Oak Hill Memorial Park

Oak Hill Memorial Park is a cemetery in

The cemetery's origins date back to 1839, during the

In 1847, following the American Conquest of California, surveyor Chester Lyman, along with William Fisher of Rancho Laguna Seca, laid out an official city cemetery on a nearby tract, which was simply known as the Pueblo Cemetery, until 1858, when it was renamed to Oak Hill Cemetery (Oak Hill being the northernmost hill of the San Juan Bautista Hills where the cemetery is laid out).^[3][5]

When the city sold the cemetery to A.J. Hocking in 1933, its name was changed for the final time to Oak Hill Memorial Park.

Landmarks

The Great Mausoleum is the most notable landmark at Oak Hill. It built in a historic Romanesque Spanish Revival architecture.

The Sunrise Hill Cross is located atop of Sunrise Hill, the small summit just next to Oak Hill.

The Fountain of the Apostles features twelve marble statues of the

The cemetery has an Overland Pioneers Memorial to early American settlers of the Santa Clara Valley.

There is a plot dedicated to members of the Grand Army of the Republic.^[6]

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
• Esto Bates Broughton (1890–1956), one of the first four women elected to the California State Assembly
• Sylvia Browne (1936–2013), psychic medium
• Earl Butler, founder of Butler Amusements
• Hal Chase (1883–1947), baseball player
• John Smith Chipman (1800–1869), U.S. Congressman
• Sara J. Dorr (1855–1924), temperance activist
• Bernice C. Downing (1878–1940), the first women in California to publish their own newspaper, the Santa Clara Journal^[7]
• Nellie Blessing Eyster (1836–1922), writer and social reformer
• Arthur M. Free (1879–1953), U.S. Congressman
• Elizabeth Eleanor D’Arcy Gaw
  (1868–1944), artist
• Levi Goodrich (1822–1887), architect
• 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
• Sarah Knox-Goodrich (1825–1903), women's rights activist
• Sarah Massey Overton (1850–1914), African-American and women's rights activist
• 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
• John McNaught (1849–1938), early journalist and writer
• Emelie Melville (1852–1932), American actress
• Norman Mineta (1931–2022), United States Secretary of Transportation
• Alcalde of San José
• 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
• Eugene T. Sawyer (1846–1924), newspaper editor and writer of the Nick Carter detective series
• Illinois State Senator, and California pioneer^[8]
• John Townsend (?–1850), early Alcalde of San Francisco
• Gus Triandos (1930–2013), baseball player
• Edward Alexander Walker (1864–1946), Medal of Honor recipient for service in the Boxer Rebellion
• Carrie Stevens Walter (1846–1907), poet and co-founder of the Sempervirens Club

Gallery

• 
  Márquez mausoleum
• 
  View of Downtown San Jose from Oak Hill
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  Backesto mausoleum
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  Private mausoleums
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  The Hillside Mausoleum

See also

• List of cemeteries in California

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Oak Hill Memorial Park.

• Oak Hill Memorial Park website
• Oak Hill Memorial Park at Find a Grave