Obituaries K-L

PUBLISHED IN THE PIOCHE DAILY RECORD 1872 - 1878

KAHL, John
Died August 21, 1872
Native of Germany. Age 35.

KAISER, Eliza
Suicide July 7, 1876.
Strychnine. Although she was married to one man, she lived with another man by whom she had a child.

KAMEGAN, August
Suicide February 23, 1876.
San Francisco, California.
Suicide by strychnine in hall of merchants.

KANE, Fannie
Died October 5, 1876
Virginia City
Woman of the town. When she dropped a lit cigarette, her clothes caught fire. She died at midnight.

KANE, M.
Killed October 3, 1874
Killed in mining dispute. Wallers Defeat Mine.

KANE, Thomas
Suicide September 27, 1874
Strangled self with suspenders. Had been judged insane previously.

KAVANAUGH, Michael
Died July 4, 1883
Pioche
He was a native of Ireland. Age 58.

KAVANGH, Kate Margaret
Died October 15, 1873
Ruby Hill, Nevada
Infant daughter of William and Bridget.

KEEFE, George
Killed July 10, 1874
Alta
Shot in return gun fire.

KELLER, John
Died October 18, 1873.
Virginia City, Nevada
Native of Kentucky. Mexican War veteran.

KELLEY, William J.
Killed August 7, 1876
Austin
He was stabbed through the heart while trying to stop a fight between Adelia DAVIS and Mollie COTTON.

KELLOG, W.
Killed October 3, 1874.
Silver City, Nevada
Killed in mining dispute at Wallers Defeat Mine.

KELLOGG, William P.
Died October, 1874
Justice Mine near Virginia City.

KELLY, Bernard
Suicide October 13, 1876
Garrity’s Lodging House
He took sulfuric acid.

KELLY, Child
Died October 6, 1873
Silver City
Son of William H. KELLY.

KELLY, D.
Died July 28, 1876.
Gold Hill
He was overcome by gas in the Bullion Mine and fell down a shaft.

KELLY, Elizabeth
Died May 24, 1873.
Virginia City, Nevada
Infant of Patrick and Julia KELLY.

KELLY, Eugene
Died May 18, 1876
He was just a boy. He was injured when he was stealing a ride on a train which derailed taking him with it.

KELLY, Hugh
Killed February, 1877.
Ruby Hill
Shot by Jimmy TICKEL in a card game dispute.

KELLY, John
Died January 17, 1874
Eureka, Nevada
He was crushed by falling rock at the Richmond Mine.

KELLY, Matthew
Died February 1874
Virginia City, Nevada
Car-man, Savage Mine. Severely injured. Accumulated a fortune. Member of the Virginia City National Guard. No family.

KELLY, Mortimer Thomas
Died October 7, 1873
Infant son of Morty and Kate KELLY.

KELLY, Patrick
Died November 5, 1874
Belcher Mine
Mine file victim.

KELLY, Patrick
Died April 28, 1879
Pioche
He was a native of Limerick, Ireland. Age 64.

KELLY, S. P. Jr.
Died July, 1876.
Trenton, New Jersey.
Youngest child of Mr. KELLY.

KELTY, John
Died December 9, 1874
Savage Mine, near Virginia City.
Fell down shaft. Age 36.

KENDALL, W. A.
Died January 27, 1876
Prison State Hospital
Morphine. Contributed to period of statehood.

KENDALL, William Andrew
Suicide January 19, 1876.
Alta Lodge Hotel, San Francisco.
Suicide by morphine. He was a news writer.

KENNEDY, M.
Died September 27, 1874.
Garrison Mine at Cortez.
Arrived last evening. Fainted and fell from bucket in mine shaft. Killed instantly.

KENNY, Felix
Died May 7, 1876
Senator Mine
He had lived in Virginia City since a boy.

KESTLE, B. H.
Killed August 27, 1873
Shot and killed by D. W. CHERRY (Col.). Wife in Devonshire, England. Son in Tintic, Utah. Also called William KISTELL.

KEYSER,
Died May 25, 1876
Died from small pox. He was a well known butcher.

KIDD, David
Died February, 1876.
San Francisco, California
Stevedore. Body was found when ship was unloaded. Head crushed.

KIDDER, S. R.
Died 1875/1876
Iowa Hill
Owner of Hydraulic Mine Claims. He had just told watchman he wasn’t vigilant. Later went to check, watchman shot him.

KILLINGLY, William "Billy"
Killed December 20, 1875
Eight miles from Indian Springs
He was killed by an Indian and a white man. "A Roughen".

