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Maggie, co-pilot, "helps out" at Gold Hill
Jones Boys Site
Henry T. Jones and John L. Jones died December 24, 1871 in Virginia City, Nevada, during a winter blizzard.  Their grave marker was stolen sometime after 1974. Aged 14 and 9 years these boys had suffered an abusive life and now, in death, have not been spared by modern vandals.

Alfred Doten, Comstock 19th century journalist, shares their story..."Old Bob Jones whom I knew as a milk rancher at American Flat in the early times died in Reno last Sunday, aged 73 years-tough old case-hard parent-caused his daughter to commit suicide at home from the cruel treatment and the death of his two sons by freezing to death on the Ophir grade one cold Christmas eve- horseback, trying to get home from Truckee meadows, with a young calf, in obedience to father’s command, who would beat them half to death if they did not obey orders-He always treated me well-didn't dare do otherwise, the cowardly old brute, and child murderer-His boys were found frozen to the ground and their horses standing by them"

Reconstruction of the Jones Boys' gravesite was a joint preservation project between the Bureau of Land Management and the Comstock Cemetery Foundation.

Gold Hill Cemeteries; 1950
NV Historical Society
May 28, 1873, Gold Hill Cemetery

This morning we paid a visit to the Gold Hill Cemetery situated on a rising eminence in the southern part of the town. The numerous casualties occurring in the mines are rapidly populating the “silent city” The grounds are kept in excellent order considering the desert character of the country. The path leading to the cemetery was well worn, showing that frequent visits are made there, and a number of the newly made grave were strewn with flower the affectionate remembrances of loved ones gone.

Other graves, in the absence of the floral tribute, were ornamented with beautiful quartz specimens, the meager and perhaps only offering which love could bestow. A noticeable feature about the grounds was the limited number of marble slabs. In the entire enclosure there was to be seen but one monument, it bore the inscription of Levi Hite, Obit March 9, 1864.  (Levi Hite was an early Gold Hill merchant who had a hardware store in Flaggs’s Block; he had twice been Mayor of Marysville, California and was the first delegate from Nevada to the Constitutional Congress.)

At the head of a grave of a child we notice the name “Stonewall”; we inferred that the little one was named after the famous warrior Stonewall Jackson who likewise is sleeping the sleep of death, unmindful of sunshine or storm.