Evergreen Cemetery is a cemetery

Cemetery

A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...

, crematorium and mausoleum

Mausoleum

A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons. A monument without the interment is a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb or the tomb may be considered to be within the...

 in Oakland, California

Oakland, California

Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...

, near the Eastmont Town Center

Eastmont Town Center

Eastmont Town Center is a shopping mall and social services hub located on bounded by Foothill Boulevard, Bancroft and 73rd Avenues, and Church Street, in the Eastmont neighborhood of East Oakland. The mall opened in 1970 on the site of a 1920's-era Chevrolet truck factory. Architect William...

 and Mills College

Mills College

Mills College is an independent liberal arts women's college founded in 1852 that offers bachelor's degrees to women and graduate degrees and certificates to women and men. Located in Oakland, California, Mills was the first women's college west of the Rockies. The institution was initially founded...

. The cemetery is on a small hill, with a large combined mausoleum, crematorium and chapel at the top of the hill. It is the second largest cemetery in Oakland, after the Mountain View Cemetery and Saint Mary Cemetery

Saint Mary Cemetery (Oakland, California)

Saint Mary Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery in Oakland, California, adjacent to Mountain View Cemetery.-People interred:*Juan Bautista Alvarado Mexican governor of California...

 complex. It is full, and closed to new interments, but still operates a crematorium.

Jonestown mass grave and memorial plaque

412 unclaimed victims of the Jonestown

Jonestown

Jonestown was the informal name for the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, an intentional community in northwestern Guyana formed by the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones. It became internationally notorious when, on November 18, 1978, 918 people died in the settlement as well as in a nearby...

 mass killing are buried at Evergreen. A set of four memorial plaques with the names of all victims was placed at the site in 2011, which controversially included the name of Jim Jones

Jim Jones

James Warren "Jim" Jones was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, which is best known for the November 18, 1978 mass suicide of 909 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana along with the killings of five other people at a nearby airstrip.Jones was born in Indiana and started the Temple in...

, the architect of the mass killing, who died with his victims, and is not buried at the cemetery.

People interred

• Daniel Best
  Daniel Best
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  , adventurer and inventor
• C. L. Best
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  , son of Daniel Best, Caterpillar Tractor Company executive
• Otto G. Foelker
  Otto G. Foelker
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  , U.S. Representative
  United States House of Representatives
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   from New York
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• Jesse Fuller
  Jesse Fuller
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  , one man band musician
• Earl "Fatha" Hines
  Earl Hines
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  , legendary early jazz pianist
• Allen Hoskins, child actor who portrayed Farina in the Our Gang
  Our Gang
  Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively...
  
   short movies from the 1920s
• Jacob E. Swap, Civil War soldier given the Medal of Honor

Other burials

There is a small group of gravestones for members of the Hells Angels

Hells Angels

The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club is a worldwide one-percenter motorcycle gang and organized crime syndicate whose members typically ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. In the United States and Canada, the Hells Angels are incorporated as the Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation. Their primary motto...

motorcycle club. The Oakland chapter of the club is located not far from the cemetery.