New Helvetia Cemetery
Captain John Sutter donated as a burial ground in December, 1849, ten acres of property located at Alhambra and J Streets which was East of the City limits and embraced the original plat of Sutter's Fort. It was known as the Sutter Fort Burying Ground
"Dental Jairus", Volume II, 1881, pages 450-456, contains the following statement: "At twenty minutes past three A.M., Wednesday, January 24th, 1846, an angel cleved his spirit and wafted it home, in the twenty-eighth year of his age. His body was buried under a live oak tree, near a ravine about four hundred yards north east of the fort, at four o'clock P.M. same day. This was the first white corpse buried here, the Helvetia Cemetery, now within the confines of the city of Sacramento, and contains many monuments designating the last resting place of eminent personages."
According to Sacramento, California, by Hon. Win. J. Davis, published by the Lewis Publishing Company in 1890, and History of Sacramento County by G. Walter Reed, published by Historic Record Company in 1923, the first burial here was that of Major Cloud, a paymaster in the United States Army who was killed in 1847 southeast of the Fort some distance by being thrown from a horse. The second person whose remains were buried was Miss Susanna Hitchcock, who died early in 1849 at the new diggings on the Stanislaus; the third was James McDowell who was shot in Washington, just across the river. Many interments were made in 1849 and 1850, during times when sickness and cholera were so prevelent.
The grounds grew to twenty acres and in 1850 they were purchased by R. H. McDonald who was responsible for giving the cemetery its name of New Helvetia, and in 1857 J. W. Reeves purchased the property. M

New Helvetia Cemetery plaque on Alhambra Street adjacent to Sutter Middle School (plaque was dedicated in 1937) . The grounds served as the burial grounds for many pioneers until the 1950's when the Middle School was built. (Today (2017), after school kids can be seen hanging out there after school, waiting for rides home etc. while sitting near or on the plaque using their I-Phones.)

Close-up of plaque. (Note this photo does NOT have the graffiti at the top that the other photo submitted earlier has; please consider adding this one. - Taken May 2017)

Burials from New Helvetia Cemetery in Sacramento were moved in 1956 to East Lawn Cemetery in Sacramento on Folsom Boulevard. Most relocated burials are unmarked with very few exceptions.