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Baja cemeteries we've known and loved

gueribo - 10-31-2017 at 07:10 AM

Santa Rosalia

gueribo - 10-31-2017 at 07:11 AM

Santa Rosalia 2

Las Flores (south of Bahía de los Angeles)

David K - 10-31-2017 at 08:10 AM

Las Flores has many graves of Daggett and Arce family members:

gueribo - 10-31-2017 at 08:47 AM

San Jose de Magdalena

TMW - 10-31-2017 at 10:32 AM

I think the Old English cemetery at the south end of San Quintin is interesting. I have some pictures somewhere.

gueribo - 10-31-2017 at 11:02 AM

Quote: Originally posted by TMW

I think the Old English cemetery at the south end of San Quintin is interesting. I have some pictures somewhere.

I'd love to see them. Post when you can.

Cliffy - 10-31-2017 at 11:46 AM

One time I went over and walked around the cemetery in BOLA. Its all dug in an alluvial plain. Nothing but large granite rocks with sand in between. It struck me that that was a horrendous place to have to dig a grave.
If anyone remembers the character "digger" on the very long time ago radio program, "The Life of Riley" with William Bendix, not a job I would want down there.

StuckSucks - 10-31-2017 at 12:30 PM

Jardínes del Paraiso

David K - 10-31-2017 at 02:24 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Cliffy

One time I went over and walked around the cemetery in BOLA. Its all dug in an alluvial plain. Nothing but large granite rocks with sand in between. It struck me that that was a horrendous place to have to dig a grave.
If anyone remembers the character "digger" on the very long time ago radio program, "The Life of Riley" with William Bendix, not a job I would want down there.

Indeed, not an ideal 'Forest Lawn' location... The road south to Punta San Francisquito passes right by it, just south of the pavement.

Here is the grave of a greatly loved Baja Nomad at the Bahía de los Angeles cemetery soon after it was occupied and before a headstone was added, from November 2006, Mike Humfreville:

StuckSucks - 10-31-2017 at 02:25 PM

Misión San Francisco Javier de Viggé-Biaundó

David K - 10-31-2017 at 02:56 PM

Misión La Purísima:

David K - 10-31-2017 at 03:01 PM

Rancho Santa Catarina, south of El Rosario and San Agustin...

David K - 10-31-2017 at 03:03 PM

South of La Magdalena, the mission-era ruins northwest of Mulegé:

gueribo - 11-1-2017 at 07:55 AM

Cemetery at Mission Santa Gertrudis

gueribo - 11-1-2017 at 07:57 AM

Santa Gertrudis 2

BajaBlanca - 11-1-2017 at 08:30 AM

Wow....the decorated cemetery is so pretty! Here in La Bocana, many have cleaned up the graves and placed flowers for All Soul's Day. We are a pretty wealthy community and the cemetery looks like condos from afar. I will take and post some pictures.

No charge to be buried here, one only pays for the digger, casket etc.

gueribo - 11-1-2017 at 08:40 AM

Quote: Originally posted by BajaBlanca

I will take and post some pictures.

Yes, please do! I love these brightly painted cemeteries. They do look like little villages from afar.

TMW - 11-1-2017 at 09:37 AM

Old English Cemetery south end of San Quintin west of where Hwy 1 curves east.

gueribo - 11-1-2017 at 09:48 AM

Nice photos. These cemeteries remind me of a passage from Graham Greene's novel, The Power and the Glory:

"It was like a building estate where nobody had paid attention to the architecture of the next house. The big stone tombs of above-ground burial were any height and any shape; sometimes an angel stood on the roof with lichenous wings: sometimes through a glass window you could see some rusting metal flowers upon a shelf--it was like looking into the kitchen of a house whose owners have moved on, forgetting to clean the vases out. There was a sense of intimacy--you could go anywhere and see anything. Life here had withdrawn altogether."

Cliffy - 11-1-2017 at 09:50 PM

And in many of the old plots only God knows who's buried there.

gueribo - 11-2-2017 at 09:53 AM

So true.

San Quintín Old English Graves in 2002

David K - 11-2-2017 at 01:08 PM

The old English graves were already surrounded by newer, Mexican graves and it was not easy to find them. Today, the cemetery is huge and most are post-1920s graves (actually most are post-1980s).

[Edited on 11-2-2017 by David K]

Santa Gertrudis, 2017

David K - 11-2-2017 at 01:12 PM

At Bahía Tortugas: "City of the Dead" in 2017

David K - 11-2-2017 at 01:19 PM

gueribo - 11-2-2017 at 02:31 PM

From a distance it looks like a little town.

carlosg - 11-5-2017 at 01:26 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Cliffy

And in many of the old plots only God knows who's buried there.

As you state:

"You chose your position in life today by what YOU did yesterday..."

Cancamo - 5-3-2018 at 08:59 AM

Not totally off topic, but the upcoming Mother's Day is a good day to stay off the highways due to the many intoxicated, mainly sons, coming back from the cemeteries after visiting Mom's resting place.

That along with the rest of the holidays in early May, Dia de Nino 4/30, Dia de Albanil, 3rd., Dia de Maestra 15th, Dia de Madre 10th, Cinco de Mayo, etc... makes for a celebratory month, enjoy.

nandopedal - 5-3-2018 at 09:39 AM

Don't have any photos but you all should check the one in ejido Francisco Zarco (Valle de Guadalupe) two thirds of it is russian names.
And the one over at San Miguel de Comondu where there is a couple by the last name Blackman with the biggest structures of all the cemetery (Capillas) and some of the town's people say that they have a curse over them.

[Edited on 5-3-2018 by nandopedal]

chippy - 5-3-2018 at 04:15 PM

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David K - 5-3-2018 at 05:49 PM

Cool, stoney graveyard! Where is it? Dolores??

chippy - 5-4-2018 at 06:24 AM

Quote: Originally posted by David K

Cool, stoney graveyard! Where is it? Dolores??

Good guess but not Dolores. Its off the road going to San Evaristo near La Purificacion. I never noticed it on prior trips going east to west but this time I was going west to east and there it was!

TMW - 5-4-2018 at 12:09 PM

chippy - 5-4-2018 at 01:50 PM

Thanks TMW. Don´t hold me to excact locations. It could have been closer to the Bosques I really don´t know. Its there though

[Edited on 5-4-2018 by chippy]

StuckSucks - 5-4-2018 at 03:24 PM

Not exactly sessy, but out on Laguna Salada ...

David K - 5-4-2018 at 08:29 PM

Thanks Tom for circling it on the map. Near La Soledad, well marked and signed location...Bosque is too.

Nextlevelbaja - 5-15-2018 at 02:04 PM

4x4abc - 1-1-2022 at 10:27 AM

Quote: Originally posted by StuckSucks

Not exactly sessy, but out on Laguna Salada ...

can you narrow down that location?
please!