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The first burials in the cemetery were infants of rancho grantee
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Located in Santa Monica Canyon, the cemetery and a separate piece of property owned by descendant
Rosemary Marquez Romero Miano are the last remnants of the original ranch to be still owned by the Marquez family. The rancho originally extended along the beach from Topanga Road to Montana Avenue and
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Company, which bought most of the rancho land in the early 20th century, was the first protector of the cemetery from outside of the family. She convinced her father not to develop the cemetery land, provided for the
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Pascual Marquez’s grandson Ernest Marquez. A photo from the 1890s shows a few wooden crosses placed on graves, “all of them long gone.”
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construction of the adobe wall, and donated the statue of San
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