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Jan. 1 – Ah
Sow – about 4 mi. west of Wall’s Diggings – shot - China
Jan. 6 –
Rosario Ures – apoplexy – Mexico – 82y
Jan. 18 –
Albert Austin – Brighton Twp. – shot – Massachusetts – 40y
Jan. 30 –
Anton Berger – 76 J St., Sacramento – fell down stairs – Germany
Feb. 8 –
Michael Yarrow – American River at American Twp. – drowned – Ireland –
30y
Feb. 26 –
John W. Miller – Monongabela House – suicide by strychnine on Feb. 25 –
Pennsylvania – 40y
Mar. 2 –
John Lavery, discharged soldier, Second Inf. CA volunteers – congestion
of lungs – Ireland – 42y
Mar. 19 –
Eugene Everett Stevens – Sutter Lake – drowned – Calif. – 13y 7m
Mar. 29 –
James Quant – Alder Creek – fell into mining shaft while intoxicated &
drowned
Apr. 5 –
Richard Lovell – poisoned by strychnine by person unknown – England – 52
Apr. 14 –
Thomas H. Barry – Sacramento brick yard – drowned – California – 7y 4m
5d
Apr. 22
(supposed) – Frank McCubban – Placerville Rd. 17 mi. from Sacramento –
shot – Missouri – 30y
Apr. 23 –
David Myers – American River at American Twp. – drowned on Apr. 14 –
Virginia – 58y
Apr. 28 –
Louis Labiville – Sacramento River – drowned – France – about 50y
May 8 –
Henry Bentley – Belvidere Hotel – fell from second floor – England – 54y
June 5 –
Robert Fremont Simmons – I Street near Front – run over by train –
Massachusetts – 8y 10m
June 12 –
John Enright – Sutter Slough – drowned – Ireland – 28y
June 21 –
unknown man – found floating in Sacramento River
June 29 –
Charles Cossinet, knife & scissor grinder – suicide by hanging – France
– 50y
July 1 –
Margaret Delany – suicide (supposed) by drowning in reservoir
July 3 –
Alton Pierce – Freeport – killed by gunpowder explosion on July 2 –
California – 9y 11m 23d
July 3 –
Walter Gammon – Bloom Lake at Franklin Twp. – drowned – Tennessee – 37y
July 3 –
Henriette Reuff – American River – suicide by drowning – Germany – 48y
July 13 –
Mary Edwards – congestion of lungs – England – 35y
July 14 –
George Murteshaw – Front St. – burned by alcohol while lighting bonfire
– So. Carolina – 30y or 80y
July 19 –
unknown man – Sacramento bank of American River
July 20 –
R. Lea – Brighton Twp. – suicide by cutting throat – England – 44y
July 22 –
J. H. Demarest – grain field on upper Stockton Road about 5 mi. from
town – exposure & neglect – Ireland – 40y
Aug. 21 –
Tong Ah Wang – Sacramento & Yolo Bridge – suicide by drowning – China –
27y
Aug. 25 –
Indian Joe – shot by police officer during arrest for burglary –
California – 25y
Aug. 27 –
William C. Smith – foot of I St. – drowned when fell from fish market
into river – New York – 15y 7m
Sep. 1 –
Daniel E. Hastings – Sutterville – accidentally shot by own gun – Ohio –
88y
Sep. 19 –
Mrs. Luts or Lutes – suicide by arsenic
Sep. 20 –
Andrew Steppe – suicide by strychnine – Germany (supposed) – 65y
Sep. 20 –
James Willis – ruptured aneurism of splenic artery – Kentucky – 83y
Sep. 28 –
Slias D. Griffith – run over by wagon, breaking his neck – Ohio – 37y
Oct. 18 –
Hugh McGartland – new Pacific Railroad Co. bldg. – fractured skull when
dragged by horse – Ireland – 46y
Oct.
19 – Foy Wing Hang – corner of I & 5th
St. – run over by train – China – 40y
Oct. 26 –
George Yuill – near Georgetown – accidentally shot self – Nova Scotia –
23y
Nov. 7 –
Chew We Cum (female) – suicide by opium when couldn’t pay her debts –
China – 23y
Nov. 25 –
Oliver Walcott – ruptured aneurism of aorta – Connecticut – 37y
Nov. 28 –
William Wilson – Center Twp. – drowned – New York – 25y
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