Sunday, August 25, 2024

The Fender Cemetery, Established 1885, at Oak Run, in Shasta County, California.

Aaron Fender established the Fender Cemetery upon his death in 1885 near Oak Run, in rural Shasta County, California. From sandstone markers and a wooden marker in the cemetery come find out whose laid to rest in this historic cemetery.


Filmed on location August 18, 2024.




REOURCES:


1850 U.S. Census

1860 U.S. Census

1870 U.S. Census

North-Eastern Shasta - The Republican Free Press newspaper of Shasta County, July 4, 1885

Died - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, February 9, 1897

1900 U.S. Census

1910 U.S. Census

1920 U.S. Census

1930 U.S. Census

Place Names of Shasta County by Gertrude A. Steger revision by Helen Hinckley Jones, ©1966 by La Siesta Press, Glendale, California

The Covered Wagon, 1975, published annually by Shasta Historical Society.

Shasta County, California A History by Rosena Giles, published by Biobooks, ©1949.

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