COLMA, CALIFORNIA

Colma is a small incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 1,792 at the 2010 census. The town was founded as a necropolis in 1924.

With most of Colma's land dedicated to cemeteries, the population of the dead—about 1.5 million, as of 2006—outnumbers that of the living by nearly a thousand to one. This has led to Colma's being called "the City of the Silent" and has given rise to a humorous motto, now recorded on the city's website: "It's great to be alive in Colma."

Some notable people interred in Colma include:

Cypress Lawn Memorial Park:

· William Henry Crocker

· William Randolph Hearst

Hills of Eternity and Home of Peace (side by side Jewish cemeteries):

· Wyatt Earp and his wife Josephine Marcus Earp

· Levi Strauss

Holy Cross Cemetery:

· Joe DiMaggio

· Abigail Folger (coffee heiress and Manson murder victim)