Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery
San Diego, Califorina

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Photos and page by: Candi H. © 2006

This is taken from another hill. In fact that is how I spotted it.

Walk through the entrance gate and this is what you see.

The tall monument was erected by the Officers and Men of the Pacific Squadron. To the memory of those who lost their lives in the Performance of Duty. The inclosure erected by Bennington Memorial Ass'n.

Back of the stones has this wrote: Lydia Hunter died from complications resulting from the birth of her only child. A son named Diego Hunter, the first American born in California. Diego was born on 20 April 1847. Lydia died 6 days later. May we honor her and each of those women who served with the Mormon Battalion. We also pay tribute to the many others that sent their sons, husbands, and brothers into service of their country during the war with Mexico in 1846 - 1847.

Wrote on the slap on the ground: In Memory of the Mormon Battalion whose members made the longest military march in U.S. history of over 2000 miles from Iowa to San Diego in 1846-1847 during the war with Mexico. Albert Warren Dunham Private - Company B 23 May 1828 - 11 May 1847 Lydia Ann Edmunds Hunter Wife of Captain Jesse Hunter Company B 22 January 1823 - 26 April 1847 Lydia Hunter and Private Albert Dunham were buried in a cemetery in the La Playa area of Point Loma and were moved to Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery with other military personnel in 1887.

Another headstone that stood out was for Edward Lewis Jr. It reads:

In the Line of Duty
Edward Lewis Jr.
Lieutenant Air Service U.S. Army
Born New York April 18, 1890
Killed at Brooksfield Texas June 8, 1925
Shirley Dorothy
Wife
Dec. 23, 1897 - May 30, 1967

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