Old Tonopah Cemetery


The old Tonopah Cemetery was started May 7, 1901 with the burial of John Randel Weeks at the site (The body of Weeks was moved to the new cemetery in 1911). The cemetery served Tonopah until April 1911, when due to the growth of the town and mining in the area, expansion was no longer possible. A new site was then opened a mile west of town.

Many of Tonopah's pioneer resident are buried in the cemetery which contains over 300 bodies. Among them are many victims of the 1902 "Tonopah Plague". (It has never been determined what the "Tonopah Plague" was and during the winter of 1901-02, it claimed the lives of over 30 men and caused a mass exodus from the area.)

Also buried in the cemetery are 14 victims of the Tonopah-Belmont Mine fire of February 23, 1911. They were some of the last persons to be buried here. Among others buried at the site is Nye County Sheriff Thomas Logan, killed in a shoot-out in a Manhattan Bordello.(information from Find A Grave Website)

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Adams, Horres

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unknown - unknown

Addison, John N.

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1807 - 1906
99
Agieh, Roda

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unknown - unknown

Cause of death Suicide
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unknown - 1907

Ahll, Peter

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unknown - unknown

Native of Italy - Died of Consumption
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unknown - 1907

Albercht, Harry

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unknown - unknown

Cause of death pneumonia
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1899 - 1906
7
Cause of death suicide
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1852 - 1902
50
Native of Illinois
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1846 - 1910
64
Native of Canada - Died of pneumonia
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unknown - 1902

Augusteen, Hienrich

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1840 - 1907
67
Cause of death "burns"
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unknown - 1910

Backfuna
Inscription: And two babies......
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unknown - unknown

Bajkoich, John

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unknown - unknown

Native of Canada - Died of Tuberculosis
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1862 - 1910
48
Barbari, Peter

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unknown - unknown

Barnes, Ethel

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unknown - unknown

Barnes, William
Died in Mining Accident
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1881 - 1907
26
Barnett, Jack

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unknown - unknown

Barrett, jake

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unknown - 1905

Barolemo, Charles

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unknown - unknown

Baumann, John G.

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1884 - 1907
23
Bean, William
Died of Pneumonia
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1863 - 1906
43
Beaton, Sarah
Native of Indiana - Died of Cancer
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1833 - 1909
76
Died of Pneumonia
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1861 - 1905
44
Bennet, Wm.

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unknown - unknown

Benton, Jack

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unknown - unknown

Bernue, Charlie

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unknown - unknown

Bertrand, Baby

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unknown - unknown

Bishop, Mildred

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unknown - unknown

Black, Lean

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unknown - unknown

Blagrave, Walter L.
Died of Pneumonia
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1874 - 1906
32
Died of inflammation of bowels at 21 months
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1903 - 1904

Bloomberg, Eugene

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unknown - unknown

Blue, Russel
Native of Missouri
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unknown - 1910

Boehme, William E.

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1856 - 1911
55
Boneforte, Laurence

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unknown - unknown

Boneforte, W.

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unknown - unknown

Booth, Merrick

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unknown - 1905

Boscovich, Bozo
Native of Austria - Died in Belmont mine fire
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1890 - 1911
21
Bottomly, Ray
Native of Missouri
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1895 - 1909
14
Bourn, Kate

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unknown - unknown

Boyer, O.

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unknown - unknown

Brisk, H.

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unknown - 1905

Brown, Infant

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unknown - unknown

Brown, Kate

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unknown - unknown

Brown, Pat

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unknown - unknown

Bruce, A. A.

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unknown - 1905

Bryson, Hyrum Smith
Native of Scotland
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1852 - 1905
53
Buchurst, J. A.

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unknown - unknown

Died of Cancer
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1849 - 1909
60
Burk, Frank
Died in Belmont mine fire
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1870 - 1911
41
Native of England - Died in Septicemia
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1884 - 1910
26
Died of Typhoid Fever
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1854 - 1904
50
Burr, J.

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unknown - unknown

Died at Birth
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1906 - 1906

Cabrillo, George
Killed in a mine accident
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unknown - 1909

Native of England
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1881 - 1905
24
Cambell, F.

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unknown - 1907

Campbell, Olga

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unknown - unknown

Campbell, Stella

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unknown - unknown

Carlson, Emil

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unknown - unknown

Caruvantes, M.

