For some reason, my phone has a better search-engine than my laptop, so I have been able to find more info about my German Family History in Belmont. I’m waiting for Cypress Lawn to be open so I can have them search for the remains of Charles F. Janke who died of a concussion at 47. Was he kicked by a horse, or, did he die defending his town and business establishments – from thugs? Charles Janke owned the Emmet House, and may have paid for its construction. People of Belmont did not want it moved, because they wanted what many cities, have – a historic center. How come it was not moved to Twin Pines Park? I detected an anti-German angst – from the start of my genealogical research!
I almost wept at the City Council meeting because I knew what was coming due to the Palestinian War. Germany is being discussed due the Holocaust. There are hostages. The Emmet House and my family history – WAS BUTCHERED! I want it restored! It appears many elected officials honed their civic swords on The Janke House, so they can earn a paycheck telling people what to do – and how to do it. At the end of my three minute presentation, I thought I heard the Mayor say….”We honor all peoples!” This is the ongoing excuse to wipe out – FAMILY HISTORIES! Enough! U.S. Citizens are going to pay billions to protect the antiques and archeological digs of Israel – who are guilty of treating the Palestinian inhumanly, and, with no respect! Enough! This is the Last Go-round with that BULLSHIT!
On the news a Jewish woman who lives in the SF Bay Area says Jewish Males that live in America are flying to Israel to fight against Hamas. Carl Janke appears to have formed a militia. Russia bragged about taking back Alaska, and Fort Ross – employing force. Many Jews are calling for the firing of Netanyahu, that I think is being prevented by President Biden – for the sake of UNITY! The Republican still can’t get – UNIFIED!
Throwing’ out – and banning OUR HISTORY – does not prevent history from being made! “Don’t!” There have been several Westerns on cable. I should have proposed one called ‘Belmont’. I will do so! I see a pattern in Belmont. Every time there is A NEED FOR MORE LAND, the solution is to dig up another Janke, or, move a Janke home -somewhere else!
“Let’s dib up another Nazi from their grave! Those German deserved it for what they done!”
I see these Kevin Kostner clips, where his character built up a great ranch, and now NON-FAMILY FOLKS – want to tear it all down – or make the ranch their own! The biggest fight in our family, was between my mother, Rosemary, and aunt Lillian, as to whom Errol Flynn desired the most. They both dated him as teenagers. Rosemary married Carl Janke’s great grandson, Victor William Presco.
John Presco
EXTRA! I just found Charles F. Janke, his wife, Louisa, and their daughter Rose Hannah. This is my first gravesite I have located after becoming a Odd Fellow on August 27th.
In looking at the evil resting place of Carl and his wife, I keeping reading this..
“From the 1937 headstone survey — (apparently there was a different stone)“
This is saying there was an original tombstone, that was removed, to put new bodies in the same hole, and then capped by a new tombstone!!! I never saw such a thing. Are you telling me the City of Belmont could not afford – a new grave! Outrageous! This city is dripping with money. They also cut corners with the Emmet House – destroying it as a Landmark. There is a George Schmoll in the Janke plot. I read last night that Belmont took the land of John Schmoll. Is Geroge his son, who died poor? I suspect there was, and still is, a family who had it out for my ancestors. I’m coming to Belmont!
https://www.opensfhistory.org/osfhcrucible/2020/11/15/odd-fellows-cemetery-a-closer-look/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/245445316/herman-w-schaberg
Louisa Schaberg Janke
BIRTH1847
Louisiana, USADEATH11 Sep 1934 (aged 86–87)
Belmont, San Mateo County, California, USABURIAL
Cypress Lawn Memorial ParkColma, San Mateo County, California, USA Show MapGPS-Latitude: 37.6744650, Longitude: -122.4502480PLOTEast Side Garden, Lot 332, Div SMEMORIAL ID245445776 · View Source
Carl Augustus Janke
BIRTHOct 1806
Dresden, Stadtkreis Dresden, Saxony, GermanyDEATH31 Oct 1881 (aged 74–75)
Belmont, San Mateo County, California, USABURIAL
Union CemeteryRedwood City, San Mateo County, California, USA Show MapGPS-Latitude: 37.4737300, Longitude: -122.2239100MEMORIAL ID186938257 · View SourceSHARESAVE TO
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Carl Augustus Janke was a local merchant in the city of Belmont, California he founded Belmont Park in 1865 which was modeled after a German beer garden. Janke subsequently he founded a local soft drink bottling plant, the first industry for the town of Belmont.
