Storey County NV Archives Obituaries.....Fowler, Mrs. September 17, 1884 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nv/nvfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kathy Grace http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002598 January 8, 2011, 5:45 pm Reno Evening Gazette September 20, 1884 Mrs. Fowler’s Death An Ex-Lady’s Maid of Aristocratic Tendencies Found Dead in Her Bed Last evening’s Virginia Chronicle says Mrs. Fowler, an old resident of the Comstock, died on Wednesday night and was buried this afternoon. She came to Virginia City in 1860, so early that she claimed to be the first white woman on the Comstock, but there are others that share that honor. She has lived here, however, for about 24 years, and up to the hour of her death was very tenacious of her reputation as a Nevada pioneer. She was born on the same day that Queen Victoria saw British daylight, and this fact seemed to be one of the main stays of her existence. She fed upon and pondered it so that sometimes she imagined herself Victoria’s twin sister, and entitled to all the honors of royalty. Before she came to this country, some 30 years ago, she was lady’s maid in several aristocratic families in England, and she particularly delighted in relating incidents about My Lord This and My Lady That, as if she had been sponsor for all the crowned heads of Europe. She was a good natured old soul, always ready to assist the needy, when she had the means. The woman, who of late years, has been addicted to intemperance, was found dead in her bed. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nv/storey/obits/fowler1869gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nvfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb