California Town with 17 Cemeteries

[Dibbons]

Dead body count of 150,000 moved from San Francisco to Colma for $10.00 each.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colma,_California

 

[yella71]

Lots a votes right there buddy.....

 

[WileE]

A new meaning to being in a Colma.

 

[Budnicks]

who was it that said;
the biggest waste of real-estate is cemeteries & country clubs
Rodney ?

 

[Bladeruner69]

Wyatt Earp is in one of them. I used to pass by his grave site daily when I worked out that way a few years ago.


Josephine, who was Jewish,[209] had Earp's body cremated and secretly buried his remains in the Marcus family plot at the Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, a Jewish cemetery in Colma, California. When she died in 1944, her body was buried alongside his ashes. She had purchased a small white marble headstone which was stolen shortly after her death in 1944. It was discovered in a backyard in Fresno, California. A second stone of flat granite was also stolen.[210]

On July 7, 1957, grave-robbers dug into the Earp's grave in an apparent attempt to steal the urn containing his ashes. Unable to find his cremains, they stole the 300 pounds (140 kg) grave stone.[211] Actor Hugh O'Brian, who was playing Earp in the 1955–61 television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, offered a reward for the stone's return. It was located for sale in a flea market.[210]

Cemetery officials re-set the stone flush in concrete, but it was stolen again. Actor Kevin Costner, who played Earp in the 1994 movie Wyatt Earp offered to buy a new, larger stone, but the Marcus family thought his offer was self-serving and declined. Descendants of Josie's half-sister Rebecca allowed a Southern California group in 1998-99 to erect the stone currently in place. The earlier stone is on display in the Colma Historical museum.[210]

In 1957, the Tombstone Restoration Commission looked for Wyatt's ashes with the intention of having them re-located to Tombstone. They contacted family members seeking permission and the location of his ashes, but no one could tell them where they were buried, not even his closest living relative, George Earp. Arthur King, a deputy to Earp from 1910 to 1912, finally revealed that Josephine had buried Wyatt's ashes in Colma, California, and the Tombstone Commission cancelled its plans to relocate them. Their gravesite is the most visited resting place in the Jewish cemetery.[212]

 

[Slap Stick]

People are dying to move tbere!

I'll be here all week.....

 

[Dennis H]

Colma. Wyatt is in the Jewish section. His wife was Jewish. Find D2 and you are there. Go a short distance to Sharpe Park Golf Course on PCH in Pacifica for lunch.