Assist in
Preparation for Memorial Day
The afternoon of Saturday, May 21, has
been set aside by Alyn W. Butler, Post
No. 169 of the American Legion, as
general clean-up day for the Odd Fellows
Cemetery of Roseville. The Legion boys,
who are the originators of the plan,
have secured the hearty co-operation of
Roseville Lodge No. 203, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, which owns the
cemetery. At a meeting of the Odd
Fellows last Saturday night, it was
decided by that organization to dig in
and help the boys, and a committee from
their lodge will meet tonight. The Boy
Scouts of Roseville through their
District Commissioner, W. H. Seaver,
have also signified their willingness to
help in the general clean-up, and
Saturday afternoon will see a large
delegation from each of the three
organizations busily engaged with hoes,
rakes, and shovels, giving the cemetery
a general clean-up in preparation for
Memorial Day exercises. The Legion boys
will also put in Monday afternoon and
evening, May 23, at finishing up the
job, and making the graves of ex-service
men especially clean and tidy. This is
an annual project of the local Legion
post in cleaning off the graves of their
fallen comrades, and this year the
suggestion was made to give the entire
cemetery a general clean-up met with the
hearty response of the Odd Fellows and
Boy Scouts. Citizens of Roseville who so
desire may also assist in the clean-up
Saturday and are cordially invited to
come to the cemetery and help the boys.
Show your community spirit and make this
a community affair. M. M. Daubin is
chairman of the Legion committee working
with the Odd Fellows and is assisted by
Wm. R. Stephens and R. F. Brill.
[Roseville
Tribune and Register, 5-18-1927.
Submitted by K. Marynik]
Roseville IOOF Cemetery Now Being
Greatly Improved -
More Than $2000 Expended For Pumping and
Sprinkling Plant and Further Outlay to
Come
"One of the
most beautiful lawn cemeteries in
Northern California," is the
objective of the Roseville Lodge of
Odd Fellows for their
cemetery. More than $2000 has been
recently expended by the lodge under
direction of the cemetery
superintendent, H. C. Nolte, in the
sinking of a well, installation of a
pumping plant, tower and tank and an
underground pipe sprinkling system. This
is at present in operation in the new
part of the cemetery, additional land
for which had been purchased by the
lodge a few years ago. The pump has a
capacity of 1000 gallons per minute. The
sprinkling system has been in operation
only a short time, but the growth of
grass has worked a wonderful
transformation in the appearance of the
cemetery. The lodge will continue its
program of improvements until the
hallowed ground will be a real credit to
the community. After the cemetery was
purchased and laid out way back in the
'50s, the lots were for many years sold
at the nominal price of $10.00 each,
with the understanding that the
purchasers were to care for the lots
themselves. This custom has long ago
become obsolete in cemeteries. At the
present time, the lodge is selling lots
at a figure that warrants the guarantee
of keeping the lots in first-class
condition for all time. Further
improvements to be carried out include
the grading and surfacing of the road
leading to the cemetery as well as
additional beautification of the
cemetery.
[Roseville
Tribune and Enterprise, Friday,
7-22-1927. Submitted by K. Marynik]
SANTA CLARA MEMORIAL PARK
Lincoln Plans
Cemetery - Existing Memorial Parks Are
Running Out of Room in the Fast-Growing
Community
Cemetery district trustees hope to break
ground on the new Santa Clara Memorial
Park as early as next spring, providing
a second burial ground for the
fast-growing city of Lincoln. Trustees
for Placer County Cemetery District No.
1 -- which includes three existing
cemeteries in Lincoln, Manzanita, and
Sheridan -- plan to go to bid on the
$4.3 million first phase of the project
within the next 30 days, officials said.
If all goes well, construction should
begin in the spring and be completed the
following year. "Lincoln is one of the
fastest-growing cities in the United
States," cemetery board Chairwoman
Roberta Babcock said. "Cemetery boards
have to start planning at least 30 to 40
years in advance ... We started working
on this maybe two years ago." For the
past few years, the city has been using
the seven-acre parcel as an off-leash
dog park. But as Lincoln's population
soared, so did the number of purchased
burial plots in the cemetery on First
Street. "The cemetery in Lincoln
is almost full," trustee Fred Gibbs
said. "... We've planned this new
facility to be good for a minimum of 75
more years." Escalating construction
costs for the seven-acre park caused
trustees to plan on building the project
in phases, starting with two acres of
the parcel. Funding for the first phase
will come from the sale of 20 acres on
Virginiatown Road and developer impact
fees, according to district Manager
Sandra Calise. The first phase will
include 900 burial plots and 600
cremation niches. Ultimately, the
memorial park will have 3,000 burial
plots, according to architect Doug
James. The trend is toward more
cremations, Gibbs said. "On the East
Coast, it's not as big, but here in the
West it's just shot up. We did 42
percent of our services (in cremations),
as compared to years before, which was
almost nothing. Other places throughout
California have increased also." Plans
for the new cemetery include a building
that will serve as an office for staff
and a community meeting room, a
courtyard with walls containing niches
for cremains and three water fountains,
as well as footbridges and meandering
pathways. Babcock said the board wanted
to design the new cemetery to be a park,
where people could go and contemplate.
