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Surnames: Baccus
Classification: Obituary
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I ran across this obit on the front page of the Carson City Daily Appeal, dated Feb. 8,
1913 and found it fascinating - hope someone out there knew of this man:
"Aged Negro Dies in Reno
A dispatch from Reno states that Frank Baccus, a giant negro, aged 118, who drove freight
teams between Placerville and Sacramento 60 years ago, died of senile gangrene yesterday
at the Nevada State Insane asylum near Reno.
John Hawthorne, aged 82 years, knew Baccus at Sacramento sixty years ago. He was then 6
feet 8 inches tall, weighing over 250 pounds, and was apparently about 60 years of age.
Baccus stated that he remembered when Madison was inagurated president in 1809, when 15
years old, so that puts his birth about 1794. He accompanied his master in the Black Hawk
war of 1832. In 1850, he came from Missouri to Placerville. He worked out his bondage
and then worked as a freighter for Deluce, who ran a store for many years in Placerville.
Baccus came to Nevada in the '50's before there was a Reno."
I have no further information on him, just thought it was a great obit.