A Cemetery Buried Within a Cemetery

Here is an excerpt from the article in the Press Telegraph out of Long Beach, CA:

Long Beach’s buried cemetery

By Tim Grobaty, Columnist

A BURIED BURIAL PLACE: Jennie Aguillar was born in Mexico in 1890. She died 30 years later in Long Beach, where she lived with her husband Joe at Wilton Street at Termino Avenue. She was buried at Palm Cemetery in Long Beach.

Thomas L. McGregor, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. McGregor of 1121 Gladys Ave., died on March 19, 1920. The baby was buried at Palm Cemetery.

Luria Nieto, the 14-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Trinidad Nieto, died on May 11, 1920. There was a small obituary in the Long Beach Press. She was buried at Palm Cemetery.

James J. Taylor died Aug. 4, 1918, at Seaside Hospital in Long Beach. According to the Long Beach Press, Taylor had been found ill and destitute in a shack at Alamitos Bay. He lived on donations he received for his sand sculptures, most of which were renderings of a mother and child, which he called “Cast Up By the Sea.” He was buried at Palm Cemetery.

Palm Cemetery, in turn, was buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery-Sunnyside Mausoleum, at Cherry Avenue and San Antonio Drive, in Long Beach.

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