Marysville Cemetery

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Marysville Cemetery, also known as the Historic Marysville City Cemetery, is a former city-owned cemetery in Marysville, California. It was established in 1850 and closed around 1983. The 14.5-acre site holds about 10,000 graves and has a history of flooding.

The cemetery is divided into many sections, including Japanese, Chinese, Chilean, African American, Jewish, Babies’, Masonic, Odd Fellows, the Grand Army of the Republic, and a Potter’s field for the indigent or unknown.

Some early burial records (1850–1870) were stolen by coroner Ebenezer Hamilton to blackmail for a higher salary, and those records were never recovered. Today, many burials in the Marysville area are at Sierra View Memorial Park in Olivehurst.

Key notes:
- Jewish portion: started in 1855 in the southeast corner, created by the Marysville Hebrew Benevolent Society; many headstones are in Hebrew, with places of birth listed as Prussia or Germany; California-born children are exceptions.
- Chinese portion: started in 1862 and has very old cremation burners; a Victorian brick oven was built in 1889 for offerings.
- In 2017, floods from the Oroville Dam crisis submerged graves and toppled some markers.

Notable burials include Donner Party survivors such as Charles Covillaud and Harriet Frances Murphy Nye. The cemetery is no longer active; the last burial was about 1983.