Benefield: Rural cemetery scores historic tombstone return

The call confirmed what Jonathan Quandt has long believed true — that there are scores of pieces, perhaps even more, of Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery history scattered in homes and properties across Santa Rosa.

Quandt, a volunteer and local historian who leads maintenance at the historic rural cemetery with a crew dubbed the Tombstone Trio, grew up in the neighborhood that surrounds the old graveyard.

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