Cemteries and those buried in them are often forgotten… Here’s a teaser from an article about one of those forgotten places…
You know a cemetery is lonely when the man in charge of it doesn’t have a clue about its history. And that’s exactly the case with Holy Cross Cemetery in Anaheim, one of the oldest Catholic cemeteries in Orange County–and one of the most overlooked.
Scores of OC residents drive by it every day when speeding through Euclid Street between Orange Avenue and Ball Road and probably have never realized that the stretch of the street that’s just a cream-colored wall, with a slight driveway, houses three acres of tombstones largely forgotten by time.
How forgotten? Michael Wisner, director of Catholic Cemeteries in Orange County (a part of the Diocese of Orange) doesn’t know anything about it besides the number of people buried there–and even that figure is an approximation.
Read the full article in the Gunkist Memories article by Yesenia Varela, posted in the April 7, 2014 edition of blogs.ocweekly.com.
According to the FindaGrave website, 67% of the graves have been photographed, with a total of 288 interments. Check it out.
