YUBA COUNTY CEMETERIES

This cemetery is on the right side of the Smartsville/Beale Road, going toward Beale AFB - soon after it branches off of Hwy 20 near Smartsville. Many stones are broken and missing.

Feb. 2005: Colleen Driscoll and Kathy Sedler surveyed this cemetery and took photographs. Only those marked with an 'X' have visible stones.

PHOTO	SURNAME	FIRST NAME	BIRTH DATE	DEATH DATE	NOTES
X	BOWMAN	William	1818	8/29/1867
X	CORY	Daniel	1828	1/8/1899	England
X		Elizabeth	1832	11/20/1868
X		William H.	6/10/1851	10/10/1873	California – spinal column problem
	DITTNER	James H.	5/2/1868	9/15/1869
X		John	9/1830	7/2/1871
		Mary E.	9/15/1863	9/25/1869
	HERBERT	Robert	1830	11/7/1859	Liverpool, England
	LILLYCRAPP	Theopholis	4/2/1827	12/17/1868
	McKEEL	J.	No dates
X	MOODY	Ellen R.	1824	7/9/1856	Massachusetts - wife of S.
	SCHMIDT	Joseph	No dates
X	SIMPSON	John Clayton	3/29/1860	3/11/1865	only son of Thos B & Mary H.
X	SNELT	Lambert	8/18/1830	12/31/1873

The first burial was in 1852 of a man from Oregon. Several as yet unidentified men, died from cholera and were buried in a mass grave. In 1876 there was a mine cave-in at Sucker Flat, killing 7 men, who were all buried the same day.

Viewing this cemetery, you will see only the few markers left, which I was able to photograph. There has been much vandalism to this small cemetery, and it appeared that some stones were missing more recently. The size of the cemetery boundaries indicates that there should be many more burials here than are indicated.