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Rose Cliver
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Rose Wyrsch Cliver (October 9, 1902 - February 18, 2012) was one of the five last known survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. At the time of the earthquake, Cliver was three years old.<ref namereunion /><ref name"obit" /> In interviews in 2009, at commemorations of the earthquake's 103rd anniversary, Cliver said she remembered her family watching the catastrophe from the top of Bernal Hill: "We watched San Francisco burn," she said. "They wouldn't let us live in our house afterward. We had to live in the backyard in a tent."<ref name=reunion /> "We were living like Oakies in our own place. It was really a sight to see.” <ref name="obit" /> The house, on Gates Street in the Bernal Heights neighborhood,<ref name="obit" /> was repaired after the quake and stands to this day.<ref name=reunion /> Cliver spent her last years in Santa Rosa, California, and died there at age 109. |
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