SAMUEL D. BURRIS BURIAL SITE, CYPRESS LAWN MEMORIAL PARK
Historic Site — 1370 El Camino Real, Colma, San Mateo County, California
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/samuel-d-burris-burial-site-cypress-lawn-memorial-park-california/

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

A historic site in Colma, California, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Samuel D. Burris Burial Site, Cypress Lawn Memorial Park is filed here for what the record attaches to it. NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad. The archive files it under dark history, Underground Railroad history and the Underground Railroad. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.

Burris' grave is the sold — the 'auction block' that's the sentence's cruelty, the 'free man sold' that's the law's twist. The 'abolitionist buyer' is the turned — the 'PAS sent' that's the impersonator bid, the 'bought to free' that's the trick played. The '14 months' is the served — the 'Dover jail' that's the conviction's cost, the 'Hawkins helped' that's the family guided.
The 'moved bones' is the twice — the 'Laurel Hill' that's the '63 buried, the 'Cypress '40' that's the redevelopment moved. The 'pardoned '15' is the late — the 'Markell signed' that's the state's apology, the '168 years' that's the justice delayed. Burris' is the conductor — the 'Still documented' that's the record kept, the 'hundreds helped' that's the count claimed.
The file keeps Burris: the auction's trick, the jail's months, the moved bones, and the pardon's century.
Burris' grave is the archive's California file — the conductor sold then pardoned 168 years late.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Burris' grave is the archive's California file — the free man sentenced to slavery for freeing others.
A grave keeps its pardon — the file's suggestion being that Burris' hold is the late justice: the 'sold at auction' that's the sentence's irony, the 'abolitionist bid' that's the rescue's trick, and the 'pardoned '15' that's the 168-year wait.

HISTORY — 2 documented facts
· NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.
· Samuel D. Burris Burial Site, Cypress Lawn Memorial Park is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The record keeps it — history, not lore.

SOURCES — 3 cited
· Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01 — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223
· NPS Network to Freedom listing — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm
· Underground Railroad — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad

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