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Surnames: Dagnia
Classification: Query
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Message Board Post:
Hi Joyce,
In 1873 'death certificates' were not required. The City of
Gold Hill (incorporated 1861) did however record deaths in a
ledger, the 'Gold Hill Civil Burial Register'. The original
ledger is the possession of Storey County and is housed in
the vault at the Storey County Recorder office, Storey County
Courthouse. The address is PO Box 493, Virginia City, NV
89440, phone 775-847-0967. Maybe they could photo copy the
page in the ledger than contains the death info on Dagnia,
I'm not sure. It's an old book and exposing it to the
photocopy machine may not be feasible.
As far as locating a plot, 'no'. Gold Hill cemeteries were
long ago forgotten and sacraficed for mining. Of the
approximately 1,600 persons buried there, today only 242
sites are visible and only 135 of them are identifiable by surnames.
The Comstock Cemetery Foundation in partnership with the BLM
recently received funding ($350,000) from Save America's
Treasures to begin restoration, preservation and continued
maintenance of the historic cemeteries on the Comstock, that
includes Gold Hill and Virginia City. Upon completion it is
visioned that those individuals whose plots cannot be
located, will be named on a plaque when entering the cemetery
for those who were 'lost in time'