Pine Flat Cemetery
Pine Flat
by Robert G. Evans, 2004
Pine Flat Recollections from Descendants by Leah Andrews - Aug 16, 1999
Arthur Andrews died of TB while staying at the Grimmer Hotel. He was buried in the Pine Flat Cemetery without a headstone or legal notice.
Interview with Edna Loomis Nardi in oct 1998
The people buried in the Pine Flat Cemetery include my brother John Loomis who died of pneumonia at age 5, Bud Warner's younger brother (a twin whose other brother survived) an English remittance man who died while convalescing from TB at the Dodson House. There were never any headstones, but there were probably a dozen or so people buried in the cemetery. None were miners, so far as I know, simply folks who lived and worked on the ranches around Pine Flat. I've never heard of a Chinese cemetery or miner's cemetery, except for those buried near the mines where they were killed in accidents.
The Loomis Family History by Mable Loomis Nardi
We camped out in Big Flat near the cemetery. It rained all the time and little Johnnie caught pneumonia and died. He was five when we buried him in a small pine coffin in the cemetery. There were no headstones on any of the graves, but a wooden cross was nailed on a black oak tree, and there was a fence to keep out the cows. Over the years fire destroyed the fence posts and all but a small part of the cross. Trees and manzanita brosh have hidden where the cemetery is located and it was never registered with the county, so there's no record of who is buried there. Other than Johnnie, an infant twin of the Werner's and an English remittance man who was a roomer at the Dobson place, are the only ones that I know who are buried there.
Paul and Claire Snider
There are two Warners buried in Pine Flat Cemetery. The first born of my maternal grandparents, E. Warner and Emma Hobson Warner, namely: Wanda Warner, who died as an infant of scarlet fever; and Hadley Warner who died at birth, and who was the twin of Ladd Warner.
When there were many Chinese and Mexicans working in the Pine Flat District, there were many fights and a number of fatalities. Some of those people are buried in the cemetery north of the Little Sulphur Bridge.
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