Current Occupants
Members of several well-known families currently occupy the Cemetery. They include names such as: Jewell, Dyke, Olmsted, and Berwick. Ralph and Elizabeth Harer, missionaries to the British Honduras were buried here as well.
History of the Cemetery
The City of Pacific Grove has not owned and operated the cemetery since its beginning. Ownership has changed several times in the early 1900s. The Monterey Odd Fellows Organization took over the cemetery in 1906. Nevertheless, the cemetery was open to the public, not only relatives and members of the Odd Fellows Organization. Anyone "desiring to have their lots cared for should make application to the lodge, the charge being from 25 cents to 50 cents per month for this service." (Pacific Grove Daily Review, 6 March 1906)
Endowment fees now pay for care of the plots. Older sections of the cemetery have wooden markers and stones, which are more difficult to take care of. More recent sections include engraved marble stones placed flush with the grass.
The El Carmelo Cemetery has always been regarded as an ideal final resting place. The cemetery offers magnificent ocean views from almost any point on the grounds.
