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FRED W. BREMER
Fred W. Bremer, 69, of Goldfield, Nev., died Saturday in Long Beach, Calif., after a three-week illness. Mr. Bremer was born Sept. 15, 1894, in Ogden, a son of Fred J. and Eliza Bremer. He was married to Jennie VanLeeuwen. She later died. He had resided in Goldfield for the past 35 years. He was a member of the LDS Church.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Clyde Bremer, Goldfield; the following sons: Carl, Robert, Gilbert and Frederick Bremer, all of Los Angeles; his mother of Ogden, three sisters, Mrs. Charlotte Briney, Ogden; Mrs. Margaret Noble, Folsom, Calif.; Mrs. Gertrude Peake, Vallejo, Calif. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 3 p.m. in the Larkin Chapel of the Dawn with Clyde S. Wade of the Fourth Ward bishopric conducting. Friends may call at the chapel Wednesday one hour prior to services. Burial will be in Ogden City Cemetery. [The Ogden Standard-Examiner (Ogden, Utah) 04 Nov 1963, p.19]
CORA D. (Erickson) EDWARDS
Word was received in Mina Friday of the death of Mrs. Rosser D. Edwards, at Candelaria. It occurred Thursday evening. Cause of death is unknown. The deceased leaves several children and a husband to mourn her untimely demise, as she was just in the prime of womanhood. The Miner joins their many friends in extending sympathy to the bereaved relatives. [Western Nevada Miner - November 21, 1908; Submitted by Kelly Olsen]
H. D. JONES
Died of Apoplexy
H. D. Jones died here suddenly yesterday at five o'clock, of apoplexy. He was a drummer for G. W. Chealay, Sacramento. [Evening Gazette (Lovelock, NV), February 21; Tr. by Frances Cooley]
J. P. JONES
J. P. Jones of Nevada Dies at Sacred Heart
J. P. Jones, a miner of Goldfield, Nevada, died at the Sacred Heart hospital Thursday at 3 a.m., of tuberculosis. Some mining and brewery stock believed to be worthless, a deed to some Nevada mining property and his clothing were his only possessions. His only known relative is a step-son living at Los Angeles. His stock consisted of 600 shares of Gold Hill Brewery company, and 1000 shares of the Manhattan Mining and Milling company. In a small memorandum book he left the message, "In case of accident or serious illness notify Mrs. Mary Weeks, San Diego, California, Box 140." Funeral arrangements have not as yet been made. He was known by a number of Medford people. [Medford Mail Tribune (Medford, OR) - May 16, 1913; tr. by Jim Dezotell]
TOM KENDALL
Goldfield Veteran Succumbs to Attack
Las Vegas, Nev., April 12 - Tom Kendall, 68, prominent mining man and one of the original discovers of Goldfield, Nev., died here today when stricken by a heart attack while playing cards with his wife. [The Ogden Standard-Examiner (Ogden, Utah) 12 Apr 1939, Page 5]
J. VANCE LEWIS
President of Goldfield Abstract Company Passes Away in This City of Heart Failure
J. Vance Lewis, president of the Real Estate Title and Abstract Company of Goldfield, Nev., died yesterday morning at the California Hospital of heart disease, superinduced by exposure to the rigorous climate of the Nevada gold fields. Mr. Lewis came West from Washington, D.C. two years ago, and settled near Yuma, Ariz., where he had large landed interests. At the time of the Goldfield gold strike he went to Nevada and organized the company of which he was president at the time of his death. He leaves a widow and four children, the latter are Charles M., William H., Evelyn H. and Mrs. Cassell Severance. Mrs. Lewis and her two daughters are in Washington, D. C. and William H. is in Goldfield. The other son In this city will arrange for the funeral. [The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) 05 Nov 1905, p.42]
ALVA MYERS
Tujunga, Calif., Oct. 17 - Alva D. Myers, 77, called the father of Goldfield, Nev. died today in his modest bungalow. Myers, who became a multi-millionaire in 22 months shortly after the turn of the century, laid out a plot of sagebrush land in 1903 for a mining camp, naming it Goldfield. Four years later Goldfield, between Tonopah and Las Vegas, had a population of 20,000 and was Nevada's largest city. Myers staked claims for the combination mine, yielding $200-a-ton gold ore. He later discovered the Mohawk Mine, one of the world's richest and yielding ore assaying at $20 a pound. Myers at one time owned seven Nevada banks and built what was then the largest home at Long Beach, Calif., with doorknobs of solid gold.
The late Tex Rickard, a Goldfield saloon keeper, got his start as a fight promoter through Myers. It was in Goldfield that Rickard staged the bouts between Joe Gans and Battling Nelson in 1906 and between Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson four years later. Myers lost almost his entire fortune in the Nevada bank panic of 1927 and had been a semi-invalid since being injured in an automobile accident in 1937. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Hedwig Myers. [Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT) 18 Oct 1949, p.10]
MARK R. PLAISTED
Old Goldfield Newsman Dies
Mark R. Plaisted, 84, veteran newspaper man whose career included activities in Riverside, Fresno and Goldfield, Nev., died Monday in San Diego, the Associated Press reported. He had retired in 1949 after 22 years as advertising salesman with the San Diego Union and Evening Tribune. A native of Boston, he went to California in the 1880's and, after seeking gold in Lower California, Mex., located in San Diego in 1887. Shortly after that he went to Riverside and published the Riverside Enterprise, which he bought for $400. He then published the Fresno Democrat and following that went to Goldfield, where he worked on a newspaper and was chamber of commerce secretary during the gold boom days. [Reno Gazette-Journal (Reno, NV) 12 Mar 1952, p. 15]