Carson Daily Appeal, 2002, Washoe County, Nevada Copyright © 2003 Doreen Robinson This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ BACCUS, Frank "Aged Negro Dies in Reno" A dispatch from Reno sates that Frank BACCUS, a giant Negro, aged 118, who drove freight teams between Placerville and Sacramento 60 years ago, died of senile gangrene yesterday at the Nevada State Insane Asylum near Reno. John HAWTHORNE, aged 82 years, knew BACCUS at Sacramento sixty years ago. He was then 6 feet 8 inches tall, weighing over 250 pounds, and was apparently about 60 years of age. BACCUS stated that he remembered when MADISON was inaugurated president in 1809, when 15 years old, so that his birth must have occurred about 1794. He accompanied his master in the Black Hawk War of 1832. In 1850 he came from Missouri to Placerville. He worked out his bondage and then worked as a freighter for DELUCE, who ran a store for many years at Placerville. BACCUS came to Nevada in the '50's before there was a Reno.