EMIGRANT CEMETERY & KNOWN BURIALS
		    Churchill County, Nevada

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FORTY MILE DESERT    Between the Humboldt River and Carson River, on one
	             of the main Emigrant routes. Many people were left where 
	             they died, because of the difficulty crossing this area.
	             There are diaries that describe the dead animals, burning
 	             wagons and dead people left unburied. An estimated 25 to
	             50,000 people passed this way in 1850-51. 


FOUR MILE FLAT       150 yards north of U.S. 50, some 25 miles East of Fallon.
		     Fenced with new marker over older one "Known But to God".

Le BEAU, Jennie	     9 years old. Died of diphtheria.
Le BEAU, Louise      6 years old. Died of diphtheria.
Le BEAU, Emma        3 years old. Died of diphtheria.

Reported to be children of Michael and Mary Louise Le BEAU. Said to have died within days
of each other.

Members of the family in Utah have been in contact with the Museum. The Le BEAU family owned
a Store/Freight Station on what is now U.S. 50, which follows the Simpson Route through 
central Nevada, sometime prior to 1900. These three girls lived longer lives and are not
buried in the grave along the highway. This is a case of folklore that began when a Highway
Maintenance man found bones eroding out of the flat near the highway and reburied them, 
placing the original words with the cross "Known But To God", c1945. The new monument was
placed in the 1980's.



RAGTOWN STATION      Many who died on the FORTY MILE DESERT were buried
		     at a Cemetery here along the Carson River. Most of
		     it was washed away in a flood in 1861. What remained
	             was destroyed in the early 1900's when the wooden markers
 	             were piled up and burned and the land was plowed for
	             agricultural use. Reported to have been over 200 graves.
                     Thompson & West: History of Nevada, 1881.


Inscriptions were copied from markers, or if markers were not present, information is cited
from The Fallon Eagle, The Churchill County Eagle, The Fallon Standard, The Churchill County
Standard or The Fallon Eagle-Standard, or other sources by the Staff and Volunteers of the
Churchill County Museum & Archives, 1050 South Maine Street, Fallon, NV 89406. This has been
ongoing since 1980.