Liberty Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 38.233701, -121.278932
PLSS Coordinates: T4N R6E Sec 36
County: San Joaquin
Record count: 486

Ownership: Galt Historical Society

Directions: Located about a mile south of Galt, on the east side of State Route 99, at Liberty Road.

Background: Liberty Cemetery was started in 1852 and was open to the public. The town of Liberty was located about 1 mile from the cemetery and was known first as "old Liberty" and was the stagecoach stop on the road from San Jose to Sacramento being about half way from each town. In the year 1860 Chism Cooper Fugitt built a hotel about 4 blocks away from the old Town of Liberty and had this 1 acre surveyed and built the town of Liberty. It was a very productive town but by the year 1869 the railroad came through that area and the depot stop was given to the then started town of Galt, Sacramento County, Calif. The town of Liberty was disbanded within a few years and the post office moved north into the town of Galt.

The location of the Town of Liberty was in the Northeast section of the county of San Joaquin at the crossroads of old Lower Sacramento road (the old stagecoach road) and Liberty Road (the road that went to the gold country.) Liberty Cemetery is located at the northeast corner of Highway 99 and Liberty Road in San Joaquin County, Calif.,and could be know as the "Cemetery of Children" due to the fact that so many children are buried there. The cemetery site is on 5 acres of land and is fenced with a beautiful iron gate. It is owned by the Galt Historical Society and work is being done to restore it.

When highway 99 went through a part of the cemetery, 19 unmarked graves were removed and reburied and only three of them could be identified.

Burial Records

• Barbara Filbin Transcription, by Barbara Filbin, March 2000, (486 records)

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