Shasta Courier
Shasta, Shasta County, California
August 5, 1858 Townsend's Flat, from the effects of a blow inflicted
upon the head, Thos. Coil.
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Shasta Courier
Shasta, Shasta County, California
August 6, 1858 Shasta, Clara Caroline, daughter of Charles and
Catharine Jager, of infantile fever, aged 14 months and 24 days.
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Shasta Courier
Shasta, Shasta County, California
August 15, 1858 Shasta, James Anderson, aged about 45 years, formerly
of Liverpool, England.
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Shasta Courier
Shasta, Shasta County, California
August 17, 1858 At the residence of her husband, near Texas Springs, of disease of the lungs, Caroline H., wife of Dr. C. A. W. Dingee, aged 28 years.
Pennsylvania papers please copy.
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Shasta Courier
Shasta, Shasta County, California
August 19, 1858 Shasta, of infantile fever, the infant daughter
of John Barry, of Cottonwood
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Shasta Courier
Shasta, Shasta County, California
September 11, 1858 Horsetown, of consumption, Richard A. Spencer,
aged 39 years. Deceased is a brother of J. C. Spencer, Esq., of Horsetown,
and was born in Bantry, Cork county, Ireland. He emigrated to this
State from New Orleans. His remains were interred in the "Shasta
Cemetery," in the presence of a large concourse of citizens, a majority
of whom accompanied them all the way from Horsetown, a distance of ten
miles.
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Shasta Courier
Shasta, Shasta County, California
December 9, 1858 On the Sacramento River, Mrs. Hughs, from Hemorahage
of the Lungs. She leaves a husband and a family of nine children
to mourn her loss.
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Redding (Calif.) Record-Searchlight
Tuesday, April 25, 1972
Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday for Carl Alfred Nation, a retired bus driver for the city of Long Beach, who died Monday. He was 64 and had resided in Redding for one year.
Nation was born Nov. 11, 1907 in Grinnell, Kan. He was a veteran of World War II.
He is survived by his wife, Mary Nation, of Redding.
Services will be held at McDonald's Redding Chapel with the Rev. Leslie
Hriczisce officiating. Cremation will be at East Lawn in Sacramento.
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The Searchlight
Redding, Shasta Co., California
Tuesday, February 6, 1940
RUFUS WREN PASSES ON HERE
Rufus Wren, 64, passed on Monday at the county hospital. He had resided at Anderson and Millville for many years.
Surviving is a son, Charles E. Wren of St. Louis, Missouri. The
funeral services are in charge of McDonald's Chapel.
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The Searchlight
Redding, Shasta County, California
Tuesday, February 6, 1940
HEART ATTACK IS FATAL TO MAN
Herman Caruthers, 50 year old Compton man, passed on as the result of a heart attack early Sunday at a local auto camp.
He had arrived here Friday with W. H. Ryman, a cripple, whose automobile Caruthers was driving for him. They had intended to continue northward this week.
Ryman told coroner Roy S. Duggins, who investigated, that Caruthers had heart trouble for some time, and that he had last seen him alive at 3:00 a.m. At 6:50 a.m., Ryman found his friend had succumbed and called police.
Caruthers was born November 1, 1890. He is survived by three sons, Earl, Donald and Ernest Caruthers of Compton, a daughter, Mrs. Thelma Mason of Portland, Oregon and two brothers, Wallace and Oscar Caruthers of Palm Springs.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock at the Home
Undertaking Company Chapel, with Rev. Lyndall D. Logee officiating.
Interment will be made in the Redding cemetery.
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Reading Independent
Redding, Shasta Co., CA
Monday, November 18, 1878
DEATH OF CAPTAIN DICK
Captain Dick, Chief of the Fall River Indians, died, after a lingering illness, near Burgettville, Nov. 7, 1878, aged about 33 years.
Captain Dick has been "Big Tyee" of the Fall River Indians for about 15 years, having been chosen to that office through the advice and influence of the late Dick Pugh. Captain Dick has ever been a warm friend to the whites, by profession at least, and it is hoped that when his successor is chosen, that no worse Indian may be selected.
The funeral was attended by about 300 Indians, and conformed in most reposects to the modes of civilized life. The body was handsomely dressed in a new suit of clothes, with kid gloves, white shirt, gold studs and collar button, and inclosed in a stylish covered and mounted coffin.
