Saint Mary Cemetery (Oakland, California)
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Saint Mary Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery
in Oakland, California
, adjacent to Mountain View Cemetery.
Cemetery
A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...
in Oakland, California
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
, adjacent to Mountain View Cemetery.
People interred
- Juan Bautista AlvaradoJuan Bautista AlvaradoJuan Bautista Valentín Alvarado y Vallejo was a Californio and twice Governor of Alta California from 1836 to 1837, and 1838 to 1842.-Early years:...
(1809-1882) Mexican governor of California - John Walter EhleJohn Walter EhleJohn Walter Ehle was a Fireman First Class serving in the United States Navy during the Spanish–American War who received the Medal of Honor for bravery.-Biography:...
(1873-1927), Spanish-American WarSpanish-American WarThe Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence...
veteran, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient - George Hyde (1819-1890), Mayor (AlcaldeAlcaldeAlcalde , or Alcalde ordinario, is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and administrative functions. An alcalde was, in the absence of a corregidor, the presiding officer of the Castilian cabildo and judge of first instance of a town...
) of San Francisco (as a U.S. city) prior to California statehood - Slip MadiganSlip MadiganEdward Patrick "Slip" Madigan was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head coach at Saint Mary's College of California from 1921 to 1939 and at the University of Iowa from 1943 to 1944, compiling a career college football record of...
(1896-1966), football coach - Delilah L. BeasleyDelilah L. BeasleyDelilah Leontium Beasley , was an American historian, and newspaper columnist for the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California, USA...
(1871-1934), - John F. Slavich, Mayor of Oakland
- John CahillJohn Cahill (baseball)John Patrick Parnell "Patsy" Cahill was a Major League Baseball outfielder. In addition to playing the outfield, Cahill also played third base, shortstop and he also pitched 10 games....
(1865-1901), baseball player, putative inspiration for "Casey at the BatCasey at the Bat"Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888" is a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer. First published in The San Francisco Examiner on June 3, 1888, it was later popularized by DeWolf Hopper in many vaudeville performances.The poem was originally published...
" - James J. KenneyJames J. KenneyJames J. Kenney was the first fire chief in the city of Berkeley, California.-Biography:Kenney was born in 1869 in San Francisco, California, one of 3 children...
(1869-1916), first fire chief of BerkeleyBerkeley, CaliforniaBerkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...