— From the 1937 headstone survey — (apparently there was a different stone)
Carl August Janke, born in Dresden, Germany Oct. 1806,
died Belmont, Calif. Sept. 2, 1881
Dorette Catherine, wife of Carl August Janke,
born in Hamburg, Germany, July 21, 1813,
died in Belmont, California, Feb 16, 1877
Mutter Heinrich (spelled Catherine Hendrickson on the gravestone), mother of Dorette Catherine Janke,
born in Island of Heligoland, Germany, 1781 died
in Belmont, California 1876
DENVER (KDVR) — As a violent attack continues in Israel, a handful of Coloradans are traveling to the country, some to help fight.
Rabbi Menachem Siderson of Aish of the Rockies said seven members of his synagogue have now arrived in Israel. He said some are reservists in the Israeli army, while others are making the trip completely voluntarily.
“It was quite surprising to me, actually, to find out the news that we had young men and women that are in our community that just felt the need — one of them called it the raw need — to just pick up and find their way to Israel,” Siderson said. “It makes the emotions so much higher, so much more personal, when we know the people in our community who are no longer here because they are there risking their lives to protect the country.”
Dug Up From Our Graves!
Posted on May 25, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
“Originally Carl abd Doretha were buried under a huge bay tree there and bodies later moved to the Union Cemetary “during the dark of night” my mother used to tell us.”
http://belmonthistoricalsociety.com/
Posted on November 14, 2016 by Royal Rosamond Press
Here is some soundtrack to go wi with the Lewis Family Film starring Rosemary Rosamond who is seen walking by the sea. The Lewis family owned a large ranch in Camarillo – that fist with Belmont! Play both videos at the same time.
The California Fusileers
Posted on May 7, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
My ancestors were wealthy Prussians. Were they investors in Prussia’s attempt to purchase California, that did not happen possibly due to the Revolutions of 1848? Did some Germans realize California could be had by a intensive migration? The six million dollars could be used to buy portable homes, and other necessities. The chances Count Cipriani purchased a portable home from Carl Janke, is high. Unless he brought one in his wagon train.
The Jankes were members of the California Fusiliers. Did they have any contact with my kin, John Fremont, who was talked out of founding a new nation in the West during the Civil War. Consider the Manifest Destiny propaganda of his father-in-law and John Astor, who paid Washington Irving to author a propaganda novel that clamed the right of Americans to take the Oregon Territory – from BRITISH ROYALS. Astor launched a financial conquest of China – that could be the model for China today! If they take over Central America, will they manufacture Chinese cocaine after exterminating the criminal cartel and all gangs south of the border? Texans would be – pleased as punch! As long as China does not take away their right not to wear masks – or their guns! What about – their God? China could get its powerful think tank to invent a Cocaine Jesus for anti-Democratic cult followers, who will honor the day the Democrats cheated them our of their birth right with fake elections. To the Chinese, we look like members of a superstitious Cargo Cult, we easy pickens when it comes to….Divide and Conquer. Our tribal system is open to covert bribes, pitting one tribe against another tribe.
John Presco ‘Author of The Royal Janitor’
California Fusileers (militarymuseum.org)
Belmont Unveils Renovated Emmett House
The ribbon-cutting ceremony took place on Saturday afternoon.
Laura Dudnick,Patch Staff
Posted Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 6:30 pm PT|Updated Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:07 am PTReply
Saturday’s rain ceased just long enough for Belmont to enjoy a moment that’s been a long time coming: unveiling the renovated Emmett House.
The approximately 100 residents, city officials and local politicians who gathered at the Emmett House on Saturday cheered as Mayor Coralin Feierbach snipped the bright red ribbon with a pair of gigantic scissors, symbolizing, at last, that the Emmett House was open.
