Many people do not realize that Susanville has three cemeteries–Indian Heights, Lassen and Susanville.

Indian Heights Cemetery located on Paiute Lane and is a Native American cemetery.,. The earliest known internment is for the wife of George Peconum who died on September 5, 1905 and buried there on September 6, 1905 . This makes its the second oldest cemetery, as Lassen Cemetery on Chestnut Street was not established until 1919.

This cemetery contains numerous graves that do not have the traditional type of Anglo headstone, and provides no indication of the internments. In addition, it should be noted that many Native Americans are buried in the nearby Lassen Cemetery ..

The cemetery was so named as it was in the Indian Heights Subdivision that was created in 1912. It should be noted that the  half-acre parcel that the cemetery is located was owned for many years by Clifton and Betty Cramer.  On June 6, 1975, the Cramer’s signed Quit Claim to the cemetery  to the Bureau of Indian Affairs to hold into trust for the Susanville Indian Rancheria. It should noted that even the oldest of the Anglo cemeteries were located on private property, and that during the late 1890s the County of Lassen began negotiations to acquire them.

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