English: Grave of actress Sharon Tate, her baby Paul Polanski, mother Doris Tate, and sister Patricia Tate at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California (Saint Ann's Section, lot 152, grave 6).

Sharon Marie Tate was born on January 24, 1943 in Dallas, Texas, the eldest of three daughters. During the 1960s she played small television roles before appearing in several films. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Valley of the Dolls (1967) and also appeared regularly in fashion magazines as a model and cover girl. She married film director Roman Polanski in 1968 and was 26 years old and 8½ months pregnant when she and her unborn child were murdered on August 9, 1969 in her home in Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, California, along with four others (Steven Parent, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, and Abigail Folger). Their murderers were members of the "Manson Family" (Susan Atkins, Charles "Tex" Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian), followers of Charles Manson. Her baby was posthumously named Paul Richard Polanski, for Polanski's and Tate's fathers, and was buried in her arms.

Sharon's mother, Doris Gwendolyn Tate (née Willett), was born January 16, 1924 in Houston, Texas. Following her daughter's murder, Doris was influential in the amendment of California laws relating to the victims of violent crime. She worked toward the passage of Proposition 8, the Victim's Rights Bill, passed in 1982, which allowed the presentation of victim impact statements during the sentencing of violent attackers. Doris became the first Californian to make such a statement after the law was passed, when she spoke at Charles "Tex" Watson's 1984 parole hearing. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor, died on July 10, 1992 in Los Angeles, California at age 68, and was buried with her daughter and grandchild.

Patricia Gay "Patti" Tate was the youngest of the Tate sisters, born in 1957. After Doris Tate's death, Patti continued her work, contributing to the 1993 foundation of the Doris Tate Crime Victims Bureau. She confronted Geffen Records in 1993 over plans to include a song written by Charles Manson on the Guns N' Roses album "The Spaghetti Incident?" Patti died of breast cancer in 2000 and was buried with her mother and sister. Middle sister Debra Tate assumed her role, continuing to represent the Tate family at parole hearings for Sharon's murderers.