“They said it couldn’t be done,” Feierbach said. “It could not be moved; it would fall apart, so let’s tear it down. But it got moved and it looks fantastic. One of our last historical pieces is saved.”
It’s been a little more than three years since Belmont residents — also in the rain — watched the historic building be moved down the street from Ralston Avenue to its current location at 1000 O’Neill Ave.
The city of Belmont purchased the historic building in 1999, but the first survey of the property dates back to 1990. The house itself — a two-story Victorian complete with a wraparound porch — was originally built around 1885.
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Belmont Historic Society President Denny Lawhern said there have been more than 125 meetings before the Emmett House reached its current state: modernized and ready for two low-income families to move in.
The building, now split into two homes, features bright, carpeted rooms with views of Belmont from all angles.
The project of renovating the Emmett House, Lawhern said, contained two elements: historic preservation, and providing low- and moderate-income housing.
The Emmett House is named after Walter Emmett, a pioneer, merchant and postmaster who had an early and very strong presence in the city of Belmont.
“We’re here to honor Walter A. Emmett,” Lawhern said. “He came to Belmont in 1880 and became a major merchant who led the business community in the earlier years of Belmont. This was Mr. Emmett’s home.”
Community Development Director Carlos de Melo said the city’s Redevelopment Agency funded the purchase and reconstruction of the original house, as well as the purchase of the lots on which the house now resides.
“The Redevelopment Agency took care of all the components financially to make this home a reality,” de Melo said. “That’s why Redevelopment Agencies are important.”
Assemblymember Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, spoke at the ribbon-cutting ceremony as well and commended Belmont for its dedication to preserving history.
“This is a perfect example of how Belmont does it best,” Hill said to applause from the audience. “This is a prize that we need to preserve, not just for us, not just for the next generation, but for those generations that we’ll never know.”
Hill also presented the city with a certificate of recognition from the California State Assembly for its “commitment to preserving what’s best about this Peninsula,” he said.
“It’s wonderful that two families will be living in it,” Hill said in an interview after the ceremony. “They were able to preserve the historic value and place this home in a nice neighborhood. It will add a lot to the redevelopment of downtown Belmont.”
City Manager Greg Scoles called the Emmett House a “significant” project for the city of Belmont.
“To me, it represents the history of Belmont,” Parks and Recreation Director Jonathan Gervais said. “Historic structures don’t stand the test of time unless people are taking care of them, monitoring them, managing them, and this, with folks living in it, will stand the test of time.”
Not everyone, however, agrees the building should be used for housing.
Daniel Greenberg, who lives minutes away from the Emmett House near the border of Belmont and San Carlos, said that while he commended Belmont for renovating the historic building, he thought the city could financially benefit more by leasing the property for commercial use.
“Kudos to the people that were involved, it’s a beautiful house,” Greenberg said. “I’ve seen the Emmett House through its transformation, from when it was first moved to this beautiful state today. I think it’s added a lot to the neighborhood.”
But, he added, he believes the building should be used for a purpose other than to house two families.
“They could probably do a better job of preserving this for the long-term by leasing it out for commercial use,” for instance to professional service firms like accounting or law firms, Greenberg said.
“If you’re really looking to preserve a house for the long-term, you don’t have people living in it, you have people using it in a low-traffic manner.”
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“The project was redefined so many times with new councils, new planning commissions and new city managers,” Lawhern said.
The Belmont Historical Society applied for registration of the house on the National Register, however, it was rejected due to the extent of modifications made to the building.
“What a sense of completion,” Lawhern said. “Maybe now I can go out of town for a week without worrying about it.”
“It has taken a long time to save our Emmett House,” said Mayor Coralin Feierbach. “There were concerns raised from the neighborhood about relocating the building to this new site. However, when one looks at it now, we were right, it can be done.”
A historic renovation: Belmont’s Emmett House to reopen
- By Bill Silverfarb Daily Journal staff
- Mar 11, 2011 Updated Jul 12, 2017
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After years of renovations, Belmont’s historic Emmett House is finally set to reopen after being moved from its original home on Ralston Avenue in 2008.
The historic structure was first constructed in 1885 and bought by the city in 1998 for about $750,000.
