Rand District Cemetery
100-158 Ophir St, Johannesburg, CA, 93528
Tombstone Transcription
Compiled by: Interment.net
Date Compiled: May 2000
Dates of Death Range: 1897-1999
Total Records: 621
Transcribed and Contributed by "Anonymous", May 2000.
Located on a hill in Johannesburg, Calif, the cemetery is bounded by Mt. Wells Avenue on the north, Sunset Avenue on the south, Ophir Street on east, and Fremont Street on the west.
Thanks to Bart Parker, caretaker of the cemetery, for the following information on the history: It was established in Dec of 1896 when J.F. Davis, a gambler who had been shot in a gambling hall in Randsburg, was buried there
Some of the grave markers are faded and unreadable, some of the headstones and crosses are made of wood. Many of the graves have personal items place upon them, such as glassware, pans that were used for panning gold, and rock collections. One site has a mine car as a marker.
- Anonymous
Burial Records (Page 6 of 7)
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Sjorlund, Ira: b. 1890, d. 1956
Slaughter, Harold A: b. 1/27/16, d. 11/6/73, Forever In Our Hearts
Smith, Burton R.: b. 1913, d. 1930
Smith, Chester Dean: b. Nov 13 1898, d. Jul 24 1982, (burl slab headstone)
Smith, Effie Evangaline: b. Apr 3 1904, d. October 8 1980, (burl slab headstone)
Smith, Harry Crayton: b. Jun 1 1931, d. Nov 29 1987, TAA2 US Navy, Korea, Jun 1 1931, (plaque with: Sonny Beloved Brother)
Smith, Idabelle: b. 1872, d. 1948
Smith, Wm E. Sr: b. Dec 30 1921, d. Jul 21 1954, Calif, Pfc 18 INF 1 INF DIV, World War II, BSM-PH
Smith, Wm Penin: b. 1873, d. 1951
Smithson, Ralph Doyle: b. 1899, d. 1971
Smithson, Shari Marie: b. 1955, d. 1962
Soots, Ina R.: b. Feb 23 1905, d. Dec 30 1962, Beloved Wife
Soto, Camy F.: b. Aug 21 1923, d. Apr 20 1988, Beloved Husband Father Grandfather, Desert Is My Home.
Spaulding, Frank S.: b. Oct 29 1873, d. Apr 18 1940
Spaulding, Frederick Herbert: b. Apr 2 1866, d. Jun 26 1930
Speers, Charles: (no other info) 1 wooden cross
Speers, Elizabeth:
Stauffer, Benjamin: b. 1899, d. 1964
Stephens, Grace I.: b. 1897, d. 1959, Wife
Stevens, Edna M.: (wooden cross lying on the ground, all letters of name faded; no other information)
Stewart, Helen Margaret: b. 1898, d. 1969, In Eternal Memory
Stockman, Walter: b. 1890, d. 1967
Stone, Ernest M.: b. May 29 1888, d. Dec 7 1958
Stone, Hazel D: b. Mar 2 1892, d. Jun 11 1983
Strange, Lawrence: b. 1908, d. 1957, Beloved
Stryker, William A.: b. 1914, d. 1986, Beloved Father, Last of the Hard Rock Miners
Stumpf, Irving Joseph: b. Nov 3 1923, d. May 5 1977, SSGT US Army, World War II & Korea
Suschy, Elizabeth Stewart: b. 1871, d. 1953, Mother
Sweet, John W.: b. 1861, d. 1945
Taffinder, J. C.: d. Jun 9 1951
Tart, Thomas Arthur: b. Aug 11 1906, d. Nov 9 1966, Calif, PVT US Army, World War II
Tarwater, Allie E: b. 1895, d. 1962
Tate, W. W.: b. 1875, d. 1929, P.O.E.
Thompson, Ernest L.: b. 1878, d. 1932, Father
Thompson, Jimmie L.: b. 1916, d. 1916, Son
Thompson, Robert Hurd: b. 1897, d. 1967
Thorsby, Dixie Johnson: b. 1917, d. 1965, (star symbol between the dates)
Tillett, Randall M.: b. Jan. 8 1950, d. Feb 22 1974, Beloved Son of Norma and Joe, In Memory Of...
