SIERRA COUNTY PIONEER CEMETERY HISTORIC SURVEY

INCLUDES THE CEMETERIES OF

ALLEGHANY                    MORRISTOWN
BALD MOUNTAIN                PACKER CREEK
BIG ROCK                     PIKE CITY
BRANDY CITY                  PINE GROVE
CARMEN VALLEY                POKER FLAT
CHIPP'S FLAT                 PORT WINE
DOWNIEVILLE                  ROSE RANCH
EUREKA                       SATTLEY
FOREST CITY                  SCALES
GIBSONVILLE                  SIERRA CITY
GOODYEAR'S BAR               SIERRAVILLE
HOWLAND FLAT                 SLEIGHVILLE HOUSE
LOYALTON                     ST. LOUIS
MINNESOTA FLAT               WHISKEY DIGGINS

INFORMATION COMPILED BY
LEE ADAMS III
SIERRA COUNTY SHERIFF-CORONER
DOWNIEVILLE, CALIFORNIA

www: hangman@telis.org

(c)1997 Lee Adams III

Dedicated to the memory of those Sierra County pioneers whose final resting 
places are cataloged by this effort, and to the many more whose place of repose 
has been lost to nature and poor memory.  Dedicated as well to the memory of the 
Honorable Reginald Littrell, Presiding Judge of the Sierra County Superior Court 
and friend, a later pioneer whom accompanied the author on many field trips 
regarding this survey.

Lee Adams III
Downieville, California
16 September 1997


TABLE OF CONTENTS


Information Sorted by Cemetery Site     1
* Includes Name, Date of Death, & Cemetery

Alleghany*                 1
Bald Mountain              3
Big Rock                   3
Brandy City                3
Carman Valley              3
Chipp's Flat               3
Downieville*               3
Eureka                    14
Forest City*              14
Gibsonville               18
Goodyear's Bar*           20
Howland Flat              21
Loyalton*                 23
Minnesota Flat            29
Morristown                29
Packer Creek              29
Pike City*                29
Pine Grove                31
Poker Flat                31
Port Wine                 31
Rose Ranch                32
Sattley*                  32
Scales                    34
Sierra City*              34
Sierraville*              41
Sleighville House         50
St. Louis                 51
Whiskey Diggins           52

Information Sorted by Surname     53    
* Includes Name, Date of Birth, Date of Death,
Age, Nativity, Cemetery, & Other Information


*The asterisk denotes a site with contemporary use.   At these sites, only pre-
1925 graves were surveyed.  At all other sites, all legible graves were surveyed 
regardless of date.

This project began after years of lamenting the fact that history was being lost 
by the ravages of time, the elements, and in some instances man, with the 
disappearance of headstones in Sierra County's pioneer cemeteries.

While originally conceived to survey just those closed cemeteries in former 
townsites, I then decided to include all Sierra County cemeteries in order to 
provide a complete genealogical resource.  For those contemporary cemeteries, 
1925 was chosen as a cut off date for records on those interred after that date 
are accessible through either local or statewide death registration records 
which began in 1905.  Additionally, this survey only represents those markers in 
place and legible as of 1994-1997.  Individual cemetery districts may have more 
complete records of actual burials, marked or not