NOTE: The gravestone shows date of death to be October 20, 1881. In actuality, Mr. Stebbins death notice was published by the Bodie Daily Free Press on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 1881, stating he had "died Monday." Monday was November 21, 1881. /ss
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For several years he was a Bodie Town Constable.

His marker doesn't give a birth date, but mentions he was 56 years old at the time of his death. This would put his birth in 1824 or 1825.

(The above informatin was posted by Lonnie Decloedt.)


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The Daily Free Press, 11/22/1881:

DIED.
STEBBINS - In Bodie, Cal., on Monday, November 21, 1881, Solomon G. Stebbins, a native of New York, aged 56 years.

Death of S. G. Stebbins. (abstract) gives full name as Solomon Goodsel Stebbins; Constable for Bodie; died at the Cosmopolitan Hotel; born in New York, aged 56 years; previously lived in Austin, White Pine and Pioche, Nevada and Darwin, Inyo County, CA; a sister lives in Waukegan, Ill. and a brother lives in Kenoska, Wisc.

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Homer Mining Index, 11/26/1881:

DIED. In Bodie, November 21 st, Constable S. G. Stebbins, a native of New York, aged 56 years.

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Daughters of the American Revolution, Vital Records from Cemeteries in California, Volume 13 (Book 18), pp. 119-121 (Bodie, CA, 9/28/1952), CSL Book Collection, qc 929.2 D2c: listed as Solomon G. Stebbins, Native of N.Y. State, Died, Oct, 20, 1881, Age 56 years

Daughters of the American Revolution, Vital Records from Cemeteries in California, Volume 16 (Book 21), pp. 168-171 (Bodie, CA, 1957), CSL Book Collection, qc 929.2 D2c: listed as Solomon G. Stebbins, native of the state of New York, F. & A.M., died Oct. 20, 1881, age 56 yrs.

California cemeteries tombstone inscriptions, Northern Sierra area 1850s-1959 (Verna Stumpf Paterson and members of Reno Chapter of the Daughters’ of the American Colonists, LDS Family History Library Film No. 1320853, Item 19: listed as Solomon G. Stebbins, d. 20 Oct 1881, aged 56, N/o New York

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1850 Census, Placerville and Vicinity, El Dorado County, California: (Household of Andrew Delano, Miner) Salomon G. Stebbins, 25 yrs, Miner, RE $300, b. New York

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1860 Census, Kelsey P.O. & Township, El Dorado County, California: (Household of Powell Crosley, Hotel Keeper) S. G. Stebbins, 33 yrs, Butcher, RE $1000, b. New York
(Note: The location where Stebbins was enumerated in 1860 was at what was known as Slippery Ford on the road between Placerville and the Carson Valley. The hotel of Powell Crosley may have been a secondary hotel to J. F. Berry’s Strawberry Station, which Crosley purchased from Berry in 1863. Stebbins likely butchered the meats served at the hotel to the throngs of people beginning to rush to the Comstock after the discoveries in 1859.)

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1875 Inyo County Great Register of Voters: Solomon Goodsel Stebbins, 50 yrs, b. New York, Miner, Residence-Panamint, Registered-8/4/1875

1879 & 1880 Mono County Great Register of Voters: Solomon Goodsel Stebbins, 53 yrs, b. New York, Miner, Residence-Bodie, Certificate from Inyo County, Registered-4/15/1879

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1880-1881 McKenney’s Pacific Coast Directory, Bodie, p. 518: S. G. Stebbins, constable