with the priests in the San Gabriel Mission courtyard cemetery. Although there are an unknown number of Native Americans from the Kizh tribe or Gabrielino (as they were later identified due to their proximity to the Mission) in the courtyard cemetery, the priests were buried in a designated section immediately adjacent to the wall of the Mission in a place of honor. In Catholic tradition, burials closest to the most sacred areas of the church are reserved for individuals of stature, usually clergy. Eulalia being honored in this way (Thomas Workman-Temple II, Mission Historian being the other), was a highly unusual honor at that time for a woman: a marble bench inscribed with her name marks the spot. Her numerous descendants married other Californios from other founding Spanish and Mexican families of pre-statehood California. Some of Eulalia Perez de Guillen Marine's (deceased) descendants include: Maria Rita de Guillen de la Ossa, wife of Don Jose Vicente de la Ossa, owners of Rancho de los Encinos in Encino, Los Angeles Katherine Kevane Murray, champion of English for Spanish-speaking children in California public schools Alexander Howison Murray Jr. (1907-1993), twice mayor of Placerville Patricia Murray Chambers (1936-2007) Victoria Duarte Cordova, California genealogist and historian, (1912-2005) See also Lawrence Brooks (American veteran) (also 112 years old) References External links "The Reminiscences of Eulalia Pérez" in The Californians, The Magazine of California History (Grizzly Publications). Tales of California Yesterday by Rose L. Ellerbe (Los Angeles: Warren T. Potter, 1916), "Three Cooks of San Gabriel," pp. 11–17 J. Michael Walker: All the Saints of the City of the Angels (Berkeley: HeyDay Books, 2008), pp. 142-145, 197 Latinos in Pasadena by Roberta H. Martinez (San Francisco: Aradia Publishing, 2009), pp. 16-18, 25, 28, 30, 34 Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community by Vicki Ruíz and Virginia Sánchez Korrol (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 24-25 In America by Susan Sontag (New York: Macmillan, 2001), p. 193. Uppity Women of the New World by Vicki Leon (Newburyport, MA: Conari, 2001), pp. 60-61 Native Daughters of the Golden West: Doña Eulalia Pérez DeGuillén - California Pioneer Project Michael White Adobe website - (research section: information on Eulalia Pérez California History Quarterly: Eulalia Pérez de Guillén - 52:71-75; 53:141 National Genealogical Society Quarterly: California's Centenarian: Eulalia Pérez de Guillén - June 1962, Volume 50 Number 2 UC Berkeley News: California women's "Collective Voice" exhibit Los Angeles Times: "At