Knights Ferry Cemetery in California

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Get directions Stanislaus County, California, USA

Coordinates: 37.82249, -120.68308
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Knights Ferry Cemetery: Most of the signs read Oak Grove Cemetery and it ismanaged by the Oak Grove Cemetery Board, Knights Ferry Cemetery District ofStanislaus County. The cemetery was established in 1850 and is located one-milewest of the village of Knights Ferry at the end of Cemetery Road, see map. Itis located in the middle of farmland but there are many trees on the well-keptgrounds and the large steel gate is locked between 5 pm and 8 am. It coversabout ten acres and is divided into 28 alphabetical blocks with 12 plots toeach section. On November 9, 1849, the founder of Knights Ferry, William Knightwas killed in the streets of the town he founded, gunned down by a man whosename is now lost to history. William Knight was buried where he fell, in frontof the Masonic Hall, on Main Street on a low hill overlooking the plaza.