Bert's Arm Seeks Body - Hacienda Cemetery, CA
Posted by: DougK
N 37° 10.625 W 121° 49.194
10S E 604758 N 4115169
Bert's Arm, lost in a childhood accident and buried, rises up from the grave at night looking for the rest of its body.
Waymark Code: WM6625
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 04/09/2009
Views: 13
At the
Hacienda Cemetery in New Almaden is a kiosk that 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 Great Mausoleum at Oak Hill Memorial Park when he died in 1959.
Today the story says "the arm of Bert rises from the ground, searching desperately for the rest of the body."