Thomas Bones (1842–1929) was a farmer and land developer who owned and developed property in Madison, New York, Hillsboro, Wisconsin, and Rochester, Minnesota, as well as farmland in the Rosecrans area near Inglewood, California.
He had ten siblings, including Mary, Thomas, William, Ellen, George and Edward (who later lived in Los Angeles), Arthur and Anna.
[1][2] Bones was married in or near Rochester, Minnesota, to Martha C. Murdock.
In 1874-75, because of the wife's ill health, the family moved to San Mateo County, where he was in the lumber business.
[1][2] Bones died on April 9, 1929, in the family home at 1319 North Fairfax Avenue in today's West Hollywood neighborhood.