There is a G.A.R. section at La Vista Memorial Park in National City, California with a number of well-kept in-ground graves and a monument to the men buried there.
Out in the "non-endowment" area of the cemetery are several stones that bear notations that commemorate Civil War veterans. The ones I saw and photographed (before my camera juice ran out today) were these:
1) David Palmanteer:
David Palmanteer,
Co. K,
?? PA Inf.
[note, the flag obscures some of the stone. I didn't see any years):
2. Leonard F. Davis:
Lieut. L.F. Davis
Co. "A"
21 Wis. Inf.
There are additional in-ground stones (above the front one) for Leonard F. Davis and his wife that read:
Leonard F. Davis
1825-1906
and
Sarah E. Trimble
wife of
Leonard F. Davis
born
Aug. 6, 1831
died
Oct. 13, 1890
3) B.F. Fletcher
....
B.F. Fletcher
Co. A
16th ME. Inf.
I will go back to La Vista soon to see if I can find more Civil War soldiers gravestones and photograph the stones in the G.A.R. memorial area.
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3 comments:
I was very happy to find your post on La Vista Cemetery. I am researching a Civil War veteran named Francis Moore who was probably buried in the GAR section of either La Vista or Mount Hope (I have different sources that say both). I've done a quick walking tour of each cemetery and didn't find his stone, but I did not see a specific GAR plot or monument at La Vista. Can you tell me specifically where on the grounds you found it, so I can take another look? Many thanks!
My name is Edna and a I am a Family Service Director at La Vista Memorial Park. I help families with final pre-arrangements. Feel free to contact me at edna@lavistamemorialpark.com if I can be of further assistance. We are very proud of our civil war veterans and I'd be glad to arrange a tour of our park.
I am looking for a Civil War veteran for re-interment in Riverside National Cemetery (RNC). Its first interment was November 1978. RNC is the largest (based on acreage) of all national cemeteries, about 20% developed at present and less than that of the final capacity occupied, is the busiest (about 25 burials per day every burial day of the week, and in ~ 12-15 years will go by Arlington National Cemetery and become the largest of our national cemeteries based on interments. Even if Arlington (a Civil War era cemetery) takes over the Navy Annex and extends its capacity to about 600-650,000, it will pale next to RNC when it is fully developed and fully occupied ... sometime beyond 2060. Then there will be ~2,000,000 final remains interred at RNC. Nothing in the system will come close.
It is a goal to have someone from the Civil War interred at RNC so as to tie RNC to the beginnings of the national system and the father of the national system ... Abraham Lincoln. Can you help? My contact info is magoldware@aol.com
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