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Surnames: Loftus, Curtis, Gignoux, Farley, Loughery, Douglas
Classification: Query
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I am updating my original message about this family.
Another researcher sent me photographs from the Dayton, NV, Pioneer Cemetery where all
these Loftus folks are buried. She also sent me some articles from the Dayton Appeal
Newspaper with stories taken from the diaries of Emma Nevada Barton Loftus. She was the
wife of our relative's brother, Andrew (Jack) Loftus. Our grandmother, Mollie Curtis
Loftus, moved away from Dayton when her young husband, Walter J. Loftus, died in 1894. I
find her next in the 1900 Los Angeles Federal Census with another child born in 1898,
Howard Bluford Douglas, added to her three Loftus children, Bessie May, Arthur and Fred
(called Ted). I have recently made contact with the great-granddaughter of Fred/Ted
Loftus.
Very interesting search! Theresa