Osceola Cemetery

Osceola Cemetery - 1998  Looking over Spring Valley to Cleveland Ranch and the site of the 1863 Goshute Indian Massacre.  Shaputis Photo

The cemetery has about 47 definite graves

Ayers, Joe A drunken blacksmith, challenged Capt. D. B. Akey, a tunnel driller, to a duel. Ayers lost. Akey was acquitted. No date given but the incident happened in the early days of the town Nevada Tales From the Past by White Pine Chamber of Commerce 1964, page 30.
Bussey, Charles of Palestine, Illinois, ca 43, Born December 8, 1843, died 31 Oct 1887  
Collins, Inez L. Daughter of A. O. And I. M. Collins, born April 27, 1908, died May 15, 1908  
Kathan, Deckros Born 1841, Cowansville, Canada, died March 24, 1899, Cleveland, NV, age 58 years  
Kiger, Nathan Born Feb. 22, 1861, died Nov. 3, 1934  
Marriott, Alberta Nevada Born May 17, 1892, died June 17, 1892  
Marriott, Bertha Born Jan. 26, 1908, died March 8, 1908  
Marriott, George Henry Died July 18, 1890, age 10 months 6 days  
Marriott, James Elma Born Jan. 7, 1886, died March 31, 1886  
Marriott, John C. 1858 - 1922  Operated the Marriott General Store which was the only business building to survive the fire which burned the town in 1948. The store was a stone structure with tall, narrow iron shutters and doors. The Marriott home, which survived the fire, was near the store across from an iron pipe feeding cold spring water and surrounded by fruit trees and roses. (Ghosts of the Glory Trail by Nell Murbarger page 160.)
Marriott, Mary 1861 - 1915  
Marriott, Sarah Born March 9, 1826, died Nov. 8, 1899  
Moyer, Stanley H. Born Oct. 10, 1926, died Nov. 18, 1926  
Odgers, Charles Henry Born Jan. 3, 1848, Cornwall, England, died Dec. 11, 1903  
Paterson, Verna Stumpf ca 1957 - 1959 USGenWeb Project Archives, White Pine County, Nevada, By Gayle Hastert 
Schilling, Arthur P. of Chicago, Illinois, ca 29, died 19 Apr 1906  
Scott, J. T. Born in Ohio May 4, 1827, died July 1, 1903  
Skinner, Julius A. Born March 5, 1829, died Jan 17, 1893, of South Carolina, 73 years 10 months 12 days  
Swallow, George William Died Jan. 22, 1881, aged 3 years, 11 days. Son of George A. Swallow  
Tilford, Rosa B. Died Dec. 16, 1887, aged 12 years 6 months, 4 days  
Unknown prisoner An unnamed man in the Osceola jail was killed by a Spring Valley vigilante committee who were avenging the attempted killing of a local rancher. June 7, 1883.

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