John H. Jones and Carrie Otis Jones

[2][3][4] In that same year he took ship around Cape Horn and debarked at the port of San Pedro, California, and made his way to Los Angeles "with a $20 gold piece and nothing else in the way of worldly possessions but the clothes on his back."

[1][2] John H. Jones died in his 258 East Adams Street home on February 12, 1903, at the age of sixty-nine, with a diagnosis of heart illness.

[2] In 1852 or 1854 Carolyn Otis married John H. Jones in Boston, Massachusetts, and she joined him in Los Angeles in 1856, voyaging from the East by way of the Isthmus of Panama.

[2][3][4] Carrie Jones was noted as a "philanthropist, church worker and California pioneer" who "managed her large holdings with rare judgment and acumen."

"[4] She died of "organic heart trouble" on October 19, 1909, in the family home, survived by a sister, Augusta J. Hubbard of Los Angeles, and a brother, N. L. Otis of Albany, New York.

[4] A funeral service was conducted in the home by the Reverend William Horace Day, followed by a cortege of thirty carriages that trailed a "bronze casket weighing nearly 1500 pounds, and banked with rare flowers" to the Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles.

... "[1] The Fifth and Main building was converted into a restaurant and was eventually replaced by a one-story brick structure housing a motion picture theater called Tally's and then was succeeded by the construction of the noted Rosslyn Hotel.

[8] The Jones real estate holdings at Fifth and Spring streets were in a "practically unimproved condition" until after 1905, when it was announced that a syndicate composed of A. C. Bilicke, R. A. Rowan, Jared Sidney Torrance, the Adams-Phillips Company, Maurice S. Hellman, J. S. Satori and others, had leased the "magnificent property" in preparation to develop it with "ten-story fire proof structures of the most modern, and substantial character."