Ponet
Some of the entries on the list carry the notation "Ponet." In the
early 1870s, Victor Ponet was the city undertaker and coffin manufacturer. According
to an advertisement in “Homes in Los Angeles City and County (1873), Belgian
native Ponet was also a dealer in picture-moulding and pictures, offering frames
made to order. He was also agent for the Florence sewing machine with offices
at 66 Main street, Los Angeles.
Causes of Death
Causes of death were prepared with the assistance of Archaic Medical Terms
– A Resource for Genealogists and historians. http://www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/ArchaicMedicalTerms.htm
Private/Public Cemetery
As discussed in the history of the cemetery, the Los Angeles City Cemetery
was sometimes mentioned as one cemetery with private sections, and at other
times as separate cemeteries. The journal had separate listings for “private
ground” and for “public ground.” Whenever the information
was provided, we have listed whether the burial occurred in the public area
of the cemetery, or in one of the privately owned areas. It is obvious that
not all of the private areas were held by groups such as the Masons, Improved
Order of Redmen, I.O.O.F., or (Societe Francaise). Several of the entries
in the private cemetery appeared to be for family plots.
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