“UNKNOWN LOCATIONS”

1879- Mine Explosion- Mining Accidents and “buried UNKNOWN”

Mining Explosions, Mining Accidents- resulted in “unmarked graves.”- and are no longer locatable.

FEBRUARY 6, 1879

• Ford Rogers Ryon, “slipped on ice and fell 450 feet down” the BODIE MINE shaft. (buried -”unmarked grave”-UNKNOWN LOCATION)

• June 10, 1879

• W.J. O’Brien, died “in the Explosion of a Powder Magazine.” (buried in “unmarked grave”-UNKNOWN LOCATION)

  March 1879

• J. J. Welch bought the TOWER RESTAURANT, and renamed it NEVADA RESTAURANT and CHOP HOUSE.
  

  SEPTEMBER 6, 1879

• DAILY FREE PRESS  first edition. Owned by H.Z. Osborn & Company. DAILY FREE PRESS publishes First Edition

  SEPTEMBER 8, 1879

• Eleanor Dumont “Madame Mustache” died. A respected women, who owned Gambling Houses through the West.

• Her body was was found, “about two miles out of town with a Bottle of Poison.” (buried in an “unmarked grave”-UNKNOWN LOCATION)

  OCTOBER 9, 1879

• J.R. Cassidy, H. Richards, Sam Martin, Manuel Garcia and Joseph Broodier were killed, “when the brakes failed on the Tioga Mine Cage. All five miners’, “plummeted 520 feet to their death.” (all five Miners’ buried in individual “unmarked graves”-UNKNOWN LOCATION)

  OCTOBER 16, 1879

• Bodie Masonic Lodge No. 252 chartered—-Built a Meeting-Hall for meetings, and Community Events, and “acquired land for Burials.”  (Masonic Section of Bodie Cemetery - Marked graves locations.)