Anaheim Cemetery (Anaheim, California)

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1400 E. Sycamore St.
Anaheim, CA 92805


Gotte's Acker (God's Acre) was the name given by early German colonists to the first cemetery of the Mother Colony.

In 1866, seven pioneers formed the Anaheim Cemetery Association. All but one were later buried there. Henry Kroeger, Frederick Kuelp, Carl Rehm, H.E. Boldt, John P. Zeyn and Dr. John A.F. Heyermann have beautiful tombstones, markers and mausoleums erected there. However, Theodore E. Schmidt is buried elsewhere.
East of Anaheim Street (located on Sycamore Street) five acres were cleared and leveled just in time for the burial of the stillborn son of August and Petra Langenberger. His grave is not marked.

On September 7, 1867, Petra Ontiveros Langenberger died. She was mourned by the group gathered at her burial site, including the first pioneers, August and the couples four children. A new farm wagon, (owned by Philip Hammes) with its side boards removed and the bottom covered with beautiful flowers became a hearse.

With the passing of time, this grave lost it's wooden cross. In 1976, the Mother Colony Household obtained a marker for this first pioneer. One should remember that she and August had been in Orange County years before the first pioneers came to Anaheim. Without her father selling San Juan Cajon de Santa (Anaheim) to George Hansen and John Frohling there would be no Anaheim as we know it.