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Oak Hill Memorial Park
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Oak Hill Mausoleum
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Established 1847
Location
San Jose, California
Country United States

Oak Hill Memorial Park is a cemetery in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California.

It is the oldest secular cemetery operating in California, dating from 1847, predating the California Gold Rush by one year. As of 2014 the cemetery had over 15,000 interments.

Notable interments

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Apostolic Fountain
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Chinese Pavilion

Numerous notable persons are interred at Oak Hill:

  • Richard Amory (1927–1981), writer, author of Song of the Loon (1966)
  • Frank Arellanes (1882–1918), baseball player
  • Sylvia Browne (1936–2013), psychic medium
  • Hal Chase (1883–1947), baseball player
  • John Smith Chipman (1800–1869), U.S. Congressman
  • Bernice C. Downing (1878–1940), with her sister Bertha C. Downing (1878–1925) (also buried here), the first women in California to publish their own newspaper, the Santa Clara Journal
  • Arthur M. Free (1879–1953), U.S. Congressman
  • Elizabeth Eleanor D’Arcy Gaw (1868–1944), artist
  • Everis Anson Hayes (1855–1942), U.S. Congressman
  • Ren Kelly (1899–1963), baseball player
  • José Noriega (1796–1869), Alcalde of San José
  • William Penn Lyon (1822–1913), Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Civil War General (Union)
  • Paul Masson (1859–1940), early California vintner
  • Charles Henry McKiernan (1825–1892), early settler in the Santa Cruz Mountains
  • Benjamin Raborg (1871–1918), American artist
  • James F. Reed (1800–1874), organizing member of the Donner Party
  • Lester Reiff (1877–1948), jockey
  • Fred Sanborn (1899–1961), Vaudeville performer
  • Samuel Morgan Shortridge (1861–1952), U.S. Senator
  • Edward O. Smith (1817–1892), Mayor of Decatur, Illinois, Illinois State Senator, and California pioneer
  • John Townsend (?–1850), early Alcalde of San Francisco
  • Gus Triandos (1913–2013), baseball player
  • Edward Alexander Walker (1864–1946), Medal of Honor recipient for service in the Boxer Rebellion

The cemetery has an Overland Pioneers Memorial to early settlers of the Santa Clara Valley.

There is a cemetery plot dedicated to members of the Grand Army of the Republic.

Gallery

  • Oak Hill Memorial Park (4187436924)
  • Oak Hill Memorial Park (4186657401)
  • Oak Hill Memorial Park (4186645017)
  • Oak Hill Memorial Park (4186666263) (cropped)
  • Oak Hill Memorial Park (4187415504)

Images for kids

  • Great Mausoleum of Oak Hill Memorial Park 2697

    Rotunda of the Great Mausoleum.

  • Oak Hill Memorial Park (4186667743) (cropped)

    Fountain of the Apostles.

  • Community Mausoleum at Oak Hill Memorial Park 2669

    The Community Mausoleum.

  • Chapel of Roses at Oak Hill 2657 (cropped)

    Chapel of Roses.

  • Japanese Columbarium of Oak Hill Memorial Park 2681 (cropped)

    The Japanese Columbarium.

  • Oak Hill Memorial Park (4187394920) (cropped)

    Fountain of the Apostles.

  • Great Mausoleum of Oak Hill Memorial Park 2692 (cropped)

    Gardens of the Great Mausoleum.

  • Oak Hill Memorial Park 2719

    Private mausoleums with the Sunrise Hill Cross in the background.

  • Downtown Skyline from Oak Hill

    View of Downtown San Jose from Oak Hill

  • Oak Hill Memorial Park 2722

    Private mausoleums

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