Emmett House was relocated on a rainy night in January 2008, when hundreds of people braved the elements to watch the structure move from its original location to its new resting place on O’Neill Avenue near City Hall.
Since the move, it has been renovated and remodeled into a two-unit residential building that will provide low- to moderate-income housing for local families.
The tenants will move in next month, said Denny Lawhern, president of the Belmont Historical Society.
In total, the purchase and renovation of the building will cost about $2 million, Lawhern said. A significant portion of the money came from the city’s Redevelopment Agency.
Lawhern has spent more than 12 years with the Emmett House and has attended more than 120 meetings related to the structure. Initially, the city intended to renovate the structure at its original resting place.
“The project was redefined so many times with new councils, new planning commissions and new city managers,” Lawhern said.
Lawhern is happy the project is almost done.
“What a sense of completion,” Lawhern said. “Maybe now I can go out of town for a week without worrying about it.”
The original Emmett cottage was built in the mid-1880s, with the second story added in 1899. Some modifications were made to the building over the years, including its change of use from residential to commercial and office space and removal of its wraparound porch. For a time, the house was even a sanitarium.
The integrity of the original structure remained, however, and it survived its 2008 move intact. A number of its historic components have been restored, including the porch and the widow’s walk. The infrastructure has been upgraded to meet all current building codes, including plumbing, mechanical and electrical. A detached two-car garage is also included on the site.
The two units are three bedrooms each and are reserved for families who qualify for affordable rent.
In 1990, the San Mateo County Historical Association conducted a State Office of Historic Preservation Historic Resources Inventory and as a result, in 1992 Belmont declared the building a historic landmark under the city’s Historic Resources Ordinance.
The Belmont Historical Society applied for registration of the house on the National Register, however, it was rejected due to the extent of modifications made to the building.
Lawhern intends to reapply for the federal designation based on who the home’s original owner was.
In the 30 years between 1880 and 1910, Walter Alfred Emmett became Belmont’s leading merchant, according to city documents. He purchased a general store from Carl F. Janke at the northwest corner of the Old County Road in 1880 in partnership with Matthew O’Neill. He bought out O’Neill in 1888, and acquired the Belmont Soda Works in 1892. By 1893, he owned the entire block on the north side of The Corners and constructed a livery stable, according to city documents.
Emmett was a one-man Chamber of Commerce, Lawhern said.
The house sits adjacent to the Belmont Creek across from the Twin Pines Senior and Community Center and directly across the street from the Beli Deli on Sixth Avenue.
Gin Nikoloff, the deli’s owner, is excited the project is done.
“I’m delighted they completed. It sat idle for a while and was an eyesore,” Nikoloff said. “Everybody’s pretty happy.”
The city will hold a ribbon-cutting next weekend to celebrate the reopening as the historic aspect of the renovations will be finished.
“It has taken a long time to save our Emmett House,” said Mayor Coralin Feierbach. “There were concerns raised from the neighborhood about relocating the building to this new site. However, when one looks at it now, we were right, it can be done.”
A celebration of the completion of renovations for Belmont’s historic Emmett House is set for Saturday, March 19, 3 p.m., 1000 O’Neill Ave. The public is invited and refreshments will be served.
Bill Silverfarb can be reached by e-mail: silverfarb@smdailyjournal.com or by phone: (650) 344-5200 ext. 106.
Jack London’s Schützenfest Articles
Posted on August 6, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
During the Middle Ages, many towns had to find ways to defend themselves from gangs of marauders. For this reason, clubs and associations were founded, comparable to militias; these paramilitary associations were sanctioned for the first time in the Law for the Defensive Constitution of the Towns by King Henry I, and officially integrated into the towns’ defense plans. Accompanying the military exercises and physical examinations of the towns’ contingents, festivities were combined with festive processions. Participants from other parishes and, at times, even the feudal heads of state were also invited to these Marksmen’s Courts (Schützenhöfe). However, the self-confident spirit of the townsfolk that marked these festivities was not always regarded positively by the authorities. For this reason, different traditions developed in other regions. The military significance lessened over the centuries and became meaningless with the creation of regular troops and garrisons for national defense. The Schützenfests, however, continued in the form of a regional patriotic tradition.
