Feather River Bulletin, Quincy, California 14 March 1918
BODY OF MAN FOUND NEAR ENGELMINE
Exposure supposed to have been cause of death of Ray B Acker
Ray B Acker of Livermore, who was employed on the surveying force by the Engels Copper Mining Company, left his job Sunday morning to take up his homestead claim in the direction of Susanville. A snowstorm was raging at the time, and regardless of warnings, he started over the mountains, clad in a short overcoat and with no food but two sandwiches. He was to wire his wife and daughter when he reached Susanville. No message coming in reasonable time, the Deputy Sheriff, Frank Smith, wired by way of Reno, and ascertained that the man had not arrived in Susanville, and on Wednesday morning a party of four men on skiis, with a supply of food, headed by the local hunter, Hensley Potts, went out to search for the missing man. The afternoon of the same day, March 13th, they found the body of Mr. Ackers on the road, about seven miles from Engelmine. The exact cause of death has not been reported. Attorney Charles Wetmore of Marysville received word Wednesday that his brother-in-law, Ray Acker, was found in the snow in Plumas County. According to Wetmore, Acker a few days ago had occasioned to go from the Engels mine to Susanville and thought he could walk. He started out and was overtaken in a snowstorm and perished.
Burial Date 15 March 1918, Alameda Callaghan Memorial Records. Burial Place unknown.
BODY OF MAN FOUND NEAR ENGELMINE
Exposure supposed to have been cause of death of Ray B Acker
Ray B Acker of Livermore, who was employed on the surveying force by the Engels Copper Mining Company, left his job Sunday morning to take up his homestead claim in the direction of Susanville. A snowstorm was raging at the time, and regardless of warnings, he started over the mountains, clad in a short overcoat and with no food but two sandwiches. He was to wire his wife and daughter when he reached Susanville. No message coming in reasonable time, the Deputy Sheriff, Frank Smith, wired by way of Reno, and ascertained that the man had not arrived in Susanville, and on Wednesday morning a party of four men on skiis, with a supply of food, headed by the local hunter, Hensley Potts, went out to search for the missing man. The afternoon of the same day, March 13th, they found the body of Mr. Ackers on the road, about seven miles from Engelmine. The exact cause of death has not been reported. Attorney Charles Wetmore of Marysville received word Wednesday that his brother-in-law, Ray Acker, was found in the snow in Plumas County. According to Wetmore, Acker a few days ago had occasioned to go from the Engels mine to Susanville and thought he could walk. He started out and was overtaken in a snowstorm and perished.
Burial Date 15 March 1918, Alameda Callaghan Memorial Records. Burial Place unknown.
Feather River Bulletin, Quincy, California 14 March 1918
BODY OF MAN FOUND NEAR ENGELMINE
Exposure supposed to have been cause of death of Ray B Acker
Ray B Acker of Livermore, who was employed on the surveying force by the Engels Copper Mining Company, left his job Sunday morning to take up his homestead claim in the direction of Susanville. A snowstorm was raging at the time, and regardless of warnings, he started over the mountains, clad in a short overcoat and with no food but two sandwiches. He was to wire his wife and daughter when he reached Susanville. No message coming in reasonable time, the Deputy Sheriff, Frank Smith, wired by way of Reno, and ascertained that the man had not arrived in Susanville, and on Wednesday morning a party of four men on skiis, with a supply of food, headed by the local hunter, Hensley Potts, went out to search for the missing man. The afternoon of the same day, March 13th, they found the body of Mr. Ackers on the road, about seven miles from Engelmine. The exact cause of death has not been reported. Attorney Charles Wetmore of Marysville received word Wednesday that his brother-in-law, Ray Acker, was found in the snow in Plumas County. According to Wetmore, Acker a few days ago had occasioned to go from the Engels mine to Susanville and thought he could walk. He started out and was overtaken in a snowstorm and perished.
Burial Date 15 March 1918, Alameda Callaghan Memorial Records. Burial Place unknown.
BODY OF MAN FOUND NEAR ENGELMINE
Exposure supposed to have been cause of death of Ray B Acker
Ray B Acker of Livermore, who was employed on the surveying force by the Engels Copper Mining Company, left his job Sunday morning to take up his homestead claim in the direction of Susanville. A snowstorm was raging at the time, and regardless of warnings, he started over the mountains, clad in a short overcoat and with no food but two sandwiches. He was to wire his wife and daughter when he reached Susanville. No message coming in reasonable time, the Deputy Sheriff, Frank Smith, wired by way of Reno, and ascertained that the man had not arrived in Susanville, and on Wednesday morning a party of four men on skiis, with a supply of food, headed by the local hunter, Hensley Potts, went out to search for the missing man. The afternoon of the same day, March 13th, they found the body of Mr. Ackers on the road, about seven miles from Engelmine. The exact cause of death has not been reported. Attorney Charles Wetmore of Marysville received word Wednesday that his brother-in-law, Ray Acker, was found in the snow in Plumas County. According to Wetmore, Acker a few days ago had occasioned to go from the Engels mine to Susanville and thought he could walk. He started out and was overtaken in a snowstorm and perished.
Burial Date 15 March 1918, Alameda Callaghan Memorial Records. Burial Place unknown.
Gravesite Details
Death at Feather River Canyon. Froze to death.
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