Gothic scenes at the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery

Cool weather, early dusk and Halloween season make for a perfect time to visit the Sacramento HIstoric City Cemetery. The many fascinating headstone engravings are interesting to see any time. Photo: Sarah Moore

This plaque at the Sacramento City Historic City Cemetery marks the plot of an African-American family separated by slavery, but miraculously reunited in Sacramento after the Civil War, in a story of fortitude and faith. Photo: Sarah Moore

Maria Rupp, of German extraction, came to Sacramento to open a saloon. She was sucessful until a man she rejected decided if he couldn't have her no one could, and murdered her. She was given a huge funeral and laid to rest here. Photo: Sarah Moore

Headstone engravings often reflect the interests or tastes of the deceased. Henry Kern was musically inclined, apparantly. Photo: Sarah Moore

Romantic epitaphs are a cemetery staple. This one in the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery bespeaks a love that transcends death. Photo: Sarah Moore

Cool weather, early dusk and Halloween season make for a perfect time to visit the Sacramento HIstoric City Cemetery. Photo: Sarah Moore

Cool weather, early dusk and Halloween season make for a perfect time to visit the Sacramento HIstoric City Cemetery. The many fascinating headstone engravings are interesting to see any time. Photo: Sarah Moore

The Sacramento City Historic Cemetery is a treasure trove of interesting headstone engravings and epitaphs. This one is a little ominous, don't you think? Maybe we've seen too many zombie movies... Photo: Sarah Moore

Cool weather, early dusk and Halloween season make for a perfect time to visit the Sacramento HIstoric City Cemetery. The many fascinating headstone engravings are interesting to see any time. Photo: Sarah Moore

This poem is on the only marble mausoleum in the Sacramento City Historic Cemetery, the resting place of Mary Green McCormick. However, theives stole her skull and her son John's and spirited them off to Georgia, where they remain. Photo: Sarah Moore

This is the only marble mausoleum in the Sacramento City Historic Cemetery, the resting place of Mary Green McCormick. However, theives stole her skull and her son John's and spirited them off to Georgia, where they remained. Photo: Sarah Moore

Cool weather, early dusk and Halloween season make for a perfect time to visit the Sacramento HIstoric City Cemetery. The many fascinating headstone engravings are interesting to see any time. Photo: Sarah Moore

This plot at the Sacramento City Historic City Cemetery belongs to an African-American family separated by slavery, but miraculously reunited after the Civil War. Lucinda Ray was the family matriarch. Photo: Sarah Moore

Probably not the same Barnabas Collins of Collinsport in Dark Shadows. But still a funny coincidence. Photo: Sarah Moore

Cool weather, early dusk and Halloween season make for a perfect time to visit the Sacramento HIstoric City Cemetery. The many fascinating headstone engravings are interesting to see any time. Photo: Sarah Moore

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