Esmeralda County NV Archives Obituaries.....Pray, Chester 1913
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Reno Evening Gazette June 12, 1913
Last of Old Family Dead

Chester Pray Found with Bullet with Head; Father Owned Tahoe Lumber Mills

With the death of Chester Pray, who was found near a mining camp on the T. & G.
railroad with a bullet in his head, as related in The Goldfield Tribune, a
pioneer family of Carson is wiped out, he being the last surviving member.  The
circumstances indicated that Pray died from an accidental shot while examining
an automatic pistol.  His funeral is at Goldfield today in charge of the Elks
Lodge.

His father was Captain A. W. Pray who had mills and a big lumber business on
Lake Tahoe, living at Glenbrook from a very early day until he died.  His was
the first saw mill erected in Nevada.  For many years the family lived in Carson
and Captain Pray died there.

Chester's mother died in Brockline Massachusetts, last autumn and Chester was
the only remaining member.  Mrs. A.A. Si8lver, a sister, died several years ago
and with this family is extinct.  All of the family were of the best type of
American people.  Mrs. Pray's sister is the wife of Hon. Henry B. Cram of
Boston, Massachusetts, and with her.  Mrs. Pray made her home for several years.

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