PIOCHE, LINCOLN COUNTY, NEVADA
                                
                              Pioche's Boot Hill Cemetery Extractions
                                      & Miscellaneous Data
                              
                                                         
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Contributed for use on the Western Places site by: Cheryl Meyer <adenmey@attbi.com>

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This first visit to Pioche occurred on April 11, 2001. Snow fell the day before our visit and the day 
after. At 6,000 feet high, Pioche is a secluded mountain town with enough old buildings yet standing 
to provide a sense of its past. We picked up brochures at the Chamber of Commerce and toured the 
Lincoln County Museum. After a walk through town past the Million Dollar Courthouse, we headed for 
Boot Hill where we copied some gravestone data and took photos. This page includes the data we copied 
from 12 gravestones and 4 wooden markers. These are but a small sample of the burials in the cemetery.

Gravestone extractions copied on 11 April 2001: (many more graves in addition to these)

Louis P. Betz
a native of Belgium
d. 12 Nov 1890, aged 54 years

Augustine Lincoln
a native of Maine
d. 8 Aug 1874, aged 32 years
 
Benjamin J. Hulse
b. Cedar City, Utah, 9 Mar 1853
d. Pioche, 29 Dec 1880

Alfred Snell
d. 17 May 1875, aged 39 yrs., 6 mos.
(stone shattered)

Francis(?) Snell
son of Alfred & Eliza Snell
d. 7 Oct 1874, age 17 days
(stone shattered)

William L. McKee
a native of Yorkville, South Carolina
d. 23 Feb 1882, aged 47 yrs., 8 mos., 27 days

Alfred T. Page
b. 2 Apr 1837
d. 12 Jan 1905

Samuel Watson Keeler
b. 12 Mar 1850
d. 31 May 1893

Abe Fink
1835-1916

William Jose
b. Red Ruth, Cornwall, England, 20 Aug 1813
d. 17 Feb 1896

Peter R. McRae
a native of Canada
b. 17 Mar 1843
d. 6 Jan 1896

E. McAvoy
a native of Ohio
d. 31 Mar 1890, aged 64 yrs.

Wood Markers:

John H. Lynch
d. 6 Jul 1873

John Bass
d. 26 Jun 1875

Morgan Courtney
1844-1873

Ab Roger
d. May 1870

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Miscellaneous Data: 
 
Found in the Lincoln County Museum:

Tombstone Photo for:
Hamilton Slough
d. 16 Aug 1882
"Maxacan" (Mexican) War Vet


Daily Record newspaper, Saturday, Oct 18, 1873:

Deaths:

Katy Margaret Kavanagh, in Ruby Hill, Nevada, d. 15 Oct 1873, infant 
  daughter of William & Bridget Kavanagh
John C. Loeschenkel, in Bullion City, Nevada, d. 4 Oct 1873, age 26 yrs.
William Dabney, in Eureka, Nevada, a native of Virginia, d. 14 Oct 1873, 
  age 44 yrs.
Richard John Moore, in Virginia (City?, Nevada?), d. 14 Oct 1873, son of 
  Richard & Louisa Moore, age 5 mos., 5 days
Clarence Albert, in Virginia (City?, Nevada?), 14 Oct 1873, son of 
  James F. & Annie Farrell, age 2 mos., 2 days
Robert Rodenck, in Carson (City?, Nevada?), a native of Nova Scotia, 
  d. 13 Oct 1873, age about 20 yrs.



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