Spadra Cemetery, Pomona
The Louis Phillips mansion was located about a mile from the cemetery where the town of Spadra was, no longer existings, in the Pomona Valley. The area was once a bountiful farming community with few country roads and oak trees, now interlaced with freeways, industry and hundreds of houses.
Louis Phillips and is wife Esther Ann Blake Phillips are buried in the Spadra Cemetery. Their dates in the family Bible read that Louis Phillips was born on "22 day of April A D 1829" and Esther Ann Blake "7th Jan 1849, " but on their tombtone 1829 reads 1830 and 1849 reads 1848.
Location of Spadra Cemetery: turn off FF 57 to the Temple off ramp, left on Temple to Pomona Boulevard, right on it to underpass of 57ff, then immediately turn right and drive into the trucking concern lot and park. Walk through the county right of way to the railroad tracks and walk over the cemetery, which is amid a grove of oak and pepper trees. It is plotted in family plots; many stones are missing but have been cleaned up and some stones salvaged.
The stones read:
Pearl Scott Hopp
1887-1909
Mother & Baby
Mrs.Jessie Blackburn
Dec 27 1949
Mother
F. Bowers
Oct 2 1841 Feb 12 1911
Co F 14 Iowa
Andrew P Monroe
Nov 16 1831
May 21, 1906
At Rest
Hiram E.
Son of
S.E. & H Arnett
Feb 28, 1891
May 9, 1911
Howard Hicks
July 31, 1861 - Dec 5, 1937
Susie
Jan 1, 1864 - Dec 31, 1920Jessie P Blackburn
Apr 24 Apr 25
1866 1964
Florence
Samuel Edward Arnett
1856-1926
Hannah Arnett
1848-1936
Phillips Mother Father Esther A Louis Jan 7 1848 Apr 22, 1950 Dec 1, 1918 Mar 16, 1900Ursula Ponedel Meyer
June 16 1903
Sept 29, 1935
Samuel M. Bowers
1869-1954
Baby Bowers 1900
Theodora R Arnett
1880-1933
Nellie B. George
Sept 9, 1968
Dec 13 1920
George - top missing
Andrew Becton
1847-1925
James M. Fryer
June 25, 1847 - Jn 5, 1921
Belle
Jan 21, 1852 - Aug 25, 1944
Father Mother
W.W. Rubottom Jr.
Born
Dec 23, 1863
Died
May 14, 1874
1 & 2 tops missing
Black with Geo Blake
Currier
Husband Wife
Susan R
Mar 28, 1841-May 30, 1928
M C Caldwell Tilmon A Caldwell _________ Mar 17
Benj. H. Kepner Sarah E Kepner 1817-1893 1821-1895 Ida M Kepner Baker 1864-1896 (Another side) Kepner
W. Blake
Feb 16, 1812
Dec 2 1897
At Rest
R.H.C. Caldwell
Died at Yuma A. T.*
Dec 3, 1878
Aged 25 years 9 mon
In Memory of ______
James M Fryer
Born_____
Mar 6, 1878
Died
Nov. 28, 1880
_______ Rubottom
Oct 21, 1836
Jan 2, 1875
Wm Richardson Lilliam 1878-1954 1896-1948
Mother Father Violet R. Porter David E.W. Porter 1886-1924 1872-1932
In loving memory
James Middach
Died
Mar 12 1890
Aged 77 yrs 11 mon
Other side of large stone
Charles Blake
Beloved Son of
Esther & Louis Phillips
Civility R. Greenwade
Mar 10, 1840
Age 35 years 11 mon 27 da
George S. Blake
Aug 10, 18__
Feb 17, 1877
Middagh Wm G Bartlett Samuel A. 1843-1927 1852-1944 Catherina A 1862-1950
James Newton Glenn
Dec 29, 1858
Oct 26, 1902
Ernest L. Kepner
1883-1885
Bertie Middaugh
1883-1885
* Yuma Arizona Territory
Marguerite Newberry Kepner
1888-1952
Gabriel M Son of W.T. & N.M
Martin Born April 27 1866
Died Jan 13 1878
He has gone to the
Mansions of rest
Kepner
Father Mother
Major A Gilmor Born April 20 1834 Died July 30 1879 Dearest Brother then hast left us And thy loss we deeply feel But t'was God that has bereft us He can all our sorrows heal
In Memory of Sarah Cartledge
in Burke Co GA ___ 21 1815
Died Sept _____
Ernest L Johnson
1867-1921
Brother
John Porter
1919-1943
Donated by: San Luis Obispo County Genealogical Society, San Luis Obispo Co., California
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Transcribed by Julie Appletoft
May 2008
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