Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, established by Hamden Holmes Noble in 1892, is a rural cemetery[1] located in Colma, California, a place known as the "City of the Silent".

[2]: 15  On March 9, 1892, Noble was granted a permit to establish a non-sectarian cemetery[3] and plans for Cypress Lawn were made public as work had begun on a mortuary chapel and receiving vault.

[2]: 16 The prominent castle-like granite entry gate east of El Camino was designed by the B. McDougall architecture firm in San Francisco in 1892, incorporating Mission Revival elements,[5] and completed in 1893.

[16] Cypress Lawn Memorial Park is the final resting site for several members of the celebrated Hearst family, people from the California Gold Rush, plus other prominent citizens from the city of San Francisco and nearby surroundings.

[2]: 7 Three British Commonwealth service personnel of World War I were buried here, but only one, Lieutenant Norman Travers Simpkin (died 1919), Royal Field Artillery, has a marked grave in the cemetery.