Jack London’s Schützenfest Articles
Schüetzenfest No. 1
July 15, 1901 . The Goths have entered Rome ! Aye, it is so, but there was no cry in the night, no clamor of hasty flight, no scurrying with household gods to the citadel. Rather, did San Francisco throw wide her gates and fraternize with her Teutonic invaders. On the other hand, these descendants of Germanic Tribesmen who swept down out of the forest of middle Europe some two thousand years ago, are quite unlike their savage forbearers. They are not clad in the skins of wild beasts, and though they bear weapons in their hands, we do not fear; for they come not in war, but in love; not as foes, but as blood-brothers. And though their ancestors of old time looted many a fair city, we need keep no anxious eye on our possessions. We have but one thing they might appropriate if they were able–and that is our climate.
The Manhattan Declaration
Posted on December 17, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
The contestants for Miss Russian San Francisco 2017 pose with the founder Karina Zakharov, center in white skirt and perwinkle top.
The Royal Janitor
by
John Presco
Copyright 2019
Chapter Five: The Manhattan Declaration
“She’s pregnant!” Clive told Victoria across the cold glass that covered his families ancient mahogany desk where the fate of world’s shipping was mapped out in secret trade agreements. Everything was Insured.
“Who’s pregnant?” Victoria asked, and tried to oppress the hot blood that rushed to her brain.
“Miriam.” Clive said, and studied Victoria’s reaction.
“She’s….with child? She told me she was a virgin. I am a virgin. That was our seal, our bond. How do you know? Did she tell you?”
“Breath! Take three deep breaths – and think calm thoughts. Your face is turning red. You need to meditate!”
“I need to meditate?” Victoria was fighting off a torrent of Christian Shame. She had used logic to dismiss the truth that she was having a Lesbian relationship, but, the idea that her lover got pregnant, filled her soul, her brain, with the idea she had done something – very bad – as if she knocked-up her beloved Starfish.
How she acquired Catholic Sin in the bowels of the College of Heraldry, must be due to all the mottos she read on the Coat of Arms, and, the religious notes she had to carefully study in cases of Crusader Knighthood. There were many who belonged to orders that sprang from Jerusalem. There was images of baby Jesus in a manger. All this sin and shame!
“How did you find out Starfish is pregnant? Victoria was glaring at Clive.
“Please! Sit back down. Take three deep breaths. Our toilets test all BAD women, automatically, when you use them.”
“You mean……you chemically analyze our urine – in the toilet? Do you test for drugs, too? Do you take pictures of us?’
“Yes – breath!”
Victoria slid out of the chair in a dead faint. Her chin his the glass top and put a crack in it. When she came to, she was on the greatest leather sofa ever made. A antiseptic sheet was put on it. Victoria heard the sound of the last staple put in her chin. Her wound required three staples. The BAD doctor wiped away the blood that had rolled down her neck and stained the sheet. Victoria tried to wipe away the vision of a grown man pissing in a BAD toilet with his…….She had never seen a penis!
“Are the men at BAD tested? Do you have photos of them relieving themselves on file!” asked Victoria, she sounding like a moron due to her lower jaw being numb. Reaching with her hand, she swore when she felt the big white bandage.
“Fuck! I had planned to go shopping while in London! I can’t be seen like this!”
“Wear a smog mask. They make very expensive ones that are in fashion! Don’t get up.”
“Fuck you! Give me something to throw. It must be spendy. Couldn’t you have ordered a bouquet of flowers and put them on the desk, when you told me the fucking blessed good news. I love Miriam, you rotten bastards! I feel so defiled! I want my tinkling pics – now! And Miriam’s! How dare you! Is nothing sacred?”
“We do not capture you while tinkling, but when you turn on the faucet to wash your hands. This flushes the toilet. Haven’t you noticed the delay?”
‘Why do you do this?” Victoria asked, then, took three quiet breaths. “Washing ones hands is a very sacred practice – you creeps! When we use public toilets we spread the message we are not spreading germs. You have dirtied – us! We love our mirrors you place a camera behind. We give our best look. Why!”