At the request of many of the Indians the Rev. A.F. Hubbard conducted the burial services, during which the most quiet order prevailed, and while prayer was being offered at the grave, each individual Indian knelt on the ground, bowing the head on the hands in the most reverent manner, forming a scene on the banks of the crystal stream never before witnessed and long to be remembered by those who witnessed its solemn picturesqueness.
Dick's last advice to his subjects was that they must not kill any more Indian doctors, as it was wrong, and was not the custom of the whites, whose customs he wished them to adopt.
Several Indians have been spoken of as Dick's successor, but no one has yet been chosen. It is hoped that they will choose no worse Indian than Captain Dick. Peace to his ashes.
Resident, Fall River Mills, Nov. 11, 1878
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Reading Independent
Redding, Shasta Co., CA
Oct 24, 1878
SHOT HIMSELF
To-day, a few minutes before 12 o'clock, a report was on the streets that Charley Eudress, a German, who within up to a short time had been keeping the Verandah House saloon, had shot and killed himself. A reporter of the "People's Cause" at once repaired to that locality and found a large crowd collected on the verandah at the north-east corner of the house. The body lay where it had fallen, while the walls and floor were spattered with the blood, teeth and portions of the face of the unfortunate man. Thus far it has not been ascertained whether the shooting was accidental or intentional, as the Coroner's inquest has not yet been held. The charge went in just back of the point of the chin, and it appears that the head must have been thrown back, as the entire face and a portion of the head was shot away, probably leaving the back part of the head intact. A portion of the charge from the shot-gun, with which the shooting was done, lodged in the ceiling overhead, which seems to prove this theory correct.
Charley Eudress located in Shasta about the year 1853. He was employed for several years in Charles Boell's bakery, afterwards superintending a mining ditch for Lewin & Baehr; and subsequently engaged in merchandising at Piety Hill, Shasta County. In about 1871 he came to this place, being employed at the Tremont, and afterward with Chris Heider of Tehama. Charles Mahler, by whom the deceased has been employed at different times, says that he can ascribe no cause for the act, if it is suicide, as he does not think he was embarrassed to any great extent financially.
Cuuse, Oct. 21
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Redding Free Press
Redding, Shasta Co., CA
Saturday, February 7, 1893
DEATH'S VICTIM
James R. Mountain, a son of Mrs. M. K. Welsh, and half-brother to our
school superintendent, left this vale of tears on Thursday, February 5th.
Death was caused by consumption, and deceased was aged 37 years and four
months. Mr. Mountain was born in Portland, Connecticut, and came
to California when but two years of age, where he has since resided.
He was raised and educated in Shasta county where he also learned the blacksmith
trade. For quite a number of years he was a partner of George Lowdon,
they being in business at the P. Glaszer stand, and also at Copper City.
Repeated heavy colds developed into consumption about three years ago,
since which time he traveled all over the State trying to find a healing
climate, but without success. Death had marked him for his own.
For several months he had been residing with his folks here, getting weaker
and weaker until death came to his relief. Jim possessed a quiet,
retiring disposition, and was well beloved by those who knew him best.
His funeral took place yesterday afternoon, a large number of friends following
his remains to the Catholic cemetery.
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Weekly Free Press
Redding, Shasta Co., Cal.
Saturday, Jan. 31, 1891
Henry F. Wright, aged about 66 years, died in Redding Thursday, January 29, 1891, at the residence of E. A. Reid.
The cause of his death, it is said, was consumption, but more likely it was cancer of the throat. During his sickness he received every care and consideration from the Reid household. One of the own flesh and blood could not have received better treatment.
He was born in Philadelphia, and after following the life of a sailor for a number of years he came to California in the early days. Like all pioneers he worked in many mining camps in the State with varying success. Finally he reached Shasta and here he settled down, living with the Atherton family until the old gentleman died and the widow went back to Baltimore, where she too soon afterwards died. The Athertons lived on the ranch above the old Reid place. Harry, the deceased, then worked for E. A. Reid until he passed away, having for many years been the trusted superintendent of the Reid toll-road.
He was a man of strong character, as true as steel, honest as the day
is long, generous, manly. He leaves a sister living somewhere in
the East, whom he visited a few years ago. He was buried on Friday,
January 30th, Rev. J. J. Martin officiating.
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