Clark County NV Archives Obituaries.....O'NEILL, Larry 1921
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Las Vegas Age - 7/30/1921
LAS VEGAS AGE

7/30/1921



OLD PROSPECTOR DIES ALONE IN THE HILLS



LARRY O'NEILL OF NELSON, FOUND DEAD AT HIS CAMP IN THE KATHERINE DISTRICT



    In the remote fastness of the silent and forbidding hills of the

Katherine mining district on the Arizona side of the Colorado river, about

half a mile from the "Tyro" mine, the body of Larry O'NEILL was found.

    He had died at his prospecting camp, a sacrifice to the search for the

previous metals to which he had devoted much of his life.

    The coroner of Yucca, Arizona, investigated the case and found that

death was caused by heart failure brought on by the excessive heat of that

region.

    "Larry," as he was called by all his friends, left Nelson, where he has

been mining for many years, on May 6th.  He wrote to his friend, Harry

WEINECKE, that Matt SAMMON, another old Nelson miner, and himself had made

some locations that looked promising.  This was the last word, so far as

known, that his Nelson friends had from him.

    In a letter to the Age, Harry WEINECKE says:

    "Larry will be greatly missed by many friends in the prospecting game.

He was 66 years of age, and died in the harness.  He was always hopeful,

cheerful and charitable.  God bless him."

    A manly and fitting tribute from man to man.  The Editor of the Age knew

Larry well and loved him for his kindly qualities.  We join in the "God

bless him," of his friend.











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