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Pascual Marquez Family Cemetery

Los Angeles, Italy

Pascual Marquez Family Cemetery

The Pascual Márquez Family Cemetery, located in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, is the 1840s burial ground of Rancho Boca de Santa Mónica grantee families. “This is not only one of the original pioneer settlements, but one of the last which survives in the midst of modern developments”.

“The cemetery grounds consist of a rectangular lot surrounded by adobe wall built in 1926 at the request of Santa Monica Land and Water when developing the Upper Santa Monica Mesa. Development Manager Dorothy Gillis hired John Byers a notable architect to protect the Cemetery. The cemetery belongs to the Márquez family and the crosses for each burial were designed by local historian and patriarch, Ernest Márquez. The cemetery served the 6,656-acre (26,940,000 m2) Rancho Boca de Santa Monica, a Mexican land grant given to Francisco Márquez and Isidro Reyes in 1839. It is the sole extant private family cemetery in California . All that remains of the Rancho today are the cemetery and one other parcel retained by Rosemary Márquez (Romero Miano). Today her descendent still receives property tax bills addressed to Rancho Boca de Santa Monica. The Rancho originally extended along the ocean from...

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