The red tape is astounding.
Did San Mateo County require death certificates when the other 28,999 Odd Fellows folks were reburied in Colma?
Where was the Odd Fellows Temple in 1906? They are the ones that should have had the map.
Once, when I was tracing someone I thought might be a relative, who had been buried at Laurel Cemetery and removed to Colma, and all they had was a little old wooden file cabinet with some index cards, with minimal information, and not necessarily information on all the people.
Here is an old map showing the locations of the 4 main cemeteries located around Lone Mountain:
And, the best description I have read so far about the whole cemetery situation in San Francisco:
Surrounding Lone Mountain in Laurel Heights/Inner Richmond, the "Big Four" cemeteries were made up of Laurel Hill to the north, Odd Fellows' the the west, Masonic to the south and Calvary to the east, all four were built between 1854-1865. Following the Victorian sentiments of park-like cemeteries located far from the city, these cemeteries were built on luscious grounds with winding roads and beautiful paths. But by the early 1900s the lots were full and grounds left to disrepair.
In 1902 Inner Richmond property owners began their campaign to close the cemeteries completely to help boost property value, and after litigation, ballots, voting and more bureaucracy, the process of moving previously buried bodies from the Big Four cemeteries to Colma land began in 1929. The entire removal process took until after WWII, and tragically almost none of the elaborate Neoclassical monuments in the Big Four survived. Tombstones were discarded into the ocean or broken up and used in construction. You can actually spot pieces of gravestones in the park gutters of Buena Vista Park.
The map is from the David Rumsey collection, (that is a possible source for the plot map) and the description is from:
http://www.7x7.com/the-dark-history-of-san-franciscos-cemeteries-1786563925.html?slide=FefcGN
