The death of Henry Ashmead, familiarly known as "Hank Ashmead," occurred at the poor house, four miles east of Livingston, on the 13th inst., (February 1893) of general debility. He was one of the pioneers of Montana and among the first gold seekers to locate at Yellowstone City, near the site of what is now Chico, in Emigrant Gulch. Henry Ashmead was born in Ohio, and was generally supposed by those most intimately acquainted with him to have been about 75 years of age. He came to Montana in 1863, locating in the vicinity of Diamond and Virginia City. He came to Emigrant Gulch in 1870, remaining there until 1874 when he joined the gold seekers expedition that left Bozeman in that year to explore the Big Horn mountains. The expedition numbered about 250 persons. Its advance into that country was opposed by hostile Sioux, who compelled the invaders to fight their way to the supposed mecca against great odds so far as numbers were concerned--the Indians being the principal portion of the band that a few years later surrounded the brave Custer and his men and massacred them near that locality. The expedition was successful in driving' out the Indians with the loss of but one man, but the anticipated golden wealth was not discovered and most of the party returned to Bozeman, from which place Ashmead, with several others, went to Emigrant, where he has since resided. He was engaged chiefly in prospecting, among the most prominent claims located by him being that known as the Great Eastern. During the past few years he has been employed in ranching and piscaculture (sic). Feeble health, however, prevented even the pursuit of this avocation and last month friends in that locality believing he would receive better care at the poor house than could be given him at Emigrant, brought him to Livingston, and upon the order of Commissioner Chambers he was committed to that place. His death was not made public, and the body was interred at the burial ground on the poor farm. We understand, however, that members of the 1874 expedition and old acquaintances have inaugurated a movement to have the body removed from its present resting place and buried in a manner more fitting the life and character of a Montana pioneer than that usually accorded an inmate of the county's poor house.

*The Livingston Enterprise, Saturday, February 25, 1893, page 1, col, 3