Oak Hill Memorial Park
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:[3]
- 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
- Arthur M. Free (1879–1953), US Congressman
- 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[4]
- 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[5]
- 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.[6]
There is a cemetery plot dedicated to members of the Grand Army of the Republic.[7]
See also
References
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Oak Hill Memorial Park
- ↑ Oak Hill Memorial Park at Find a Grave
- ↑ Find a Grave: famous people
- ↑ Peterson, Edward. "Benjamin O'Fallon Raborg". Find A Grave. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
- ↑ 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.
External links
Coordinates: 37°17′56″N 121°51′37″W / 37.29889°N 121.86028°W
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