Gravemarkers in silhouette leaf Pioneer Memorial Cemetery
leaf Pioneer Park
leaf Novato, Marin County, California
     Originally called Sweetser Cemetery, then by 1898, Novato Cemetery, now Pioneer Memorial Cemetery and located in Pioneer Park. The cemetery is mostly on a very small hill with easy parking and easy access. The cemetery is inactive but the children's playground in Pioneer Park can be most active. The Marin County Recorder has a Plat Map of the cemetery dated January, 1898, filed in December of that year.

Pioneer Memorial Cemetery Location
1007 Simmons Lane at Shady Lane, Novato, CA
Degrees Minutes Seconds:
Latitude: 380648N Longitude: 1223525W
Decimal Degrees:
Latitude: 38.1132532 Longitude: -122.5902599
    

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From the parking lot on Shady Lane. Bronze Plaque Pioneer Memorial Cemetery Children's Playground
Sumner Sumner, Trott Wellman
(Elk emblem) Wm. H. Hilton, his wife Madelene Friedrich Friedrich 'Fred' Zeh
William H. Robinson General view Louis Matula
Willie H. Parker J.B. Sweetser John R. Sweetser
Pioneer Cemetery Location Map

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