Mark West Cemetery
Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA
Named after William Mark West, a gentleman from England, who settled in Sonoma County around 1832. He married Guadalupe Vasquez, sister to General Vallejo who granted them a 6,663 acre parcel called Rancho San Miguel in 1840. He established a hacienda, post office and trading post on a creek, both named after him. The Mark West Cemetery is located within the boundaries of this land grant on private property in the Mark West - Larkfied area north of Santa Rosa. The only evidence of the original cemetery was the headstone of Mark West himself, found leaning against a tree. Surveyor's for the State of California around 1862, marked the location of the cemetery on their map of the Rancho. It's located in the northwest corner of the Rancho.Today, there is no evidence of any of the graves reported to be in the cemetery.
Named after William Mark West, a gentleman from England, who settled in Sonoma County around 1832. He married Guadalupe Vasquez, sister to General Vallejo who granted them a 6,663 acre parcel called Rancho San Miguel in 1840. He established a hacienda, post office and trading post on a creek, both named after him. The Mark West Cemetery is located within the boundaries of this land grant on private property in the Mark West - Larkfied area north of Santa Rosa. The only evidence of the original cemetery was the headstone of Mark West himself, found leaning against a tree. Surveyor's for the State of California around 1862, marked the location of the cemetery on their map of the Rancho. It's located in the northwest corner of the Rancho.Today, there is no evidence of any of the graves reported to be in the cemetery.
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- Added: 26 Feb 2011
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2390636
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