What Lies Beneath

In each of California's 58 counties there are hundreds (and hundreds) of cemeteries burial sites and abandoned graveyards some tucked away behind storefronts or under paved streets. In What Lies Beneath: California Pioneer Cemeteries and Graveyards author Gail L. Jenner exhumes the stories of these pioneers buried beneath the soil pavement and rocks or under the waters of this state. This guide also provides descriptions of headstone features and symbols and demystifies the burial traditions used by the Native Americans Spanish Chinese immigrants and early California pioneers and settlers.