Bronze front and back plates are currently missing. This grave was used by bootleggers who would sneak into the cemetery at night, unscrew one of the bronze plates, and stash their liquor inside the hollow marker. Later, the saloon keeper they did business with would retrieve the liquor and leave behind his payment for the bootlegger to pick up later.

(The above information was written by Lonnie DeCloedt.)


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Research below is from Sue Silver:

Note: Uncertain if Find A Grave entry of “U. Pagdin” means Unknown Pagdin or if there is an initial somewhere on the marker. It is interesting that Annie Pagdin Milliken Donnelly later uses the middle initial of “U.”

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Bridgeport Chronicle-Union, 4/2/1892 (Saturday):

Local Intelligence. Personal. Mrs. Pagdon, mother of Mrs. Charles Donnelly, died in Bodie on Thursday.

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The Story of Bodie (Cain, 1956), p. 105:

Chapter Nine, Rivalry Between the Butcher’s Wives.

Donnelly and Johl were both unmarried when they bought out the City Market on Main Street from the Warren Bros. Charlie Donnelly, at the time was courting an English woman by the name of Annie Pagdin…

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Daughters of the American Revolution, Vital Records from Cemeteries in California, Volume 16 (Book 21), pp. 168-171 (Bodie, CA, 1957), CSL Book Collection, qc 929.2 D2c: listed as PAGDIN

Daughters of the American Revolution, Vital Records from Cemeteries in California, Volume 18 (Book 23), pp.82-83 (Bodie Cemetery, 9/3/1966), CSL Book Collection, qc 929.2 D2c: listed as PAGDEN – stone between two children’s graves, plaque removed

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(Research re: Pagdin and Donnelly)

1874 Salt Lake City, Utah Directory:

POSSIBLE - Miss Annie Pagdin, hairdresser, ss. 1 S. bet E.T. and 1 E.

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1870 Census, Bridgeport P.O., All Townships, Mono County, California:

Chas. B. Donnelly, 29 yrs, Dairyman, PE $1500, b. Canada

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Bodie Standard, 11/4/1879:

MARRIED. DONNELLY-MILLIKEN – In Bodie, November 3, 1879, by the Reverend G. B. Hinkle, Charles B. Donnelly to Miss Anna Milliken.

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Sacramento Daily Union, 11/13/1879:

MARRIED. Bodie, November 3 – Charles B. Donnelly to Anna Milliken

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1880 Census, Bodie, Mono County, California:

Willis Milliken, 39 yrs, married, Gentleman, b. US, Father b. US, Mother b. US; Annie Milliken, wife, 17 yrs, b. Denmark, Father b. Denmark, Mother b. England

(Note: Uncertain if this Annie Milliken is the same Annie who married Charles Donnelly./ss)

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1880 Mono County Great Register of Voters:

Willis Milliken, 39 yrs, b. Missouri, Saloon keeper, Residence-Bodie, Registered-10/2/1880

(Note: A Willis Milliken, 39 yrs, b. Missouri was enumerated on the 1885 Washington Territorial census at Seattle. This Willis Milliken stated he was Single./ss)

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1900 Census, Park Row, Bodie, Mono County, California:

Charles B. Donnelly, b. Dec 1840, 59 yrs, Married 20 yrs, b. Canada, Father b. Vermont, Mother b. Canada, to US 1856, Naturalized, Butcher, Owns home free of mortgage; Annie U. Donnelly, wife, b. 7/1852, 47 yrs, no children born, b. England, Father b. England, Mother b. England, to US 1869

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1910 Census, Green St., Bodie, Mono County, California:

Chas. B. Donnelly, 69 yrs, married 30 yrs, b. Canada, Father b. Canada, Mother b. Canada, to US 1856, Own Income, Owns home free of mortgage; Annie U. Donnelly, wife, 40 yrs, no children born, b. England, Father b. England, Mother b. England, to US 1869

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Bridgeport (CA) Chronicle-Union, Aug-Sep 1908:

Bodie Items. C. B. Donnelly left the early part of the week for Burlingham (?Burlingame?) where he will reside hereafter.

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Oakland Tribune, 1/22/1918: DEATHS

DONNELLY – In Oakland, January 21, 1918, Charles D. (sic) Donnelly, beloved husband of the late Annie Donnelly, loving brother of Horace Donnelly of Canada, uncle of Miss Grace Whipple and Mrs. Eva Farman of Burlingame, a native of Canada, aged 77 years, 26 days. Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services Wednesday, January 23, 1918, at 2 o’clock, from his late residence, 2100 High street. Interment Mountain View Cemetery.

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California Death Index:

Annie M. Donnelly, 63 yrs, d. 8/21/1915, Alameda County (County Code 60)

Charles B. Donnelly, Spouse-A., 77 yrs, d. 1/21/1918 Alameda County (County Code 60)

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Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California:

Annie U. Donnelly, b. 1852, d. 1915, Plot 48, Native of England

Charles B. Donnelly, b. 1840, d. 1918, Plot 48, Native of Canada