Hacienda Cemetery, New Almaden, CA
Posted by: 
DougK
N 37° 10.624 W 121° 49.125
10S E 604860 N 4115168
An old cemetery in the New Almaden section of San Jose.
Bertram Road divides this cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM5RW7
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 02/08/2009
Views: 7
A kiosk at the cemetery states:
"Bertram Road is named for Richard Bertram "Bert" Barrett, son of a quicksilver miner and native of New Almaden. Barrett, who lived and worked in New Almaden, probably deserves as much as anyone to have his name on a 'signpost' for the road that divides the Hacienda Cemetery. Part of him is buried here.
Bert Barrett was 13 in 1898 when he lost his arm in a hunting accident in the hills. His son Ray tells us that in those times the law provided that an amputated limb had to be buried and is how Bert Barrett's arm came to be interred in the Hacienda Cemetery. Mr. Barrett was laid to rest in the Oak Hill Memorial Park when he died in 1959."
A memorial stone in the cemetery reads:
RICHARD BERTRAM "BERT" BARRETT
HIS ARM LIES HERE
1893
MAY IT REST IN PEACE
The historial plaque states:
"HACIENDA CEMETERY
CALIFORNIA REGISTERED POINT OF
HISTORICAL INTEREST NUMBER SCL-052
DATING BACK TO THE EARLY 1850'S, THIS
CEMETERY WAS IN USE UNTIL 1920'S,
WHEN MUSICIAN BEN BLACK, WHO
WROTE THE THEN POPULAR SONG,
"MOONLIGHT AND ROSES". BOUGHT
SOME OF THE MINING COMPANY LAND AT
THE HACIENDA AND SUBDIVIDED IT.
BERTRAM ROAD WAS CUT THROUGH THE
LENGTH OF THE TRACT AND THROUGH
THE CEMETERY OVER THE TOPS OF AN
UNKNOWN NUMBER OF GRAVES. AFTER
BEING TAX-DEEDED TO HISTORIAN GENE
VENNUM, HE TURNED THE HACIENDA
CEMETERY OVER TO THE CALIFORNIA
PIONEERS OF SANTA CARA COUNTY IN
1974.
DEDICATED OCTOBER 10,1981
NATIVE SONS OF THE GOLDEN WEST,
SAN JOSE PARLOR NO. 2; CALIFORNIA
PIONEERS OF SANTA CLARA CO.; AND
MOUNTAIN CHARLIE CHAPTER NO. 1850.
E CLAMPUS VITUS"
Beneath which is a separate plaque which reads:
"THIS PROPERTY
HACIENDA CEMETERY
HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE
NATIONAL REGISTER
OF HISTORIC PLACES
BY THE UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR"
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