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Maiden's Grave Cemetery
Beowawe, Eureka County, Nevada

Lat: 40° 34' 10"N, Lon: 116° 26' 24"W

Contributed by Fred Kemmerle, Jun 02, 2004 [fwk12000@yahoo.com].Total records = 64.

Maiden's Grave cemetery is located on a bluff overlooking the Humboldt River to the north, about 2 miles SE of Beowawe (bay-oh-wow-wee) and an additional 6 miles from the Beowawe exit (# 261) on Interstate 80.

The cemetery was named after Lucinda Duncan who died nearby while travelling west on a wagon train in 1863. Duncan was a 70 year old grandmother, but those who past by her grave in the 1860's, assumed she was a teenage girl. There is a plaque at Duncan's gravesite that includes entries from the diary of James Pressley Yager, dated 16 & 17 Aug 1863, of which a shorten version reads:

"An event occured last night that has cast a gloom over our camp, the death of one of its members. An old lady, the mother and grandmother of a large part of our train . . . Her remains was carried to its last resting place as we proceeded on our journey & up on a high point to our left about one mile from camp . . . A board with the name of the deceased was put up at the head & boulders was laid over the grave to keep wolves from scratching in it."

The cemetery is in poor condition but apparently still in use. There are many gravesites with no markers or with illegible wood headboards.

This record was compiled in May 2004 from all existing and legible headstones.

- Fred Kemmerle

Andreozzi, Adolph, no dates
Andreozzi, Alec, no dates
Andreozzi, Clarence, no dates
Andreozzi, Joe, no dates
Andreozzi, Pedlar, d. 9 Mar 1927, "baby"
Baynes, Belle Weber, no dates
Baynes, Edward Lee, b. 1872, d. 1948
Benson, Eddie, d. 12 Apr 1882, aged 6y, 2m, 12d, only s/o O. & C. Benson
Benson, Kate, b. 1848, d. 1917
Benson, Oliver, b. 14 May 1841, d. 13 Dec 1902, nat. of Sweden
Bertrand, Norris J., b. 1876, d. 1949
Bianchi, Adele, b. 1915, d. 1935, d/o Mr. & Mrs. R. Bianchi
Black, May, b. 10 Sep 1951, d. 29 Oct 1998
Blair, Mabel Weber, b. 1892, d. 1983
Blair, William H., b. 1889, d. 1952
Cady, Claire Weber, no dates
Douglas, Amber Reed Hopper, b. 5 Oct 1965, d. 24 Aug 1997
Duncan, Lucinda, b. ca. 1792, d. 1863
Ebert, Louis, b. 28 Feb 1829, d. 4 Nov 1880, nat. of Morsbach, Wuerttemberg, Germany
Engstrom, Frank L., b. 4 Jul 1857, d. 17 Jun 1903 in Cortez, NV, nat. of Galesburg, IL
Falls?, James, d. Nov 1892
Finch, Cynthia, b. 1821, d. 1901
Fulkerson, Fent, b. 1857, d. 1931
Fulkerson, Josie, b. 1868, d. 1939
Garate, Roy Richard, b. 28 Dec 1932, d. 6 Sep 1993, "US Navy, Korea"
Johnson, Elizabeth, b. 1860, d. 1937
Johnson, Joseph C., d. 1 May 1882, aged 6y, 6m, 2d, s/o Charles & Elizabeth Johnson
Jones, Bessie, d. 1894, "infant"
Jones, Maggie, d. 1894, "infant"
Jones, Rosanna, d. 16 May 1897, aged 34 yrs, w/o Chas. A. Jones, nat. of Ireland
Kattenhorn, Albert, d. 24 Feb 1891, aged 54 yrs, 9 mos
Kattenhorn, Carl Chester, d. 15 Jun 1888, aged 2y, 3m, s/o A. & A. Kattenhorn
Kiefer, Edwin Alfred, b. 17 Dec 1915, d. 22 Oct 2001
Lemler, Helen, b. 1 Jan 1917, d. 17 Oct 1983
Longmore, ??, d. 1898, "infant son"
Manconi, Angelo J., b. 1903, d. 1958
Manconi, Josephine L., b. 1912, d. 1975
McConnell, Bernard, b. Oct 1878, d. Jul 1882
McConnell, Grace, b. Aug 1875, d. Nov 1875
McConnell, Mary, b. Mar 1847, d. Dec 1902, nat. of Ireland
McConnell, Robert C., b. Mar 1881, d. Sep 1881
McConnell, William R., b. 1845, d. 1917
Miller, Adolph, b. 1877, d. 1931
Modarelli, Gilda B., b. 25 Jun 1874, d. 17 Feb 1956
Mooney, Eleanor Grantham, b. 27 Aug 1910, d. 17 Dec 1990
Murphy, Mrs. J. H., b. 15 May 1835, d. 9 Aug 1900, nat. of Ireland
Nyberg, Martha, b. 25 Nov 1814, d. 28 Feb 1900, nat. of Sweden
Phillips, Roger W., b. 2 Nov 1924, d. 11 Mar 1925
Polley, Harry, b. 1912, d. 1977
Price, Janika Imogene Renee, b. 19 Jul 1994, d. 19 Feb 1996
Ricks, Cappy, no dates
Schultes, Frances, b. 1857, d. 1939
Schultes, George, b. 1857, d. 1923
Schultes, Georgie, b. 1888, d. 1918
Schultes, Roy, b. 1883, d. 1919
Schultes, Will, b. 1870, d. 1928
Scott, John, b. 1878, d. 1965
Seals, Harry Cecil, b. 5 Oct 1916, d. 15 Sep 1986, "CTM, US Navy, WWII"
Smithwick, Ira M., b. 30 Jun 1897, d. 8 Feb 1967
Tschopp, Michael Dale, b. 1946, d. 2000
Wear, Earlynne, b. 1920, d. 1996
Wear, John, b. 1921, d. 1976
Weber, Josephine, b. 1863, d. 1937
Weber, Thomas R., b. 1862, d. 1924

Misc:
??, ??, b. 18 May 1816, d. 31 May 1887 in Cortez, NV
??, Chanc ?, no dates (on Weber, Blair, Baynes plot)
??, Rex, no dates (on Weber, Blair, Baynes plot)
Andreozzi, ??, no dates, "father"
Andreozzi, ??, no dates, "mother"
B----, Allan, b. 1929 ?, d. 1996