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unknown - unknown

Casey, James

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1853 - 1907
54
Chadwater, A. J.

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unknown - unknown

Christopher, Lewis

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unknown - 1907

Clark, F. W.

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unknown - unknown

Clifford, Mrs. E.

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unknown - 1905

Clifford, Esther Ann
Native of England - Cause of death: Fall from a Wagon
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1853 - 1909
57
Cluse, Algred

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unknown - unknown

Native of Iowa - Cause of death: Pneumonia
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1847 - 1905
58
Collins, George

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unknown - unknown

Coltte, Mrs. M.
Native of Italy
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1888 - 1908
20
Condon, Infant

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unknown - unknown

Conley, E.

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unknown - unknown

Coombs, William P.
Died at 6 months
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unknown - 1911

Cooper, Eva
Died of Consumption
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1864 - 1906
42
Cordoza, Carlos
Died in Belmont mine fire
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1873 - 1911
38
Cordoza, Manuel
Died in Belmont mine fire
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1877 - 1911
34
Cox, John
Native of Utah - Died of Typhoid Fever
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1883 - 1905
22
Critchfield, Alvin
Died of Pneumonia
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1844 - 1906
62
Cronin, Walter J.

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1875 - 1907
32
Native of New York - Died of Asthma
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1853 - 1905
52
Native of Nevada - Died of Surgical Operation
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1879 - 1905
26
Curnick, C. S.

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unknown - 1906

Darlson, Infant

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1908 - 1908

David, Clarence H.
Died in Belmont mine fire
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1867 - 1911
40
Davidoc, John

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unknown - unknown

Davis, Fanny

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unknown - unknown

Davis, George

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unknown - unknown

Davis, Vincent

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1874 - 1900
26
Died in mining accident
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1877 - 1902
25
Day, John L.

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1877 - 1892
15
Debois, Infant

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unknown - unknown

Native of Italy - Died in mining accident
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1874 - 1907
33
Dempsie, N.

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unknown - unknown

Dempsie, T.

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unknown - unknown

Dempsie, Vera
Native of Canada - Died of Diptheria
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1897 - 1907
10
Died of Gunshot Wound
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unknown - 1910

Native of Texas - Died of Pneumonia
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1867 - 1908
41
Donahue, Mary

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unknown - unknown

Died in the Belmont Mine Fire
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1879 - 1911
32
Douglas, M.

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unknown - unknown

Driscoll, Con
Native of Ireland
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unknown - 1907

Native of Ireland - died of pneumonia
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1847 - 1904
57
Died of pneumonia
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1848 - 1902
54
Durk, Frank
Died in the Belmont Fire
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1870 - 1911
41
Died of Consumption
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1881 - 1903
22
Eckles, T. H.

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unknown - unknown

Edwards, W.

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unknown - unknown

Egan, Thomas

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unknown - unknown

Elliott, Robert

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unknown - 1905

Native of Canada - Died in tuberculosis
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1865 - 1910
45
Farrel, Pat
Native of Ireland - Died in a mine fire
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1870 - 1910
40
Farris, Infant

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unknown - unknown

Native of Ireland - Died of Fractured Skull
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1855 - 1910
55
Field, Harry

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unknown - 1902

Fillipini, Martin

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unknown - unknown

Fine, Hazel Alexandria

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1904 - 1911
7
Died of pneumonia
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1863 - 1905
42
Fitzpatrick, John
Native of Ireland
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1852 - 1907
55
Fogliani, Quirino Joe
Native of Switzerland
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1872 - 1905
33
Fournier, George

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unknown - 1908
7
Fraser, Robert

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1879 - 1911
32
Frasier, Robert
Died in the Belmont Mine Fire
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1882 - 1911
29
Fulton, Hugh
Died of a Gunshot Wound
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1865 - 1907
42
Native of North Carolina
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1860 - 1904
44
Gallager, Delia
Native of Ireland
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1846 - 1911
65
Gavir, James
Died of Miner's Comsumption
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unknown - 1906

Gianam, L.

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unknown - unknown

Died of Blood Poison
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1862 - 1904
42
Gillan, Robert E.

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unknown - 1940

Gillan, Thomas

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1878 - 1906
28
Gillson, David

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unknown - 1905

Googal, Grace
Died from poison
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1876 - 1906
30
Gordon, Walter
Died of pneumonia
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unknown - 1906