Santa Ana Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 33.768965, -117.838897
County: Orange
Record count: 23,960

Ownership: Orange County Cemetery District

Directions: Located in Santa Ana, adjacent to Fairhaven Memorial Park, the cemetery sits along the north side of Santa Clara Ave, with its main entrance about 750 feet west of the intersection with N Tustin Ave.

Background: Santa Ana Cemetery was founded at Eighth and Ross Streets in 1870 by Jacob Ross, an early Santa Ana patriarch. Originally, it was known as the Masonic Cemetery wherein two of the Ross family's babies were buried. In 1898, city leaders wanted to move the cemetery further away, since it was currently located within downtown, and they didn't want a cemetery in the middle of it all. They exhumed all the bodies and moved them to the present day location, which was a 100 acre parcel that became known as "Cemetery District". Fairhaven Memorial Park eventually bought 2/3rds of the 100 acres. Other acres were bought by the Masons and Odd Fellows, as well as St. John's Lutheran Church in Orange, and Old Evangelical Lutheran Church, for their own burials. In 1926, Santa Ana Cemetery was operated under its own cemetery district. In 1985, it was then consolidated under the present Orange County Cemetery District. Today, Santa Ana Cemtery sits at 29 acres.

Burial Records

• Cemetery District Records, compiled by Interment.net, November 2, 2025, (23,960 records)

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