Talk:Lone Mountain Cemetery

DYK?
Hey,, howzabout we nominate this for WP:DYK? We have until the Friday to nominate (to meet DYK's stupid "newness" criterion). EEng 21:50, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, firstly, thank you for your help on this article. It really made important improvements and I am grateful. I am totally open to doing WP:DYK, but I don’t think I have done one before. Would you like to do the nom? Or is that something I should work on? PigeonChickenFish (talk) 21:55, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I'll handle the paperwork. What we need first is a "hook" e.g. Did you know ... that Phineas Gage was buried in Lone Mountain Cemetery, dug up, buried there again (without his head), dug up again, and finally buried somewhere else (still without his head)?. (We'd have to add that info to the article, of course.) EEng 22:24, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, I added a few sentences and citations about Gage in the Laurel Hill/Lone Mountain Cemetery section. Additionally I added info about the almost extinct species of shrub (only found in San Francisco) that was last spotted in 1947 at the Laurel Hill Cemetery bulldoze site; and was re-discovered in 2009, some 60+ years later. PigeonChickenFish (talk) 18:29, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Possible future developments

 * It has been hard to find information about who was interred at the Lone Mountain Cemetery. I found these resources that could be explored later, including the "Cemetery Registers" by the Society of California Pioneers.


 * Another thing missing is a map image of the four cemeteries in relationship to each other.


 * I did not add this to the article but I saw an old news article that mentioned the buried bodies were not always in caskets; some they had shallow, sandy graves; the bodies would sometimes "pop out" of the soil; and sometimes the organs of the dead were eaten by vagrants. I did not add it initially because it sounded so strange and I know there was a lot of bad press (based on the desire to shut down the complex), but this could be further researched as it is not impossible.

PigeonChickenFish (talk) 06:45, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

EEng 17:26, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Those three sources are quite interesting, and there may be some useful/fun info in them that could go in the article.
 * Yes, a map would be a great addition. I'm sure I've seen one somewhere, but that could be any time in the last 15 years so I have no idea where.
 * I have little doubt burials were sometimes made without caskets. However, I'm quite skeptical of the vagrants story; you sure they didn't say scavengers? Anyway, we need a source.