VAN BOKKELEN, J. L. b. 1823 d. 6/29/1873
Place of birth: Unknown
From 1960 cemetery transcription. Not located during 1998 cemetery survey.
He was killed in an explosion found to be caused by nitroglycerin and powder he was storing in and/or below his room in the hotel where he lived. The Pioche paper has another article on 1 July 1873 (not added here), which gives details on the bodies of those found by that date. It notes that Van Bokkelen's body was found in a corner of his room.
As of the date of these articles, the dead were Van Bokkelen; John Prescott Smith, hardware dealer; William D. Davis, clerk for Smith; W. Lowe, superintendent of Silver Hill mine; Charles H. Knox; Benjamin Mandel, clerk in Block's dry goods store; Mrs. L. P. O'Connor; Mrs. Susan Dean, wife of Edward Dean of Gold Hill; Dolly Dean, 8-year-old daughter of Susan & Edward Dean; James Devine, killed in Derby's stable by an iron shutter hurled there by the explosion.
[Rickards fiction: Major General Jacob L. VanBokkelen Served in the Nevada Vols as Assistant & then General Provost Marshal of Nevada during the Civil war of 1861-65. born 7 May 1823 in the US.
He was killed on June 29th 1873 after causing an explosion in one of the local hotels in Virginia city NV where he was storing explosives. It is unknow if he died in the explosion or killed by the irate citizens of the town. ]
Place of birth: Unknown
From 1960 cemetery transcription. Not located during 1998 cemetery survey.
He was killed in an explosion found to be caused by nitroglycerin and powder he was storing in and/or below his room in the hotel where he lived. The Pioche paper has another article on 1 July 1873 (not added here), which gives details on the bodies of those found by that date. It notes that Van Bokkelen's body was found in a corner of his room.
As of the date of these articles, the dead were Van Bokkelen; John Prescott Smith, hardware dealer; William D. Davis, clerk for Smith; W. Lowe, superintendent of Silver Hill mine; Charles H. Knox; Benjamin Mandel, clerk in Block's dry goods store; Mrs. L. P. O'Connor; Mrs. Susan Dean, wife of Edward Dean of Gold Hill; Dolly Dean, 8-year-old daughter of Susan & Edward Dean; James Devine, killed in Derby's stable by an iron shutter hurled there by the explosion.
[Rickards fiction: Major General Jacob L. VanBokkelen Served in the Nevada Vols as Assistant & then General Provost Marshal of Nevada during the Civil war of 1861-65. born 7 May 1823 in the US.
He was killed on June 29th 1873 after causing an explosion in one of the local hotels in Virginia city NV where he was storing explosives. It is unknow if he died in the explosion or killed by the irate citizens of the town. ]
VAN BOKKELEN, J. L. b. 1823 d. 6/29/1873
Place of birth: Unknown
From 1960 cemetery transcription. Not located during 1998 cemetery survey.
He was killed in an explosion found to be caused by nitroglycerin and powder he was storing in and/or below his room in the hotel where he lived. The Pioche paper has another article on 1 July 1873 (not added here), which gives details on the bodies of those found by that date. It notes that Van Bokkelen's body was found in a corner of his room.
As of the date of these articles, the dead were Van Bokkelen; John Prescott Smith, hardware dealer; William D. Davis, clerk for Smith; W. Lowe, superintendent of Silver Hill mine; Charles H. Knox; Benjamin Mandel, clerk in Block's dry goods store; Mrs. L. P. O'Connor; Mrs. Susan Dean, wife of Edward Dean of Gold Hill; Dolly Dean, 8-year-old daughter of Susan & Edward Dean; James Devine, killed in Derby's stable by an iron shutter hurled there by the explosion.
[Rickards fiction: Major General Jacob L. VanBokkelen Served in the Nevada Vols as Assistant & then General Provost Marshal of Nevada during the Civil war of 1861-65. born 7 May 1823 in the US.
He was killed on June 29th 1873 after causing an explosion in one of the local hotels in Virginia city NV where he was storing explosives. It is unknow if he died in the explosion or killed by the irate citizens of the town. ]
Place of birth: Unknown
From 1960 cemetery transcription. Not located during 1998 cemetery survey.
He was killed in an explosion found to be caused by nitroglycerin and powder he was storing in and/or below his room in the hotel where he lived. The Pioche paper has another article on 1 July 1873 (not added here), which gives details on the bodies of those found by that date. It notes that Van Bokkelen's body was found in a corner of his room.
As of the date of these articles, the dead were Van Bokkelen; John Prescott Smith, hardware dealer; William D. Davis, clerk for Smith; W. Lowe, superintendent of Silver Hill mine; Charles H. Knox; Benjamin Mandel, clerk in Block's dry goods store; Mrs. L. P. O'Connor; Mrs. Susan Dean, wife of Edward Dean of Gold Hill; Dolly Dean, 8-year-old daughter of Susan & Edward Dean; James Devine, killed in Derby's stable by an iron shutter hurled there by the explosion.
[Rickards fiction: Major General Jacob L. VanBokkelen Served in the Nevada Vols as Assistant & then General Provost Marshal of Nevada during the Civil war of 1861-65. born 7 May 1823 in the US.
He was killed on June 29th 1873 after causing an explosion in one of the local hotels in Virginia city NV where he was storing explosives. It is unknow if he died in the explosion or killed by the irate citizens of the town. ]
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