Nan,
 
There was a 1968-1975 excavation of a Spanish and Mexican cemetery at the  
Royal Presidio de San Diego de Cosoy (San Diego, California). Paul H. Ezell  
wrote a brief article in the Journal of San Diego History but there is  no 
archaeology report. I recall Lois Lippold examined the skeletal material, but  I 
never saw a copy of her report. There are some minor articles on baby  
interrments in a side chapel of the 1782 church. I also think Ezell published  something 
on the 1849 grave of Henry Delano Fitch (related to Franklin Delano  
Roosevelt), which might also be in the Journal of San Diego History. I  worked as 
field crew during the cemetery investigation between 1968 and 1971 and  even 
served as a "Ghost Guard" in 1969, when vandals jumped the security  fences and a 
24-hour guard was needed to protect the cemetery. You might contact  Lynn 
Gamble at San Diego State University, Department of Anthropology for  articles and 
reports. She can be found at [log in to unmask] 
(mailto:[log in to unmask])  . I was present in  1975 when Ezell repatriated all the skeletons back 
in the cemetery in  approximately the same locations from which they were 
removed. 
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc. 
 
 
In a message dated 6/23/2008 12:52:58 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
[log in to unmask] writes:

Hi  all,

First I want to thank the many respondants who answered my (and  Diana  
Wall's) query last year about urban site reports. We are  working our  
way thru the material you sent and it has been very  helpful.

We have another question: does anyone know of excavations in  white or  
Euro-american cemeteries? We have information from  African-American  
cemeteries, and there are gravestone studies from  Euro-American  
cemeteries but we cannot find examples of excavation  in the latter  
(which is interesting, of course).

Thansk again  for any information you have,

best,
Nan

Nan A.  Rothschild

Research Professor
Barnard College
212  854-4315

Director of Museum Studies
Columbia University
212  854-4977





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