Is Your Final Resting Place Safe?

The grave of Amy Laughead, Westwood Cemetery

One never knows for sure where your final resting place may be. In one instant, there was a disinternment of a grave of a girl who died in 1924 in Susanville.  She was buried in the Susanville Cemetery and  nearly 70 years later her family had the remains moved to a cemetery in Oroville.

Then there is the case of Amy Laughead.  She was a first cousin to Red River Lumber Company’s  founder, Thomas Barlow Walker. Her claim to fame, is that of her son, William B. Laughead, who developed the famous Paul Bunyan caricature that later became the trademark for Red River. Amy is a perfect example of you just never know where your final resting place might be. She died in February 1939 at Westwood and was buried in Sacramento. Seven months later, her son had her remains disinterred and brought to the Westwood Cemetery. When he died in 1958 he was buried in the plot in Sacramento where his mother was originally interred.

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