Ancient and Lonely Cemeteries Sonora CA Tuolumne County

Ancient and Lonely Cemeteries Sonora CA Tuolumne County
A visit to 2 of Sonora's Cemeteries. Not everything I do is Caving or Abandoned mines and I won't be promoting my social media pages on this particular post.
Today was a perfect cloudy day and quiet for me so I took some time To visit.
Does anyone have a fascination or interest in anything in our County that is from the yester years? Well I think that's why we live here and why we have so many people who come to visit 🙂 One is "City of Sonora Cemetery" which seems to be the oldest, and the other one IOOF. Let me tell you Friends these are in really rough shape one of them even has a fallen Oak tree Right over a few of the graves. I am glad to hear that there are some who still visit.
I have read that the iron gates around a grave was to keep critters out and also show the boundary. It looks Like many of these have been vandalized even looted or destroyed, Some of the boundary gates are completely missing, alot of the headstones are removed, and notice one of the Urns is flipped upside down.
They are so old that the ground has washed away exposing the concrete footings. Many small ones are just lonely way in the back of the bigger headstones like they are just forgotten. I spent some time walking around looking at many of them reading who they are, where they are from, the time they were born, to the time of death, and thinking each one who they were, where they came from.
Every person is special especially to somebody and even though they are in God's memory and to go and visit these headstones shows that they are not forgotten. There was another car that drove in and made its roundabout coming back to the Entrance. I don't know who any of these people are but they are somebody's family especially at one time. Think of when they grew up, went to school, made friends, had families, grew older, in our Tuolumne county. What was life like in the 1800's for them? Notice in some of the pictures the surface of the Headstones is so worn away that the engravement is gone I cant even read who they were.
Many of the foundations are stacked rock or red brick just completely falling apart and sinking. Some of the headstones or whatever they are called are pretty decorative though. Quite a few of them are many members of the family brothers sisters mother and father. I paid my visit today with the utmost respect just sitting here thinking about who all these people are, not were but are as they are still living to God
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[@mrs.hancock4124]

Thanks for sharing.
The Catholic Church cemetery on the hill in Chinese Camp is also fascinating.
I love how the majority of headstones include origins of our ancestral homelands in Europe.

[@maxwheeler3241]

I am going to head out there and take a look around I have seen that the headstones are of People from Europe.

[@Jay_Kayy]

I remember these cemeteries. We used to hang out and drink beer there being dumb teenagers. But one thing about it is we were mesmerized by the masonry work. I love the old history of sonora.

[@mattharper7395]

How about Jamestown cemetery? Whenever I drive bye I always wonder about the history.

[@vinivv]

some one should just at least back fill all the erosion? foundations need support its gone wont last much longer some of that