by Timothy Rutt
Mountain View Cemetery will have a ceremony to honor veterans this coming Memorial Day, Mon, May 28. Historian Nick Smith says in an email that the ceremony begins at 2 PM:
It will be near the middle of the cemetery, south of Founder’s Circle near the huge oak tree. That’s near one of the areas with several Union Army veterans buried together, in a group of plots bought by the local Grand Army of the Republic post. There are also some Confederates buried near there, individually.
There will be guest speakers, followed by a walking tour, along with "decorating many of the Civil War and other veteran graves as we can manage," Smith said.
There are over 600 Civil War veterans buried at Mountain View. In an article for Altadenablog last year, Smith said that many veterans migrated to the Pasadena area after the war for a variety of reasons, which included business opportunities, health reasons, and fellowship with fellow veterans.
Mountain View Cemetery is at 2400 Fair Oaks Ave.
