The noted social reformer is buried here in the only labor union-established and union-owned cemetery in the United States.
She was baptized in Cork, Ireland, on August 1, 1837. She and her family emigrated to Canada in the 1840s and she moved to the U.S. when she was 23. In 1867, her husband and her four children all perished from yellow fever. The Chicago fire in 1871 destroyed her home and her dressmaking shop. How does one come back from all of this?
Mary Jones became a champion for working people, miners and children alike, as a union and strike organizer. She rests here with "her boys."
"I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please."
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