Burials Whose Names or Locations are Currently Unknown
 

      Officially there were 143 interments on Angel Island while it was an active military post.  As of April, 2005 the Golden Gate National Cemetery holds 134 named graves moved from Angel Island plus one plot (E460)  marked with "Eight Unknown."  As one Angel Island grave, that of David Barrow, was moved off of the island in 1911, this accounts for all 143 of the original Angel Island burials.

      Listed below are four individuals who may be interred in plot E460, however they may also be buried elsewhere in Section E at San Bruno if the headstone of "Maltie Andrews" (E408) is (as is most likely) a duplicate of "Mattie Andrews" (E401); while "F.T." (E358) could be a duplicate of "Freddie Thomas" (E411). and "Boufler" (E312) may duplicate "James H. Bouffler" (E317). 

Angel Island Graves not moved to the 
Golden Gate National Cemetery 
Listed Alphabetically by Surname

(Name,  Rank or Status;  Date of Death)

Thomas Barrett, Private USA; 7/20/1864
David Barrow, Private USA; 4/23/1877
E.S. Hume, Civilian, ???
Bartholemew McFoley, Sergeant USA, 8/20/1903
Wm. I. Rose, Dependent, 11/2/1870

Comments:

Thomas Barrett was a private in Company A of the 6th California Infantry Regiment.  During the Civil War most of the regular army troops who had been patrolling the western frontier were called back to serve in the main theater of the war.  The Native Americans, who had been forced off of their ancestral hunting grounds in the years before the war, now found that the military was no longer present to keep them on reservations.  Unfortunately, in most cases settlers (mostly Anglo-American) had moved in and settled on the old hunting grounds.  This led to conflict between the Native Americans and the settlers.  California was the only fully-organized state on the Pacific Coast, and the Federal Government turned to California to raise troops to take the place of the regular soldiers called back east.  Ultimately eight regiments of infantry, two regiments of cavalry, one battalion of "Native Cavarly," and one battalion of mountaineers were recruited in California- some 15,000 men served in these units during the war.  These regiments were posted throughout California and also in Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and even northwestern Texas.  Many of the California Volunteers hoped that they would be sent back east to join the main scene of the Civil War, but the government felt that they were better posted on the frontier. 

The 6th California was formed in early 1863 in Benecia.  Brothers' Company A has the distinction of having been formed as an independent volunteer company on Alcatraz in October of 1862, later becoming Company A of the Sixth California (in the old army hundred-man companies were designated by letter, the first company, lettered "A," was supposed to be the most elite and commanded by the best captain in the regiment).  Until it was mustered out in October of 1865, Company A spent its time in various posts in Northern California, including Alcatraz Island.

There is no headstone for Thomas Barrett at the Golden Gate National Cemetery and  no record in either the US Department of Veteran's Affairs Nationwide Gravesite Locator or the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs Database, yet his existence and death are recorded in the 6th California's muster role (which notes that he died in an unspecified accident) and records from the National Archives confirm that he had a burial on Angel Island.  He is either interred in plot E460 or one of the supposed duplicate plots (mentioned at the top of this page) in San Bruno.

Comments:

David Barrow was a private in the band of the 12th Infantry Regiment.  The 12th Infantry was created early in the Civil War and sent out west in 1869.  The band was stationed on Angel Island at the time of Barrow's death.

Notes taken at the National Archives state that his remains were removed from Angel Island Cemetery on January 5, 1911.  The current location of his grave is not known to this writer.

Comments:

There is no headstone for E.S. Hume at the Golden Gate National Cemetery and  no record in either the US Department of Veteran's Affairs Nationwide Gravesite Locator or the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs Database, yet notes taken at the National Archives state that Hume was a "Body found drowned" and buried on Angel Island.  He is either interred in plot E460 or one of the supposed duplicate plots (mentioned at the top of this page) in San Bruno.

Comments:

According to notes taken at the National Archives, Bartholemew McFoley was a sergeant in the Signal Corps.  There is no headstone for McFoley at the Golden Gate National Cemetery and  no record for him in either the US Department of Veteran's Affairs Nationwide Gravesite Locator or the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs Database.  He is either interred in plot E460 or one of the supposed duplicate plots (mentioned at the top of this page) in San Bruno.

Comments:

According to notes taken at the National Archives, William I. Rose was the infant son of an Assistant Surgeon Ross on  Alcatraz.  There is no headstone for Rose/Ross at the Golden Gate National Cemetery and  no record for him in either the US Department of Veteran's Affairs Nationwide Gravesite Locator or the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs Database.  He is either interred in plot E460 or one of the supposed duplicate plots (mentioned at the top of this page) in San Bruno.