“When women have an unexpected pregnancy, they become very vulnerable – to our enemy. Most women believe it is their right to privately summon their higher power to deal with – the big surprise! Many women have no higher power, and fall back on the myth of pure logic – that does not exist! Everyone in Western Culture is subjected to a Shame-base, Christian morality. It comes with the total package. There exist a very intrusive ambitious Abortion Cult that swoops down on vulnerable women in high places. Have you heard of Charles Colson?”
“Do you mean, Chuck Colson, of Watergate fame?”
‘Yes! He was ordered by the President to get something dirty on the Democrats. There was talk one of the leaders owned a porno collection of naked Hippies posing with Senators and Congressmen at a commune on a secret island. Have you heard of Jonah Puffhausen, and Cardinal Foley?”
Foley I know very well. I worked on his genealogy and coat of arms. He subscribe to the coming of a American Prophet who would rebuild the temple in Jerusalem! Miriam knew when to close her mouth, and listen.
“Here’s the bottom line. There are Americans and Russians who believe Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California belongs to Russia via saints of the Russian Orthodox Church that built Fort Ross. Miriam’s parents were leaders in this movement. They met Jonah at UC Berekley. Jonah sent them to Oregon where they eventually studied at North West University. They founded the Russian Bear and Star club. This is the Star of Bethlehem held in the talons of the double eagle of the Orthodox church.”
Clive studied Victoria as she did a chart in her head. She connected some dots to coats of arms, and other private information secret orginizations with the College of Heradlry. Many people want to be seen as immortal. When she read the President of the United States was wanting a bogus coat of arms, she picked up the phone and out the kabash on his fraudulent dream.”
‘POTUS is poised to sign an executive order, turning four States over to Putin…..BREATH!”
“Why would he do such a thing?’
“Think Electorial College and the fact the West will forever be for the Democrats. California has 58 electorial votes, that will be removed from the election of POTUS. If this happens, then there will forever be a Republican President. No longer will the Repbulican Abortion and Heathen Club have to get dirt on the Democrats. This is a religious cult, who for two thusand years have taken over the land of Non-Christians who are deemed godless heathens -who can not be saved. This is why POTUS built his wall. ”
Victoria went to rub her chin, and, felt the bandage. She understood all this via Christian coat of arms – and flags!
“We can not tell Miriam. She was seduced by a disciple of Puffhausin who she had a crush on when they met. She was fifteen. He was twenty. They both have Royal Alute blood. There has been an interest in their breeding, and the child they would produce. They are looking for their Virgin Mary.”
‘Does Miriam know about this?”
“Some. Her increble intuition is putting the jigsaw puzzle together, starting with the blue sky pieces. You know how she is. We have set up a War Room. We want you to do a chart. You, we, must arrive at the epicenter before Miriam does. I’m afraid she sees you as a conduit of information. She does not want to see you this way. She will use you. You must use her. Study Calexit and its connecteion to Brexit. The Manhatten cult wants to do away with the Europan Union and NATO. They convinced POTUS France was the world capitol of infidelity because French men of means have a mistress.”
(Blank stares exchanged here)
Here is the Manhatten Declaration and a list of times POTUS said there would be an uprising if he is Impeached. The Democrats will file tomorrow. They are having a pow-wow right now. You need to do a Story Board. We are looking at Biblical Prophecy – LIVE!”
“Miriam knowns evertything there is to know about prophecy. She would be a tremendous help right now!”
“Once the storyboard is complete, we will bring her here to look at it on the big screen. Once she has seen our work, she will own the upperhand. It must appear that we own the high ground, or, she will run circles around us. Thank God, for this!” Clive put a file before Victoria made of green velvet.
“This is your Puritan ancestry we have kept from you. John von John is your kin. His real name is John Wilson Rosamond. He has revived Herbert Armstrong’s church. Call him, now. He needs to be here. We are going to fight BAD prophecy, with BAD prophecy. We are going into the Sage&Scribe business. When the storyboard is complete, you are going to Scotland to stay over night with The Poker Club.”
“The Poker Club?” Victoria chimed. Aren’t they an ancient all male club who some say rule the Western World?” Victoria got no answer.
“Why are you and Miriam sneaking about Osborne House?”
“We are looking for Victoria’s lost library.
