mission dolores
 

Mission Dolores has a small but very cool little cemetery.  The first Governor of
California under the Mexican flag is buried there, along with a couple of other notables
and a lot of folks from the 19th Century. 

Check out this gravestone: 

mission dolores


Note that the dude's stepdaughter died over two years before her stepdad
kicked the bucket, yet she's pretty much an afterthought here.  I imagine
that her deathbed conversation went something like this:

MARY:  Please, Papa, see that I have a proper headstone.
ROBERT:  Yes, well, sure, Mary, of course ... but it might take a while.
MARY:  Take a while?
ROBERT:  Uh, yeah, I'm going to add you to mine.  I got a two-for-one
deal from the undertaker. 


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