Tonopah Cemetery - Tonopah, NV, US - Worldwide Cemeteries on Waymarking.com

Old Tonopah Cemetery was founded May 7, 1901 with the burial of John Randel Weeks, and was active until April 1911 when the number of dead outgrew the tiny plot, and the growing town required a new cemetery. Some three hundred people are interred at the old location, including many of Tonopah’s pioneer residents, many of whom fell victim to the mysterious 1902 “Tonopah Plague”, the cause of which still remains a mystery, Other eternal residents include some fourteen miners who fell victim to the Tonopah-Belmont Mine fire of February 23, 1911, among them Big Bill Murphy who died saving miners at age 28, and Nye County Sheriff Thomas Logan, killed in a shoot-out in a Manhattan bordello.

City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: Tonopah, Nevada / United States Approximate number of graves: 454 Cemetery Status: Inactive Maintained Cemetery Website: [Web Link]

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