Lost Dutchman Goldmine

I suspect that my story starts like many others. I never met Steve, never talked to him but feel I've known him all of my life. It's a terrible void, for many of us will never have that experience of personal contact. Our relationship lasted less than a year but in that time, I gained the utmost res...

The funeral home also has a web site where anyone can submit their thoughts, memories and tributes that will be passed along to the family.

http://www.dulletrimble.com/obituaries.html

There is also a photo of Steve albeit very fuzzy.

Garry

Joe, your right on track! Again, I wish I had immediate access to the Alkire Collection and "The Taming of the Salt" to ensure I'm not making some missteps! There is an apparent errant date in the account I have? From "The Taming of the Salt" He [Frank Alkire] spent the winter of...

I'm repeating a portion of one of Aurum's posts. This is Aurum's Post: Sat May 15, 2004 I knew Frank Alkire's daughter Alma quite well, she married Phoenix attorney Frank Snell. I read the letters and stories Frank Alkire wrote of his experiences in the Arizona territory on paper in his own handwrit...

Josiah Alkire was born December 25, 1818 in Virginia. He was one of the first California pioneers to reach Sacramento in 1849. Josiah made his stake in six months, and later settled down in St. Louis to establish a wholesale grocery business. On December 27, 1864 Josiah married Lydia Tomlin in Sanga...

Joe, We may need to compare some of our references but below is some of the information I have. I will certainly share detailed references. I would have liked to have reviewed the Alkire collection but that seems a ways down the road so I have decided to proceed with what I have? I agree that histor...

Joe You are correct when you say that everything has been "said" many times! I just think documents may exist that can shed additional light on the story and we might get closer to what really happened that night. Some questions I have. Can we put Frank Alkire in Phoenix in the period when...

Joe, I want to ease into this subject and would like to stick to "documented records". I have read the past posts regarding this whole subject and this is my take. The ticket story is "one" of the defining moments that divides modern day Dutchman Hunters into the Holmes or the Th...

Larry, That's more information than I would ever be able to come up with. THANKS FOR SHARING! All, I have been doing some additional work on this family the last couple of days. If you do a search on "Peg Leg Tumlinson", you should get a few hits. I, probably as much as anyone, realize the...

Larry I had found both Tumlinsons in the Oregon Death Index (1903-1998) on Ancestry.com Travis E. Tumlinson, Hood River County, OR (Died Apr 1961 at the age of 51) Wife Alleen Robert G. Tumlinson, Multnomah County, OR (Died Apr 20, 1965 at the age of 81) From that I calculated that Travis was born a...

Maybe not much here but I thought I would provide what I believe is a good candidate for Joe Deering in the 1880 Census. 1880 Sonoma , Sonoma County, California [Valleho is about 10 miles south of Sonoma] Joseph Dearing , 27 (Born about 1853) [You suggested 1855] Born in Maryland and his parents wer...

I suspect there are more detailed references in the forum posts but in Part 5 of Azmula's Articles on the Home Page he offered the following. In the early 1900’s Priests working in the Church in Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico, found a set of Stone Maps. It was determined by the Mexican INAH that these antiq...

Jan Thanks for the additional maps! The 3D was great and I see Kyrene. All Thanks for the help on the location, references and claim filing process. I found a current reference on the web which clears up the Salt River Mountains reference for me. Phoenix is ringed by the Salt River Mountains to the ...

Thanks for the response. It all got clearer when you got me past my mental block! I kept trying to equate the Superstition Mountain Range with the Salt River Mountains reference and I kept trying to put them several miles southeast of Apache Junction. (I'm still confused on that count) By 1894 when ...

Greg Davis graciously shared a copy of the Mining Claim by Albert Schaffer, Julia "Thomas" Schaffer and Albert's brother Englebert Schaffer filed on February 23, 1894 in Maricopa county, Arizona Territory. I have transcribed the document retaining the spelling and punctuation to the best o...

I finally got the first couple of films from the LDS and have had a chance to begin reviewing them. I feel like I'm trying to decipher a puzzle and I don't have the key. I have tried to find the voting laws applicable to the Territory of Arizona in the 1876 to 1900 time frame (on the internet) but n...

I obviously made an error in my previous post when I stated that the Schaffer Family was in both the 1870 and 1880 census. That would be rather hard since they didn't reach the U. S. until 1875. I was confusing them with some information I was working on regarding the Petrasch Family. I hope someone...

Greg kind of put me on the spot so at the risk of being repetitive I will post the Ship's Manifest and Census information. These documents simply supplement the information already provided by Greg. They give us confidence the information from the descendants is on track and provide a time frame. Fr...

Greg, I have not been privy to a naturalization document in this time period and I had a couple of questions regarding the mechanics. Were there any time requirements spelled out for the Declaration of Intention and the Naturalization Certificate? Emil had to be in the U. S., for X period? Emil had ...

Just an update on a previous post regarding the immigration of Emil Thomas' wife Leontina Bena. I was able to locate the parents of Lena Bena in the 1900 Lewis County, Washington Census (Enumeration District 128 Page 4A). They are listed as Andrew and Mary Benet. This is the same family as I had pre...

Greg and LDM The spelling of Thomas as Thoma was interesting. I found an Emil Thoma Christening on Jan 3, 1856 in Baden. It's a close fit for our Emil. Below is the complete family as derived from the LDS IGI Index. LDS IGI Index - (Batch Number 7023901) Father: Theodor Thoma – Christening: April 22...

Greg, Enjoyed the background information on the Bukovina people. You are surely correct when you state the reason for the Bene family being associated with Lewis County, Washington. In the article, Mary Rose lists the Bukovina German Surnames and their villages of origin. The village listed for the ...

Greg, If you haven't already sent your request to the Department of Corrections, you may want to wait. I sent my $10 to the Tennessee State Library and Archives today and they are providing some kind of state prison record though it will be 4 to 6 weeks. If you look at their web site you can probabl...

Wiz, There's an old saying that we learn more and more about less and less until we know everything about nothing. I hope that's not necessarily the case here? Greg The 1910 census was to reflect the status of the person on April 15 and in our case Amil was enumerated on May 5, 1910. The problem wit...

Don't know whether this is our Emil Thomas in 1910 but a lot of things fit. There are also some discrepancies, but census information is notoriously inaccurate. There was an Amil Thomas in the 3rd Ward (Long Beach) in Los Angeles County. (Enumeration District 40, Page 26B). He was listed as single, ...