Relief Hill Cemetery

Date: 1856 [unknown]
Location: North Bloomfield, Nevada, California, United States
Surname/tag: Cemetery

General Information

Cemetery name:Relief Hill Cemetery

Address:Relief Hill cemetery is in an extremely remote, uninhabited part of the Tahoe National Forest. If you wish to visit and have never been there, I'd advise you either have very good forest map navigation skills, or be escorted by someone who does, or has knowledge of the area.

GPS Coordinates:39.35521, -120.86109

History

Relief Hill is situated on the South Yuba River about three miles east of North Bloomfield. Captain Monroe, J. K. Reed, Burnham, Tuttle an some others located here as early as 1853 and engaged in mining. By 1856 the settlement had attained a population of seventy five people and rejoiced in one store, two salons, one butcher shop, two boarding houses, one blacksmith shop and several dwellings. The town steadily increased in size and importance until 1858, at which time it contained one hundred voters. It then began to decline very speedily; but in 1862 it was revived and remained a thriving camp for a number of years. It has now (1880), a population of some seventy five souls. Robert Moore and William R. Williams, two of the town's oldest residents are still living here.

Text exerpt from: History of Nevada County California; Thompson and West, 1880

Name Died Age Notes Lloyd Beck April 6 1891 3 wks. Born at Relief Hill 3/17/1891 Christian Jorgensen February 22, 1921 Married to Mary C. Larsen Hans Peter Larsen* February 2 1908 59 Died Grass Valley, buried at R. H. Cemetery Jensine G. Larsen* June 27, 1890 Died of consumption, B. 6/21/1851. William McDonald* August 26, 1882 22 Died of typhoid fever. Henry W. Monroe May 1882 57 Unknown Monroe Buried at Relief Hill Cemetery Unknown Monroe Buried at Relief Hill Cemetery Unknown Monroe Buried at Relief Hill Cemetery Unknown Monroe Buried at Relief Hill Cemetery Unknown Monroe Buried at Relief Hill Cemetery Unknown Monroe Buried at Relief Hill Cemetery Unknown Monroe Buried at Relief Hill Cemetery Ira H. Penrose July 11, 1901 3 Born 2/13/1898 at Relief Hill (Mother) Penrose July 9, 1898 70 Born 1828 in England Lavonne Walch 1907 4 Born 1903

List of Those Who Died in the Relief Hill Area

Name Died Age Notes Christian Otto Jepsen* July 28, 1917 Mining accident. Buried at No. Bloomfield Cemetery. Mrs. Irene Jorhgensen Jepsen December 15, 1877 21 Buried at No. San Juan IOOF Cemetery. Peter Otto Jepsen January 24, 1910 Killed at old Eureka Mine. May be buried at No. San Juan. Charles Marsh January 31, 1876 Former executive of South Yuba Canal Co. Elisha Penrose* December 13, 1928 Died at Nevada City. Emanuel Penrose* September 21, 1877 21 Typhoid fever. Mary Penrose* April 11, 1910 Operated hotel at Relief Hill. Owen Penrose* December 21, 1928 Married Winnie D. Skidmore in 1881. Richard C. Penrose* February 25, 1916 Married Mary Penrose in 1881. Sepora Penrose* October 17, 1919 Married Richard Penrose, Jr. 1878. Lilly Jane Peterson* March 22, 1966 Born Lilly Penrose at Relief Hill. Peter Christian Peterson* January 25, 1948 Long time operator of North Bloomfield Hotel. George W. Pole* July 27, 1859 Stabbed by his brother-in-law in saloon fight same day. John B. Reasoner October 19, 1877 43 Long time miner. Buried Nevada City. Jean Richards* June 7, 1859 Mine accident. Henry Hiram Sweet* May 27, 1937 Died at Grass Valley Hiram Henry Sweet April 30, 1891 Mining engineer. Margaret Williams* July 19, 1905 Died of disability. Born Margaret Jones 5/4/1837. John D. Wilson* June 7, 1859 45 Mining accident.