Oak Hill Memorial Park
Oak Hill Memorial Park is a cemetery in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California.[1]
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| Established | 1847 |
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| Country | United States |
It is the oldest secular cemetery operating in California, dating from 1847, predating the California Gold Rush by one year. As of 2014 the cemetery had over 15,000 interments.[2]
Notable interments
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Apostolic Fountain
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Chinese Pavilion
Numerous notable persons are interred at Oak Hill:
- Richard Amory (1927-1981), writer, author of Song of the Loon (1966)
- Frank Arellanes (1882–1918), baseball player
- Sylvia Browne (1936–2013), psychic medium
- Hal Chase (1883–1947), baseball player
- John Smith Chipman (1800–1869), U.S. Congressman
- Bernice C. Downing (1878-1940), with her sister Bertha C. Downing (1878-1925) (also buried here), the first women in California to publish their own newspaper, the Santa Clara Journal[3]
- Arthur M. Free (1879–1953), U.S. Congressman
- Elizabeth Eleanor D’Arcy Gaw (1868-1944), influential Arts and Crafts artist
- Brooke Hart (1911–1933), kidnapping and murder victim (son of businessman Alexander Hart)
- Everis Anson Hayes (1855–1942), U.S. Congressman
- Ren Kelly (1899–1963), baseball player
- William Penn Lyon (1822–1913), Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Civil War General (Union)
- Paul Masson (1859–1940), early California vintner
- Charles Henry McKiernan (1825–1892), early settler in the Santa Cruz Mountains
- Benjamin Raborg (1871-1918), American artist
- James F. Reed (1800–1874), organizing member of the Donner Party
- Lester Reiff (1877–1948), jockey
- Sarah Royce (1819-1891) , Author and mother of Josiah Royce
- Fred Sanborn (1899–1961), Vaudeville performer
- Samuel Morgan Shortridge (1861–1952), U.S. Senator
- Edward O. Smith (1817–1892), Mayor of Decatur, Illinois, Illinois State Senator, and California pioneer[4]
- John Townsend (?–1850), early Alcalde of San Francisco
- Gus Triandos (1913–2013), baseball player
- Edward Alexander Walker (1864–1946), Medal of Honor recipient for service in the Boxer Rebellion
The cemetery has an Overland Pioneers Memorial to early settlers of the Santa Clara Valley.[5]
There is a cemetery plot dedicated to members of the Grand Army of the Republic.[6]
Gallery
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See also
References
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Oak Hill Memorial Park
- Oak Hill Memorial Park at Find a Grave
- Binheim, Max; Elvin, Charles A (1928). Women of the West; a series of biographical sketches of living eminent women in the eleven western states of the United States of America. p. 38. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
- Lake County Publishing Co. (1893). Portrait and biographical record of Macon County, Illinois, pp. 195–198
- Overland Pioneers Memorial at Find a Grave
- "Events". United Veterans Council of Santa Clara County. Retrieved 2011-06-01.
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