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Reno Evening Gazette November 30, 1910 page 7 Death of Pioneer
L. B. Hastings died at the Legate residence on North B street yesterday morning of
debility from old age aggravated by dropsy. He arrived in California in the fifties and
with a brother was proprietor of a hardware house in Sacramento. He came to Nevada in
1862 and served as clerk in the Ormsby house in Carson City. Later he arrived on the
Comstock and held the office of deputy county recorder. Subsequently he was appointed
clerk of the Nevada State prison holding that position eight years. Returning to this
city in the late seventies he held the office clerk in the justice court under Judge
Moses. He was an expert accountant and filled the foregoing positions with credit.
Descendent was native of New York, aged 75 years, and leaves a sister, four
grandchildren, two step-daughters, residing in that state and two step-daughters in
California. Virginia Chronicle.
My Note; Ormsby House was a hotel in Carson City, Nevada. The word Comstock refers to the
Virginia City area. Virginia Chronicle was one of the Virginia City, Nevada newspapers.
Nevada issued burial certificates before they made it a rule in July of 1911 to issue
actual death certificates. You will have a certificate of burial from Storey county.
That lists the date of burial not the a tual death date.
Hope this helps your research.
Arline Docent Nevada Historical Society, Reno, Nevada.
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