Pioneer Cemetery
Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nevada

All photographs donated by Gerry Perry of Henderson, Nevada
( 2006 Copyright) unless indicated otherwise

 

There are only a few visible graves in this cemetery. It sits below a main street of Winnemucca,
and is easy to miss. Across the street from this cemetery is the Pioneer Memorial Park, with
monuments to some of Winnemucca's pioneers. In this and the next page, those monuments are
included as a companion to the few remaining graves in this early cemetery. Some of the
gravestones shown here are across the street by the Pioneer Memorial Park. These are marked
with an '*'. Gerry Perry


"This spot was part of the Pioneer Cemetery where rests Frank Baud and other of the pioneers who founded Winnemucca, earlier known as French Ford. Baud arrived in 1863 and is one of the men credited with naming the town Winnemucca after the famous Paiute Chieftan.

Baud came with Louis from California to work on the Humboldt Canal, a project headed by Dr. A. Gintz and Joseph Ginaca, who devised the plan to link Golcondra and Mill City by means of a s90-mile canal and provide water for the mills in the area. It was never completed. Baud later became a merchant, helped build the Winnemucca Hotel with Louis and Theophile Lay, was the first postmaster, and gave the town a schoolhouse before his death in 1868." Nevada Centennial Marker #2


Name Birth Death Other
AMBROSE, J. G.     U. S. Soldier
BANDUCCI, Francis   6/1/1907 Aged 6 Years; Our Darling
COLE, Nicholas   10/22/1886 Aged 40 Yrs 9 Mos.
COONEY, Theodora A. * 1877 1903 Born in Dayton "Former Chinatown"
CUNNINGHAM, R. W.
CUNNINGHAM, (can't read)		 4/14/1831


 6/6/1882
A native of Canada
GERWICK, J. A. * 6/10/1857 6/6/1886 In Sacred Memory;
HAYES, Martin B.   10/17/1877 Aged 30 yrs. 2 mos. 6 dys. A native of Wisconsin
MEMORIALS
METZGER, Dora

VOGT, George Henry
12/13/1875		 2/7/1888

2/10/1883
 Wife of George Metzger; A native of Wetenberg, Germany; Aged 55 years. Affectionate Wife and kind mother
Son of Mary A. Watson; Born in Winnemucca
OKADA, Happy * 1877 1903 Bodyguard for Dr. Sun Yat-Sen
PRATT, Herbert E. *
Full view		   10/31/1879 Son of H. J. & M. E. Pratt; aged 11 mos. & 6 days
RINKLE, Edward 1832 1909  
SLOAN, George W. *   9/25/1882 Their son; Aged 22 Years
SLOAN, Isabel *
SLOAN, James		   3/5/1885
8/13/1878		 His wife; Aged 77 Yrs.
Aged 59 Yrs.
THOMPSON, Mrs. Anna A. 2/14/1825 7/21/1877 Born in Richmond, VA. Died in Winnemucca, NV
UNKNOWN      


For inquiries about Nevada Cemeteries, burials and/or this project, or about this page or the pictures,
contact Gerry Perry the Nevada Tombstone Coordinator,

 

This page was last updated July 31, 2008
Copyright © 2008 USGenWeb Tombstone Project, Gerry Perry

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