Category Archives: California Roots
San Francisco Reburial Mysteries, Part Four
A few months ago, I received a copy of a photograph of Catherine (Dolan) Kelly tombstone. It gave me chills. This was my ancestors tombstone! Almost immediately the questions swirled in my heard. Guess what? The date on the tombstone doesn’t match the card in Holy Cross’s file. Are you surprised? LOL The card for …
Where They Lived: 1936 E. 25th Street, the Cosma House
Second in the series, 1936 E. 25th Street, Oakland, California. This is the house where the Cosma’s lived. View Larger Map This bluish house with the stairs leading up and the picket fence around it was very well known to all the Pacheco and de Braga cousins. This is the house that Joaquim Jacinto da …
San Francisco Reburial Mysteries, Part Three
One of the things that really baffled me about the reburials that Patrick Dolan paid for was that his wife wasn’t among them. His wife died a good 20 or so years before him. If he was going to fork out all this money to rebury is sister, Catherine’s family, and to purchase a plot …