Fiddletown Cemetery
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Fiddletown Cemetery

Fiddletown, Amador County, California, USA

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  • Get directions American Flat Road
    Fiddletown, California 95629 United States
    Coordinates: 38.50213, -120.75772
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The Historic Masonic Section is a section within the Fiddletown cemetery.

Fiddletown was founded in 1849 when a group of people from Missouri found gold here. There was no quartz mining just placer, which was limited to when the creek was running. The gold soon played out and people moved on to other areas. However, the area was rich in another resource, lumber, which all the mines needed and for people to build houses. There were several saw mills in the area.

The Fiddletown Cemetery is in two parts, separated by a fence; the city and Masonic sections. The oldest existing headstone is Daniel Seeley who died in 1858. Most likely there are older graves that are now unmarked as wooden markers were normal during the early years and have long since disappeared.

Many of the people buried here were from the signs of the time; accidents, childbirth, and infant diseases.

Some of the more notable people buried here are HC Farnham, who built one of the first successful saw mills, RB Wight, who served as postmaster well into his 90s being the oldest in the postal service, Dennis Townsend who was the first postmaster and invented the collapsible globe, Foung Yow Chow "Jimmie Chow" who was the last Chinese in Fiddletown and ran the Chew Kee Apothecary Store which still exists today, and CA Purinton, who changed the name of the town from Fiddletown to Oleta as he was embarrassed to write Fiddletown when he registered in San Francisco hotels. The name was changed back to Fiddletown in 1932.

The cemetery is close to being full, except for the Masonic part, and just family members are allowed to be buried here.









The Historic Masonic Section is a section within the Fiddletown cemetery.

Fiddletown was founded in 1849 when a group of people from Missouri found gold here. There was no quartz mining just placer, which was limited to when the creek was running. The gold soon played out and people moved on to other areas. However, the area was rich in another resource, lumber, which all the mines needed and for people to build houses. There were several saw mills in the area.

The Fiddletown Cemetery is in two parts, separated by a fence; the city and Masonic sections. The oldest existing headstone is Daniel Seeley who died in 1858. Most likely there are older graves that are now unmarked as wooden markers were normal during the early years and have long since disappeared.

Many of the people buried here were from the signs of the time; accidents, childbirth, and infant diseases.

Some of the more notable people buried here are HC Farnham, who built one of the first successful saw mills, RB Wight, who served as postmaster well into his 90s being the oldest in the postal service, Dennis Townsend who was the first postmaster and invented the collapsible globe, Foung Yow Chow "Jimmie Chow" who was the last Chinese in Fiddletown and ran the Chew Kee Apothecary Store which still exists today, and CA Purinton, who changed the name of the town from Fiddletown to Oleta as he was embarrassed to write Fiddletown when he registered in San Francisco hotels. The name was changed back to Fiddletown in 1932.

The cemetery is close to being full, except for the Masonic part, and just family members are allowed to be buried here.









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