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I have included Lorenzo Matamales, spanish writer and journalist, who is buried in the Rosedale Cemetery

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{{Short description|Cemetery in Los Angeles, California}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2013}}
[[File:Angelus-Rosedale cemetery, 2024.jpg|thumb|The cemetery in March 2024]]
'''Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery''' is a cemetery, located at 1831 West Washington Boulevard in the [[West Adams, Los Angeles|West Adams]] neighborhood of [[Los Angeles]], southwest of [[Downtown Los Angeles|Downtown]].
==History==
Located in the [[West Adams, Los Angeles|West Adams]] neighborhood of Los Angeles,<ref name=WAHA></ref><ref name=surfer>{{cite news |last1=Harvey |first1=Steve |title=A Surfer Who Really Walks on Water |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-09-me-20414-story.html |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=October 9, 1999 |quote=Today’s tour of the celebrity graves in the Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in the West Adams District is sold out.}}</ref><ref name=sub>{{cite news |last1=Rasmussen |first1=Cecilia |title=Captain of Confederate Sub Surfaced in L.A. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-mar-30-me-then30-story.html |access-date=6 June 2023 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=March 30, 2003 |quote=William was buried in Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in the West Adams district.}}</ref><ref name="KPCC">{{cite news |title=Once a year, West Adams' Angelus Rosedale Cemetery comes to life |url=https://archive.kpcc.org/programs/offramp/2014/09/12/39313/once-a-year-west-adams-angelus-rosedale-cemetery-c/ |access-date=6 June 2023 |publisher=[[KPCC (FM)]] |date=September 12, 2014 |quote=The Angelus Rosedale cemetery in West Adams has buried more history buried underground than probably any place in Los Angeles.}}</ref> the cemetery was founded as '''Rosedale Cemetery''' in 1884,<ref>''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', Nov 20, 1884, "Rosedale – The Opening of a New Cemetery in this City," p. 0_4</ref> when Los Angeles had a population of approximately 28,000,<ref name=calarchives4u.com>{{cite web |title=Los Angeles County History – An Illustrated History of Southern California |department=Los Angeles City |publisher=The Lewis Publishing Company |location=Chicago |work=CalArchives4u.com |url=http://www.calarchives4u.com/history/losangeles/socal1890-770.htm |year=1890 |access-date=2008-04-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080311115951/http://www.calarchives4u.com/history/losangeles/socal1890-770.htm |archive-date=March 11, 2008 |url-status=usurped |df=mdy }}</ref> on {{convert|65|acre|m2}} of land running from Washington to Venice Boulevard (then 16th Street) between Normandie Avenue and Walton and Catalina Streets. It is often used by [[California]] politicians, notably former [[Mayor of Los Angeles, California|Mayors of the City of Los Angeles]].{{Citation needed|date = July 2024}}The [[burial|interments]] include [[American pioneer|pioneers]] and members of prominent families in Los Angeles and the state.{{Citation needed|date = February 2016}}

Rosedale was the first cemetery in Los Angeles open to all [[race (classification of human beings)|races]] and [[creed]]s, and was the first to adopt the design concept of [[Lawn cemetery|lawn cemeteries]]. This is where the grounds are enhanced to surround the graves with beautiful trees, shrubs, flowers, natural scenery and works of monumental art. Among the more traditional structures, [[headstone]]s and [[mausoleum]]s, the cemetery also has several [[pyramid]] [[crypt]]s.<ref name=KCET/>
In 1887, the second [[cremation|crematory]] in the US was opened at Rosedale Cemetery.<ref>''Rosedale – Cemetery, Mortuary and Crematory'' by Msgr. Francis J. Weber</ref> It was also the first crematory west of the [[Rocky Mountains]].<ref>''Los Angeles County History – An Illustrated History of Southern California – Los Angeles City''</ref> The initial [[cremation]] took place on June 16, when the body of Mrs. Olive A. Bird (c. 1845–1886), wife of prominent physician O.B. Bird, was cremated. By 1913, there had been 2,392 cremations performed at Rosedale. Next to the cemetery at 1605 S. Catalina Street is another cremation facility, the domed, observatory-shaped [[Chapel of the Pines Crematory]].{{Citation needed|date = February 2016}}

