LA Times: History Buffs Rally to Save Pioneers' Final Resting Place

“History Buffs Rally to Save Pioneers’ Final Resting Place”: Financial woes threaten the survival of a Rosemead cemetery that contains the graves of early local residents.

Savannah Memorial Park in Rosemead is one of the oldest surviving Protestant graveyards in Southern California. To enter is to touch an earlier era. The iron entry gate and narrow, twisting road were built to accommodate buggies. Pioneers rest here, including a signer of the state Constitution.

But, more than 150 years after the cemetery was created, financial problems threaten its survival. With just 4 acres and most of its 3,000 plots filled, little money comes in for upkeep….