Union Soldiers Buried in Historic Cemetery

Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery

This cemetery

holds the remains of

18 California Volunteers who died

at Fort Lowell during the Civil War and a

Civil War Veteran of the U.S. Colored Troops.

Their graves are marked with a GAR star.

Sgt. John C. McQuade - Co.B, ...

Union Cemetery

Established 1863

Union Cemetery

Two acres purchased, surveyed and dedicated for burials of early area families. Located just south of Foshay’s Corners on the Old Dutchess Turnpike (now Route 301) on lands of Foshay and Halstead farms, incorporated May ...

Edson Union Cemetery

Edson Union Cemetery was dedicated in 1887 by Maria and Edson Chubb, as a memorial to their only child Joseph. Buried here are Civil War veterans, victims of the 1880 diphtheria epidemic, and soldiers of the Spanish and American War.

Edson ...

Pablo Galtes - Union Cemetery

Historical Marker #1

Pablo Galtes facilitated the establishment of the Catholic community of Bakersfield in the early 1870's. The first Mass celebrated in Bakersfield was said in the back of Pablo's store located on 19th Street near Chester Avenue. (Eleven family ...

Union Cemetery

Union Cemetery's name reflects the controversy that erupted in the Civil War, three years after the cemetery's beginnings in 1859. Pro- and anti- slavery feelings ran high in California, and the founders of the cemetery strongly opposed the secessionist sentiment ...