Union Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 35.364635, -118.994416
County: Kern
Record count: 43

Ownership: Union Cemetery Association

Directions: Located in the Lakeview community of Bakersfield, the cemetery sits at the intersection of S King St. and Potomac Ave.

Background: Union Cemetery was established in 1872 with the burial of Colonel Thomas Baker, the man for whom Bakersfield was named. Baker had personally selected this plot of land to be interred.

Since then, Baker’s grave became the resting place for thousands of pioneers and settlers, Civil War soldiers, prominent local families, cowboys, farmers, bankers and builders, and other persons who helped build Bakersfield.

“Union Cemetery” was so named because, in the late 1800’s, both the city of Bakersfield and the City of Sumner each had old, neglected and rundown cemeteries. The local newspaper complained about them so much that when Col. Baker was buried, the townspeople wanted that area to become the new cemetery. The County bought the property, and the name of Union Cemetery was adopted as the two cemeteries were united as one.

Documents

• 
  Union Cemetery History, American Cemetery & Cremation
• 
  Union Cemetery Tour Map, Union Cemetery Association

Burial Records

• View All Transcriptions Combined, 43 records
  • Miscellaneous Records, by Belva Dixon, (9 records)
  • Miscellaneous Records, by Bill Hunter, (6 records)
  • Miscellaneous Records, by Dorothy, (1 records)
  • Miscellaneous Records, by Donald L. Oliver, (5 records)
  • Miscellaneous Records, by Doreen Powers, (1 records)
  • Miscellaneous Records, by Joe Brady, (2 records)
  • Miscellaneous Records, by Mario Gonzalez, (1 records)
  • Miscellaneous Records, by Silver Parnell, (11 records)
  • Miscellaneous Records, by Steve Ricks, (7 records)

Have transcription data to add?

Add a transcription