“We wanted this to be a place where
people would feel comfortable just going
there," Babcock said. "Most times you go
to a cemetery and see a lone person
putting flowers on a gravesite and
leaving immediately. Ours will have
benches and places for people to sit and
enjoy the water features or the
surrounding nature."
[Sacramento
Bee, 9-27-2007. Submitted by K. Marynik]
New Cemetery Resembles Park
With its trees and flowers scattered
throughout, Lincoln’s newest cemetery
looks more like a park than an eternal
resting place. Santa Clara Memorial
Park, located at the corner of Third and
Santa Clara streets, has been open since
July of last year and had an open house
June 12. Peter Barmettler, the Placer
County Cemetery District One manager,
said the new cemetery “has a more modern
feel” to accommodate Lincoln’s newer
residents. Cemetery construction began
in 2008. It was built “because of the
growth in Lincoln and the need for a
future place to bury loved ones,”
Barmettler said. “We’ve sold most of the
grave sites in the other ones but you
have to be prepared to expand,” Rice
said. The new cemetery has
three-and-a-half developed acres, with
four more acres that aren’t developed
for future use, according to Barmettler.
He described Santa Clara Memorial Park
as “park-like.” “We do just the flat
markers so it keeps an open-lawn look,”
Barmettler said. “We have the fountains
and niche area with benches where people
can come sit and reflect.” The park is
scattered with trees because the City
Council wanted the cemetery to have
trees, according to Placer County
Cemetery District One chairman of the
board Stephen Rice. Barmettler said the
new cemetery has plenty of parking and
easy access. “It’s a real modern design,
very comfortable, and there’s a new
office and a reception area,” Barmettler
said. Santa Clara Memorial Park is one
of four cemeteries in District One, the
others being Lincoln, Sheridan, and
Manzanita cemeteries. “They all have
very unique characteristics to them,”
Barmettler said. “The others are at
least 150 years old.” He said Manzanita
Cemetery dates back to 1850, Lincoln
Cemetery goes back to 1863 and Sheridan
Cemetery dates back to 1875. “Manzanita
is an old pioneer cemetery, a dry
cemetery because we don’t water out
there because there are no sprinklers,
no lawn,” Barmettler said. “There’s a
certain group of people that like it
that way and it has an old cowboy feel.”
Sheridan is on a hillside and overlooks
the foothills, according to Barmettler
while Lincoln is “more traditional.”
[Lincoln
News Messenger, 6-16-2010. Submitted by
K. Marynik]
ST.
JOSEPH'S CEMETERY
St. Joseph's Church and Cemetery
In 1858,
a church mission was dedicated under the
patronage of St. Joseph in the town of
Foresthill. The mission was elevated to
parish status on July 14, 1861. It had
its own church on a two-acre parcel, a
separate parish school (est. 1861), and
a cemetery east of town (est. 1858) on
three acres of land. The
St. Joseph Catholic Church
in Foresthill was the principle
Catholic Church
in
Placer County
at the time. The parochial setting in
Foresthill would remain unchanged until
1903 when its parish status was formally
suppressed due to declining population
and the inability of the community to
support a resident priest. Another
significant event affecting the Catholic
region was the loss of the church by
fire in February 1952. All that remains
of Foresthill's Catholic Church today is
its bell. The bell was cast in
Sheffield, England, and shipped to
Boston in 1860. From there, it was
shipped around the Horn to
San Francisco,
where it was boated to Sacramento, then
pulled by a six-horse team to
Foresthill. The local miners had raised
$3,500 to pay for the bell, which was
quite a sum of money in those days.
WEIMAR
SANITORIUM CEMETERY
Former TB Sanatorium in Placer County
Awash in Poignant History
Edgar Allan Poe,
Stephen King or some other master of the
macabre must have planted the notion in
my head: I walk into a cemetery and find
my name and birth date on a gravestone.
The date of death is there, but it
doesn't matter. The plot is set. I even
know the cemetery where this scenario
takes place: an isolated and rarely
visited graveyard some 2,000 feet up the
Sierra foothills, just outside Colfax.
It's on the grounds of what historically
has been Weimar Joint Sanatorium, 450
acres of manzanita, pine, and oak whose
central cluster of buildings is now
Weimar Institute, a campus of
Seventh-day Adventists studying religion
and health. Early in the 20th century,
numerous sanatoriums and cottages sprang
up hereabouts to treat the tubercular.
