HOPETON CEMETERY, MERCED CO., CA Partial Transcription This file is part of the California Tombstone Project http://www.usgwtombstones.org/california/californ.html ************************************************ http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ Contributed to the Tombstone Transcription Project & USGenWeb Archives Project by: Randy Graham. August 19, 2003 Photo Transcription: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/merced/photos/tombstones/hopeton/hope.html Location: On a dairy road off Hwy 17 Last First Birth Death Notes ====================================================================================== McCrosky D.C. 08 02 1822 05 26 1870 12 16 1862 Cut down in the bloom of life A kind and gentle wife Beloved until life shall end by Husband Father Brother Friend Feist Eberhard 10 15 1807 03 15 1881 Beloved father of Mrs WA Grade A native of Germany Hamilton Willard 11 14 1871 Aged 1Y-6M-22D Stockard John T. 04 23 1820 06 19 1869 Mason's Symbol, inscribed Who was born in Carrol Co., TN Buckley Phebe 1809 1892 Buckley Sylvanus 1809 1887 Buckley C.O. 1854 1915 Ross H.P. 06 26 1873 Farewell Friend Staley E.F. 1866 1922 Stipe Barbara A. 08 17 1884 Wife of Henry Stipe Native of VA | Aged 62Y-2M-15D Strong Lucy W. 07 22 1875 Daughter of JM & Ann Strong | Aged 28 Days