In 1993, Rosedale was bought by the [[Angelus Funeral Home]] on Crenshaw Boulevard and renamed Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery.<ref name=KCET>{{cite web |department=Departures |title=Above the Silent Sleepers: The Lively Lives at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery |first=Hadley |last=Meares |date=May 8, 2015 |publisher=[[KCET]] |url=https://www.kcet.org/departures-columns/above-the-silent-sleepers-the-lively-lives-at-angelus-rosedale-cemetery |access-date=18 August 2016}}</ref>

==Events==
On numerous occasions, the [[West Adams Heritage Association]], in conjunction with the Los Angeles Historical Society, has sponsored a "Living History tour" featuring grave site portrayals of historic figures. In 1994, the Los Angeles Times noted that the annual event began 4 years earlier. <ref name=WAHA>{{cite news |last1=Lavin |first1=Enrique |title=WEST ADAMS : Grave Site Portrayals of Historic Figures |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-11-ci-37492-story.html |access-date=6 June 2023 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=September 11, 1994}}</ref><ref name=surfer/><ref name="KPCC"></ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Jarvis |first1=Michael |title=We See Dead People |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-oct-27-tm-ptcemetery43-story.html |access-date=6 June 2023 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=October 27, 2002 |quote=The Living History Cemetery Tour may sound like an oxymoron, but $17 tickets sell out for the fall event in which earthly mortals portray inhabitants of the Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in West Adams.}}</ref>
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==Notable interments==
''Sources not listed here can be found in the articles referenced.''
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===A===
* [[George Alexander (Los Angeles politician)|George Alexander]] (1839–1923), politician, 28th Mayor of Los Angeles
* [[Allen Allensworth]] (1842–1914), Lt. Colonel of the U.S. Army, founder of [[Allensworth, California]]<ref>[http://angelusrosedale.com/interments.php Notable Interments & Their Families], Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, Retrieved December 12, 2011</ref>
* [[Ivie Anderson]] (1905–1949), jazz singer and actress<ref>[http://www.radioswissclassic.ch/en/music-database/musician/1392874e911ed360a631bf97deecd66fa32f11/biography Radio Swiss Classic]</ref>
* [[Henry Armstrong]] (1912–1988), champion boxer<ref>{{cite book|last1=Brooks|first1=Patricia|last2=Brooks|first2=Jonathan|title=Laid to Rest in California: A Guide to the Cemeteries and Grave Sites of the Rich and Famous|year=2006|publisher=Globe Pequot|isbn=0-7627-4101-5|page=2}}</ref>

===B===
* [[Edward L. Baker, Jr.]] (1865–1913), U.S. Army officer, Medal of Honor recipient during [[Spanish–American War]]<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-sep-26-me-honor26-story.html ''Los Angeles Times'']</ref>
* [[Phineas Banning]] (1830–1885), financier, known as the "Father of the Port of Los Angeles"<ref>{{cite book|last1=Tante Burk|first1=Margaret|last2=Hudson|first2=Gary|title=Final Curtain: Eternal Resting Places Of Hundreds Of Stars, Celebrities, Moguls, Misers & Misfits|year=1996|publisher=Seven Locks Press|isbn=0-929765-53-2|page=2}}</ref>
* [[Felice Bauer]] (1887–1960), twice fiancée (1914 and 1917) of Prague writer [[Franz Kafka]], in 1919 married to Moritz Marasse (1873–1950)
* [[Thomas Bones]] (1842–1929), farmer and land developer
* [[Emmer Bowen]] (1830–1912), Medal of Honor recipient during the [[American Civil War]]
* [[Tod Browning]] (1880–1962), film director and screenwriter, known as "The Master of the Macabre"<ref name=ellenberger>{{cite book|last=Ellenberger|first=Allan R.|title=Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory|year=2001|publisher=McFarland & Company Incorporated Pub|isbn=0-7864-0983-5|page=192}}</ref>
* [[David Burbank]] (1821–1895), dentist, businessman and landholder. Burbank, California, was named for him<ref>[http://www.ci.burbank.ca.us/index.aspx?page=43 Burbank History], City of Burbank, December 2011</ref>
* [[Rose Talbot Bullard]] (1864–1915), medical doctor and professor
* [[Betty Burbridge]] (1895–1987), actress

