Inyo County
Cemeteries
Before you move on...
My vision for this cemetery
listing is to compile contact information for as many of the cemeteries as
possible. I know resources in
Inyo
County are spotty at best and my goal
is to fix this problem. If you find
out how to get information regarding burials at any of the cemeteries listed
here please don’t be stingy!
so that I can share
that information with other researchers.
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Cemetery at Ballarat (ghost town)
USGS Topographic Map at
Topozone.com
Big
Pine Cemeteries
Big
Pine
Cemetery
USGS Topographic Map at
Topozone.com
On
Crocker
Street (the road going up to Glacier Lodge in the
center of town)
.
Woodmen
of the World
Cemetery
USGS Topographic Map at
Topozone.com
South
end of Big Pine: built in the early 1900s, now locally considered as the
"Indian
Cemetery."
Bishop Cemeteries
Sunland
Cemetery
USGS Topographic Map at
Topozone.com
Pioneer
Cemetery
USGS Topographic Map at
Topozone.com
Known
currently as West
Line Street
Cemetery.
P.
O. Box 1326
Bishop,
CA
93515
Phone: (760) 873-3762
Transcription of West Line Street
Cemetery done by Diane Mettam, posted at Interment.net
East
Line Street
Cemetery
Has an index posted at the front gate.
USGS Topographic Map at
Topozone.com
A complete
listing of burials submitted to the California Tombstone Transcription
Project by Anne West, as well as some
photos submitted by several people.
736 grave photos at Find a
Grave – Thanks to Sherri for alerting us to this!
Carl Mengel Grave
At Mengel Pass, in the
southern Panamint Range, is the grave of Carl Mengel. Mengel has a long history in the area,
alive between 1868 and 1944. His
grave has a large monument over it at the top of the pass between Panamint
Valley and Death Valley. The road
going by up Goler
Canyon and over into Butte
Valley and Warm
Springs
Canyon is a popular 4x4 trail.
Photo taken by
David
A. Wright.
Cemetery at
Chloride
City
Chloride Cemetery photos at
RobertWynn.com
Cemetery at Cerro
Gordo (ghost town)
USGS Topographic Map at
Topozone.com
Exact note from
David A.
Wright: Last
one buried is Jody Stewart - who owned much of the town and was in the process
of restoring it - who died December 7, 2001 of cancer, in her
prime at 57 years old.
Photo of Jody Stewart’s grave at the
California Tombstone Transcription Project taken by David
A. Wright.
Cemetery at Darwin
USGS Topographic Map at
Topozone.com
Photos at the California Tombstone
Transcription Project taken by David
A. Wright.
Dayton Harris Grave Monument at Badwater (ghost town)
USGS Topographic Map at
Topozone.com
Cemetery at Death Valley Junction (a.k.a. Amargosa)
USGS Topographic Map at
Topozone.com
Cemetery at Furnace Creek
USGS Topographic Map at
Topozone.com
Cemetery at Grapevine Canyon
Mount Owens Cemetery
This cemetery is actually in
Kern County, CA but it is included here because it would be of use to people
doing research in southern Inyo County.
Transcription of the cemetery by the
Historical Society of the Upper Mojave Desert includes history of the
area.
Cemetery at Greenwater
(ghost town)
USGS Topographic Map at Topozone.com
On the east side of Death
Valley near the old camp of Ryan (southwest of Furnace Creek). There is some very subtle evidence that
there may be very few graves. Or
there may not be any at all.
Independence Cemeteries
USGS Topographic Map at
Topozone.com includes both cemeteries.
Independence Cemetery
P. O. Box 219
Independence, CA 93526
Phone: (760) 878-1000
Old Independence Cemetery
Most burials at this
cemetery were moved when US 395 was put through the valley. A couple of burials still remain in a
small fenced in area on the Western side of US 395 just north of
Independence.
Photos at the California Tombstone
Transcription Project
James McKay
grave
Located
at the ghost town of Chloride City (in the mountains south of the Beatty road).
USGS Topographic Map at
Topozone.com
Photo of Chloride City ruins and
James McKay grave at Robert Wynn’s website
Jeanne Lemoigne grave
USGS Topographic Map at
Topozone.com
Cemetery at Keeler
USGS Topographic Map at
Topozone.com
Lone Pine Cemeteries
USGS Topographic Map at
Topozone.com includes all four
cemeteries.
