Anna Wong Lee - Old City Cemetery - Sacramento, CA
N 38° 33.821 W 121° 30.046
10S E 630618 N 4269425
This citizen memorial resides near the front north entrance to Old City Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMNCYD
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 02/16/2015
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Located near the north front entrance to
Old City Cemetery are a few historical markers and graves of notable citizens of Sacramento. Also among this group is a memorial that is dedicated to the Old Tier Grounds, a portion of Old City Cemetery that once contained the graves of the first citizens of Sacramento but were re-interred elsewhere in the cemetery when Broadway Avenue was built through the northern portion of the original part of the cemetery. This memorial is also dedicated in memory to a local historian and researcher. It reads:
| In Memory Of THE OLD TIER GROUNDS
Of Sacramento City Cemetery
Est. 1849The unmarked last resting place of over three thousand pioneers,
their exact place of burial, somewhere between the north border of
Broadway and the north portion of the cemetery, and between 9th
and 11th Streets, known but to their God. Buried in the Tier Grounds were nearly a thousand victims of the
1850 Cholera Epidemic and some two hundred Chinese immigrants
who died and were buried there between 1851 and 1855. Dedicated by the Old City Cemetery Committee
In Memory of Anna Wong Lee
Chinese Historian and Researcher
September, 2001
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Interestingly, after doing some research on the Old Tier Grounds of the Old City Cemetery, I read that many of the graves that existed in this former portion of the cemetery now exist underneath the graves of military members' graves, most likely where the Civil War veterans are located.
Anna Wong Lee lived from 1927 to 2000 and is interred at East Lawn Memorial Park in Sacramento (link below).