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Greg,
According to the NVUSGENWEB Archives, Hugh Lord is buried in Overton, Nevada
at the St. Thomas Cemetery. He was buried there in 1947. It says he was
the "last person to leave as Lake Mead was rising." To check this out go
to
www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm and put in his name and state.
It will be listed under the search results for St. Thomas Cemetery, Overton,
Clark Co. Rosemary should be able to find an obit for you with this info!
I think you'll find the following of interest:
Source: An Enduring Legacy, Volume Three
Locality Histories
St. Thomas, Clark County, Nevada
The Union Pacific Branch line was built down the valley later, with St.
Thomas as the terminus, and between 1910 and 1918 it was a busy frontier
town. World War I had skyrocketed the price of copper and with some one
thousand head of rolling stock on the freight road between St. Thomas and
Grand Gulch mine, things were real lively. About this time the Arrowhead
Trail built through the Valley of Fire came out at St. Thomas. Many tourists
made it a stopping point, putting up at the Gentry Hotel or resting in
the shade of a grove of giant cottonwoods planted by the pioneers of the
sixties.
A little later, reclamation engineers began drilling at Boulder Canyon,
using St. Thomas as a supply base. It was later decided to build Boulder
Dam at Black Canyon and work was started on this great project. This meant
that the government would have to buy all of St. Thomas because storage
waters would eventually cover it. The people of St. Thomas were forced
to move for the last time. Some went to Logandale, others to Las Vegas,
Alamo and other points. All left but Hugh Lord and Rex Whitmore, and Rexs
son Leland. They still stayed on, but not alone for sentimental reasons.
Hugh owned a garage which was well equipped with tools. He was a very able
and conscientious mechanic and having only himself to be responsible for,
stayed on to take care of the work that came to him from up the valley.
He chose to stay, work when he chose, and fish as the mood struck him.
Rex, with his choice of all the rich farming land of St. Thomas, an ample
supply of water and no taxes to pay, could raise good crops of grain and
other food including cattle, hogs, and turkeys. Now there were no neighbors
to complain of stock trespassing on private property. These men had been
notified more than once to move as they were on government property, but
they still stayed onprepared to move before the lake got up to their homes.
Good Luck! Doreen