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Lafayette Cem, Lafayette, Contra Costa Co, California



 


Latitude: 37.896257, Longitude: -122.099618


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Lafayette Cemetery
Lafayette Cemetery
3285 Mt Diablo Blvd
Lafayette, California
Lafayette Cemetery
Lafayette Cemetery
3285 Mt Diablo Blvd
Lafayette, California
Lafayette Cemetery
Lafayette Cemetery
3285 Mt Diablo Blvd
Lafayette, California
Lafayette Cemetery
Lafayette Cemetery
3285 Mount Diablo Blvd
Lafayette, Contra Costa, California

Lafayette's cemetery was established on 4-1/2 acres of hillside property owned by Medford Gorham. In 1874, he sold the property for $100 to the Cemetery Corporation which was chaired by Elam Brown. The Corporation fenced the property and located the roads as they presently exist. The original Death and Burial Record Book, still on file in the cemetery caretaker's building, shows names of the deceased, date and cause of death, plus age and place of death. A complete copy of the book is in the Lafayette Historical Society file in the Lafayette library. In 1937, the Alamo-Lafayette Cemetery District was formed with county taxation to ensure perpetual care.
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Lafayette Cemetery is at 3285 Mount Diablo Blvd in Lafayette, between Pleasant Hill Road and the Lafayette Park Hotel.
Take Hwy. 24 to the either Central Lafayette exit (and turn left on Mount Diablo Blvd) , or the South Pleasant Hill Exit and turn left on Pleasant Hill and left again onto Mount Diablo.
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Lafayette Cemetery - Jones, Stephen
Lafayette Cemetery - Jones, Stephen
Lafayette, Contra Costa County, California

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   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Burial    Person ID 
1 Arnold, Martha Jane  Lafayette Cem, Lafayette, Contra Costa Co, California I5861
2 Hodges, Ella  Lafayette Cem, Lafayette, Contra Costa Co, California I9839
3 Hodges, Minnie  Lafayette Cem, Lafayette, Contra Costa Co, California I9842
4 Jones, Cecil Arnold  Lafayette Cem, Lafayette, Contra Costa Co, California I9838
5 Jones, Cecil B  Lafayette Cem, Lafayette, Contra Costa Co, California I9831
6 Jones, Edgar Thomas  Lafayette Cem, Lafayette, Contra Costa Co, California I9830
7 Jones, George Washington  Lafayette Cem, Lafayette, Contra Costa Co, California I9835
8 Jones, Henry Turner  Lafayette Cem, Lafayette, Contra Costa Co, California I9841
9 Jones, John W.  Lafayette Cem, Lafayette, Contra Costa Co, California I3189
10 Jones, Leslie  Lafayette Cem, Lafayette, Contra Costa Co, California I9848
11 Jones, Miriam Adelaide  Lafayette Cem, Lafayette, Contra Costa Co, California I9844
12 Jones, Stephen*  Lafayette Cem, Lafayette, Contra Costa Co, California I3184
13 Jones, William H  Lafayette Cem, Lafayette, Contra Costa Co, California I9833
14 Rankin, Mary E.  Lafayette Cem, Lafayette, Contra Costa Co, California I9843
15 Reynolds, Anna  Lafayette Cem, Lafayette, Contra Costa Co, California I9837