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Obituary for Dita Bradley (Glenn)
Daily Nevada State Journal, Reno Nevada - June 24, 1891
News reached here yesterday of the death of Mrs. Dita Glenn which occurred at Willows, California. Deceased was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Bradley. She had been ill for some weeks, but improved somewhat a week ago, and her mother, who had been attending her, returned home. Monday she was informed by telegraph that Mrs. Glenn was worse and she left immediately for Willows, but arrived too late to see her daughter alive. Mr. Bradley arrived yesterday from Elko county and left last night for Willows. The sympathy of the community is extended to the bereaved relatives.
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L. E. Byrne’s Sister Died In California
Mrs. M. T. Crutcher died of natural causes at the advanced age of 89, Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. E. Adams, in Los Angeles, where she was taken last week. Her son, Senator J. H. Miller was at the bedside when the end came.
Like so many other pioneers, “Grandma” Crutcher’s life was filled with adventure and thrills and columns could be written of the part she played as a pioneer in the Hawthorne district, she having lived here since the day the town was founded, over 50 years ago.
A native of West Virginia, Mrs. Crutcher crossed the continent in an ox-cart in the sixties, and after the majority of the party had been lost either through Indian fights or winter hardships her parents located at Austin Nevada, where she was reared to womanhood. There she became the bride of N. Miller and four children were born of the union, three of whom survive. The elder Miller died in Austin.
Bringing her family into the Hawthorne section, Mrs. Crutcher enjoyed the privilege of traveling across Walker Lake in the old steamboat that used to sail far above the shore line where the modern highway now provides routing for automobiles. She settled at the southern shore of the lake where several homesteads had been set up and a freighting station afforded employment to a number of people.
The then booming camp of Bodie placed such a demand on freighting service that L.A. Hawthorne and others conceived the idea of founding a town and when Hawthorne was officially recognized as a township, deceased was one of the prominent “charter” residents of the communities. It was here that she became the wife of Crutcher and two children were born of this marriage. One daughter survives. Crutcher died here several years ago.
Although at an advanced age, the sturdy woman, typical of the pioneer mothers, was alert and active and it was only recently that she showed signs of the illness which prompted her removal to the lower altitude and warmer climate.
Widely known as “Grandma,” she was in fact the great, great grandmother of Robyn Lavirne Forsythe and the great grandmother of D. M. Buckingham, both of Hawthorne. Although very affectionate towards all the members of the large family she was especially so to the younger children, and nothing was more pleasing to the elderly woman than to have the kiddies playing about the garden of her home that was one of the beauty spots of Hawthorne.
Her kind acts and deeds were so extensive that she was known to all Hawthorne as “Grandma,” and her absence will leave a vacancy that will be felt for many years to come.
No funeral arrangements have been announced as yet as it is the desire to communicate with all members of the family.
Immediate surviving relatives are two sons, Senator J. H. Miller of Hawthorne and Alvy Miller of Carson City. Two daughters, Mrs. J. E. Adams and Mrs. G. F. Sloan of Los Angeles, and a brother L. E. Byrne in Memphis, Mo. Mrs. Neva Ferretti and Mrs. Florence Buckingham of Hawthorne are grand children. - Hawthorne, Nevada Herald.
In a letter from his niece, Mr. Byrne learned that his sister was buried temporarily in Los Angeles, but that the body would be taken to Hawthorne, her old home, in the spring and be buried there.
Memphis, Missouri, Memphis Reveille, 21 Jan 1932, p. 3, col. 1
Find A Grave Memorial# 72700875
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Death Notice Monroe Miller
Walker Lake Bulletin, Hawthorne Nevada
October 9, 1901
MILLER - At Hawthorne, October 5, 1901, Hattie MILLER, beloved wife of Alva MILLER, a native of Nevada, aged 31 years.
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From Findagrave
Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Crutcher was born in Paris, Monroe, Missouri, the daughter of Ambrose Crutcher and Mary Ann Holiday. She died in Runnels, Texas. Her father, Ambrose Crutcher, is buried at Paris, Monroe, Missouri. He was famous in Monroe County annals as the originator of the round, long, dark green watermelon, and the seeds for it were in great demand. In those days nobody would buy anything but a Crutcher melon. Elizabeth Crutcher was married to Daniel Webster Arnold on July 11, 1860 in Missouri.
They had seven children:
Charles Elliott Arnold, Mary Jane "Molly" Arnold Goats, Isaac Bryant Arnold, Samuel Edwin Arnold, Francis "Fannie" Arnold Wright, Elenor Arnold Tyson, and Daniel Ambrose Arnold.