===C===
* [[Eric Campbell (actor)|Eric Campbell]] (1879–1917), actor
* [[Rita Carewe]] (1909–1955), actress
* [[Harry Carr]] (1877–1936), writer, newspaper columnist and editor
* [[Frank Chance]] (1877–1924), Hall of Fame baseball player<ref>[http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=chancfr01 Baseball Almanac]</ref>
* [[Sadie Chandler Cole]] (1865–1941), singer, civil rights activist
* [[Florence Cole Talbert]] (1890–1961), opera singer
* [[Cleota Collins]] (1893–1976), singer and voice teacher

===D===
* [[Eric Dolphy]] (1928–1964), American jazz musician

===E===
* [[Herschel Evans]] (1909–1939), Afroamerican jazz saxophonist

===F===
* [[Jessie Benton Frémont]] (1824–1902), writer, wife of Lieutenant Colonel John C. Frémont
* [[Willie Fung]] (1896–1945), Chinese film actor<ref name=ellenberger/>

===G===
* [[John Reynolds Gardiner]] (1944–2006), author
* [[William Thornton Glassell]] (1831–1879), Confederate Naval officer and a founder of [[Orange, California]]; grand-uncle of [[George S. Patton]]
* [[Louise Glaum]] (1888–1970), actress
* [[George E. Goodfellow]] (1855–1910), physician, medical pioneer, known as the "Gunfighter's Surgeon"
* [[Lewis Grigsby]] (1867–1932), real estate investor and philanthropist

===H===
* [[Arthur C. Harper]] (1866–1948), politician, 36th Mayor of Los Angeles
* [[Theresa Harris]] (1909–1985), actress
* [[Katharine Putnam Hooker]] (1849–1935), travel writer, socialite
* [[Sherman Otis Houghton]] (1828–1914), lawyer, politician

===K===
* [[Harry Kellar]] (1849–1922), American magician who influenced [[Harry Houdini]]

===L===
* [[Fernando Lamas]] (1915–1982), Argentinian-born actor/director, husband of [[Esther Williams]], was cremated at Rosedale

===M===
* Joseph Maier (1851–1905), brewer, businessman and owner the Maier-Zobelien Brewery in Los Angeles
* [[John Mansfield (American politician)|John Mansfield]] (1822–1896), politician, lieutenant governor of California from 1880 to 1883
* [[Joe Marshall]] (1876–1931), Major League Baseball player
* [[Lorenzo Matamales]] (1896–1991), spanish journalist and writer
* William B. Mayes (1837–1900), Union Army soldier, Medal of Honor recipient<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/3222 |title=Military Times Hall of Valor: William B. Hayes |access-date=September 18, 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140918215622/http://projects.militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=3222 |archive-date=September 18, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Owen McAleer]] (1858–1944), politician, Canadian-born 35th mayor of Los Angeles
* [[Hattie McDaniel]] (1895–1952), actress, first African American female to win an Academy Award<ref>[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/oscars-first-black-winner-accepted-774335 ''Hollywood Reporter'']</ref>
* [[Spencer G. Millard]] (1856–1895), politician, 20th lieutenant governor of California<ref name=kcet/>
* [[Mable Monohan]] (1888–1953), murder victim; her death sent Barbara Graham, Emmet Perkins and Jack Santo to the gas chamber
* [[Gideon C. Moody]] (1832–1904), American politician, congressman and senator
* [[Tim Moore (comedian)|Tim Moore]] (1887–1958), vaudevillian; comic actor, stage, screen and television. Known for his role as The Kingfish of [[Amos 'n' Andy]] fame.

===N===
* [[Remi Nadeau]] (1819–1887), French Canadian pioneer who arrived in Los Angeles in 1861
* [[Marshall Neilan]] (1891–1958), director, actor, motion picture pioneer
* [[John G. Nichols]] (1813–1898), 3rd and 10th Mayor of Los Angeles

===O===
* [[Henry Z. Osborne]] (1848–1923), politician, served in the House of Representatives from California

===P===
* [[John Henry Patterson (author)|John Henry Patterson]] (1867–1947), [[Anglo-Irish]] soldier, [[hunter]], author and [[Zionist]], best known for his book ''[[The Man-Eaters of Tsavo]]'' (1907); exhumed and re-interred in [[Avihayil]], Israel, in 2014.
* William Anthony Polkinghorn (1851–1906), noted real estate developer (Venice, Santa Monica), civic leader (Los Angeles, Leadville, CO)
* [[Louise Peete]] (1880–1947), notorious multiple murderer, executed in the gas chamber at [[San Quentin State Prison|San Quentin]]
* [[Stanley Price]] (1892–1955), actor