“Interesting. In four days I want you and Miriam on a plane. You are going to Harvard to look for the lost library of Reverend John Wilson, who is your 9th. grandfather, too!” Clive watched his remark sink in.
“Are you saying John von John and I share this ancestor? Miriam hates him. Wait a minute, the Puritans and California Russians, are on the same path. Who owns America is the question.”
“They say Manhattan was purchased from the heathens for a pair of beads. The Russian Pioneer Monks married native women. They kept very good genealogical records. Look at Saint Innocent of Alaska. Miriam claimed she was a Russian Native American Princess.”
“And this is why she dresses like Sheenah, Queen of the Jungle?” added Victoria, with three calm breaths. “I wonder if Russia has a Walt Disney?”
Today, we crossed the Rubicon. There is no turning back. President Trump sent the Speaker of the House an extremely demonizing letter – with eagle seal – that invoked the name of my Puritan ancestors. Nancy tore it up.
If I were a young man, again, I would want to marry all the beautiful women in the Russian beauty contest. Paul bid members of the first church – not to marry because The End was coming, and so was Jesus. He was a no-show. Paul, latched on to our genitals, and the church has been shaking them like a Pitbull ever since in order to get our attention, and trillions in tithe.
Today, we saw Trump trying to run their Holy Blackmail scam. Remaining neutral as a non-believer, is almost impossible. The Christian-right wants to go to war with the Democrats. Republican women, should jump ship.
The abortion issue was invented by Paul Weyrich to counter the Civil Rights Movement that was opposed by Southern Baptists. Robert P. George founded the Witherspoon think tank. He says religious disobedience is required. History is about religious wars. The End Time is a tool for religious terrorists.
“President Donald Trump on Tuesday savaged House Democrats’ impeachment proceedings in a six-page letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi that read like a collection of his most vitriolic tweets.
The fiery missive, frequently punctuated with exclamation points, came loaded with hyperbolic assertions — including the president’s claim that “more due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials” and his accusation that Pelosi and House Democrats “view democracy as your enemy!”
https://www.gty.org/library/articles/A390/the-manhattan-declaration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Declaration:_A_Call_of_Christian_Conscience
Odd Fellows Cemetery: A Closer Look
by Arnold Woods
Beginning in 1854 with the establishment of what was eventually called the Laurel Hill Cemetery, the Lone Mountain area became the original “city of the dead” for San Francisco. Laurel Hill was found to the north of Geary between Presidio and Parker, where you would now find part of the UCSF campus and the Laurel Heights neighborhood. In 1860, the Roman Catholic church bought the land between Geary and Turk and east of Masonic to open the Calvary Cemetery. Today, you would go shopping there at the City Center complex. In 1864, the Masons fraternal organization opened the Masonic Cemetery on the south slope of Lone Mountain, where you would find USF today.
The reason these cemeteries were located in the Lone Mountain area was that in the 1850s and 1860s, this area was so far out of town that they were, in fact, outside the city limits of San Francisco at that time. It wasn’t until 1866 that the Outside Lands Act brought this area into city limits. After the Masons opened their cemetery, the third cemetery on the slopes of Lone Mountain, another fraternal organization followed suit.
Odd Fellows Cemetery, circa 1885. (wnp26.342; Courtesy of a Private Collector)
155 years ago this week, on November 19, 1865, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows opened their own cemetery. The Odd Fellows Cemetery was located on the west slope of Lone Mountain, between Geary and Turk and west of Parker. At that time, there were very few public parks to be found, so cemeteries were developed as “green space” with park-like landscaping.
