California, Santa Clara County, San Jose, Oak Hill Cemetery Headstone Inscriptions - FamilySearch Historical Records

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Cemetery headstone inscriptions from the Oak Hill Cemetery in San Jose, California. The inscriptions were made by the Santa Clara Historical and Genealogical Society as a part of a cemetery project. The collection is a card index and arranged alphabetically.

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FamilySearch Catalog

 * Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, Your Guide to Cemetery Research. Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2002 FS Library 973 V37c
 * Compiled by members of the Santa Clara Historical and Genealogical Society. Cemetery headstone inscriptions ca. 1838-1985.
 * Oak Hill Cemetery. Cemetery inscriptions of unmarked graves, ca. 1922-1950
 * Santa Clara County Recorder. Death records, 1873-1905

FamilySearch Historical Records

 * California Death Index, 1905-1939
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FamilySearch Digital Library

 * Eugene Taylor Sawyer, History of Santa Clara County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present 2 volumes, Los Angeles, California : Historic Record Co., 1922

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