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Lone Mountain Cemetery was a complex of cemeteries in the
Lone Mountain neighborhood of San Francisco, California on the land bounded by the present-day California Street, Geary Boulevard, Parker Avenue, and Presidio Avenue.
Opened 1854, it eventually comprised Laurel Hill Cemetery, Calvary Cemetery, the Masonic Cemetery, and Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Pressure to close the complex began around the beginning of the twentieth century, and by 1941 all remains within it had been moved elsewhere, mostly to a new necropolis in
Colma, California
Colma (Ohlone for "Springs") is a small incorporated List of municipalities in California, town in San Mateo County, California, on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 1,507 at the 2020 census. The town w ...
,
though some were never accounted for.
The land from Laurel Hill Cemetery and Calvary Cemetery was eventually used to create housing and shopping centers within the Lone Mountain neighborhood, the Masonic Cemetery land became the campus for
University of San Francisco
The University of San Francisco (USF) is a private Jesuit university in San Francisco, California. The university's main campus is located on a setting between the Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate Park. The main campus is nicknamed "The Hil ...
(USF), and the Odd Fellows Cemetery had maintained the columbarium and surrounding memorial park land, and the additional land was used to create the Angelo Rossi Playground and Pool and some single family housing.
Historical overview of the complex
Formation and usage
Opened May 30, 1854, Lone Mountain Cemetery was planned to cover 320 acres.
However the cemetery planners decided a smaller size would suffice the city.
In 1854, this area was considered one of the "
outside lands
Outside Lands was the name used in the 19th century for the present-day Richmond District, San Francisco, California, Richmond District and Sunset District, San Francisco, California, Sunset District in San Francisco, California. With few roads an ...
", meaning it was outside of what was considered the city of San Francisco and was made of sandy soil.
Prior to the establishment of Lone Mountain Cemetery, most of the burials in San Francisco were at the Yerba Buena Cemetery (present-day
Civic Center Plaza
Civic Center Plaza, also known as Joseph Alioto Piazza, is the plaza immediately east of San Francisco City Hall in Civic Center, San Francisco, in the U.S. state of California. Civic Center Plaza occupies two blocks bounded by McAllister, Larkin ...
).
Many of the burials within the Lone Mountain Cemetery complex were for the wealthy. The paths between the graves were named after known East Coast cemeteries, including
Mount Auburn,
Green-Wood, and
Oak Hill.
The cemeteries became a popular place for family outings and picnics on Sunday.
In 1860s there was a legal battle in the city over who was to administer Lone Mountain, as a result they decided to incorporate a section of the complex and settled on a name change to Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Burials in the 19th-century were not always safe, and as urban graveyards such as Lone Mountain Cemetery eventually ran out of space, which resulted in burials without using coffins.
It was not uncommon to hear reports of body parts found in mausoleums or near the cemetery during this time.
Chinese mourners would leave food offerings for the dead at the cemetery, which in turn brought "hungry vagrants".
In 1866, a news story ran that stated "the Lone Mountain cemetery was rapidly filling up, creating deadly gasses" due to the large quantity of remains decomposing.
Removal of cemeteries and remains
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The idea started circulating in the 1880s that the cemeteries needed to be moved outside of the city, complaints were made primarily by the nearby property owners who were concerned that the area would discourage any new development in the neighborhood, and for safety.
At this point in history the grounds of the cemeteries had started to deteriorate, and became a haven for delinquents.
In 1894, J. H. Bond, the editor of the local Richmond Banner newspaper, started to promote the removal of these cemeteries with a move to Colma due to the decay of the gravestones.
Bond had been vocal on this issue for two decades and supported the common idea (for its time) that cemeteries "planted germs of disease in the organs of breathing life."
Catholic Archdiocese opposed the removal of the graves because in Calvary Cemetery they were on "
hallow
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ed ground".
Another point of argument was the importance of the buried San Francisco pioneers, and moving them would be disrespectful, "preserve the sanctity of the dead".
The battle to remove the cemeteries continued for years, with groups such as the "Cemetery Defense League" and "Save our Cemeteries" fighting to stop city evictions.
In 1902, the
San Francisco Board of Supervisors
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Government and politics
The City and County of San Francisco is a consolidated city-county, being simultaneously a c ...
had passed a law to prohibit the sale of grave lots or to permit any new burials within the city.
