Stockton Horse Shoe Ranch Cemetery, Kern County, CA

Submitted 25 May 2005
Partial Transcription of buriels by Jo Ann Harris Hamilton Fischer Jul 1978

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DIRECTIONS TO CEMETARY:  Go about 6 miles east of Bakersfield, Kern Co, CA on the 
Woody-Glenville road, (it is close to the 1776 historical marker of Padre Garces and his first 
Baptism in San Joaquin Valley).   A large overhead sign identifies the entrance to the Horseshoe ranch).  
Permission to enter property must be obtained, as this is on private property.  Once on the property, it 
is about a mile south to the ranch house and about another mile further south and then up a ravine to the 
cemetery.

HISTORY:  This cemetary was  already an old cemetery, when Christopher Stockton purchased the lands 
about it, in 1890.  Four older buriels were marked with a ring of stones indicating that they were law breakers 
and executed, there are no identifying information and nothing is known of them, other than they are there.  
Since Mr Stockton purchased the lands, the buriels were of  his personal family and related kin, as well as 
some of ranch hands that worked for the Stocktons (and who were treated LIKE FAMILY, that desired to be 
buried there also.)  In 1978 there apeared to be what could be identified as about 18 buriels. 
Unfortunately this cemetary is in an open field, next to the gapping ravine, it was fenced at one time, but the 
cattle have broken down the fence and consequently many of the stones were broken, as well as the anchient 
wooden crosses distroyed.  Several flash floods also distroyed some of the buriels.
 
 
1.  Albitre, Juan Batista  "Bat", born 27 Jun 1857 Los Angeles Co, Ca, died 4 Jul 1916 Kern Co, CA, 
(notes:  Son of Josef Anastacio Albitre and Maria Eleuteria Verdugo)
 
 
2.  Albitre, Remjio Obispo "RO", born 1 Oct 1900, Kern Co, CA, died 12 Jul 1978 Kern Co, CA,  
(notes:  son of Juan Batista "Bat" Albitre and Francisca Rita Comacho.  By 1940 he changed his name from 
Remjio to  Remick and was nicknamed "RO".  Remjio was married two times:  Dorthy Hellen Bertrand and 
Barbara Gail Johnson.  Remijo's wife Dorthy Helen Bertrand Albitre is buried at Blue Mountain Cemetery at 
Woody, Kern Co, California, along with two of Remijo's sons: Dan Leroy Albitre and Remick Ernest Albitre. 
By his own request Remjio was buried at "Horse Shoe" to be near his father "Bat" and also to be near the 
man who treated him like an adopted son "William Stockton".)
 
3.  Stockton, William, born 1839, died 27 Mar 1922 
4.  Stockton, Trent
5.  Stockton, Daniel born 1884 died 9 Jun 1926
6.  Stockton, Edward born 1889 died 20 Jan 1913
7.  Stockton, Mortimer born 1899 died 6 Jan 1910