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Odd Fellows Section markers damaged by farming operations at Greenlawn’s Odd Fellow Section. Note the larger marker designated HRMNY. This marker indicated the HARMONY Section of S.F.’s Odd Fellows Cemetery.

Grave Markers Damaged and Destroyed

With the removal of remains from San Francisco’s Odd Fellows Cemetery and for their re-internment at Greenlawn Cemetery in Colma, the Odd Fellows purchased 25,743 individual grave and plot markers,…

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Read more about the article Odd Fellows Cemetery, San Francisco: 1865
San Francisco’s Odd Fellows Cemetery was unique in its time. This picture, likely taken from the top of the recently completed Columbarium in 1897, shows the cemetery spread out towards the summit of Lone Mountain.

Odd Fellows Cemetery, San Francisco: 1865

Originally located in the undeveloped ‘Outside Lands’, in what is now referred to as the ‘Inner Richmond’ District of San Francisco, ‘Odd Fellows Cemetery, San Francisco’ was moved to Colma and is now under a commercial farming operation. Where's the respect?

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