Mariposa Gazette, February 29, 1924
MRS. LENA WILSON DIES AT GROVELAND
Word reached here, just as we go to press, of the sudden death of Mrs. Lena Wilson (formerly Miss Lena Garbarino) at the home of her sister, Mrs. Jerome Martin, in Groveland.
Mrs. Wilson recently underwent an operation at the Groveland hospital and she was left with a weak heart, which was the ultimate cause of her death. Mrs. Wilson's husband was killed by a fall from a cliff in Cherry Valley last summer.
She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Angelo Garbarino of Coulterville, and several brothers and sisters. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made.

Mariposa Gazette, September 7, 1923
JAMES WILSON FOUND DEAD IN CHERRY VALLEY
James Wilson who, with a party of friends was hunting in the Hetch Hetchy county and who had been missing since last Sunday morning, was found dead in Cherry Valley on Wednesday after the surrounding country had been combed night and day by searching parties who presumed that Wilson was lost. Heart failure from over exertion is supposed to have caused his death.
Mr. Wilson was well known in Coulterville. He having married Miss Lena Garbarino, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Angelo Garbarino, Coulterville pioneers.
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Mariposa Gazette, September 14, 1923
HUNTER FALLS TO DEATH FROM HIGH CLIFF
In the account of the death of James R. Wilson as appears in the Sonora Union Democrat last week, death was not caused by heart failure but from a fall over a high cliff while hunting in a blinding storm.
The Democrat gives the following account of the accident:
James R. Wilson, a native of this county, aged 45 years, fell to his death from a precipitous bluff in the Lake Elinor country last Sunday.
Last Saturday he and his brother, W. H. Wilson, left Groveland on a deer hunting trip into Cherry Valley, where they made camp. Sunday morning he went hunting and about 10 o'clock a shot was heard by his brother. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon an electoral storm, accompanied by a heavy fall of rain and hail, prevailed.
Wilson did not return to camp that night, but that fact did not disturb his brother, who was impressed that he had hunted afar and undoubtedly had found lodgings in some old Hetch Hetchy camp. When he did not show up by noon the next day the brother became uneasy and got word to his brother-in-law, John Meyer of Groveland, who immediately spread the news and with a large party of searchers started for the Cherry Valley. The searchers were organized into groups and a systematic hunt was made for the missing man. It was carried on Monday and Tuesday unceasingly between daylight and dark without result. By this time the searchers were convinced that Wilson was ill, injured or dead. The search had been largely made in a section remote from camp. Wednesday morning the 40 men engaged resumed the search. Shortly after leaving camp, one of the parties, headed by Chas H. Baird and Rico Cassaretto, noted a peculiar odor in the air which as they advanced, became more pronounced, and they readily conceived it to be that arising from decaying human flesh. They followed the odor and within half a mile of the camp found the dead body of Wilson prostrate upon a sand flat at the foot of a rocky bluff 40 feet in height. His rifle was leaning
against the rocky wall as though he had placed it there while resting. An empty cartridge was in the barrel, indicating that a shot had been fired. An investigation indicated that Wilson had fallen from the crest of the bluff. Assuming that he had fired the shot heard at 10 o'clock Sunday morning, it must have been at a deer, in which event he would have thrown a loaded cartridge from the magazine into the chamber. An examination of the rifle revealed a rocky substance on the hammer showing that it had contacted with a rock and the cartridge thus exploded. Wilson's body bore no bullet wounds. But one side of his face and skull were crushed in, clearly from striking a rock in his downward flight. It surmised that he walked off the bluff at about 2 o'clock when the severe
electrical storm, accompanied by a heavy fall of rain and hall, took place across a wide sweep of country in that region. It is assumed that at this time Wilson was hunting on this bluff, a likely place for deer, when the storm broke in all its fury. Pulling his hat tightly down over his head, he started
hurriedly for camp and in the blinding lightning flashes and beating rain and hail, he stepped off the bluff in probably the most unsafe and dangerous spot it presented. In the next instant his body went hurtling down the cliff to the bottom. Instant death must have been his portion.