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From: Laurel Egenberger <>
Subject: Re: [CACONTRA] Pacheco Cemetery, location please and information
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 17:08:43 -0700


I can't answer your questions about the condition of the Pacheco cemetery, but you might find
useful the
listing of headstone inscriptions at the Pacheco cemetery compiled in the 1960s. you can find
this by going to the Contra Costa GenWeb site

http://www.katpher.com/conscty/concscty.htm

and following the relevant cemtery links

--Laurel

Eileen wrote:

> According to my great great grandmothers obit she was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery
> in San Jose. We went there over the weekend only to find that she isn't there. I
> did however get information that my great great grandfather had been there but was
> moved to Pacheco Cemetery. I am thinking she was moved too. My husband took
> me to an old run down cemetery some time back off Blum Road. It had a Crematorium
> that was all boarded up. I got very upset over the condition now I have reason to believe
> my ancestors are buried there and my grief is 100 fold. Is this the only Pacheco Cemetery?
> I talked to my brother in law today who says there was an article in the San Francisco
> Chronicle about the restoration of this cemetery. Does anyone know when this article
> was published, I would love to read it. My brother in law also says he remembers there
> was a cemetery in Pacheco that was moved some years back. Any information of
> it's current location? Even if I don't find my ancestors in this cemetery I want to see
> that it is cleaned up. Any information will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Eileen Gillette
> El Dorado County Volunteer

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