St. Josephs Cemetery, Fremont CA

warpedandtwisted · 2008-04-04T20:17:03Z

Ok, I mentioned this to Les last night in chat, but i figured I'd post it here. St. Josephs in Fremont is an old cemetery where most of the graves are from the late 1800's early 1900's. There are many pioneers of the Mission district, which used to be it's own town until Fremont was incorporated in 1956. Graves range from elaborate monuments to ply wood crosses with painted on names.For the most part, the cemetery is in disrepair. Lot's of sunken graves, cracked marble, ground squirrels as far as the eye can see.About once a year they bury a new person there, but it's not very often at all. It's not very often that I ever seen any one else there except the occasional dog owner letting their critter roam. I don't know that it is haunted but I have good reason to think there are some very pissed off tenants there. Up until earlier this year there were graves from front to back, most unmarked. At the very back there were a few with Head stones that were from about the 1950's. Well a while ago the church who operates St Josephs decided to move all the graves from the middle and back of the cemetery to the front. I assume they plan to sell the land for houses because real estate in this area is very expensive and there are more and more houses every day. While they were in the process of moving the graves my friend Ashley visited and found a large garbage pile from the exhumations. In the pile were parts of old coffins, coffin nails, brass handles, cloths, personal effects,headstones, statuary, and even bones. Ashley was very disturbed that these things were mixed in with the general dirt and brush and decided it was better that she take them and care for them then they get thrown away. At the time the new graves were not marked, so it wasn't like she could dig a hole and throw them in with them. Now SOME of the graves are marked but it would be impossible to know what goes with who, as they were all just thrown in a pile mixing. So now Ashley has a big box of "grave stuff" in her front room and has an Angel statue with one leg. The missing leg has been replaced with a melted pillar candle so she can stand and is also propped up to keep her up right. She often falls over for no real reason, and Ashley has woken up at night by the feeling of a presence that clears it's throat next to her bed. I think this would be a cool place to investigate because I know that if I was dug up from my resting spot of 50-something years, that I or my family choose for me, moved me, and then didn't even respect me enough to be careful that all my items stayed with me, I'd be pretty damn pissed. Gate to St. Joseph's on Mission Blvd. This is the view you get if you are standing in the now graveless back field looking at Mission Blvd. This is the view you get when your back is to the street. This field had many residents in unmarked graves. The eucalyptus tree on the left was about 100 feet from where the head stones for the graves in far back used to be. You can still see the the barren square where the back hoe dug up the residents that were there.

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Unfortunately moving around headstones without moving the bodies disturbs me just as much as turning a Cemetery, where my great aunt and great uncle's are buried, into a park does, in Riverside, California Evergreen Cemetery underwent some renovations moving headstones and dumping them in a pile, the older part of the cemetery consisting of dirt and weeds around the tombstones, and who knows if the bodies were indeed moved during the renovations(I have a sneaky suspicion that they weren't!),all to make way for a road winding through the cemetery.

Posted : 17/01/2009 9:05 am

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