Mountain View Cemetery
Headstone at Mountain View Cemetery in 2014
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1411 W Belmont Ave, Fresno, California
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Mountain View Cemetery is a cemetery in Fresno, California, opened in the 1880s.[1]

History

In the early 1880s, Moses J. Church donated 80 acres of land along Belmont Avenue for the establishment of cemeteries.[2][3] He named the combined plot Mountain View Cemetery but subdivided it and allocated it to a number of groups, such as Catholic, Seventh-Day Adventist, Episcopal, Christian, Masonic, Odd Fellows and many others.[3] No fences were installed between the areas. John S. Eastwood performed the initial survey the property in 1888 as Fresno's City Engineer at the time.[4] The 10-acres of donated land earmarked for the Armenian community became Ararat Cemetery.[5]

Upkeep for the cemetery was assigned to the local Odd Fellows lodge.[6] In 1910, citizens became concerned with plant overgrowth and lack of a map showing ownership of individual plots at the cemetery. They formed the "Mountain View Cemetery Improvement Association" and took over some management duties.[6]

Notable interments

A young girl walking through Mountain View Cemetery
  • Frank Hamilton Short (1862-1920), lawyer and a states' rights advocate.
  • Bertrand W. Gearhart (1890-1955), lawyer and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives for California's 9th congressional district.[7]
  • Thomas Edwin Hughes (1830-1919), real estate developer and investor who contributed to the initial development of Fresno.
  • Dutch Leonard (1892–1952), pitcher in Major League Baseball who had an 11-year career playing for the Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers.
  • John Samuel Eastwood (1857–1924), dam engineer and pioneer of hydroelectric power production.[4]
  • Alma Rubens (1897–1931), film actress and stage performer.
  • Moses J. Church (1819-1900), known for building hundreds of miles of canals in the Fresno area, enabling irrigated agriculture using water from the Kings River.
  • Fulton G. Berry (1832-1910), businessman and namesake for Fresno's Fulton Mall.
  • Josiah Hall, Union army officer.
  • Frank Dusy, (1837–1898), early business leader of Selma, California and a co-inventor of the Fresno Scraper.
  • Thomas R. Meux, (1838-1929), physician who served early Fresno and builder of the Meux Home, which became a museum.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Local Brevities". Fresno Morning Republican. January 23, 1897. p. 3. Retrieved November 7, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ "The cemetery muddle". Fresno Morning Republican. April 18, 1885. p. 3. Retrieved November 7, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. 1 2 Rehart, Catherine Morison (1996). The Valley's Legends and Legacies. Fresno, California: Quill Driver Books. p. 32.
  4. 1 2 Jackson, Donald C. (1995). Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 44. ISBN 0806137339.
  5. ↑ Sibley, Eugene (July 2015). Ozeran, Janelle (ed.). "A Short History of Fresno County Owned Cemeteries for Indigents: Paupers and Potters Fields". Fresno County Genealogical Society. 50 (3). Retrieved November 7, 2022.
  6. 1 2 "Make another effort to improve local cemetery". Fresno Morning Republican. March 5, 1910. p. 7. Retrieved November 7, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ Gearhart, Bertrand Wesley, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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