Copperopolis Historic Cemetery

The cemetery is actually four cemeteries in one. Four-foot high stone-laid walls separate the Masonic, Odd Fellows, People’s Protestant, and Catholic areas. Anyone who lives in Copperopolis can be buried here free of charge.

There is one headstone famous for its epitaph. It reads as follows:

Stop traveler and cast an eye
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so you must be
Therefore prepare to follow me.
Prepare for death make no delay
In my bloom was snatched away
When death did call me to depart
I left my friends with aching heart.