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I am not related but have some info.
Alf Doten's Diary has only one entry for Mrs. Holmes.
Virginia City, 1865 Sunday March 5 page 824. I took supper & spent evening at Mount
Vernon House-evening. Mrs. Miles, Mrs. Holmes, Brier, Ben Porter et als in parlor with
me. Ben played guitar-we sang lots of songs - pleaseant time. - footed it home.
Nothing found for Peter Holmes.
Go to:
www.nevadaculture.org and click on the Nevada Census icon and you can search
Nevada census records from 1860-1920.
Joseph Dietrich, Mary and the kids are in the 1900 and 1910 census for Gold Hill. You may
may have to fiddle with the last name to get them to come up. Various spellings of last
name.
Mary Holmes is in the 1870 and 1880 census in Gold Hill. 1880 her mother is a widow.
Western States Marriage Index
Dietrich, Joseph F. Groom Residence: Silver City, Holmes Mary E. [29] residence Gold Hill.
County of Record: Cassia, State Idaho Volume 3 page 194. Marriage license #194 issued
10 Aug 1897.
1920 Mary Dietrich age 51 and married is in California, Nevada county, Meadow Lake census.
She is chambermaid in a hotel.
Joseph is not listed with her. Four children with her....
[Son Hubert J age 20 is working in lumber mill]
Daily Nevada State Journal 1903 March 14 page 2. E.P. Holmes died this moring in Gold
Hill at the residence of his Sister, Mrs. Dietrich.
Reno Evening Gazette 1925 August 19 Wednesday page 8
Nevadan dies on coast.
Hubert Joseph Dietrich, a native of Gold Hill, died at Dunsmuir, Cal., Tuesday, August 17,
according to the San Francisco papers. He was the husband of Anita Dietrich and father of
Frances Dietrich. He is also survived by a brother, Edward and a sister, Delphine. He
was twenty-six years old.
Reno Evening Gazette 1925 August 21 Friday page 4 Native of Nevada is dead at San
Francisco.
Word of the death of Hubert Joseph Dietrich, Nevada young man, at San Francisco Monday has
been received in Reno. He was a native of Gold Hill, attended school at Carson City and
was well known throughout this section of the state. He is survived by a widow and
daughter and a brother and sister, He was 26 years of age.
[note: one said died in SF other said Dunsmuir, Cal. One said died Tuesday and one said
Monday.
California Death Index Mary Holmes Dietrich born 13 May 1868 in Nevada. Died 2 June 1948
in Sonoma county. Mothers maiden name Byrne Fathers surname Holmes
Hope this helps a little bit.
Arline in Reno
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