The prevailing view was that
tuberculosis could best be treated with
fresh mountain air, an invigorating diet
and plenty of bed rest. Opened in 1919
by a consortium of Northern California
counties, Weimar Joint Sanatorium became
the biggest employer in Placer County
before it closed in 1972, with up to 550
patients and a staff of 350 at its peak.
Sixty years ago, I was one of them -- a
patient, not an employee. I'd been
diagnosed with tuberculosis and was
taken to Weimar from our family home in
Sonora, about 100 miles south. My thin,
pale memories of my time at Weimar
aren't to be trusted. I vaguely recall
the ward's layout, with my bed near the
far end. I remember a screen and
projector being set up for movies. I
often heard the whistles of trains
starting or ending treks across the
Sierra. My parents and family friends
visited. The smell of institutional food
lingers to this day. I don't remember,
and haven't found in Placer County
archives or in talks with public-health
officials, a record of my admittance or
discharge. I have few family records,
none of which sheds light on the dates.
I was there on Halloween 1949 when a
noontime propane explosion and fire
destroyed our home in Sonora. I remember
the tossing of snowballs -- inside the
ward, when windows were open, snow was
scooped from the sills, and a party
ensued. By that reckoning, I must have
been at Weimar for several months.
According to a newspaper article from
that era, the average stay was eight
months. A fifth of the patients died. My
mother, a registered nurse, talked
reverently in subsequent years of
streptomycin, an early antibiotic used
to treat tuberculosis. It had been
introduced around the time of my stay
and must have played a key role in my
recovery. Beyond that, my parents had
little to say of my hospitalization, and
perhaps for that I never gave it much
thought after I returned to Sonora. For
decades, I'd pass the Weimar exit along
Interstate 80 while heading to or from
Lake Tahoe, quipping that I'd stop to
have a look around if I wasn't afraid
I'd find my name on a tombstone
somewhere on the grounds. Not long ago,
I was inspired to find out after reading
Andrea Barrett's novel "The Air We
Breathe," set in a tuberculosis
sanatorium in the Adirondacks during
World War I. One passage reads: "The
cemetery is a mile north of our central
buildings, in a clearing on the other
side of the hill, hidden by a border of
white pines, never shown to visitors and
not mentioned in our rule book. We learn
where it is from each other. When,
during an afternoon walk, one person
shows another the clearing for the first
time, it usually signals a new stage in
the relationship. After that, we think
differently about how long we've been
here and what time we might have left."
Weimar's central buildings today include
a college in the former children's ward
where I was hospitalized, a vegan
grocery store called Weimart, a
scattering of dormitories, a vegan
cafeteria and an inn where I stopped to
pick up a trail map. The grounds include
10 miles of smoothly packed and
generally gentle paths. We set off on
the peripheral Frontier Trail, which
after three miles would bring us to the
cemetery. There are shorter and quicker
routes, but I was enjoying the slanted
sunshine and brisk air that the
foothills can provide in fall and
winter. Well-marked and wide, Frontier
Trail took us across an old flume, past
ponds with migrating or resident ducks,
through groves of manzanita and toyon
and across a sunny glade. We eschewed
"Cardiac Bypass" for the steeper
"Cardiac Hill" and were rewarded near
the top of the ridge with a bench to
recuperate, one of many along the paths.
The hum of traffic on nearby Interstate
80 could be heard at times, but for the
most part the trek was a quiet amble
through stands of mossy oak trees and
looming ponderosa pines. We met only two
other people. Suddenly, we came around a
bend and found ourselves in the
cemetery, unmarked but for tidy and dark
rows of stubby wooden grave markers amid
the pine needles, oak leaves and acorns.
It looked as if it could have been a
Civil War burial ground hastily laid out
soon after a battle. The 2-by-6-inch
planks, originally painted white, had
generally faded to bare wood. According
to an old newspaper article, more than
1,400 people are buried at Weimar. I
need not have fretted about finding my
name on any of the markers. There are
none. The only identification is a
numbered medallion, possibly copper,
possibly brass, often so tarnished the
number is difficult to read. Some
markers are missing the tags altogether,
and some have been pulled from the
ground or simply fallen over. Here and
there, next to an old marker will stand
a gleaming headstone of polished granite
bearing a name and dates of birth and
death, evidence that someone returned to
formally salute a long-gone family
member or friend. On another day, I stop
by the administrative offices of Weimar.
There, preserved in a vault, are four
big leather-bound volumes titled "Record
of Patients." At last, I sensed, I'd
learn just when I'd been admitted -- and
discharged, plump and rosy.
Unfortunately, there originally were
five volumes. The one missing covers the
years 1946 to 1954, the era I was there.
The vault also holds the mortuary
records, the solemn reconciliation of
the numbers on the medallions in the
cemetery with the names of the persons
under the stakes. I could have sat down
and flipped through the books to see if
any name was uncomfortably familiar. But
by this time I'd concluded that I had
best leave well enough alone.
[Sacramento
Bee, Thursday, 1-7-2010. Submitted by K.
Marynik]
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