[4]

1870

Lewis G.

 38  M   b.Virginia

[occ] Teamster

 

 

Nevada, Pioche City, Lincoln County, 10 Aug. 1870;

 

 

NARA M593 Roll 834 pg.201 [3rd line] [page also marked “17” and “39”]

 

[5]

Pioche, county seat (since 1871) of Lincoln County; E 6 on the Nevada map [1].

 

a.

“In the 1860s Pioche, Nevada was the baddest town in the west;

 

 

 badder than Tombstone, badder than Dodge City and all the rest.”

 

 

http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/nv/pioche.html

 

b.

Pioche (pronounced - pee-oach), http://www.pioche.net/pioche.htm

 

 

The saying goes that 72 men died in Pioche before one died of natural causes.

 

c.

Historic Overview, http://www.piochenevada.com/history.htm

 

[6]

Belmont, Nye County (county seat, 1869-1905); D 4 on the Nevada map [1]

 

a.

Belmont Courthouse, Nevada State Parks http://www.parks.nv.gov/bc.htm

 

b.

Belmont 'circa 1871' picture, and Belmont Courthouse State Historic Park,

 

 

                http://www.sangres.com/nevada/stateparks/belmontcourthouse.htm

 

c.

20th-Century ghost town, http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/nv/belmont.html

 

d.

Tonopah, county seat (since 1905) of Nye County; D-3 on the Nevada map [1]

 

[7]

1873 Marriage: “I Samuel B. Moore Priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church in

 

the United States of America do certify that on the seventeenth day of November

 

AD 1873 at Belmont Nevada I joined together in holy matrimony George Lewis

 

and Mrs. Martha C. Tucker. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand on

 

this 17th day of November 1873      /s/ Samuel B. Moore Minister at Belmont

 

Nye County Marriages, Book A. pg.8; Nye County Recorder, Tonopah, Nevada.

 

[8]

1880

Lewis, Geo.

 48   M   b.Virginia

Stock Raiser, f.b.VA, m.b.VA

 

 

Lewis, M. C. 

 32    F   b.Iowa

House Keeper, f.b.NC, m.b.IN

 

 

Tucker, M. C.

 17    F   b.California

step-dau., f.b.MO, m.b.IA

 

 

Tucker, V. L. 

 14    F   b.California

step-dau., f.b.MO, m.b.IA

 

 

Tucker, R. L. 

 12   M   b.California

step-son,  f.b.MO, m.b.IA

 

 

Tucker, M. C.

 10    F   b.California

step-dau., f.b.MO, m.b.IA

 

 

Lewis, E.

   4    F   b.Nevada

daughter

 

 

Lewis, George

   3   M   b.Nevada

son

 

 

Lewis, G. G.

 26   M   b.Missouri

Brother, Laborer

 

 

Campbell, Sam’l.

 40   M   b.Scotland

Laborer

 

 

Samb, E.

 40   M   b.Ohio

Stock Raiser

 

 

Charley, Jo, Jesse

 25   M,  22  M,  18  M

3 black servants, all b.Nevada

 

 

Nevada, Cherry Creek, Nye County; NARA T9-0759 pg.19D, circa 5-6 July

 

 

1880 [no date on pg.19D; previous page 2 July 1880, next page 10 July 1880]

 

 

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McAninch Family History NL v.XVII n.1 / January 2009 / Copyright Frank McAninch / page 2009-05

 

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