John Percival Jones was an American politician who served for 30 years as a Republican United States Senator from Nevada. He made a fortune in silver mining and was a co-founder of the town of Santa Monica, California.
Monument to John P. Jones in Palisades Park
Miramar, Jones' famous Santa Monica home, in 1890
Lone Mountain Cemetery
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Lone Mountain Cemetery was a complex of cemeteries in the Lone Mountain neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States on the land bounded by the present-day California Street, Geary Boulevard, Parker Avenue, and Presidio Avenue. Opened 1854, it eventually comprised Laurel Hill Cemetery, Calvary Cemetery, the Masonic Cemetery, and Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Example of a re-used gravestone, found in Buena Vista Park. In 2017 a 155-year-old gravestone from Laurel Hill was found in the basement of a San Francisco home.
Phineas Gage was buried twice in Lone Mountain Cemetery
View from Calvary Cemetery (1866) and Broderick's Monument in the background
Odd Fellows Cemetery (1899), Richmond District, San Francisco