Doug , this is an excellent book on the subject of the removals of the SF Cemeteries to Colma....... Svanevik, Michael and Shirley Burgett, City of Souls: San Francisco's Necropolis at Colma, San Francisco: 1995. Carolyn Doug Urbanus wrote: > After hanging on to this 90 lb.chunk of marble for so long, while living > in small apartments at one time and getting 'you're-weird' looks, it's > nice to give this tombstone a bit of life. One small caveat. While I'm > sure George is correct in establishing the name as "Burnett" I must > again say that the name on the tombstone is "Bur**ett. This is an > 8-letter name not 7. I know spelling errors have occurred on > tombstones, but the gouged area definitely accommodates 2 letters not > just 1. Also the first name is (Ch)arles. So I guess the legal name > must have been Charles Cleveland Burnett. > > I've responded directly to some, but anyone who would like to send me > something on this child or family, please feel free to do so. It would > be great fun and gives this little boy a bit of belated respect. And he > should indeed be formally listed as a deceased son of San Francisco! > > One responder indicated that the tombstones were used as rip-rap and > water breaks, another as paving stones in golden gate park. It's my > understanding that many of the cleared cemeteries became the parks that > dot some of the hills of San Francisco. Perhaps the Parks & Recreation > Dept of San Francisco knows the exact history, or there's book or site > somewhere that talks about it.