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Sunnyside Cemetery

cemetery in Long Beach, California, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ117591976 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sunnyside Cemetery, is a cemetery established in 1906 in Long Beach, California.

It is adjacent to Long Beach Municipal Cemetery. The cemetery encountered financial troubles in the 1990s when its owner, Dean A. Dempsey, stole over half the cemetery's endowment fund.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sunnyside Cemetery” is cemetery in Long Beach, California, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sunnyside, Cemetery and cemetery, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1906—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Sunnyside, Cemetery and cemetery is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “cemetery in Long Beach, California, United States” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q117591976. Authority coordinates are 33.804, -118.179. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1906.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sunnyside Cemetery” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.