Yolo County CA Archives Cemeteries.....Davis Cemetery District, City of Davis, Yolo County, California - Partial Survey More to Come ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Michael Gegan gegan@cal.net November 12, 2012, 9:05 pm Abstracted By: Michael Gegan 1855 is the date of the earliest grave marker in the Davis Cemetery which is located on land originally purchased by Col. Joseph B. Chiles in 1850. Descriptions of boundary markers between the property of Jerome C. Davis and his brother-in-law Gabriel F. Brown dating to 1861 refer to a "graveyard fence" but few records of early burials exist today. Only one wooden headstone survived the ravages of vandals and grass fires which swept through the grounds in past years. As a result many of the area's earliest residents, in particular a large number of Chinese settlers, now lie in unmarked graves, their identities lost forever. However, headstones of all descriptions still mark the burial place of many pioneers who were laid to rest in the Davisville and Tremont cemeteries. Records of the Catholic Church show that Mrs. I. S. Chiles gave one acre of land for a cemetery in 1874, and county records show she deeded "one acre of land south and adjoining the Davisville cemetery" to Bishop Alemany May 28, 1880. The Davisville Enterprise on September 27, 1900 reported the formation of a Cemetery Association and listed G. W. Pierce, Jr., W. S. Wright, Dr. Walter Bates, Mrs. J. W. Anderson, and Mrs. Minnie Collins as members of the Board of Trustees. W. D. Chiles, who had continued to pay taxes on the cemetery property, agreed to deed an unstated amount of land to the Board of Trustees and plans were made to beautify the plots. Another article on February 8, 1901 announced that the cemetery association had ordered 80 palm and cypress trees to be planted. The Board also voted to have a water tank repaired and had erected a new windmill, the generous gift of William H. Marden. A petition signed by many local residents asking for incorporation of the Davis Cemetery District was acknowledged by the Yolo County Board of Supervisors on August 31, 1922 with the appointment of trustees J. A. Harby, Mrs. Virginia Saunders (Dixon), and Miss Hattie Weber. In 1958 the Catholic Diocese deeded to the Davis Cemetery District three acres of cemetery land originally donated by the Chiles family. Acquisition of 20 additional acres purchased from George Chiles between 1962 and 1964 will meet projected needs of the community for the next twenty years. Last Name First Name Middle Name Birth Death Comment ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Singer Mitchell 17 November 1925 12 February 2001 Enteen Elaine 19 August 1929 18 April 2006 Noble Moshe Benjamin 3 February 1952 30 November 2001 Tablin-Wolf Phillip Daniel 17 June 1988 15 September 2009 Thompson Mary W. 18 May 1913 22 July 2000 Thompson William 12 September 1912 26 March 2001 Schwartz Jerome L 13 June 1924 3 November 2000 Gussman Meyer I. 21 December 1907 12 June 1979 Gussman Ruth 26 November 1913 12 July 2001 Frankel Loren Bruce Wald 21 June 1965 13 December 2004 Kushner Abraham 7 September 1910 17 February 1993 Kushner Lilyan 3 November 1916 12 April 2005 Wife of Abraham Rabinowitz Elizabeth 26 May 1900 28 March 1994 Born in Vilna Levin Anita E. 26 October 1918 12 August 2005 Wife of Seymour Levin Levin Seymour 1 August 1916 15 September 1995 Henner Irena Anna 18 August 1921 9 September 2003 Born in Lvov, Poland, Holocaust Survivor Stoebel Harry George 1 September 29 January 2000 Stoebel Helen Hadley 12 Dec 1917 16 September 1998 Wife of Harry Stoebel, ashes scattered in Washington State File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/yolo/cemeteries/daviscem41gcm.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 4.7 Kb