View of headstones and tombs in the Protestant Cemetery, Los Angeles. The grave of Robert S. Carlisle is identified at left. Title transcribed from negative. Date range approximated by cataloger based on the year that film negatives came into use and the latest known dates indicated for other Hazard images in the Huntington's collection. Research shows this is the Los Angeles City Cemetery, also known as the Protestant Cemetery, Fort Moore Hill Cemetery, Fort Hill Cemetery, or “the cemetery on the hill.” Robert S. Carlisle, who was said to have started the cemetery, was killed in a gunfight with Francis Marion King. Carlisle was buried with diamond settings in his teeth, which grave robbers later extracted and the Times reported in ghoulish detail. - Source: Southern California Genealogical Society Database: Los Angeles City Cemetery.
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