Alejandro Banderas Buried Municipal Cemetery Of 1892

Alejandro Banderas (1892?-7/6/1915) buried Municipal Cemetery. Banderas was employed on the Ables ranch near Artesia. According to bystanders, Lecadio Sabala shot Banderas accidentally, and then fled, taking his gun with him. The witnesses claimed there had been no fight, no quarrel, but there had been drinking. They said Banderas and Sabala were sitting on beds on opposite sides of the tent they shared, facing each other. Sabala was playing with his revolver when it accidentally fired. This is where the rest of the story becomes suspicious, because, onlookers stated, Sabala accidentally pulled the trigger again. However, three wounds were found on Banderas’ body: one in the left side of his chest, one in the left groin and the third through

Cramer. He was also survived by sisters Jessie, Georgette, Janice, Helene, Margaret and Bermeida.

Donald Warren Graves (1896-4/2/1910) buried Municipal Cemetery? Donald Warren Graves died at the home of his parents at midnight on April 2, 1910, another victim of a gun that was not supposed to be loaded. His mother, Grace, called home by news of the tragedy believed at first that Donald was playing an April Fools’ prank on her. When she saw that the blood on the floor was real, she became hysterical. Earlier that evening Mrs. Graves went to a neighbor’s home, leaving her 14-year-old son Donald to watch his brother Thomas and Thomas’ friend Jesse Fransen who were both 12. According to Thomas and Jesse, the three were playing Indian. Donald was the red skin armed with a butcher knife, who ran around the room issuing war whoops. Jesse Fransen was sitting on a lounge chair armed with a small rifle, which he thought was unloaded. Playfully, Donald Graves waved his butcher knife in the direction of Jesse, who threw his gun to his hip and pulled the trigger. The gun fired and Donald Graves sank to the floor with a bullet wound in his right

As mentioned earlier, the records at the Municipal Cemetery were not kept as they should have been and there may be burials there that are not recorded. When his mother died in 1923 the Municipal Cemetery was in the midst of the cemetery wars described earlier; with oil and other muck flowing through the cemetery few would have chosen to be buried there unless they had loved ones also buried nearby. Donald’s father John Graves (2/17/1874-7/29/1942) continued to live in Long Beach until 1942; he, too, is buried at the Municipal