Yosemite Cemetery Explained

Yosemite Cemetery
Established:	1870s
Location:	Yosemite Village, Mariposa County, California
Country:	United States
Findagraveid:	1965581
Graves:	approx. 60 graves
Size:	0.25 arce

Yosemite Cemetery, also known as Pioneer Cemetery,^[1] is a cemetery built in the 1870s and located on the west end of Yosemite Village, in Mariposa County, California.^[2] In 2014, the Yosemite Conservancy worked in restoring the cemetery and graves.^[3] 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.^[4]

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 (1835–1918), landscape photographer.
• Florence Hutchings, the first non-Ahwahnechee born in Yosemite Valley
• James Mason Hutchings (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.

See also

• List of cemeteries in California
• Pioneer cemetery

Further reading

• Book: Brubaker. Lloyd W.. Guide to the Pioneer Cemetery. Degnan. Laurence V.. Jackson. Richard R.. 1959. XXXVIII. 5.

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Burrell. Jackie. January 18, 2017. Yosemite: 5 surprising spots you don't know about. 2021-10-28. The Mercury News. en-US.
2. Book: Medley, Steven P.. The Complete Guidebook to Yosemite National Park. October 2, 2012. Yosemite Conservancy. 978-1-930238-28-2. en. 91.
3. Web site: Burnett. Jim. March 2, 2014. Yosemite National Park's Restored Cemetery Preserves Ties To The Park's Rich History. 2021-10-28. Nationalparkstraveler.org. en.
4. Book: Jackson, Richard R.. Yosemite Nature Notes. 1953. 119. en. Indian Gravesites of the Yosemite Cemetery.