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Photographer: Joel Seewald
Taken: April 3, 2019
Caption: Lower left image
Additional Description: Who is buried there?
The military called this island "the Rock" for a reason, it is composed entirely of hard graywacke sandstone which does not lend itself to burials. During the military era, soldiers who died here were buried on Angel Island or in the National Cemetery at the Presidio of San Francisco. Later, during the Bureau of Prison years, deceased inmates were taken to the city morgue in San Francisco. If unclaimed, they were interred in paupers' graves in a local cemetery.
Submitted: May 8, 2019, by Joel Seewald of Madison Heights, Michigan.
Database Locator Identification Number: p473967
File Size: 0.113 Megabytes

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