Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles

Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles

Evergreen Cemetery is a cemetery located at 204 North Evergreen Avenue, Los Angeles, California. It is in the Boyle Heights area on the East Side, between East 1st Street and Cesar E. Chavez Avenue (formerly Brooklyn Avenue), near Downtown.

Founded in 1877, Evergreen is the oldest existing cemetery in Los Angeles. It is also one of the largest cemeteries, with over 300,000 interments. The section near 1st and Lorena Streets was at one time a potter's field.

Evergreen is the final resting place of some of the most prominent people in the history of the City of Los Angeles. Many pioneers are interred here, names such as Bixby, Coulter, Hollenbeck, Lankershim, Van Nuys, and Workman. There are politicians, notably former Mayors of Los Angeles. The Garden of the Pines section of the cemetery is a memorial to Japanese Issei pioneers.

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List of notable interments

(Note: This is a partial list.)

Use the following alphabetical links to find someone.

A

*Eddie Anderson (1905-1977), comedic actor, played Rochester, employee of Jack Benny

B

*James Banning (1900-1933), pioneering black aviator
*Charlotta Bass (1874-1969), educator, publisher and civil rights activist
*Louise Beavers (1902-1962), actress, played Delilah Johnson in the 1934 Claudette Colbert version of "Imitation of Life"
*Matthew Beard (1925-1981), actor, played Stymie in "Our Gang" movie shorts
*Jesse Belvin (1932-1960), singer and songwriter

C

*Donaldina Cameron (1869-1968), social reformer
*Charles A. Canfield (1848-1913), oil baron and real estate magnate

D

E

F

*Mary Foy (1862-1962), first female head librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library

G

*Earl Bell Gilmore (1887-1964), entrepreneur

H

*Sam Haskins (1846-1895), first black LAFD member killed in the line of duty
*Joe Hayashi (1920-1945), Congressional Medal of Honor recipient
*Henry T. Hazard (1844-1921), 28th Mayor of Los Angeles
*Ruth Hiatt (1906-1994), actress

I

J

*Charles Price Jones (1865-1949), minister, composer and founder of the Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A.

K

L

*Isaac Lankershim (1818-1882), real estate developer
*Gilbert W. Lindsay (1900-1990), Los Angeles City Councilman

M

*Biz Mackey (1897-1965), Baseball Hall of Famer of the Negro Leagues
*Bridget "Biddy" Mason (1818-1891), former slave, nurse, real estate entrepreneur
*Alex Mentry (1846-1900), oilman
*Sadao Munemori (1922-1945), Congressional Medal of Honor recipient
*Kiyoshi K. Muranaga (1922-1944), Congressional Medal of Honor recipient
*Lela Campbell Murray (1890-1949), social activist, owned "The only Negro dude ranch in the world"

N

*Bobby Nunn (1925-1986), singer, original member of The Coasters

O

P

*William G. Perry (1832-1906), lumber baron, first president of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

Q

R

*George A. Ralphs (1850-1914), founder of Ralphs supermarket chain
*Frederick Madison Roberts (1879-1952), California Assemblyman
*Earl Rogers (1869-1922), attorney

*William J. Seymour (1870-1922), religious leader
*Edward F. Spence (1832-1892), 25th Mayor of Los Angeles
*Johnny St. Cyr (1890-1966), jazz musician
*James K. Sturgeon (1844-1899), Congressional Medal of Honor recipient

T

*Ted T. Tanouye (1919-1944), Congressional Medal of Honor recipient
*Cameron E. Thom (1825-1915), 24th Mayor of Los Angeles, co-founder of Glendale, California
*James R. Toberman (1836-1911), 19th and 23rd Mayor of Los Angeles
*Benjamin Cummings Truman (1835-1916), writer
*H. T. Tsiang (1899-1971), actor and writer

U

V

*Emile Vache (1834-1908), co-founder of Brookside Winery
*Isaac Newton Van Nuys (1836-1912), banker, real estate developer, founder of Van Nuys, California

W

*Guilford Wiley Wells (1840-1909), U.S. Congressman
*Joseph Pomeroy Widney (1841-1938), 2nd president of USC, co-founder of the Church of the Nazarene
*Charles P. Williams (1887-1923), first black LAPD officer killed in the line of duty
*William H. Workman (1839-1918), 26th Mayor of Los Angeles

Y

Z

ee also

*List of cemeteries

External links

* [http://kcet.org/explore-ca/california-stories/shelter/evergreen/ The Evergreen (kcet.org)]


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