Obit Gaines - Nacogdoches County, Texas Genealogy and History

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James Taylor Gaines Obituary

(Contributed by Evelyn Owens)
Copyright © 2001-2004, Evelyn Owens, All Rights Reserved.

James Taylor Gaines died in the now abandoned ghost town of Quartsburg, California in November 1856. This obituary was printed in the "DAILY ALTA CALIFORNIA" newspaper in San Francisco, California on November 25, 1856. James Taylor Gaines was also the owner of Mt. Gaines Mine.

Very rarely are California Journals called upon to record the demise of one, in this State, who has lived the "Three score and ten years" allotted to mortals. A large proportion of the population of the cities and larger towns is composed, perhaps, of men in middle life: but even in the greatest assemblages, the venerable heirs that betoken age are seldom seen. The sparsely settled portions of the interior, however, contain but here and there one whose locks are silvered o'er, and those communities maybe said to be peopled by young men. We therefore, somewhat surprised on seeing chronicaled in a late number of the Mariposa Democrats the death of a citizen of that county who has attained the good old age of eighty. The deceased Colonel Gaines of Quartzburg, was remarkable for the interest he manifested in the political affairs of the county.

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