Hi Everyone: This is just an update on my little adventure with the saga of the Stockton State Hospital Cemetery. I went to SJcounty Assessors office and found someone who walked me through locating the property owners. I am going to send a certified letter to the group who owns the property tomorrow. I will ask permission to errect a sign on the property. I will also ask to meet with the owner representative to speak to them about the history of the property. There may be a way for the owners to force the hand of local government to explain how someone could get a clear title on a cemetery property. Also, I received the following note the other day: ***** Hello Margie, My name is Lucas and I am doing research on the Stockton State Asylum Cemetery. I read your postings in CA_CEMETERIES-L Archives and it seems like you have quite a bit of knowledge + experience. My question: 1) who owns the property today? 2) is there a list of names of all buried there? Any help you can give me I would very much appreciate it. Ihope this e-mail reaches you! Thank you, Lucas.. Lucas Campos [Lucas.Campos@pai-ca.org] ***** I wrote back, but have yet to hear from Lucas. I want to know why & who of his research. Does anyone recognize him? Marge Campbell finals almost done... two out of three not bad... ouch! Margie Campbell's Web Page http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mcampbel/ Iron County Missouri Web Site http://www.rootsweb.com/~moiron2/ Host of Hermes & Wenström surname lists based in Sunny, Lodi, CA

Hi... Lucas called and left a message today... he is with one of the groups that helped get the hearing at Napa State Hospital held. I have emailed him some information on the owners of the property, and will try to contact the owners tomorrow to get permission to errect a sign on the site. Then my next goal is to find out if my brother (works for Home Depot), can help me get the needed supplies. I will then hit up the students at Delta College to design & paint the sign. I feel that if the sign contains the Name of the Cemetery, a map of the original cemetery location & at least one contact persons name (hoping for Lucas as well), then perhaps the remainder will be saved. I have recieved nothing but support from all of the online list people, and I thank you all for your interest... and also have gotten a lot of support from business/social contacts on this subject. Since the original cemetery was abandonded (moved) to this site about 1875-76, the number of those still interred may be even higher than 3,500. I have not located documentation on exactly how many, if any of the original 1,600 persons moved are included in the 3,500+ number. Also, a clean up will probably be done... I will leave it to Lucas & his group, unless he asks me for help. I will keep the CA lists informed as events happen. And also, I am working on the webpage as often as I can... (my personal pages are also begging for help...hehe).. but have to get through finals first... Marge