===R===
* [[Frank Rader]] (1848–1897), politician, 31st Mayor of Los Angeles
* [[Andy Razaf]] (1895–1973), lyricist, composer, wrote "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose"
* [[Frederick H. Rindge]] (1857–1905), American businessman, philanthropist and writer
* [[Anthony A. C. Rogers]] (1821–1899), politician, served in the House of Representatives from Arkansas
* [[Maria Rasputin]] (1898–1977), daughter of Russia's notorious "mad monk", [[Grigori Rasputin]]<ref name=kcet/>

===S===
* [[Monroe Salisbury]] (1876–1935), actor
* [[Caroline Severance]] (1820–1914), social reformer, [[suffragette]]
* [[Herman Silver]] (1831–1913), superintendent of the United States Mint in Colorado, a collector of internal revenue, a railroad official and Los Angeles City Council member
* [[Everett Sloane]] (1909–1965), actor, was in [[Orson Welles]]' [[Mercury Theatre]], played Mr. Bernstein in ''Citizen Kane''
* [[Lucy Stanton Day Sessions]] (1831 – 1910) was an American abolitionist and feminist figure, and the first African-American woman to complete a four-year course of a study at a college or university.
* [[Robert Stewart Sparks]] (1871–1932), Los Angeles City Council member
* [[Hannah Judkins Starbird]] (1832–1922), American Civil War nurse
* [[William Stephens (American politician)|William Stephens]] (1859–1944), 24th California Governor

===T===
* [[Art Tatum]] (1909–1956), jazz pianist (has [[cenotaph]]; originally interred here, he was removed to [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale|Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale]])
* [[William I. Traeger]] (1880–1935), lawman, politician, football coach, sheriff of Los Angeles County from 1921 to 1932, served term in the House of Representatives from California
* [[Wayland Trask, Jr.]] (1887–1918), American stage and silent film comedian
* [[John Q. Tufts]] (1840–1908), politician, served in the House of Representatives from Iowa

===W===
* [[Ernestine Wade]] (1906–1983), actress, played Sapphire Stevens on radio and TV's ''Amos 'n' Andy''
* [[Olin Wellborn]] (1843–1921), politician, served in House of Representatives from Texas
* [[Franz Werfel]] (1890–1945), Austrian writer (whose body was transferred in 1975 to the [[Zentralfriedhof]], Vienna)<ref>[http://www.lehrer.uni-karlsruhe.de/~za874/homepage/werfel.htm Franz Werfel – timeline and works] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024061321/https://www.lehrer.uni-karlsruhe.de/~za874/homepage/werfel.htm |date=October 24, 2019 }} {{in lang|de}}</ref>
* [[Ernest Whitman]] (1893–1954), actor, played the Carpetbagger's friend in ''Gone with the Wind''
* [[Robert M. Widney]] (1838–1929), American lawyer, judge, a founder of the University of Southern California
* [[Harvey Henderson Wilcox|Harvey H. Wilcox]] (1832–1891), owned a ranch northwest of Los Angeles, which his wife, Daeida, named Hollywood. Originally interred in Rosedale, alongside his mother, Azubah (Mark) Wilcox (c. 1804–1888); he was removed to [[Hollywood Forever Cemetery|Hollywood Cemetery]] in 1922
* [[Dooley Wilson]] (1886–1953), actor, musician, played Sam in ''Casablanca''
* [[Valentin Wolfenstein]] (1845–1909), Swedish-American photographer
* [[Anna May Wong]] (1905–1961), actress, the first Chinese American movie star<ref name=kcet>[https://www.kcet.org/history-society/above-the-silent-sleepers-the-lively-lives-at-angelus-rosedale-cemetery KCET]</ref>
* [[Frederic T. Woodman]] (1872–1949), politician, 41st mayor of Los Angeles

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{official|https://angelusrosedale.com}}
*{{Find a Grave cemetery|8309}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20041209065307/http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA5.html#R9V0VH7J8 Political Graveyard – a listing of politicians by burial place]

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imported>Joshrimarn: I have included Lorenzo Matamales, spanish writer and journalist, who is buried in the Rosedale Cemetery