Tinsley, Wallace Greene: b. October 16 1908, d. Jun 10 1975, Returned Home
Tisch, Margaret L: b. 1897, d. 1983, Beloved Mom & Nana
Tisch, Walter: b. 1891, d. 1973, Forever in Our Hearts
Todd, (Baby): d. 1955, (wooden cross)
Tomney, Henry: b. 1859, d. 1940
Tomney, Martha: b. 1860, d. 1935, Wife
Trueblood, Mary Jean: b.1874, d. 1942
Trujillo, John I.: b. 1906, d. 1957
Turner, Albert A.: b. 1874, d. 1951, Beloved Husband, (Masonic symbol)
Turner, Helena G.: b. 1878, d. 1968
Turner, John Gardner Sr: b. Feb 22 1913, d. Oct 16 1980, Beloved Father & Grandfather
Tyler, Bessie M.: b. 1891, d. (no date)
Tyler, Daniel Gunderson: b. 1924, d. 1924
Tyler, James W.: b. 1884, d. 1941
Underwood, Ida: b. 1875, d. 1939, Mother
Underwood, Oliver R.: b. 1873, d. 1957, Father
Unger, Edith P.: b. 1897, d. 1969
Unknown: (Ladies Auxillary VFW sign at site)
Unknown: (Wooden plaque on the ground difficult to read)
Unknown, "Charlie": b.1897, d. 1989, King of the Desert
Unmarked: (American Legion marker only)
Unmarked: (American Legion marker only)
Unmarked: 67 unmarked graves
Unmarked: There is a wrought iron quail with the name "Tiger" on it
Unmarked: (barbed wire cross)
Unmarked: (cement cross on the ground)
Unmarked: (headstone of rock)
Unmarked: (Ten graves with wooden crosses & metal crosses)
Unmarked: (wooden headstone and footstone)
Van Curan, E. Kyle: b. 1853, d. 1925
Vaughn, Edward: b. 1907, d. 1926
Vaughn, Eva: b. 1880, d. 19 (no date)
Vaughn, James: b. 1870, d. 1927
Vigneault, Dumont Rudolph: b. 1911, d. 1957, Father
Vizcaino, Manuel: b. Dec 22 1896, d. Oct 29 1976, (marker #2) US Army World War I, two markers
Voss, John D.: b. 1862, d. 1949
Voss, Rosa L.: b. 1869, d. 1948
W. R. B.: (no other information)
Wadsworth, Clarence Raymond: b. 1877, d. 1946
Wadsworth, Ruth Hill: b. Jul 18 1885, d. Dec 13 1973, New Mexico, Nurse, Army Nurse Corps, World War I
Warren, George W.: b. 1890, d. 1967, Beloved Father and Grandfather
Warren, Homer H.: b. Jul 10 1914, d. Apr 25 1957, Rest in Peace
Warren, Jack Richard: b. Dec 10 1916, d. Jan 16 1995
Warren, Libby: b. Dec 25 1927, d. Jun 20 1994
Warren, William W.: b. 1886, d. 1957, Beloved Brother
Warren, Willie P.: b. 1888, d. 1974, Beloved Mother & Grandmother
Watkins, Frank William: b. 1917, d. 1983, Pfc, US Army, World War II
Wegley, Ella Mae: b. Oct 22 1919, d. Jul 24 1956, At Rest
Weise, Fred: b. 1888, d. 1953
Weishaupt, John: b. 1863, d. 1946
Welch, Elizabeth: b. 1891, d. 1956, Mother, At Rest
Welch, George: b. 1872, d. 1942, Father
Wharton, Isaac William: b. Aug 27 1911, d. May 8 1993, 82 years, 8 months, 11 days
White, Jerry: b. 1935, d. 1950
White, Mr J. R.: b. 1866, d. 1935
White, Mrs J. R.: b. 1873, d. 1928
Whittier, Beatrice M.: b. Sep 29 1905, d. Dec 15 1968, Beloved Wife, Always in My Heart
Wilkins, Adalaide: b. 2/5/1911, d. 8/26/1992, Beloved Wife and Mother
Wilkins, Edson A.: b. 10/21/1907, d. 03/30/1996 , Beloved Husband Father and Grandfather
Wilkinson, William C.: b. Dec 1879, d. Jan 1965
Williams, Frank: b. 1912, d. 1971
Williams, Infant: d. Sep 4 1957, Son of Delthon & Leila Williams