Please note this memorial was originally created by a known fictionalizer on FindAGrave. The photos are generally stock and historical photos of unidentified people, and not those named in the memorials. Some photos were used multiple times. His photos of people have been deleted almost entirely from Silver Terrace cemeteries, but the same has yet to be done for Gold Hill. Data such as full birth dates and places (when not shown on the gravestone) have no source and were invented. If you added these photo and "facts" to your family tree, please be sure to verify everything carefully.
Mr. Bray came to Gold Hill in 1868. His name is listed in The Evening News (Gold Hill, Nevada) of Thursday, 12 March 1868, as part of a list headed "Arrivals. By Donner Lake route." He is in the 1880 census of Virginia City, Washoe county, Nevada, in Hayleys lodging house along with 14 other men, as Richard Bray, 36, lodger, born England (both parents born England), miner. He shows as married and had been unemployed for 2 months during the previous year.
[Rickards fiction: Killed by the Bursting of a Flywheel. This is all that is readable on the small fragment of a once larger stone which has been smashed by vandals and now lays in 3 pieces, hopefully its still on his resting place. The date of his birth and death have been smashed away but when found out I will add it to this bio. Born Feb 5 1845 in Dryden, Maine. Died April 18 1872 in Gold Hill. The photo of Richard Brey is courtesy of the Gold Hill Cematery Society who were kind enough to let me copy it for Find a Grave. The two color photos were taken in 1998 show you how the Gold Hill City Cemetery looks like today.]
Mr. Bray came to Gold Hill in 1868. His name is listed in The Evening News (Gold Hill, Nevada) of Thursday, 12 March 1868, as part of a list headed "Arrivals. By Donner Lake route." He is in the 1880 census of Virginia City, Washoe county, Nevada, in Hayleys lodging house along with 14 other men, as Richard Bray, 36, lodger, born England (both parents born England), miner. He shows as married and had been unemployed for 2 months during the previous year.
[Rickards fiction: Killed by the Bursting of a Flywheel. This is all that is readable on the small fragment of a once larger stone which has been smashed by vandals and now lays in 3 pieces, hopefully its still on his resting place. The date of his birth and death have been smashed away but when found out I will add it to this bio. Born Feb 5 1845 in Dryden, Maine. Died April 18 1872 in Gold Hill. The photo of Richard Brey is courtesy of the Gold Hill Cematery Society who were kind enough to let me copy it for Find a Grave. The two color photos were taken in 1998 show you how the Gold Hill City Cemetery looks like today.]
Please note this memorial was originally created by a known fictionalizer on FindAGrave. The photos are generally stock and historical photos of unidentified people, and not those named in the memorials. Some photos were used multiple times. His photos of people have been deleted almost entirely from Silver Terrace cemeteries, but the same has yet to be done for Gold Hill. Data such as full birth dates and places (when not shown on the gravestone) have no source and were invented. If you added these photo and "facts" to your family tree, please be sure to verify everything carefully.
Mr. Bray came to Gold Hill in 1868. His name is listed in The Evening News (Gold Hill, Nevada) of Thursday, 12 March 1868, as part of a list headed "Arrivals. By Donner Lake route." He is in the 1880 census of Virginia City, Washoe county, Nevada, in Hayleys lodging house along with 14 other men, as Richard Bray, 36, lodger, born England (both parents born England), miner. He shows as married and had been unemployed for 2 months during the previous year.
[Rickards fiction: Killed by the Bursting of a Flywheel. This is all that is readable on the small fragment of a once larger stone which has been smashed by vandals and now lays in 3 pieces, hopefully its still on his resting place. The date of his birth and death have been smashed away but when found out I will add it to this bio. Born Feb 5 1845 in Dryden, Maine. Died April 18 1872 in Gold Hill. The photo of Richard Brey is courtesy of the Gold Hill Cematery Society who were kind enough to let me copy it for Find a Grave. The two color photos were taken in 1998 show you how the Gold Hill City Cemetery looks like today.]
Mr. Bray came to Gold Hill in 1868. His name is listed in The Evening News (Gold Hill, Nevada) of Thursday, 12 March 1868, as part of a list headed "Arrivals. By Donner Lake route." He is in the 1880 census of Virginia City, Washoe county, Nevada, in Hayleys lodging house along with 14 other men, as Richard Bray, 36, lodger, born England (both parents born England), miner. He shows as married and had been unemployed for 2 months during the previous year.
[Rickards fiction: Killed by the Bursting of a Flywheel. This is all that is readable on the small fragment of a once larger stone which has been smashed by vandals and now lays in 3 pieces, hopefully its still on his resting place. The date of his birth and death have been smashed away but when found out I will add it to this bio. Born Feb 5 1845 in Dryden, Maine. Died April 18 1872 in Gold Hill. The photo of Richard Brey is courtesy of the Gold Hill Cematery Society who were kind enough to let me copy it for Find a Grave. The two color photos were taken in 1998 show you how the Gold Hill City Cemetery looks like today.]
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Richard Brey
who lost his life by the
bursting of the fly wheel
