Cemetery

Eliza May Grisham is buried in the Santa Maria Cemetery. She died in 1964 after a car crash, and following a lifetime of teaching in Orcutt schools.

When Lemuel and Mary Grisham brought their children from Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, in 1905, to live in Santa Maria, their youngest child Eliza May Grisham was about 11 years old.

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Shirley Contreras lives in Orcutt and writes for the Santa Maria Valley Historical Society. She can be contacted at 623-8193 or at shirleycontreras2@yahoo.com. Her book, “The Good Years,” a selection of stories she’s written for the Santa Maria Times since 1991, is on sale at the Santa Maria Valley Historical Society, 616 S. Broadway.

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