Bushwhacking to the Historic and Abandoned Brown Cemetery

Video filmed on location February 22, 2023.

On this episode of Exploring Shasta County come join Robert Frazier, host of California Unearthed, and I as we bushwhack into this desolate cemetery to examine the history behind the five burials at the truly abandoned and lost to time historic Brown Family Cemetery which was established circa 1898, and it may date back further than that. Check out Robert's version of this history as well on his YouTube channel California Unearthed at the following link:

(28) Fairly Unknown Cemetery in Shasta County Unearrthed- The Brown Family Cemetery - YouTube

Three of the five burials are seen in this picture at the Brown Family Cemetery picture taken by Jeremy Tuggle on February 22, 2023.

Resources: 

1860 U.S. Census

1870 U.S. Census

1880 U.S. Census

1885 Colorado State Census

Nebraska, U.S., Select County Marriage Records, 1855-1908 for Jacob S. Brown

SitNeThe Free Press newspaper of Redding, August 27, 1898

Jacob S. Brown in the Shasta County, California Register of 1898

The Free Press newspaper of Redding, August 23, 1898

The Free Press newspaper of Redding, August 27, 1898

1900 U.S. Census 

Skull Crushed By Falling Rock - The Free Press newspaper of Redding, May 30, 1903

The End Came In Keswick Hospital - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, June 2, 1903

Victim of the Iron Mountain Accident Dies - The Free Press newspaper of Redding, June 6, 1903