Rolling Hills Cemetery
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Unknown Unknown 1020.0156.0002.jpg C-156 Color 1020-0156-0002 1020.0156.0002 Print 4x6 Historic Photographs c. 1993 Reproduction requires permission. Digital images property of SHM Library & ArchivesDescription
"Zhen Wen, 1941, from Yue Shan, San He, and Tai Yi."
The cemetery is a product of the Great Depression. The Ruffner family began in the mortuary business in 1903. In 1933, Lester Lee Ruffner saw the need for inexpensive burial plots and made land available to residents who could not afford burial plots elsewhere. thus Rolling Hills was established and burial sites were sold for betweeen $5.00 and $10.00. According to sources found, most burials occurred between 1933 and 1950. In Ruffner's records burial #1 is that of Michael Ryan in Septermber 1933, and the cemetery was called "Granite View." Shortly thereafter the name was changed to "Rolling Hills." It appears the burials were segregated according to race - Black, White, Mexican, Chinese.
According to Budge Ruffner the cemetery was never surveyed or platted, so no one can be sure how many people are buried here. When the golf course was constructed some unmarked graves, especially those of Chinese, were perhaps or perhaps not relocated and are under a part of the course. A road was bult that split the cemetery and apparently graves were moved but no documentation was found to explain where these graves are today.
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