View of headstones and tombs in the Protestant Cemetery, Los Angeles. The headstone at center says "Charles Volney Howard. Born Oct. 13, 1812. Died Feb. 14, 1869." Title transcribed from negative. Date range approximated by cataloger based on the year that film negatives came into use and the latest known dates indicated for other Hazard images in the Huntington's collection. Research shows this is the Los Angeles City Cemetery, also known as the Protestant Cemetery, Fort Moore Hill Cemetery, Fort Hill Cemetery, or “the cemetery on the hill.” - Source: Southern California Genealogical Society Database: Los Angeles City Cemetery. Charles Howard, a young lawyer of prominence and a son of Volney E. Howard ...was killed in a dispute Feb. 14, 1869. (p. 384)-(Source: "Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913, Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark," The Knickerbocker Press, 1926.) Condition note: White "flaring" seen on the edge of this digital image is present in the original negative.
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