Shasta Co., CA - Obituaries


George Muck 1828-1898

DUNSMUIR NEWS
April 16, 1898

GEORGE MUCK PASSES AWAY
A. Levy of Dunsmuir received word Wednesday that George Muck, died at Shasta County Hospital Saturday last.  Mr. Muck was thrown from a wagon about 2 weeks ago, with a leg being broken. He was brought to Dunsmuir for treatment, and later sent to Shasta County Hospital. Pneumonia set in which added to the severe shock of the injuries, proving too much for a constitution weakened by old age.

For a number of years Mr. Muck, 70, had resided near the Old Red Cross Sawmill up Lower Soda Creek. He was at one time a quite well off rancher, but died in poverty.
 

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Emil Sherrer 1878-1900

DUNSMUIR NEWS
September 22, 1900

EMIL SHERRER DIES IN ACCIDENT

Brakeman Emil Sherrer, 22, Terre Haute, Indiana native, was instantly killed while coupling railway freight cars at Keswick Station Friday last. His remains were brought to Dunsmuir Sunday with the funeral services held at the family home. Besides the parents, Herman and Mary Sherrer, 3 brothers and 3 sisters survive. In 1888 he, his parents and family came from Grays Harbor, Washington.

He had been employed by Southern Pacific about 2 years. According to Redding Free Press, J.W. Hale, a young man, caught between two cars Saturday morning at Keswick, while showing a group of trainmen how the accident happened in which the Dunsmuir youth lost his life the previous night, died of internal injuries at Mrs. Young's Sanitorium in Redding Tuesday night.
 

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Ed Jose 18??-1894

DUNSMUIR NEWS
June 16, 1894

Ed Jose, who conducts a passenger and freight service between Redding and Weaverville, was shot and killed near Weaverville last Sunday by a man named E. Eddington, who was a teamster in Ed's employ. Eddington first held up another teamster named Hampton, robbing him of $130. Jose went out to hunt the robber and was shot, dying the next day. Jose leaves a wife and several children in Redding. Eddington was trailed by a posse of Deputy Sheriffs to a brush patch near Anderson Thursday night. They commanded him to hold up his hands, but when he reached for his gun, officers opened fire, killing him instantly
 

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Reuben Son 1829-1857

Shasta Courier
Shasta, Shasta County, California

December 28, 1857  Buckeye, Mr. Reuben Son, aged 28 years. Mr. Son emigrated to California from Pontatoc county, Miss., in 1849, and has been a resident of this county since 1850.
 

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Uriah B. Snavely 1821-1858

Shasta Courier
Shasta, Shasta County, California

February 19, 1858  Whisky Creek, Mr. Uriah B. Snavely, of injuries received from a wagon having run across his body; aged 37 years.  Deceased was formerly from Dauphin county, Penn.  His friends and acquaintances are invited to attend his funeral this afternoon at 3 o'clock from the "Empire Hotel."
 

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Andrew Parker Stevenson 1857-1858

Shasta Courier
Shasta, Shasta County, California

February 15, 1858  Shasta, Andrew Parker, infant son of Robert and Mary Stevenson, aged 4 months and 13 days.
 

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Mary Skillman 1856-1858

Shasta Courier
Shasta, Shasta County, California

March 12, 1858  Shasta, of Croup and Inflammation of the Lungs, Mary, daughter of Mrs. Sarah Skillman; aged 2 years, 5 months and 12 days.
 

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Ann Wilder Dosh 179?-1858

Shasta Courier
Shasta, Shasta County, California

March 18, 1858  At "Cedar Row," the residence of her son-in-law, the Rev. Isaac Baker, near Winchester, Virginia, Mrs. Ann Wilder Dosh, relict of the late Capt. William Dosh, and mother of one of the proprietors of this paper; aged upwards of 64 years.
 

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Mr. Christopher 181?-1858

Shasta Courier
Shasta, Shasta County, California

May 15, 1858  Trinity Centre, of paralysis, Mr. Christopher, formerly of New York; aged about 48 years.
 

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T. D. Johnson ??-1858

Shasta Courier
Shasta, Shasta County, California

May 17, 1858  Johnson's Ferry, of consumption, Mr. T. D. Johnson.
 

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Baby Boy Drummond 1858-1858

Shasta Courier
Shasta, Shasta County, California

May 17, 1858  Shasta, the infant son of J. S. and Mary Drummond.
 

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Isaac Briggs 1853-1858

Shasta Courier
Shasta, Shasta County, California

July 2, 1858  Shasta, after an illness of one day of Intermittent Fever, Isaac, second son of Col. Isaac Briggs--aged 5 years and 12 days.
 

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George Washington Brown 1857-1858

Shasta Courier
Shasta, Shasta County, California

July 30, 1858  Shasta, after a few hours' illness, George Washington, infant son of A. B. Brown, Esq., aged 1 year and 20 days.
 

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J. J. Farrish ??-1858

Shasta Courier
Shasta, Shasta County, California

August 4, 1858  Piety Hill, of Billious Fever, Mr. J. J. Farrish.  Mr. F. was born in England.  He leaves a wife and several children.
 

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J. C. Owens 1822-1858

Shasta Courier
Shasta, Shasta County, California

August 4, 1858  By falling from the Chauncy & Swinford's bridge, on the Sacramento River, Mr. J. C. Owens, aged 36 years.
 

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