Updates – Odd Fellows Cemetery

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,…

Miranda's Final Picture - Courtesy: Garden of Innocence

Forgotten Casket Found Under Garage in SF Neighborhood

An Odd Fellows Cemetery Mystery Solved Edith Howard Cook was born on November 28, 1873 and died on October 13, 1876. The fact that she died so young from a…

Nursery Flowers At Cemetery Prevent Families From Paying Respects

The remains of more than 25,000 San Franciscans now sit beneath the cut flower operation in a field along Colma Boulevard, beneath a private nursery.

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?