In 1898, Bertram Barrett, aged 13, lost his arm in a hunting accident.
Because the law at the time required that severed limbs be given a proper burial, Barrett did in the Hacienda Cemetery.
Besides being the namesake of the road and a son of a quicksilver miner, he became the Chief of Sanitation for the Santa Clara County Health Department.
His arm is still here, it even has a headstone, but Barrett is buried at Oak Hill Funeral Home and Memorial Park in San Jose where he was interred in 1959.
Because the law at the time required that severed limbs be given a proper burial, Barrett did in the Hacienda Cemetery.
Besides being the namesake of the road and a son of a quicksilver miner, he became the Chief of Sanitation for the Santa Clara County Health Department.
His arm is still here, it even has a headstone, but Barrett is buried at Oak Hill Funeral Home and Memorial Park in San Jose where he was interred in 1959.
In 1898, Bertram Barrett, aged 13, lost his arm in a hunting accident.
Because the law at the time required that severed limbs be given a proper burial, Barrett did in the Hacienda Cemetery.
Besides being the namesake of the road and a son of a quicksilver miner, he became the Chief of Sanitation for the Santa Clara County Health Department.
His arm is still here, it even has a headstone, but Barrett is buried at Oak Hill Funeral Home and Memorial Park in San Jose where he was interred in 1959.
Because the law at the time required that severed limbs be given a proper burial, Barrett did in the Hacienda Cemetery.
Besides being the namesake of the road and a son of a quicksilver miner, he became the Chief of Sanitation for the Santa Clara County Health Department.
His arm is still here, it even has a headstone, but Barrett is buried at Oak Hill Funeral Home and Memorial Park in San Jose where he was interred in 1959.
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Richard Bertram ‘Bert' Barrett, His Arm Lies Here. May it Rest in Peace.
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