Clark County NV Archives Obituaries.....BLACK, Pete March 1922
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Gerry Perry missgerry@cox.net January 4, 2005, 10:48 pm

Las Vegas Age - 3/25/1922


LAS VEGAS PROSPECTORS MAKE GRUESOME FIND



    J. W. WOODARD and Paul KENYON left Vegas last Wednesday morning in the 

Woodard car to look at several prospects and also to carry supplies to Pete 

BLACK who has been prospecting for Kenyon in the Kane Springs district since 

January 26, when BLACK went to the claims, he was accompanied by Ed WEAVER, 

but WEAVER returned here February 14, and BLACK was left alone.  When 

WOODARD and KENYON arrived at the shack they found BLACK sitting on the side 

of the bed dead.  He had evidently tried to get up in the night as a box of 

matches was still in his hands, partly open.  From the condition of the body 

he had been dead for a number of days.  A calendar on which BLACK had been 

keeping tab of the days as they passed registered March 12 as the last 

entry.  Either he died that day or was too ill to make his accustomed entry.

    The deceased was 47 years of age and has been in and out of Vegas for 

some time.  He was unmarried, and has a sister living in Seattle and a 

brother and sister in Santa Monica.  He came from Seattle and was a Mason. 

The coroner and sheriff of Nye county, where he was found were notified.











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