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IN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF.CALIFORNIA
In the Matter of Proclaiming )
August 29, 1992 ) Resolution No.: 9 2/S 4 4
Pioneer Cemetery Day in;: )
Contra Costa County )
WHEREAS Pioneer Cemetery, formerly known as the Pacheco Cemetery and the
IOOF Cemetery, marks 'its 130th anniversary as the final resting place for generations of
Contra Costa County residents; and
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WHEREAS Pioneer Cemetery received its first small, sad burial when William Payton
Johnson, the one-year-old son of S.W. and A. E. Johnson, was laid to rest on a knoll at the
common fence line of thie Loucks and Tormey family properties in Pacheco on Blum Road;
and
WHEREAS Pioneer Cemetery was usually called Pacheco Cemetery by local residents
before the 1900's;
WHEREAS Pioneer Cemetery came to be known as the Odd Fellows Cemetery when
George Loucks deeded one and one half acres to the Odd Fellows of Pacheco in 1901,
followed by a donation of three and a half acres by the Tormey family in 1903; and
WHEREAS Pioneer Cemetery is the final resting place for such County notables as
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Joseph Boyd, the first mayor of Concord, many members of the Loucks family, early settlers
and jazz pianist Dave Brnbeck's mother and grandmother; and
WHEREAS Pioneer Cemetery represents one of the last remaining vestiges of the
historic town of Pacheco) where early American settlers and more recent residents, prominent
people, and those less well known, all have share the same hallowed ground in the Pioneer
Cemetery.
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors of the County
of Contra Costa, California, hereby PROCLAIMS August 29, 1992, Pioneer Cemetery Day in
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Contra Costa County, and COMMENDS the families of the deceased and members of the
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community who are interested in the cemetery's history for its preservation and care.
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PASSED and ADOPTED this eleventh day of August, 1992, by unanimous vote of the
Board members present. '
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution entered in
the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date aforesaid.
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Witness my hand and the seal of the
Board of Supervisors affixed this
eleventh day of August, 1992.
Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the
Board of Supervisors and
County Administrat
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By �Umputy Clerk
Introduced by:
Supervisor N C. Fanden
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