Forty-niner headstones are turning up in backyards in Sacramento, CA. They were from the cemetery at Sutter's Fort which was relocated in 1956. Apparently the City didn't bother with keeping the graves and headstones together and people just took the headstones for yard decorations. These are some of them that have shown up to date: Willie H. Baker - a 2 year old child who died on June 6, 1860 Rufus J. Smith who died at 33 on January 2, 1863 Nathaniel Hurst who died at 30 oin May 25, 1869 Names on other stones that have shown up include Leah Lowell, Frank LaBare, K. Tsugawa, Johnson Beal, L. S. Brown, John W. Innis and Myron H. Blue. There is a photo of one of the stones in the paper that looks like it may be for Leah Lowell above and shows the date as April __, 1880 and her age is 76 yrs. __mos. and 20 days. The graves that John Sutter called the "Fort Burying Ground" were for deceased miners and Native Americans. They started using this location as a cemetery in the 1840's. There were about 4,600 or 5,000 or so remains that were exhumed from the New Helvetia site that were unidentified. The 423 remains that could be identified were moved to the Historic City Cemetery. If you find this on more than one list, I've decided to post it as often as possible in the event that someone is looking for one of these names. Happy Holidays Sylvia Sacramento