Lincoln County NV Archives News.....Request to Enclose Pioche Cemetery October 3, 1873
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The Pioche Record (Pioche, NV) Fri Oct 3, 1873 October 3, 1873

Local Items
Down Among The Dead Men

There are three burying grounds in the suburbs of Pioche. The first, to which
we will invite the reader's attention, is what may be termed the public c
cemetery, in which repose all classes and persons who occupied different p
positions in life.
Unsuccessful efforts have been made to inclose the final resting place of those
who have died in Pioche and whose remains have been interred in the public 
burying ground. Posts have been erected around the lot, but that is all that 
has been done towards inclosing it. We have before urged the building of a 
fence around this lot, now rendered sacred as the resting place of denizens of 
Pioche; but from some cause or other we have not succeeded in awakening public 
attention to the matter. To the west of the public cemeter is to be found the lo
lot selected by the Masonic and Odd Fellows Fraternities for the final in
interment of their dead.
This ground is handsomely and substantially fenced in, and is a credit to the 
Masons and Odd Fellows of Pioche. Northwest of this burial ground is the 
Catholic cemetery, where quite a number of that faith repose, awaiting the 
sounding of last trump. It, too, is without an inclosure. Not a few of the 
graves in each of the cemeteries are enclosed by palings, and on a few of them 
flowers have been strewn. Head-boards are also numerous, yet we insist that the 
ground which by common consent has been selected for the repose of the dead 
should be properly inclosed, thta the final sleep of the departed shall not be d
disturbed by the tramp of the beasts of the field.


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