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Famous San Franciscans
Not Buried in Colma
Many famous people have passed in and out of San Francisco, to be claimed by the residents as one of their own. Here's a list of those who were not buried in Colma and their place of rest.
| E.D. Baker | Lawyer and Civil War Hero Killed at Ball's Bluff, Virginia | San Francisco National Cemetery |
| Ambrose Bierce | Satirist and Author | Disappeared in Mexico, 1913 |
| Charles Boles or Bolton | aka Black Bart Gentleman bandit and poetaster | Disappeared in 1895, reported to have died in 1917 by The New York Times |
| Phillip Burton | United States Representative who wrote legislation for Golden Gate National Recreation Area | San Francisco National Cemetery |
| Sala Burton | United States Representative | San Francisco National Cemetery |
| Donaldina Cameron | Presbyterian Reformer and Rescuer of Prostitutes | Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles |
| Al Capone | Gangster Alcatraz Inmate | Mt. Carmel Cemetery Hillside, IL |
| James Casey | City Supervisor Shot James King of William Hung by Vigilantes | Mission Dolores Cemetery |
| Henry David Cogswell | Eccentric Dentist | Mountain View, Oakland |
| William Tell Coleman | 1856 Vigilantes' Number One | Bellefontaine Cemetery St. Louis, Mo. |
| Belle Cora | Parlor House Madam | Mission Dolores Cemetery |
| Charles Cora | Victim of the Vigilantes | Mission Dolores Cemetery |
| Lotta Crabtree | Actress | Grass Valley, California |
| Charles Crocker | Robber Baron | Mountain Cemetery, Oakland |
| Pauline Cushman | Union Spy First Woman Officer | San Francisco National Cemetery |
| David Farragut | Civil War Admiral and Commander, Mare Island Shipyard | Woodlawn, New York |
| James A. Folger | Coffee Baron | Mountain View, Oakland |
| John C. Fremont | Explorer & Civil War General U.S. Senator | Rockland Cemetery Piermont, New York |
| Robert Frost | Poet (Born in San Francisco) | Bennington, Vermont |
| Freddy Funston | General who saved SF from looters in 1906 | San Francisco National Cemetery |
| Domingo Ghiradelli | Chocolate Magnate | Mountain View, Oakland |
| William Gwin | United States Senator | Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland |
| Dashielle Hammett | Detective novelist | Arlington National Cemetery |
| Bret Harte | Author | Frimley Churchyard Surrey, England |
| Sarah Althea Hill | Courtesan involved in Sharon swindle and second wife of David Terry | Stockton, California |
| Jonestown Victims | Mass Suicide | Evergreen, Oakland |
| Isaac Kalloch | Workingman's Party Mayor Baptist Minister Wounded by Charles de Young | Bayview Cemetery Bellingham, Washington |
| Thomas Starr King | Abolitionist Unitarian Minister and Champion of Union Cause | First Unitarian, San Francisco |
| Jack London | Author | Jack London State Historic Park, California |
| Lily Langtry | Actress | Highgate Cemetery, London |
| James Lick | Eccentric Philanthropist | Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California |
| Adah Isac Mencken | Actress | Pere Lachais, Paris, France |
| Harvey Milk | San Francisco City Supervisor | Ashes distributed off the Golden Gate |
| Lola Montez | Actress | Greenwood Cemetery, New York City |
| Jelly Roll Morton | Jazz Musician | Cavalry Cemetery Los Angeles, CA |
| Frank Norris | Novelist | Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland |
| Kathleen Norris | Novelist | Alta Mesa, Palo Alto |
| Mary Pleasants | Alleged "Voodoo Queen" and African-American Community leader | Vallejo, California |
| Robert Ripley | Syndicated Columnist "Believe it or not!" | Rural Cemetery Santa Rosa, CA |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Civil War General and Gold Rush Banker | Cavalry Cemetery, St. Louis, MO |
| Leland Stanford | Robber Baron, Founder of Stanford University | Buried in Stanford Family Mausoleum, Stanford University |
| "Yankee" Jim Sullivan | Former U.S. Heavyweight Champion Victim of Vigilantes | Mission Dolores Cemetery |
| Adolph Sutro | First Jewish Mayor of major American city | Sutro Heights |
| David Terry | Murderer of David Broderick, former State Supreme Court Justice, and lawyer/husband of Sarah Althea Hill | Stockton, California |
| Alice B. Toklas | Companion to Gertrude Stein (Parents buried at Hills of Eternity) | Pere Lachais, Paris |
| Mark Twain | Author | Elmira, New York |
| William Walker | Filisbuster | Shot in Honduras, 1859 |
| Dan White | San Francisco City Supervisor who shot Milk and Moscone | Golden Gate National Cemetery |
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