Yosemite Cemetery, also known as Pioneer Cemetery, is a cemetery built in the 1870s and located on the west end of

Yosemite Village Yosemite Valley (''Yosemite'', Miwok for "killer") is a census-designated place (CDP) in Mariposa County, California, United States. It consists of the developed area of Yosemite Village and the other areas of the Yosemite Valley in Yosemite Natio ...

, in Mariposa County, California. In 2014, the Yosemite Conservancy worked in restoring the cemetery and graves. Many of the graves are from the earliest European-descent pioneers, and a few of the graves were for Native Americans that had lived in the valley.

Notable burials

* George Anderson (1835–1884), first person to summit Half Dome in 1875. * Lucy Brown, one of the few Native American survivors of the Mariposa Battalion's 1851 raid of Yosemite Valley. * Galen Clark (1814–1910), writer and conservationist *

George Fiske George Fiske (October 22, 1835 – October 21, 1918) was an American landscape photographer. Biography Fiske was born on October 22, 1835, in Amherst, New Hampshire. He moved west with his brother to San Francisco. He apprenticed under Char ...

(1835–1918),

landscape A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...

photographer. * Florence Hutchings, the first non- Ahwahnechee born in Yosemite Valley *

James Mason Hutchings James Mason Hutchings (February 10, 1820 – October 31, 1902) was an American businessman and one of the principal promoters of what is now Yosemite National Park. Biography Born in Towcester in England, Hutchings immigrated to the U.S. i ...

(1820–1902), businessman. *James Chenowith Lamon (1817–1875), the earliest person of European-descent to settle in Yosemite Valley in 1860. *Forest Sanford Townsley (1882–1943), chief ranger at Yosemite National Park for 27 years.

Notable burials

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