There was a recent inquiry about whether Lassen County, that maintains the Susanville Cemetery kept burial records. This falls under the common used term these days, its complicated.

There was a ledger of burials that the sexton kept at the Susanville Cemetery. This register was kept in a small combination tool storage shed, with a little work space for the sexton to maintain records. In 1970 or 1971, the sexton, a descendant of a prominent family, consumed one too many intoxicating beverages and accidentally caught the building on fire, and with it cemetery burial register was destroyed.

While the Lassen County Recorder’s Office has burial permit records that dates back to the 1890s, they only indicate the name of the cemetery, but no specifics as to the location, i.e. section and plot number.

Fortunately, I was able to copy the burial register for the Janesville Cemetery. While it dates back to the early 1900s, it is incomplete.  The Westwood Cemetery, not only did I do a headstone census, but I was able to examine all the burial records for the first fifty years, which some concise data can be found elsewhere on this site.

Tim