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词条 Oak Hill Memorial Park
释义

  1. Notable interments

  2. Gallery

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. External links

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

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

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), US 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), US 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), US Congressman
  • Ren Kelly (1899–1963), baseball player
  • William Penn Lyon (1822–1913), Civil War Brigadier 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), US 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

See also

  • List of cemeteries in California

References

1. ^{{GNIS|229857}}
2. ^{{Find a Grave cemetery|8212}}
3. ^{{cite book|last1=Binheim|first1=Max|last2=Elvin|first2=Charles A|title=Women of the West; a series of biographical sketches of living eminent women in the eleven western states of the United States of America|date=1928|page=38|url=https://archive.org/details/womenofwestserie00binh|accessdate=8 August 2017}}{{PD-notice}}
4. ^Lake County Publishing Co. (1893). [https://archive.org/details/portraitbiograph00lake Portrait and biographical record of Macon County, Illinois], pp. 195–198
5. ^{{FAG|10942457|Overland Pioneers Memorial}}
6. ^{{cite web| title=Events| date=| publisher=United Veterans Council of Santa Clara County| url=http://www.uvcscc.org/events.html| accessdate=2011-06-01}}

External links

  • Oak Hill Memorial Park website
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3 : Cemeteries in California|Parks in San Jose, California|1847 establishments in California

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