By late 1910,
cremation
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Cremation may serve as a funeral or post-funeral rite and as an alternative to burial. In some countries, including India ...
was also prohibited within the city. The California State Legislature passed the Morris Act in 1921, authored by
Clarence W. Morris (1888–1965), which allowed a cemetery to be abandoned if ratified by a majority of lot owners.
The Morris Act of 1921 was stopped by litigation and by 1923 a second Morris Act had passed, authorizing municipalities the ability to remove bodies, but requiring "police power" and needed the burial to have been prohibited by law for a number of years.
From 1923 until 1929, litigation happened which barred the removal of the buried; with the majority of the buried being moved on or after 1929.
The bodies would be moved at no expense, but if you wanted to move the headstone the family had to pay the cost.
As a result, many of the gravestones were reused for the sea wall at
Aquatic Park, the creation of a breakwater at the
St. Francis Yacht Club
The St. Francis Yacht Club is a private sailing club located in San Francisco.
History
Founded in 1927, the Saint Francis Yacht Club (StFYC) was formed when some of the members of the San Francisco Yacht Club decided to move their clubhouse from ...
in the
Marina
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A marina differs from a port in that a marina does not handle large passenger ships o ...
, lining for rain gutters in
Buena Vista Park
Buena Vista Park is a park in the Haight-Ashbury and Buena Vista Heights neighborhoods of San Francisco, California
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, fina ...
, and erosion control at
Ocean Beach.
Contractor Charles L. Harney was paid to dump the large crypts and large tomb markers into the San Francisco Bay.
In the present-day, every once in awhile the full-sized gravestones will emerge at Ocean Beach, particularly after a storm.
From February 1940 until after
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
(circa 1945), the process of moving the last remains from San Francisco to Colma was completed.
Laurel Hill Cemetery (formerly Lone Mountain Cemetery)
History
The Lone Mountain Cemetery (active from 1854 to c. 1940) was 55.4 acres at the time of founding and was located between California, Euclid, Masonic and Arguello Streets.
The first burial at Lone Mountain Cemetery was interred on June 10, 1854, and he was named John Orr.
In the 1860s, there was a legal battle in the city over who was to administer Lone Mountain.
As a result, Lone Mountain Cemetery was renamed to Laurel Hill Cemetery, with the filing of the
articles of incorporation
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by many wealthy locals, including
William Chapman Ralston
William "Billy" Chapman Ralston (January 12, 1826 – August 27, 1875) was a San Francisco businessman and financier, and the founder of the Bank of California.
Biography
William Chapman Ralston was born at Wellsville, Ohio, son of Robert Ralsto ...
, John Parrott,
Henry Huntly Haight
Henry Huntly Haight (May 20, 1825 – September 2, 1878) was an American lawyer and politician. He was elected the tenth governor of California from December 5, 1867, to December 8, 1871.
Early life
Childhood and education
Haight was of Eng ...
, Nicholas Luning,
James Otis,
Alvinza Hayward
Alvinza Hayward (1821 – February 14, 1904) was an American mine-owner, capitalist, businessman, and financier. He was a well-known gold mining millionaire who made his fortune in during the California Gold Rush. He lived in the San Francisco Bay ...
,
Henry Mayo Newhall
Henry Mayo Newhall (May 13, 1825 – March 13, 1882) was an American businessman whose extensive land holdings became the Southern California communities of Newhall, Saugus and Valencia, and the city of Santa Clarita.
Life
Born in Saugus, Ma ...
, and C. C. Butler.
The new name of Laurel Hill Cemetery started in 1867, and it was named after the
Laurel Hill garden cemetery in Philadelphia.
Notable burials
In 1848,
Phineas Gage
Phineas P. Gage (18231860) was an American railroad construction foreman known for his improbable survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and ...
had survived a work accident when a large iron rod driven was completely through his head, destroying parts of his brain and skull. He died years later in 1860, and was buried in Lone Mountain Cemetery. In 1866, his physician
John Martyn Harlow
John Martyn Harlow (November 25, 1819 – May 13, 1907) was an American physician primarily remembered for his attendance on brain-injury survivor Phineas Gage, and for his published reports on Gage's accident and subsequent history.
Ha ...
exhumed his skull in order to study it, and placed the skull with the iron bar on display at the
Warren Anatomical Museum
The Warren Anatomical Museum, housed within Harvard Medical School's Countway Library of Medicine, was founded in 1847 by Harvard professor John Collins Warren, whose personal collection of 160 unusual and instructive anatomical and pathological ...
. In 1940, as part of the mandated cemetery relocations within the city of San Francisco, Gage's headless body was relocated to Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California.
