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
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Established	1847
Location	San Jose, California
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

Apostolic Fountain

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), 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
• José Noriega (1796–1869), Alcalde of San José
• 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
• 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

• List of cemeteries in California

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.

External links

• Oak Hill Memorial Park website