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"Old and much respected citizen?" -- he died at 44! I guess this is more proof
that life was short and hard in the early days of Nevada. However, I note that the one
article does say he was "in the prime of his life." Since he was in VC only
about 5 years, he clearly made his mark quickly.
Reading between the lines of these articles, it would appear that the community/family may
not have been aware of a direct connection between the deaths -- unless, of course, one or
the other commited suicide in despair concerning the other, which information may have
been omitted from the articles.
I note also that he was a "newspaper man." Do you know if that was that in VC or
in California? Might there have been an obituary also in Sierra County or elsewhere in
CA?