Rawles-Babcock Cemetery
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Rawles-Babcock Cemetery

Boonville, Mendocino County, California, USA

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  • Get directions Boonville, California, USA
    Coordinates: 39.00330, -123.23081
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This cemetery is a little difficult to find. Take Mountain View Road going west from the west end of Boonville. After the south end of the airport runway and just before the highway curves to the right, take the driveway on the left that goes straight up a hill. After you crest the hill the parking area for the cemetery will be on the left with plenty of parking. The cemetery is on a knoll looking out over the Boonville Airport, the AV High School and Mountain View Road – one of the truly loveliest spots in the Valley.



In 1978, Mrs. Alva Ingram recorded the markers in the cemetery and noted "there are many graves outside the fence with small wooden markers without names. Also in the fenced cemetery are wooden markers without dates or names." Early families well represented here are Babcock, Burger, Tarwater, McGimsey, Lowrey, Rawles and Beeson. The earliest era of markers is from the first decades of the 1900's. The oldest existing marker is that of Henry Beeson, who, when he died in 1914, had been the oldest member of the Bear Flag Party and participated in the Bear Flag Revolt at Sonoma, CA in 1846.

This cemetery is a little difficult to find. Take Mountain View Road going west from the west end of Boonville. After the south end of the airport runway and just before the highway curves to the right, take the driveway on the left that goes straight up a hill. After you crest the hill the parking area for the cemetery will be on the left with plenty of parking. The cemetery is on a knoll looking out over the Boonville Airport, the AV High School and Mountain View Road – one of the truly loveliest spots in the Valley.



In 1978, Mrs. Alva Ingram recorded the markers in the cemetery and noted "there are many graves outside the fence with small wooden markers without names. Also in the fenced cemetery are wooden markers without dates or names." Early families well represented here are Babcock, Burger, Tarwater, McGimsey, Lowrey, Rawles and Beeson. The earliest era of markers is from the first decades of the 1900's. The oldest existing marker is that of Henry Beeson, who, when he died in 1914, had been the oldest member of the Bear Flag Party and participated in the Bear Flag Revolt at Sonoma, CA in 1846.

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  • Added: 21 Apr 2002
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 1222346