Oak Hill Memorial Park

Oak Hill Memorial Park is a cemetery in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California.[1]

Oak Hill Memorial Park
Oak Hill Mausoleum
Details
Established1847
Location
San Jose, California
CountryUnited 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
Apostolic Fountain
Chinese Pavilion

Numerous notable persons are interred at Oak Hill:

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]

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See also

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Oak Hill Memorial Park
  2. Oak Hill Memorial Park at Find a Grave
  3. 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. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. Lake County Publishing Co. (1893). Portrait and biographical record of Macon County, Illinois, pp. 195–198
  5. Overland Pioneers Memorial at Find a Grave
  6. "Events". United Veterans Council of Santa Clara County. Retrieved 2011-06-01.

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