[AnAmericanMother]

"Bric-a-brac" is the phrase that caught my eye:

"The naval hero now lay somewhere beneath a laundry, a bric-a-brac shop, several ramshackle houses and a shed for the wagons of grain merchants."

"By 1905, when the body was discovered, parts of the tract had built over by a bric-a-brac shop, several houses and a shed for grain merchants' wagons."

Similar but not identical, obviously rewritten. And I note on second reading that the article gives credit to Smithsonian magazine.

[robowombat]

I'm surprised that the Smithsonian article didn't note that one of the problems in locating Jone's remains was that the burying ground had been used to inter the Swiss Guards that the Paris mob killed a few days later in mobbing the king's palace. I gather there was a solid layer of human bones covering earlier burials.