KIMBALL, Charles
Killed January 10, 1876
Cerra Gorda
He was cruelly murdered by 30-40 Mexicans after Sam MERRITT posed as Sheriff for $10 to get him out of Delabi house.

KING, Harry
Died October 24, 1873.

KING, Henry L.
Died September 4, 1874
Of Virginia City.
Spotted fever now known as Spinal Meningitis.

KING, Humphrey
Died July 2, 1874
Grass Valley, Nevada. North Star Mine.

KING, James C.
Died November 2, 1874
Age 37. Gunshot wounds. Native of New York.

KING, Tom
Killed April 8, 1874
El Dorado Canyon
Innocent victim of a shoot-out.

KINGSBURY,
Died July 20, 1876
Carson City
He was the Principal at the Western Business College.

KOHLER, Pauline
Killed August, 1876
San Francisco
She signed a death bed statement that it was an accident that her husband Frank shot her.

KOHLER, Sarah Louise
Died May 15, 1873
Gold Hill
Age 4. Father Charles H. KOHLER.

KORTS, Thomas F.
Suicide August 9, 1876
He shot himself. Officer on the steamer Newburn running to Mexican ports. He has a wife in San Francisco.

KOUISA, Mrs.
Died May 22, 1873
San Francisco, California

KREANO, Carla
Died May 15, 1873
County Hospital
Age 26. Native of Mexico.

KRUS,
Died March 1, 1876
Off Vmatilla Scow.
Explosion victim.

KYLE,
Killed March, 1873.
Four miles from Carson.
He was killed in a shoot-out.

KYRE, Fritz
Suicide July 19, 1876
His business had died down to nothing so he shot himself. Native of Germany.

LAGOMARSINO, (John) B. (Guioviano)
Died October, 1873
Virginia City
Typhoid. Age 29. Brothers in Chicago and Virginia City.

LAMBERT, Adeline E.
Killed July 18, 1876
San Francisco
Accidentally shot by her husband. She was from Boston, Massachusetts.

LANE, John H.
Died November 9, 1873
Eureka, Nevada
Father Dallas.

LARGMANN, William
Died July, 1876
Lost at sea with three other seamen while aboard Schooner Energy.

LARRACOCHE, Felix
Suicide August 30/31
San Francisco
He put a 100 lb. weight around his neck and jumped into the bay. He was of Spanish descent. A cigar maker by trade.

LARSEN, Ole
Died June 15, 1876
Oakland Warf
He fell overboard from the Schooner Winfield Scott. Native of Norway.

LARSON,
Killed July 24, 1876
Ephraim
He was struck on the head with a pole and killed by Peter PETERSON, son of the Bishop at Ephraim, San Pete, Utah.

LASCELLE, Francis
Died August 7, 1876
Gold Hill
He fell down the shaft at the Belcher Mine.

LASSEN,
Killed June, 1876
2 Days ride from Ft. Laramie.
Pvt. 2nd Cav., Co I. Seriously wounded June 17, 1876, in battle with the Sioux along the Bluffs.

LATHAM, J. H.
Died June 6, 1876
At sea enroute to Europe.
Well known San Francisco stockbroker.

LATHAN,
Died June 14, 1876
Died from burns from firecrackers. Age 4.

LATSON, A. C.
Died July 24, 1874
Eureka
Flood victim.

LAVORONI, Baptiste
Killed June 25, 1876
Struck on head with a stick. He was a vegetable garden worker. Italian.

LAWLER, Amelia H.
Died May 24, 1873.
Pioche, Nevada.
Age 21. From Dublin, Ireland. Husband Alfred LAWLER. Parents in Litchfield, Connecticutt.

LAWTON, Thomas
Killed July 19, 1876.
Dubuque, Iowa.
Age 60. Killed by S. SAMUEL.

LEBLANC, Louis
Died March 17, 1873.
County Hospital
From France.

LEAR, William
Killed December 21, 1872
Run over by a train. Age 20.

LECHTENSTEIN, David
Died October 1, 1873.
He and friend Abram KIEWE, a Prussian of New York were examining a gun in front of J. KESSEL’s place and it went off.

LEE, John H.
Died September 15, 1874
Chico, California

LENHART, George W.
Died May 3, 1876
He was a pioneer of Austin.

LENHART, George W.
Died May 7, 1876
Age 42. Lived in Austin 1863. Native of Crawford Co., Pennsylvania.

LETCHER, William S.
Died January, 1876
Formerly of San Jose, California.

LEWIS, Andrew
May, 1875.
Bennett’s Ranch, White Pines
Apoplectic. Age 40. Native of Sweden.

