forwarding -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [CASonoma] New Cemetery Project: Sonoma Co. Hospital Cemetery, Santa Rosa, CA Resent-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:03:23 -0600 Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:00:44 -0700 From: "Sue Silver" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Greetings, The California Saving Graves website has posted information about the start up of a new Cemetery Project in Sonoma County. Today the Sonoma County Hospital Cemetery (aka Old County Cemetery and Chanate Cemetery) appears only to be an overgrown parcel in the City of Santa Rosa. There is a project planned that hopes to bring some respectability back to this last resting place of Sonoma's county hospital residents and others. Under the leadership of Jeremy Nichols, author of Cemeteries of Sonoma County, California, A History and Guide (Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 2002), the Sonoma County Historical Society has established a separate Cemetery Fund and volunteers from the Sonoma County Genealogical Society have volunteered to help reconstruct a list of the names of those identified to have been buried in this unmarked cemetery. Please visit the Sonoma County Hospital Cemetery page that we have designed to help assist Mr. Nichols and Sonoma County in their work to restore this long ignored cemetery to a place of peaceful rest. Go to: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ca/state/Chanate_Cemetery_Project_Report.htm To contact Jeremy Nichols direct, email him at: [email protected] . At least 1200 people are believed to be buried in this cemetery. They must have family descendants out there somewhere. Please help us to get the word out about this work. Thank you! Sue Silver, State Coordinator California Saving Graves http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ca/state/