Guide to the San Diego County Death Collection MS 53

Finding aid prepared by Samantha Mills

San Diego History Center Document Collection

1649 El Prado, Suite 3

San Diego, CA, 92101

619-232-6203

May 22, 2017

Title: San Diego County Death Collection

Identifier/Call Number: MS 53

Contributing Institution: San Diego History Center Document Collection

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 0.5 Linear feet (1 box)

Date (inclusive): 1848-1988

Abstract: This is an artificial collection of research material compiling records of cemeteries, mortuaries, and wills in San Diego County from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.

creator: Daughters of the American Revolution.

creator: San Diego Genealogical Society.

Biographical / Historical Notes

These materials were assembled by the Daughters of the American Revolution and the San Diego Genealogical Society between the 1950s and 1990s.

Scope and Content

This is an artificial collection of research material compiling records of cemeteries, mortuaries, and wills in San Diego County from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. These are all volumes of transcribed records or abstracts

Arrangement

This collection is arranged alphabetically.

Preferred Citation

San Diego County Death Collection, MS 53, San Diego History Center Document Archives, San Diego, CA.

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

The San Diego History Center (SDHC) holds the copyright to any unpublished materials. SDHC Library regulations do apply.

Processing Information

Collection processed by Samantha Mills on May 22, 2017.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Escondido Cemetery.

Fallbrook Community Oddfellows Cemetery.

Johnson-Saum & Knobel Mortuary.

Mt. Hope Cemetery.

Cemeteries -- California -- San Diego

Funeral homes

San Diego County (Calif.)

Box-folder 1:1

Abstracts of Wills, 1848-1900

Scope and Content

Abstracts of wills from 1848-1900 on file in the Office of the County Clerk, compiled by the Genealogical Records Committees of the San Diego County Chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1952.

Box-folder 1:2

Escondido Cemetery Records, 1883-1960

Scope and Content

Names, birth dates, and death dates copied by a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints and published by the San Diego Genealogical Society in 1986.

Box-folder 1:3

Fallbrook Community Odd Fellows Cemetery: Tombstone Records, 1874-1988

Scope and Content

Compiled by Cemetery Census Committee and Genealogical Records Chairman of the Monserate Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1988. Includes an index by name.

Box-folder 1:4

Johnson-Saum & Knobel Mortuary Records, 1869-1909

Scope and Content

Transcription of mortuary records by the San Diego Genealogical Society. Originally printed in 1984 in “Leaves and Saplings” newsletter, reprinted with index in 1995.

Box-folder 1:5

Mt. Hope Cemetery Burial Records, 1869-1909

Scope and Content

Transcription of burial records from ledgers at the Mt. Hope Cemetery office. Originally printed in “Leaves and Saplings” newsletter. This volume compiled in 1998, includes an index by name.