LEWIS, Child
Died August 21, 1876.
Stockton
He and three brothers slept in the barn where a fire broke out. He got separated and burned to death. Son of W. O. LEWIS.

LEWIS, John J.
Died July 16, 1877
Candelara
Age 51. Native of Kentucky.

LEWIS, Williams
Killed December 3/4, 1876
Gold Hill
Shot by ROBINSON who said "I’m a Hays man". Some one said he’s a Tolden man at which time he shot LEWIS in the bowels.

LEWIS, Willie
Killed November 18, 1898
Winnemucca, Nevada.
He was shot by unknown persons. He died near the County Hospital.

LIBLORD, John D.
Died July 6, 1876
Imperial Mine.
He struck his head on a beam as he went up an incline in a giraffe. He left a wife and four children.

LICHTENSTEIN, Miss
Died July/August, 1876
San Francisco
She was the youngest daughter of M. H. LICHTENSTEIN formerly of Pioche.

LICHENSTEIN, Sol. H.
Died June 3, 1874
San Francisco, California
Age 50. Brother M. H. LICHTENSTEIN.

LIGHTON, D. L.
Killed July 26, 1876
Ward City
Murdered by assassin John DONOHUE.

LILLY, Thomas M.
Died March 21, 1876
Santa Cruz, California
He fell 90 feet from a trestle working on a flume. He was the super. of the San Lorenzo Flume Co. County Assessor. I.O.O.F.

LINCOLN, Abraham
Died July 8, 1874
Pioche, Nevada
Lead poisoning from Bullionville Mine. Age 35. Came to Pioche 1870.

LLOYD, Edward
Died April 5, 1876
Lung Disease. He had been sent to California several times but received no relief. He was Deputy Constable.

LOCSCHENKOHL, John Conrad
Died October 4, 1873.
Bullion City, Nevada
Age 26. Native of Germany, Grand Dukedom Hessa.

LOESCENKEL, John C.
Died October 4, 1873.
Bullion City, Nevada
Age 26.

LOFT, Thomas
Died June 12, 1876
Virginia City
Age 50 to 60. Died in the County Hospital of Rheumatism. Not able to work the last few years due to crippled feet.

LOGAN, Jno. A.
Killed May 15, 1876
Arizona Territory.
Shot May 10, 1876, by Alex CHEESBROUGH in self defense. LOGAN drunk and started a fight.

LONG, Carrie Francis
Died September 21, 1873.
Reno, Nevada.
Infant. Father Joseph LONG.

LONG, Charles Ed.
Died October 26, 1876.
Virginia City.
He came from California in 1862. Candidate for Senator ‘62, ‘65, ‘67 beat(t)en by NYE. 1870 appointed Minister to Japan.

LOSSE, Louis
Conviction April 15, 1876.
"Wife Murderer". Guilty of second degree murder. He was given 45 years.

LOWE, R. H.
Died November 16, 1874.
Typhoid-pneumonia. Piano dealer. Wife and two children of Virginia City area.

LUCAS, Henry
Killed December 10, 1872.
Dry Valley, Nevada
by James EVANS.

LUCAS, Henry
Killed November 27, 1872.
Dry Valley.
He was killed in an affray.

LUFF, Flora
Died July 6, 1876
Chenowich’s Ranch.
Drowned. Fell into the river. Father J. LUFF.

LUKE, Martino T.
Died October 25, 1873
Reno, Nevada
Age 56. Native of Bridge, England.

LUNDRIES, Lawrence H.
Suicide July 11, 1876
San Francisco
Shot self. He left a note confessing theft and telling where it could be found.

LYLE,
Died May, 1876.
Upper Valley Reno
She died from a pin scratch infection. She was the sister of William LYLE. She was age 55.

LYNCH, Humphrey
Died April 29/30, 1883
Ward, Nevada
He was a native of Ireland. Age 46.

LYNCH, James
Died June/July, 1873
Citizen’s Mill near Austin, Nevada
He was found dead in his cabin.

LYNCH, John H.
Killed July 11, 1873
Shot. Plans were made to freeze body and ship to San Francisco. Plan changed. Wife in San Francisco. He was a native of Ireland.

LYNCH, Thomas J.
Died March 25, 1876
Newport, Rhode Island
He was the brother of J. C. LYNCH who has lost two uncles in the last two months. He left a wife and large family.

LYONS, Annie
Died November 26, 1876
Gold Hill
He was hit by a freight car. Native of Ireland. Age 25.

LYTLE,
Killed July 27, 1876
Ward District
He was shot and killed by DONAHUE.

Transcribed and contributed 2001 by Patricia A. Scott