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The former Calvary Cemetery is the greater part of what is now Calvary Pioneer Memorial Park, commonly called simply Pioneer Park, in Mission Hills, San Diego, California. It was primarily in use between 1875 and 1919. Intermittent burials continued until as late as the 1960's. In the early 1970's the cemetery was converted to a public park and the grave markers, but not the bodies were removed. Several of the gravestones were clustered together and a central memorial was placed in the southeast corner of the park. The remainder of gravestones were removed to San Diego's Mount Hope Cemetery where several of the better preserved headstones were set up in a second memorial in the southwest corner of that Cemetery, where the discarded ones were buried. This action destroyed many of these historic monuments and the only existing record of dozens of peope who were born and died before birth and death certificates became standard. The exact number of people buried at Calvary Cemetery is not known as complete records no longer exist. There are almost 4,000 documented burials of which more than 1,500 occurred before July 1, 1905 when california established specific statewide requirements for registration of deaths
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