Sierra Madre Pioneer Cemetery

Sierra Madre Pioneer Cemetery, is a cemetery in the Sierra Madre, California. In 1881, Nathaniel Coburn Carter purchased land located along Central Ave., later renamed Sierra Madre Boulevard, for use as a Cemetery for the new city.Located on a 2.5-acre (10,117 m²) site on Sierra Madre Blvd and Coburn, It is the area's oldest cemetery. A Civil War veteran, John Richardson, who had recently moved to Sierra Madre became the first person interred in the Cemetery on July 3, 1882. Of the first seventeen families that lived in Sierra Madre, when it was founded in 1881, twelve of them are buried in the cemetery. Sierra Madre Pioneer Cemetery is a historic landmark #42 in Sierra Madre. There are forty-eight properties listed on Sierra Madre's Designated Historical Properties List.Each Memorial Day since 1924 Sierra Madre VFW Post 3208 with Boy Scouts of America Troop 373 of Sierra Madre places flags and crosses at the graves of military veterans. Veterans of the American Civil War, both Union and Confederate, Spanish–American War, World War I and World War II and the Korean War are buried at Sierra Madre Pioneer Cemetery.