One of the notable grave markers within Lone Mountain Cemetery was for senator
David Colbreth Broderick
David Colbreth Broderick (February 4, 1820 – September 16, 1859) was an attorney and politician, elected by the legislature as Democratic U.S. Senator from California. Born in Washington, DC, to Irish immigrant parents, he lived in New York u ...
who died in the
Broderick–Terry duel
The Broderick–Terry duel (subsequently called "the last notable American duel") was fought between United States Senator David C. Broderick, of California, and ex-Chief Justice David S. Terry, of the Supreme Court of California, on September 13 ...
of 1859; the Broderick's Monument, which was a tall stone obelisk on a platform with stairs and a low railing surrounding it. During the 1906 earthquake the Broderick's Monument obelisk lost its upper portion.
Some of the other notable pioneer burials at this site included Judge
Silas W. Sanderson; politician,
Samuel Williams Inge
Samuel Williams Inge (February 22, 1817 – June 10, 1868) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama.
Early life
Samuel Williams Inge was born on February 22, 1817, in Warren County, No ...
; lawyer,
Thomas W. Sutherland; lawyer
Thomas O. Larkin
Thomas Oliver Larkin (September 16, 1802 – October 27, 1858), known in Spanish as Don Tomás Larkin, was an American diplomat and businessman. Larkin served as the only U.S. consul to Alta California during the Mexican era and was covertly in ...
; surgeon and
University of California, San Francisco
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It cond ...
founder
Hugh H. Toland; the builder of the first wharf in the city, Squire Clark; an early sheriff,
David Scannell; newspaper editor,
James King of William
James King of William (January 28, 1822 – May 20, 1856) was a crusading San Francisco, California, newspaper editor whose assassination by James P. Casey, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1856 resulted in the establishment ...
; Commodore
James Thomas Watkins; founder of
Woodward's Gardens
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, Robert B. Woodward; the inventor of the cable car,
Andrew Smith Hallidie
Andrew Smith Hallidie (March 16, 1836 – April 24, 1900) was the promoter of the Clay Street Hill Railroad in San Francisco, USA. This was the world's first practical cable car system, and Hallidie is often therefore regarded as the inventor of ...
; politician,
James Van Ness
James Van Ness (1808 – December 28, 1872) was an American politician who served as the 6th Mayor of San Francisco from 1855 to 1856.
Early life and education
James Van Ness was born in Burlington, Vermont, in 1808. The son of Dutch-American ...
; U.S. Senator,
William M. Stewart
William Morris Stewart (August 9, 1827April 23, 1909) was an American lawyer and politician. In 1964, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
Personal
Stewart was born in Wayne County ...
; U.S. Senator,
John Percival Jones
John Percival Jones (January 27, 1829November 27, 1912) was an American politician who served for 30 years as a Republican United States Senator from Nevada. He made a fortune in silver mining and was a co-founder of the town of Santa Monica, C ...
; San Francisco mayor,
James Otis;
businessman,
William Chapman Ralston
William "Billy" Chapman Ralston (January 12, 1826 – August 27, 1875) was a San Francisco businessman and financier, and the founder of the Bank of California.
Biography
William Chapman Ralston was born at Wellsville, Ohio, son of Robert Ralsto ...
; and U.S. Senator,
James Graham Fair
James Graham Fair (December 3, 1831December 28, 1894) was an Irish immigrant to the United States who became a highly successful mining engineer and businessman. His investments in silver mines in Nevada made him a millionaire, and he was one o ...
.
Grave relocations
Some of the families of those interred at the Laurel Hill and Calvary Cemeteries moved their family remains at their own expense.
In June 1901, an unknown number of remains from Laurel Hill Cemetery were moved to the
Japanese Cemetery,
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, established by Hamden Holmes Noble in 1892, is a rural cemetery located in Colma, California, a place known as the "City of the Silent".
History
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park is the final resting site for several membe ...
, and the Serbian Cemetery, all in Colma.
35,000 of the Laurel Hill remains were removed between 1939 and 1940, and placed in redwood coffins, and were taken to Colma; where they were stored for six years in Cypress Abbey Mausoleum.
World War II
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had delayed the construction of a new burial chamber; and after the war the cost to build was too high, so instead the remains were placed beneath a large burial mound at Cypress Lawn.
It was not until 1993, that the memorial obelisk for those that were re-interred was placed on the 5 acre mound at Cypress Lawn.
