Evergreen Cemetery is the final resting place of some of the most prominent people in the history of Los Angeles. Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Area    - City 1,290. ...

History

Founded in 1877, Evergreen is the oldest existing cemetery in the city of Los Angeles. It is located at 204 N. Evergreen Avenue. Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Area    - City 1,290. ...

Famous People Buried at Evergreen

Some of the prominent people interred here include:

• Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Actor
• James Herman Banning, Pioneering black aviator
• Charlotta Bass, Publisher
• Louise Beavers, Actress
• Matthew "Stymie" Beard, Actor
• Jesse Belvin, Singer and songwriter
• Donaldina Cameron, Social reformer
• Charles A. Canfield, Oil baron and real estate magnate
• Mary Foy, the first woman librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library
• Earl Bell Gilmore, Entrepreneur
• Sam Haskins, First African-American LAFD member killed in the line of duty
• Joe Hayashi, Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
• Henry T. Hazard, Mayor of Los Angeles
• Charles Price Jones, Minister, composer and co-founder of Holiness Church
• Isaac Lankershim, Real estate developer
• Gilbert W. Lindsay, Los Angeles City Councilman
• Biz Mackey, Negro League baseball star
• Bridget "Biddy" Mason, Entrepreneur
• Alex Mentry, Oilman
• Sadao S. Munemori, Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
• Kiyoshi K. Muranaga, Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
• Lela Campbell Murray, Social activist
• Bobby Nunn, Original member of The Coasters
• William G. Perry, First president of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
• George A. Ralphs, Founder of Ralphs supermarket chain
• Frederick Madison Roberts, California Assemblyman
• Earl Rogers, Attorney
• William J. Seymour, Religious leader
• Edward F. Spence, Mayor of Los Angeles
• Johnny St. Cyr, Jazz musician
• James K. Sturgeon, Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
• Ted T. Tanouye, Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
• Cameron E. Thom, Mayor of Los Angeles, co-founder of Glendale, California
• James Robert Toberman, Mayor of Los Angeles
• Benjamin Cummings Truman, Writer
• H. T. Tsiang, Actor and writer
• Emile Vache, Co-founder of Brookside Winery
• Isaac Van Nuys, Real estate developer
• Guilford Wiley Wells, U.S. Congressman
• Charles Williams, First African-American LAPD officer killed in the line of duty
• William H. Workman, Mayor of Los Angeles

See also: List of United States cemeteries; List of famous cemeteries (non-US) Rochester Eddie Anderson (September 18, 1905 (Oakland, California) - February 28, 1977) was an African-American comic actor and star of movies, television and especially old-time radio, where he played the butler Rochester van Jones (usually known simply as Rochester) to Jack Bennys eponymous title character on The Jack... James Herman Banning (1900–1933) was a pioneer of African American aviation. ... Charlotta Amanda Bass (14th February, 1874-12th April, 1969), born in Sumter, South Carolina, USA, published the California Eagle from 1912 until 1951. ... Louise Beavers (March 8, 1902 - October 26, 1962) was a prolific African-American film actress. ... Matthew Beard, Jr. ... Donaldina Cameron (July 26, 1869 - January 4, 1968) Presbyterian advocate for social justice who rescued and educated more than 3,000 Chinese slave girls and women during her long career of social reform in San Francisco from 1895 to 1934. ... Sam Haskins, born Samuel Joseph Haskins, (November 11, 1926) is a photographer best known for his contribution to nude photography, pre-Photoshop in-camera image montage and his books, the most influential of which were Cowboy Kate (1965) and Haskins Posters (1973). ... Henry Thomas Hazard (July 30, 1844–August 7, 1921) was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. ... Charles Price Jones, Sr. ... Gilbert William Lindsay was born on November 29, 1900 in Mississippi. ... James Raleigh Biz Mackey (July 27, 1897 - September 22, 1965) was an African American catcher and manager in Negro league baseball, who came to be regarded as black baseballs premier catcher in the late 1920s and early 1930s. ... Bridget (Biddy) Mason (born August 15, 1818 in Hancock County, Georgia - died January 15, 1891 in Los Angeles, California) was a former slave from Georgia who travelled with her master, a Mormon, to the Utah Territory, and then to California. ... The classic Coasters lineup. ... William G. Perry, Jr. ... Frederick Madison Roberts (1879 – 1952) was a mortician, who is believed to be the first African American to be elected to public office on the West Coast of the United States. ... Earl Rogers (1869-1922) was an American trial lawyer. ... William Joseph Seymour (May 2, 1870 - September 28, 1922) was an African American minister, and an initiator of the Pentecostal religious movement. ... Edward F. Spence was a two-term mayor of Los Angeles from December 9, 1884 to December 14, 1886. ... Johnny St. ... Cameron E. Thom (1825 - February 2, 1915) served as mayor of Los Angeles, California from 1882 to 1884. ... Nickname: The Jewel City Location of Glendale within Los Angeles County and the State of California. ... James R. Toberman (1836 - January 26, 1911) served two non-consecutive terms as mayor of Los Angeles, California. ... William H. Workman (1839-1918) was a two-term mayor of Los Angeles, California from December 14, 1886 to December 10, 1888. ... // Arkansas Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock - known as Westminster Abbey of Arkansas; California Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles; Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles; Chapel of the Pines Crematory, Los Angeles; Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma is the burial site of William Randolph Hearst and other members of the Hearst family... This is a list of famous cemeteries, mausoleums and other places people are buried, world-wide. ...

External links

• The Evergreen (kcet.org)