Las Vegas Age, February 29, 2004, Clark County, Nevada  
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LAS VEGAS AGE
4/21/1917

DEATH OF PIONEER

    Judge J. RALPH, former justice of the peace in Las Vegas, died in 
Santa Ana, Cal., April 16th, according to word received by Mrs. Joe 
SMITH.
    Judge with Mrs. RALPH came to Vegas in 1903 and was a prominent 
character here during the early days of the town. He married his wife, 
Barbara, at Tacoma, Wash., in 1890, and April 15th was their 27th 
anniversary.  He was 74 years of age. All of the older residents of 
Vegas remember these good people and sincerely sympathize with the widow 
in her bereavement.


LAS VEGAS AGE
4/28/1917

JUDGE JACOB RALPH

    Judge Jacob RALPH, whose passing was noted in the issue of last 
week, died April 16th at Santa Ana, Cal.  Heart trouble and dropsy were 
the causes of death. A letter informs us that he was married to Miss 
Barbara Caroline DREHER, who survives him, 27 years and one day before 
the date of his death.
    Judge RALPH was a native of Denmark and served in the Danish war in 
1864 with distinction. He was a 32d degree Mason.  He leaves surviving 
him, besides his widow, two brothers and a sister.
    The death of her husband is the second bereavement Mrs. RALPH had 
suffered recently, her mother, Mrs. Viktor DREHER having passed away at 
the RALPH home in Santa Ana, January 19th, 1917.