There had been plans to create a 5-acre memorial park in the Laurel Hill neighborhood, which did not receive enough support.
The land for the Laurel Hill Cemetery became subdivided for housing and shopping centers.
Modern day
The site of the Laurel Hill Cemetery (at 3333 California Street; number 760) is listed as a
California Historical Landmark
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Criteria
Historical significance is determined by meeting at least one of ...
.
In 2017, a team of electricians was working underground at a home on Iris Avenue, when they spotted a 155-year-old gravestone that was a leftover from the Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Franciscan manzanita
When the Laurel Hill Cemetery was bulldozed in 1947, it was thought that the last Franciscan manzanita plant (''
Arctostaphylos franciscana
''Arctostaphylos franciscana'', known by the common name Franciscan manzanita, is a species of manzanita. It was named by Alice Eastwood and is native to the city of San Francisco.
Taxonomy
Franciscan manzanita was formerly considered as a subsp ...
'') was located there, and that the species therefore went extinct.
In October 2009, 60 years later, a Franciscan manzanita plant was found next to Doyle Drive in the Presidio; which prompted environmental groups to try to protect the plant(s) under the
Endangered Species Act
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.
The land it was found on was part of the Doyle Drive Replacement Project and was not protected, which prompted litigation, but the single shrub found was moved and has been used to try to reproduce the species.
In 2012, the plant received listing in the Endangered Species Act, and 300 acres were designated as critical habitat.
Calvary Cemetery
History
The Calvary Catholic Cemetery, also known as Mount Calvary Cemetery (active from 1860 to 1941) was 49.2 acres in size, founded by Archbishop
Joseph Sadoc Alemany
Joseph Sadoc Alemany y Conill, O.P. (Spanish: José Sadoc Alemany y Conill; July 3, 1814 – April 14, 1888) was a Spanish Catholic clergyman, who served most of his career in California. He served as the first Bishop of Monterey (1850–53) a ...
who purchased sloped land on Lone Mountain on August 16, 1860.
It was located between Geary, Turk, Saint Joseph, and Masonic Streets.
The graves of this cemetery were predominantly of the Irish.
In 1860, a chapel was built on Point Lobos (now Geary Boulevard), where Joseph Alemany held mass once a month.
In 1862, 4 wooden crosses were added to the top of Lone Mountain.
Notable burials
Charles Cora (c. 1810–1852) was an Italian-born gambler, who had met
Belle Cora (c. 1827–1862), a 19th-century
prostitute
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in New Orleans.
They moved to San Francisco together for work; and eventually (due to circumstances around a murder) Charles Cora was hung in 1852 by the
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance
The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance was a vigilante group formed in 1851. The catalyst for its formation was the criminality of the Sydney Ducks gang. It was revived in 1856 in response to rampant crime and corruption in the municipal governm ...
.
Right before the hanging, he married Bella Cora, and when he died she buried him at the Mission Dolores Cemetery.
She was told that she couldn’t be buried next to her husband at Mission Dolores, so she disinterred Charles Cora and buried him at Calvary Cemetery; and when she died, she was buried next to him in Calvary.
In 1916, the
San Francisco Bulletin
The ''San Francisco Evening Bulletin'' was a newspaper in San Francisco, founded as the ''Daily Evening Bulletin'' in 1855 by James King of William. King used the newspaper to crusade against political corruption, and built it into having the highe ...
newspaper published a
serial about the Coras by Pauline Jacobson.
As a result of the news coverage, Bella Cora and Charles Cora were disinterred from Calvary Cemetery and reburied beneath a common headstone at the
Mission Dolores Cemetery.
Notable graves in Calvary included politicians,
James A. McDougall
James Alexander McDougall (November 19, 1817 – September 3, 1867) was an American attorney and politician elected to statewide office in two U.S. states, then to the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate. A gift ...
;
Eugene Casserly
Eugene Casserly (November 13, 1820June 14, 1883) was an Irish-born American journalist, lawyer, and politician. He was the son of scholar Patrick S. Casserly, and he served in the United States Senate from California.
Biography
Eugene Casserl ...
; and
Delos R. Ashley
Delos Rodeyn Ashley (February 19, 1828 – July 18, 1873) was a California and Nevada politician who served as State Treasurer of California and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Nevada.
Biography
Ashley was born at Ark ...
.
Grave relocations
Catholic Archdiocese opposed the removal of the graves because in Calvary Cemetery they were on "
hallow
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ed ground".