View east toward Lone Mountain of Odd Fellows Cemetery, 1880s. (wnp37.01340; Isaiah West Taber, photographer – Marilyn Blaisdell Collection / Courtesy of a Private Collector)
Although this was the Odd Fellows’ cemetery, others could buy plots there and some groups purchased sections there. One was a Greek Cemetery section near today’s Stanyan and Golden Gate intersection. The Grand Army of the Republic, the Civil War Veteran’s group, purchased a plat of land there and would hold Memorial Day parades that started downtown and ended at the Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Odd Fellows Cemetery, 1900s. (wnp15.208; Courtesy of a Private Collector)
Perhaps the most prominent person interred at the Odd Fellows Cemetery was Charles de Young, the co-founder (with his brother Henry) and publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper. De Young was shot and killed on April 23, 1880 by the son of the mayor of San Francisco, the culmination of an escalating feud between the mayor and the newspaperman. The funeral service for de Young, an Odd Fellow member, began at his home on Eddy Street. Then a procession of carriages took him to his not-so-final resting place (we’ll get to that) at the Odd Fellows Cemetery.1 De Young’s widow later had a magnificent monument to her husband built at the cemetery near the entrance. Perhaps not surprisingly considering the source, the entrance to the Odd Fellows Cemetery was later cited as the “most picturesque of any of the cemeteries.2”
Crematorium at Odd Fellows Cemetery, circa 1905. (wnp33.01105.jpg; Courtesy of a Private Collector)
The Odd Fellows Cemetery was funded by the sale of gravesites, from which the grounds were maintained. As the cemetery filled up though, there was no longer sufficient monies to keep the site up and it began to look worse for the wear. Consequently, the Odd Fellows looked for a new source of funding. Their solution, in 1895, was to open a crematorium on the grounds and began advertising cremation as an alternative to burial.
Columbarium at Odd Fellows Cemetery, circa 1905. (wnp33.01104; Courtesy of a Private Collector)
Of course, once someone was cremated, you might need a place to store the ashes. So the Odd Fellows Cemetery opened a striking new building called the Columbarium. It was designed by architect Bernard J.S. Cahill in a neo-Classical style and featured a copper dome. Construction started just after Easter in 18973 and was completed around the end of the year,4 in time to be opened in early 1898.
View north across Odd Fellows Cemetery with Columbarium in back right, circa 1900. (wnp31.00027; Bauchou Family Photographs / Courtesy of Peter Linenthal / Potrero Hill Archives)
While Odd Fellows and its fellow Lone Mountain cemeteries started out in the boonies, San Francisco quickly spread westward to and past the cemeteries. As early as the 1880s, there were calls to move the cemeteries in order to put the land to better use, although couched in terms of the potential health hazards of having cemeteries so close to the population. On March 26, 1900, the supervisors passed an ordinance prohibiting burials within city limits, which would take effect on August 1, 1901.5 The ultimate goal was the removal of the cemeteries completely and the Odd Fellows saw the writing on the wall. As with other cemeteries, they looked south to Colma and purchased land there in 1904 for a new cemetery which they named Green Lawn Cemetery.
M. Rider postcard of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Crematorium at center, circa 1908. (wnp25.4260; Courtesy of a Private Collector)
After banning burials, San Francisco, on November 21, 1910, took the next step and banned cremations within city limits.6 The same year, the United States Supreme Court upheld the City’s ban on burials.7 Although it would not be until the 1930s before the City began forcing Odd Fellows and other cemeteries to remove bodies, the end was nigh. Relatives of the deceased at Odd Fellows Cemetery were given notice in 1912 to move their loved ones. Charles de Young, as one example, was moved to Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma. In 1932, some 26,000 graves were moved from the Odd Fellows Cemetery to Green Lawn Cemetery.
WPA Workers converting Odd Fellows Cemetery into Rossi Playground, December 26, 1933. (wnp14.2425; Courtesy of a Private Collector)
By the end of 1933, San Francisco was rapidly converting a portion of the Odd Fellows Cemetery grounds into Rossi Playground. In 1949, the Coronet Theatre opened on Geary on a small part of the former Odd Fellows Cemetery. Other public, private, and governmental uses were made of the cemetery land. However, one part of the Odd Fellows Cemetery still remains. The Columbarian was allowed to stay and it passed through different owners over the years, but eventually fell into disrepair. Finally, it was purchased by the Neptune Society, which rededicated it on September 10, 1980 and began a long and costly restoration effort.8 It can still be visited today, though perhaps not while the pandemic continues to rage.
For a more complete history of the Odd Fellows Cemetery, see the cemetery’s website. You can also listen to our Outside Lands Podcast about the Cemeteries of the Inner Richmond or the Outside Lands Podcast about the Columbarium.
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