Oak Hill Memorial Park is a cemetery in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California. 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.
Notable interments
Numerous notable persons are interred at Oak Hill:
- Frank Arellanes (1882â€"1918), baseball player
- Sylvia Browne (1936â€"2013), psychic medium
- Hal Chase (1883â€"1947), baseball player
- John Smith Chipman (1800â€"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
- Arthur M. Free (1879â€"1953), US Congressman
- Brooke Hart (1911â€"1933), kidnapping and murder victim (son of businessman Alexander Hart)
- Everis Anson Hayes (1855â€"1942), US Congressman
- Ren Kelly (1899â€"1963), baseball player
- William Penn Lyon (1822â€"1913), Civil War Brigadier General (Union)
- Paul Masson (1859â€"1940), early California vintner
- Charles Henry McKiernan (1825â€"1892), early settler in the Santa Cruz Mountains
- Benjamin Raborg (1871-1918), American artist
- James F. Reed (1800â€"1874), organizing member of the Donner Party
- Lester Reiff (1877â€"1948), jockey
- Fred Sanborn (1899â€"1961), Vaudeville performer
- Samuel Morgan Shortridge (1861â€"1952), US Senator
- Edward O. Smith (1817â€"1892), Mayor of Decatur, Illinois, Illinois State Senator, and California pioneer
- John Townsend (?â€"1850), early Alcalde of San Francisco
- Gus Triandos (1913â€"2013), baseball player
- Edward Alexander Walker (1864â€"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.
There is a cemetery plot dedicated to members of the Grand Army of the Republic.
See also
- List of cemeteries in California
References
External links
- Oak Hill Memorial Park website
