Campo Santo of Genoa or in the Koimeteria of Athens, on Sundays, in the
Mezaristans of Skutari on the Bosphorus and Eyub on the Golden Horn, on
Friday afternoons, and in the Kibroth of old Tiberias by the Sea of
Galilee or outside of the walls of Jerusalem, on Saturday or in the
Cimenterios of Mexico City on fiestas, all testify to the universality
of the deep and tender feelings of reverence and affection which animate
the human heart and make all men as one in thought and sentiment as they
stand on time's shores and follow the receding forms of their kindred
and friends with wishful eyes bedimmed with tears across the Dark River!
While there is a Burial Place for the soldiers who die for their country
or in their country's cause, on the grounds of the Presidio, the
principal cemeteries of San Francisco seem to cluster around Lone
Mountain in the northwestern part of the city and south of the Military
Reservation. These are Laurel Hill, Calvary, Masonic and Odd Fellows.
The Jews have their special burying ground between Eighteenth and
Twentieth streets, and the old Mission cemetery where some of the early
Indian converts and Franciscan Fathers sleep their last sleep, is close
by the Mission Dolores, on the south side. The group around Lone
Mountain is dominated by a conspicuous cross on the hill