By 1937, the Catholic Archdiocese stopped fighting the removal of the buried; and some 55,000 bodies were removed with a priest in attendance and privacy screens.
Approximately 40,000 remains at the Calvary Cemetery were moved to
Holy Cross Cemetery Holy Cross Cemetery may refer to:
United States
California
*Holy Cross Cemetery (Colma, California)
*Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California
* Holy Cross Cemetery (Menlo Park, California)
* Holy Cross Cemetery (Pomona, California)
*Holy C ...
in Colma, the project spanned many years.
Some of the families of the Laurel Hill and Calvary Cemeteries moved their family remains at their own expense.
The land for the Calvary Cemetery became subdivided for housing and shopping centers.
Masonic Cemetery
The Masonic Cemetery (active from 1864 to 1935) was approximately 30 acres located between Turk, Fulton, Parker and Masonic Streets (now the
University of San Francisco
The University of San Francisco (USF) is a private Jesuit university in San Francisco, California. The university's main campus is located on a setting between the Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate Park. The main campus is nicknamed "The Hil ...
).
The tombstones were used as fill on the land leading up to the Golden Gate Bridge. It was created for the burial of members of the Masonic Order.
Notable graves at Masonic Cemetery included
Emperor Norton
Joshua Abraham Norton (February 4, 1818January 8, 1880), known as Emperor Norton, was a resident of San Francisco, California who, in 1859, proclaimed himself "Norton I., Emperor of the United States". In 1863, after Napoleon III invaded Mexi ...
,
James A. Johnson, and
Thomas Bowles Shannon
Thomas Bowles Shannon (September 21, 1827 – February 21, 1897) was a California merchant and politician who served as member of the California State Assembly and the U.S. House of Representatives for California.
Early life
Shannon was born ...
.
Grave relocations
In June 1901, an unknown number of remains at the Masonic Cemetery were moved to the
Japanese Cemetery in Colma. Because of the passage of the Morris Act (1921), the Masonic Cemetery continued to move the graves, until they were stopped by litigation.
The majority of burial removal for this cemetery happened after 1929 because of litigation, and took around 6 years.
Some 40,000 of the buried in Masonic were moved to
Woodlawn Cemetery in Colma.
USF campus
All of the 30 acres became part of the campus of the
University of San Francisco
The University of San Francisco (USF) is a private Jesuit university in San Francisco, California. The university's main campus is located on a setting between the Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate Park. The main campus is nicknamed "The Hil ...
(formerly St. Ignatius College).
Many of the remains had been unaccounted for, and during three different occasions of campus building and renovations (which included USF's Gleeson Library, Hayes-Healy residence hall, and the John Lo Schiavo, S.J. Center for Science and Innovation) they have found human remains and burial materials.
Odd Fellows Cemetery
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The Odd Fellows Cemetery (active from 1864 to 1933) was approximately 27 acres located between Geary, Turk, Parker and Arguello Streets.
It was the burial site for local members of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
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. In 1898, the
Columbarium
A columbarium (; pl. columbaria) is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns, holding cremated remains of the deceased.
The term can also mean the nesting boxes of pigeons. The term comes from the Latin "'' colu ...
was built at the entrance, and which is still standing in its same location.
Grave relocations
The majority of burial removal for this cemetery happened after 1929 because of litigation, and took around 6 years.
In 1933, the 26,000 buried at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in San Francisco were moved to Greenlawn Memorial Park in Colma, California. Portions of the Odd Fellows Cemetery became the Rossi Playground, through
W.P.A. labor.
A five acre tract of land was retained for the columbarium and memorial park.
2016 casket
A casket and the remains of two-year old
Edith Howard Cook
Edith Howard Cook (November 28, 1873 – October 13, 1876) was an American child who died at the age of 2 years 10 months. Her cast iron casket and mummified body were found in 2016 during a home renovation project in San Francisco, California. At ...
who had died in 1876 and was buried at Odd Fellows Cemetery, was discovered in 2016 under a house in the
Richmond District.
After an archaeoforensic investigation the child's remains, they were passed the nearest relative, who reburied her at Greenlawn Memorial Park in Colma, California.
See also
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Camp Merritt, California
Camp Merritt, California was a U.S. military camp used for the quartering and preparation of American troops destined for the Philippines during the Spanish–American War. Formerly a racetrack, it was named for General Wesley Merritt, the c ...
*
List of cemeteries in California
This list of cemeteries in California includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable. It does not include ...
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Pioneer cemetery
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References
External links
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