Notes from Record Search
Nye County Courthouse, Tonopah, Nevada
By Forrest S. Backert, Feb. 19, 1981

 

Submitted to Inyo County GenWeb and the BUHS Faculty and Staff Project by Carol Braley Backert. 

 

 

 

Belmont was county seat until 1905. (June)

 

Charles made a total of 19 property transactions in Nye County between Feb 1903 and 1920. (Later years were not searched.)

 

First death certificate signed by Chas. Wonacott was dated Jan. 1902, but not entered in the court records until Dec. 1904. There must have been a dead line of some sort as C.W. entered death certificates for the years 1902-1904 in the records on Dec.31, 1904 and they were being entered until 9:00 P.M. on New Years Eve. This could have been a clerk working late. These entries would have been made at Belmont.

 

Sawle and Hollis were undertakers in Tonopah during almost all of 1901 according to the newspapers in Carson City but there is no death certificate filed under their name.

 

Charles Wonacott filed all death certificates for Tonopah from 1902 until 1912 when F.J. Cavanaugh filed some. Could he have been County Coroner?

 

Albert Wonacott witnessed his first death cert. March 30, 1905; he would have been 18 years old at the time.

 

In 1906 there were no death certificates signed by Albert Wonacott. Was he in Bishop at this time?

April 15, 1905. M. McDonald, aged 50, from Canada, died from pneumonia. Witnesses were: Claude Huckaby, R.F. Hill, and Albert Wonacott. Claude Huckaby was the son of George Huckaby and Emily Smith. Geo. was a brother to Rachel Huckaby Wonacott. R.F. Hill (not Hall) signed many certificates.

Don Wonacott was a witness on a certificate dated June 25, 1906. He would have been 29 at the time. He was witness only the one time.

 

K. Wonacott was a witness Aug. 1906. This would have been Kennelley who was a half brother to Charles.

 

Wonacott and Hall are first shown as partners in 1906. All prior certificates were signed by C.W. only, even though Wonacott and Hall were in business together in 1902.

 

Some of the entries for cause of death are: died of hemorrhage from knife wound.  Died of diarrhea in the presence of friends and relatives. Suspect that ashes from pipe fell on dynamite caps. Improper feeding. (2-year-old child). Froze Indian (didn’t need a cause evidently). There were many entries for men killed in mines but cause of death was not given, just the name of the mine.

 

First certificate signed by F.J. Cavanaugh was dated 12/6/1911. Wonacott and Hall continued at the same time until Nov. 1912 when it became F.J. Cavanaugh until 7/12/1915 when it is Wonacott and Cavanaugh for a short time and then all entries were Cavanaugh only and they continued until 1935.

 

Feb. 7, 1903 Charles purchased 421xl00' lot on Summit St. from Albert Wilson for $519.14. This property known as the Eclipse Restaurant And Dance Hall. Dec. 18, 1903. There was a sheriff’s sale of the Eclipse Restaurant and Dance Hall. Charles bought it again. The property went from Johnson and Wilson to Harris to Charles Wonacott via the Sheriffs sale. It looks as if when Chas. bought the property from Wilson it had liens on it.

 

Sept. 18. 1903. Charles purchased from Mrs. Belle Smith-Haddock and J.W. Smith a 35-frontage lot on the North side of Corona Ave. and 100' deep with frame building, two stories in the rear part. Said lot is 150' Easterly from so called 'Two Jacks Saloon" or Main St. Together with piano and cash register.

 

April 10, 1905 Charles sold to J.V. Stewart one-half interest in the above property for $10.00 (ten dollars) including one half interest in the piano and cash register. This property known as the "Union Dance Hall".

 

Feb. 14, 1903. For the sum of $650.00 C.W. sold to W. Cuddy a lot 75'x 100' at the base of the east slope of Mt. Brougher and 100yds. South of the Curtis house. This a part of Tonopah Fraction Mining Co. property and has a three room "L" shaped house on it.

 

April J, 1905 Charles purchased from W.D. Nelligan for the sum of $10.00 one-third interest- in 10t.5 block F on St. Patrick St. and Bryant Ave.

 

Sept. 18, 1905 for the sum of $10.00 Charles purchased from W.F. Gunn mining claims in Manhattan named "Pine Tree, Jenny, Good luck, Crystal, Excelsior and Eureka".

 

Jan. 27, 1906. Charles sold to Robert Hill, George Lever and J. Shannon for the sum of $10.00 mining claims in Manhattan (those above).

 

Sept. 2, 1907. Charles purchased from Tonopah Mining Co. (F.A. Keith and  T.L. Oddie) note; Trasker Oddie was governor of Nevada. The Buckboard mining location mineral survey #2012, mapped into town lots for $15.00 a 37'x 56’ lot, without any mineral rights.

 

Jan. 13, 1908  J.V. Steward sold to Charles for the sum of $10.00, lots 1-2-3, block 63. Including buildings there on.

 

Sept. 8, 1908 Jim Butler and the Tonopah Mining Co. sold to Charles and Hampton, lots 10&11 on Bryan Ave. for the sum of $200.00. This a part of the Flying Dutchman and Big Iono Lode Mining Co. property.

 

May 6, 1912 Charles sold to F.M. Warner for the sum of $10.00 the lot he purchased Sept. 2, 1907 on Corona Ave.

 

Jan. 4, 1913 Charles made indenture with Mary Cavanaugh and released to her on 5/22/1920, one half interest in funeral parlor, hearse and piano for the sum of $10.00. Filed by F.J. Cavanaugh.

 

Nov. 13, 1914 Charles sold to Minnie Casette for $450.00 about one acre of land he had bought from Tonopah Mining Co. (to Steward to Chas.)

 

May 15, 1915. Charles sold to Joe Mick for $10.00 28' of lot 17 Block N (28'x100'). This sale made in Bishop, Calif.

 

Feb. 14, 1916 Charles sold to W.S.D. Young for $10.00 one lot block 63 30’x84’ south west corner of Central St. and Mizpah Ave.

 

March 21, 1918 Charles sold to W.S.D. Young for $200.00 84'x58' lot in block 63.

 

 

 

 

 

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