The bones of many a famed '49er left San Francisco's Laurel Hill Cemetery to make way for a real estate development. Dug up were the skeletons of California's Senator David C. Broderick, killed in the West's most noted duel, in 1859, by California Supreme Court Justice David S. Terry; Nevada's Senator William Sharon, Comstock Lode proprietor who entertained President Grant on gold plate in 1879; California Circuit Court Judge M. Hall McAllister, who sired Socialite Ward McAllister; William M. Bourn, whose money bought the Killarney Lakes for the Irish Free State.
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