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The following deaths occurred within a
year prior to June 1, 1860, and do not include those
slain by either red or white
men.
Robert
Murphy, age 26, drowned,
soldier.
Charles P.
Selmer, age 28, inflammation of bowels,
soldier.
Charles
Stapp, age 29, drowned,
soldier.
Fred. Acaidel, age
23, drowned, soldier.
History
of Nevada Thompson & West - 1881
Judge G. W. Walton ----The town of Como,
in spite of its having such a romantic name, gradually
dwindled away, hotel, saloon, stores and mining offices
consolidating until but one solitary individual, Judge
G. W. Walton, was left. On the night of November 22,
1874, the cabin burned down, leaving his charred remains
as the last of Como. He was a Mason, and his body was
taken in charge by the fraternity and buried in the
southwest corner of their cemetery at Dayton. Judge Walton at
his death was sixty-three years old. History of Nevada
Thompson & West - 1881
Captain Truckee
----- perhaps the best Indian that ever inhabited
Nevada, lived in Como. He was always the white man's
friend, and when he died he was buried according to his
wish, "alle same white man," with a " wooden head-stone
" marking his grave. This has since rotted away, and now
no one can tell where Captain Truckee sleeps. His death
occurred October 8, 1860. History of Nevada Thompson &
West - 1881
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