Michael Colbruno's "Lives of the Dead": Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland
Sunday, January 11, 2026
Obediah Summers (1845–1896): Re-Interred Black Civil War Veteran
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Obediah Summers, Sacramento Bee, 1889 Civil War Grand Army of the Republic plot Obediah Summers was born enslaved in Kentucky in 1845. When ...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Lady Mary Kirkham Yarde-Buller (1849-1904): Beauty, Royal Titles, and Scandal end in a Sanitarium
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Plot 6, Lot 172, Grave 3 Once the toast of San Francisco drawing rooms, Lady Mary Kirkham Yarde-Buller burned brightly, extravagantly—and at...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
George Osbourne (1848-1916) aka George Gedge: Noted West Coast Actor; Famous as Father Serra
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George Osbourne Plot 14, Lot 224 The curtain rises on a man born for the stage—perhaps even born before the stage was ready for him. George...
Saturday, December 27, 2025
John Davis Wagenet (1892–1974) Architect with ties to Julia Morgan
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Ruth & John Wagener Plot 52D John Davis Wagenet was an architect whose career unfolded largely out of public view, yet whose work and t...
Friday, December 26, 2025
Robert Hunter (1941–2019): Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Lyricist for the Grateful Dead
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Robert Hunter and Grateful Dead album cover Plot 11A Grave 245 Robert Hunter (1941–2019) never took the stage with the band that made him fa...
Joseph E. Baker (1847-1914): Civil War Veteran and Oakland Tribune Editorial Writer
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Plot 17, Lots 77-78 Joseph Eugene Baker was one of those men whose influence was felt daily by thousands, yet whose name rarely traveled be...
Monday, December 22, 2025
Simeon Meads (1849-1940): Inventor and Prohibition Candidate for Governor
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Simeon Meads and Grave marker Plot 25, Lot 186 Simeon Pease Meads was born on January 11, 1849, in South Limington, Maine, at a moment when ...
Sunday, December 21, 2025
Doc Jennison (1834-1884): Jayhawker Who Fought Slavery Without Restraint
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Plot 36. Lot 163 Charles Ransford “Doc” Jennison began as one of the most ardent Free-State men in Kansas, at a moment when Free-State mean...
Ernest Granville Booth (1898-1959): The Double Life of a Convict Author
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Plot 5, Grave 63, S 1/2 Ernest Granville Booth lived as if he were one of his own characters—half in shadow, half in print, always one bad d...
Saturday, December 20, 2025
Russ Westover (1886-1966): Cartoonist who Drew the Rise of the Working Girl
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Tillie the Tailor and Russ Westover Main Mausoleum Russell Channing Westover was an American cartoonist best known for creating the long-run...
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