searchlight Cemetery #1

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Survey conducted in 1957 by Mrs F M YOUNG and Mrs Chester PATERSON

This cemetery was located off Highway 95, south of the town of Searchlight near the end of the runway of the Searchlight Airport. Survey conducted in 1957 by Mrs. F. M. YOUNG and Mrs. Chester PATERSON.

In 1961, an airplane crash destroyed many of the markers in this cemetery. By 1986, all that remained were pieces of foundation for markers and stones. Many of the headstones appeared at a fourth location listed as Searchlight Cemetery #4, surveyed by Patricia and Daniel Scott in 2000. The fourth location was deeded to Clark County in 1986 as the "Searchlight Cemetery". It is unknown if the bodies accompanied the headstones as there are no records of the move. 

NAME                        BORN           DIED          COMMENT

ALBERT, Helen JACKSON       1914           1953
BAGLEY, Wm                  17 Aug 1858    10 Dec 1918
BARTON, Willett HOWARD      11 Jan 1876    25 Oct 1952
BOUTEN, Frank J.            03 Nov 1853    24 Oct 1947   Corduroy Frank of Couer d'Alenes
BUCKMASTER, John            1823           06 Feb 1910   87y
CATE, John Max              26 Nov 1943    12 Oct 1949
COLLIER, Sharon Ann         26 Feb 1951    04 Apr 1954
COLLINS, Jay B. "Babe"      1899           1949
FERGUSON, John              9 Jan 1859     30 Jun 1910
FORD, Lee                   1870           1950
GATEWOOD, A. F.                            1914
GATEWOOD, Ophelia                          1906
GIBSON, Anna C.             Nov 1865       Dec 1938
GIBSON, Beryl V.            10 Feb 1889    14 Jul 1941
GIVENS, Rosa Lee            14 Mar 1869    14 Oct 1953   1875 on stone also
GIVENS, William Arthur      18 Dec 1875    16 Oct 1945
HAIGHT, Minnie Mae          30 Sep 1892    01 Jul 1942   Wife of Hector C. HAIGHT
HUDGENS, Charles A.                        14 Jan 1938   NV Sg 1 Cl 22 Aero Sq
HUDGENS, Constance J.       14 Jan 1911    03 Mar 1942
HUDGENS, John N.            1854           1923
HUDGENS, Margaret Mrs.                     08 Mar 1940   78y
JAMES, John C.              3 Jun 1865     00 Apr 19??
JOHNSON, Charles            17 Jul 1857    15 Aug 1946
KENT, George H.             1870           1949
LARSON, Carl                1864           24 Sep 1908
LEAM, John David            1877           1949          California Jack
MARTIN, Edwin Jackson       15 Feb 1861    06 Oct 1920
MCKINNEY, Brady             1930           1939
MIZER, Bertrum              1 Jan 1872     31 Dec 1938
MONTGOMERY, James Arthur    15 Apr 1851    22 Nov 1913
MURPHY, Lillian E.          09 Dec 1909    10 Jun 1947
NELLIS, Jasper N.           1889           1950
NELLIS, Lola Dot            1900           1950
PAYNE, Cary L.              13 Dec 1877    21 Sep 1953
PETERSEN, Eva D.                                         with daughter Velda
PRIDGEON, Wm Taft           05 Feb 1908    20 Sep 1935   dynamite accident at Black Mountain
RATZKE, Paul                1863           1950
REID, Frank Mason           08 Jan 1908    20 Sep 1935  dynamite accident at Black Mountain
REID, John                                 04 Dec 1941   62y 3m 5d
SMITH, G. B.                5 Sep 1878     21 Sep 1908
THOMAS, Jesse D.            19 Jan 1891    28 Mar 1938   born Florence, AZ, brother of Eva D. PETERSEN"
UNMARKED                    30 graves
WARMAN, Thomas J.           1864           1950          WERMAN?
WEAVER, Jess                               1908
WHEATLEY, John S.           5 Apr 1848     29 Jun 1909   61y, Justice of the Peace
WOODWORTH, Joseph M.        8 Nov 1831     29 Sep 1910
YEAGER, Alfred Wm           18 Nov 1869    06 Oct 1931

Persons who died and are listed on death certificates as buried in Searchlight are:

DUNN, Peggy Ellen           30 Mar 1934    26 Nov 1937         
OPPEDYKE, Louise GARNIER    25 Jul 1876    29 Dec 1915


 

 
Last Updated: January 31, 2020