I chose Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena, California as this week’s Tombstone Tuesdays post. On Find-A-Grave, there are 60 Famous memorials, including George Reeves, better known as Superman.
Official website: https://www.mtn-view.com/
Our Location
MAIN ENTRANCE
2400 North Fair Oaks Avenue
Altadena, California 91001
See map for driving directionsGoogle our online images: Online Images
TELEPHONE – 24 HOURS
626-794-7133
800-468-1095HOURS OF VISITATION
8:00am to 5:00pm, 365 days a year
Pasadena Mausoleum and Mountain View Mausoleum
Weekdays, 9a to 4p; Sundays, 10a to 3p
info@mtn-view.com
BillionGraves: https://billiongraves.com/cemetery/Mountain-View-Cemetery-and-Mausoleum/12043
Cemetery Census – http://cemeterycensus.com/ No listing located
Find-A-Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/8193/mountain-view-cemetery-and-mausoleum Famous: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/8193/famous-memorials
Flickr: No listings located https://www.flickr.com/
GenealogyTrails: http://www.genealogytrails.com/cal/la/cemeteries/cemindex.html Listed, but has no names listed
Google Maps: Google Maps, Altadena, California
Interment.net: http://www.interment.net/data/us/ca/losangeles/mountain-view-cemetery/index.htm listed, broken down by surname – http://www.interment.net/data/us/ca/losangeles/mountain-view-cemetery/index.htm
Histopolis: https://www.histopolis.com/Place/US/CA/Los_Angeles_County/Mountain_View_Cemetery
Historical Marker Database: No listing located https://www.hmdb.org/
Inspirock: https://www.inspirock.com/united-states/altadena/mountain-view-cemetery-a2300722235
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/mountainviewcemetery/
CaliforniaGravestones.org: https://californiagravestones.org/cemeteries.php?selected_cid=19 Cemetery not listed
California Hometown Locator: https://california.hometownlocator.com/maps/feature-map,ftc,2,fid,246301,n,mountain%20view%20cemetery%20and%20mausoleum.cfm
Only In Your State: https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/ (No listing located)
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=Mountain%20View%20Cemetery%20Altadena&rs=typed
RecordAGrave – https://www.recordagrave.com/records No listing located
Roads and Kingdoms: No listing located https://roadsandkingdoms.com/
Roadside America: https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/21719 (Tomb of George Reeves “Superman”
Trip Advisor: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g29085-d7913707-Reviews-Mountain_View_Cemetery-Altadena_California.html
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/search/Mountain+View+Cemetery
Twitch channel or search: No listing located https://www.twitch.tv/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=Mountain%20View%20Cemetery%20Altadena&src=typed_query
US GenWeb Tombstone Project: http://www.usgwarchives.net/wa/clark/photos/tombstones/mountainview/mountainview.htm
Vimeo channel or search: No listing located https://vimeo.com/
Waymarking: https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wm81TJ_Mountain_View_Cemetery_Altadena_CA
Wikipedia: No listing located https://en.wikipedia.org
World Wide Cemetery: https://cemetery.org/.There is a one-time $90 fee to add a memorial: https://cemetery.org/memorial-form/; additional information: https://cemetery.org/about/. Visit memorials: https://cemetery.org/visit-a-memorial/ No listing located for the cemetery
Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/mountain-view-mortuary-cemetery-and-crematory-altadena
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Mountain+View+Cemetery+Altadena
Previous Tombstone Tuesdays posts: https://upsdownsfamilyhistory.wordpress.com/tag/Tombstone-tuesday/
Ups Downs Family History 
Wow what led you to share this specific cemetary?
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Genealogy. Rev. J Arthur Kring and his wife are buried there. Rev. Kring was first cousin to my grandfather. His parents are buried in Kansas. He also has a son buried in Fort Scott, Kansas. I wasn’t familiar with the son on my tree, Paul Kring.
In 2014, I took a road trip to Fort Scott and visited the cemetery I asked what they could tell me about Paul. When they buried him, where he was buried, and someone paid the bill for the grave and burial. I found a death notice for Paul shortly thereafter and it was a local newspaper that mentioned his maternal grandmother announced his death. As soon as I saw the name of the grandmother, I knew who his parents were. I found an obit for Rev. Kring as well as some revival services he led around the early 1900s. I checked with the cemetery to make sure he was buried there.
The cemetery went above and beyond. They took photos and sent me copies. The person responding to the e-mail sent me better photos a few days later with better photos and the fact that a distant cousin of Rev. Kring, Rev. Walter Kring, was also buried in the cemetery and included photos of his and his wife’s headstones. Rev. Arthur Kring was an evangelical pastor. I don’t know much about Rev. Walter Kring as he was a distant cousin from one of my ancestor’s siblings.
The Kring line landed in south central Pennsylvania back in the mid-1750s. Since then, their descendants have spread across the U. S. I have found a Kring who lived, married, born, or died in almost every state. I may be missing Alaska, but there are rumors at least one moved there at some point.
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Wow that is neat the cemetery went above and beyond
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Yes it was. It’s a big enough cemetery with over 60,000 listed on Find-A-Grave not counting how many haven’t been added. I was surprised that he took the photos. The first set of photos were good enough, but he didn’t think so and supplied the second set, including the other Rev. Kring who I didn’t know was buried there.
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So awesome
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