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Title: Volume 015-1 - January 1961 Collection Type: Books and Periodicals Collection Name: Nevada County Historical Society Bulletins # of Pages: 4 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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du Memoriam EDWARD C. UREN ‘ 1873 1961 > VIVO z x < Z LAA Ay ato eA Net RANA ano AAAI Ta A WTI aye NEW OFFICERS INSTALLED Annual Dinner Meeting of the Nevada County Historical Society was held at the Victorian Dining Room, National Hotel in Nevada City, on Thursday, December Ist, 1860, at 7:00 o'clock. Mrs. Gwen Anderson was in charge of the full course roast turkey dinner, 80 members and guests being present. Program Chairman Elmer Stevens, presented as guest speaker Wendell Robie, of Auburn, well known authority on Gold Rush Days, as well as other incidents of early day California History. Mr. Robie gave a very interesting talk which was enjoyed by Society members and guests. President Kilroy then gave his report of the year’s activities, after which the following officers were installed for the year 1961. 1961 OFFICERS OF NEVADA COUNTY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY President—John E. Nettell, 216 Pleasant Street, Grass Valley, Phone 273-7165 Vice President—Ray J. Polk, 504 Nursery Street, Nevada City, Phone 265-2798 Secretary—Mrs. Marie Knight, 200 Richardson Street, Grass Valley, Phone 273-6742 Treasurer—Adelaide Elliott, P.O. Box 1102, Nevada City, Phone 265-4701 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Grass Valley, Mrs. Edna Sampson, Miss Bernice Glasson, Mrs. Florence Kelly. Nevada City, Isabel Hefelfinger, Thomas W. Reynolds, Richard Nickless. County at large, John Trauner, Mrs. Weselsky, Mrs. Monian, Elza Kilroy, Bulletin Editor, Lyle White. To visit museum by appointment — Phone Caretaker Richard Nickless, Nevada City, NEVADA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DUES $1.00 a year. Payable January 1 of each year. Please get your 1961 membership card now. Bulletins are sent members of Society at no extra cost — published as frequently as manuscripts are available. Nevada County Historical Society Vol. 15, No. 1 January, 1961 aoe GRAVES OF NEVADA COUNTY Hy a” ; 2m, poy al REG ty Small Gravestone of Native Rock — Thomas T. Ralston, age 5 By Ross Hermann The hills of Nevada County shelter many an unknown and unmarked grave of an early miner or settler who succumbed to the rigors of life in the wilderness. The forgotten grave might be that of a gold seeker who fell sick with pneumonia during a freezing desert pogo-nip but who staggered across the mountains into the sunny lower foothills before dying. Or perhaps the grave might belong to a young pioneer wife who died while giving birth to her first child many miles from the nearest doctor who might have been of little use even if he had been there. Or the victim of the wilds might have been a pioneer child who was less able to withstand hardship than his conditioned parents. How many such graves dot the landscape, the identity of those resting there, and their stories of suffering will never be known. Yet there are two pioneer graves here in Nevada County which have remained marked through the years and which have in a sense become symbolic of the struggles of all those other pioneers whose names have been forgotten. Both graves are of young children, and their stories which follow attest to the mercilessness of the wilderness and the sacrifices that were exacted from the early settlers. THE RALSTON TRAGEDY On a hot, dry hillside in a manzanita thicket near the point several miles north of Nevada City where the North Bloomfield Road begins its steep descent to the South Yuba River, there is a small gravestone of native rock bearing the roughly scratched inscription: ‘“T. T. R. — Nov. 23, 1861.” Today the scene is quiet, with the stillness broken only by the rustling of an occasional lizard or the impatient buzzing of a fly. The dense manzanita and the unbroken grass give the visitor the feeling that he is the first to set foot on this ground.