Lottie Johl- d.7 November 1899

Lottie Johl- painting hanging in Bodie Museum.

Mr. Eli Johl really had to fight to have “his wife” buried in the  Bodie “Proper Cemetery.” The “inside the fence,” Bodie Cemetery was for the Bodie Miners’ Union “brotherhood, ”and the Masonic & IOOF “Fraternal members”—- not “outcasts”, or former prostitutes.

Miss Lottie Calhoun met Mr. Eli Johl, a rough German man, who co-owned the City Market, where he worked as a “Meat-cutter or Butcher.” They were married in July 4, 1881 in Nevada.

Esmeralda County NV Marriage Records
Volume Misc. page 30
Eli Johl and Lottie Calhoun were married on 4 July 1881.

Framed Photograph of Lottie Johl- hanging in Bodie Museum.

Lottie Johl died 7 November 1899.

SUDDEN DEATH. A great gloom was cast-over Bodie on Tuesday by the death of Mrs. Eli Johl, a mistake having been made, it is said, in taking a dose of poison instead of salts. Doctors Cox and Robinson did all in their power to save her but without avail. Bridgeport Chronicle-Union, 9 November 1899
~~~Lottie Johl grave is of notice in the Bodie Cemetery, only because of the “surrounding ornate grave-plot fence.” No headstone or marker tells of any existence of Mrs. Eli Johl. (It is unknown when or where Eli Johl died or was interred.)

Bodie Cemetery- fenced grave-plot- Lottie Johl- died November 7, 1899.