Mt. Whitney Cemetery
Photos at the California Tombstone
Transcription Project
Leilauni Holtz is in the process of transcribing/photographing this
cemetery.
Lone
Pine: Graves of the victims of the 1872 earthquake
just north of Lone Pine.
It may
or may not be the Pioneer cemetery on the USGS list.
Photos by Denise S.
Flynn
Old Lone Pine Cemetery
Exact note from David A. Wright: In
recent years, someone located the old and forgotten original cemetery. It was totally overgrown and
hidden. I believe it's been cleared
and now accessible.
Pioneer
Cemetery
Manzanar
Cemetery
Manzanar was one of ten WWII Japanese internment camps.
(See
Links to Manzanar on the Homepage under “Museums and Historic Points of
Interest”)
Manzanar
Visitors Center Grand Opening on April 24, 2004
See
the article in the Vol. 19 No. 3 April 2004,
Newsletter
of the Historical Society of the Upper
Mojave Desert
PDF file at National Park
Service website regarding
the cemetery at Manzanar.
Photos of the
cemetery at Manzanar by Chris Rowell at Flickr.com – According to Chris
there are six remaining burials at the Manzanar
Cemetery.
No list of those interred is available at this time. The Eastern California Museum recommends
contacting:
Japanese-American National
Museum
369
East
First Street,
Los
Angeles,
California
90012
Phone: (213) 625-0414
Fax: (213) 625-1770
Toll free: (800)
461-5266
McKellips
Daughters’ Grave – Lorenza and Larkin
Located at lower
Centennial Flats between the Darwin road and Keeler. Lorenza died in infancy, Larkin four
years old. Only date given is
1874.
There
is a cross on the side of CA190 at the grave.
Photo courtesy of
David
A. Wright.
Cemetery at Panamint City (ghost town)
USGS
Topographic Map at Topozone.com
Note from David A. Wright: The cemetery at Panamint
City is not on the USGS map. It is mentioned in numerous publications
as being in Sourdough
Canyon, which is directly across from
the mill site. In 1997 I hiked the
canyon, but found it full of ruins from modern times - motorized equipment,
excavations, pipes, junk. I hiked
about a half mile up, but neither I nor the three other guys with me could see
any sign of it. The road up
Sourdough continues a considerable distance to the summit of the ridge, but time
restraints did not allow us further exploration.
Cemetery at Ryan (ghost town)
Reilly Burials Legend (ghost town)
USGS
Topographic Map at Topozone.com no cemetery shown.
Note from David A. Wright: There
is a legend that won't die that at
the ghost camp of Reilly, in
Panamint
Valley, there are 250 massacred
Mormons laying at rest near one of the ruins. I was at an archaeological dig there a
few years back, and archaeologists had ground penetrating radar to test that
legend and came up empty handed.
Cemetery at Shoshone
USGS Topographic Map at
Topozone.com
Slideshow of photos from the
Shoshone Cemetery at digital-desert.com
Photos from the Shoshone Cemetery by
Robert Wynn
The Shoshone Museum has done extensive research on the burials at the
Shoshone Cemetery.
Cemetery at Skidoo (ghost town)
USGS Topographic Map at
Topozone.com
Very hard to find. See David
A. Wright’s Joe Simpson essay, where
there is a photo of the believed site of the cemetery (on page 2). The photo was taken by Park Service
Ranger, Dave Brenner,
Death
Valley National
Park.
Cemeteries at Tecopa
USGS Topographic Map at
Topozone.com Only one cemetery can be seen on this map.
Tecopa Cemetery
Photos of New Tecopa Cemetery by
Robert Wynn
Old Tecopa Cemetery
Photos of Old Tecopa Cemetery by
Robert Wynn
Val
Nolan grave
On the
old Stovepipe Well road just west of the road to Scotty's Castle, north of
CA190.
Walter Scott grave (aka "Death Valley
Scotty")
Located
behind Scotty's Castle in northern Death Valley.
Death Valley Scotty at
DesertUSA.com
Scotty’s Castle at
Deathvalleyphoto.com
Please join me in sending
out a BIG thank you to David A.
Wright for helping put together this listing of
cemeteries and for providing all of the extra information. Drop by his website and take a look at
his photos of Inyo and Mono
Counties or read some of his essays
about the people and places contained therein. His knowledge about the people and
places of Inyo
County is invaluable.
Some
information was retrieved from the USGS Geographic Names Indexing
System.
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