El Dorado County CA Archives Obituaries.....Alderson, George January 20, 1893
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San Jose (CA) Pioneer Feb 15 1893
Another Pioneer Gone

To many, the death of George Alderson, which occurred Friday, the 20th inst.,
says the Placerville Democrat, was a surprise, as it was not generally known
that he was dangerously ill, although his health had been poor for some years.

Mr. Alderson was a native of England and came to the United States in his youth,
coming to this State from Wisconsin when but eighteen years of age.  He was
among the pioneers that came in 1852 to El Dorado county, with whose early
mining history, particularly of the vicinity of Placerville, his name is
prominently connected.

Shortly after his arrival here he and his brother Thomas Alderson, of this
place, began mining just south of Placerville, or in those days Hangtown, at
Coon Hollow, which at that time was a lively town of about 900 inhabitants and
comprising the usual miners cabins, stores and saloons characteristic of the
early mining settlements, thought at present not a vestige of the town proper
remains and the rich gravel beds upon which it stood have been worked to the
bed-rock.

The first claims of Coon Hollow were on a small scale, being but fifteen feet
square, and from these small beginnings the Alderson brothers, by securing from
the other miners deeds to their claims, finally acquired extensive mines from
each realized a fortune.

Mr. Alderson has always been a quiet, industrious man, kind and liberal, and had
many warm friends.

His funeral which took place on Sunday last was very largely attended.  He was
interred in the Union Cemetery, the Masonic Lodge, of which he was a member,
having charge of the services.

(We have known Mr. Alderson from our boyhood days in old Hangtown, and can vouch
for everything the Democrat says of him.  We extend to his bereaved family our
earnest and heartfelt sympathy) Ed. Pioneer."

Additional Comments:
Son of Thomas Alderson and Hannah Calvert, wife Susannah Richards, married 1849
in Grant county, Wisconsin

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