Lisa By the Grave The Loneliest Gravesite

The Loneliest Gravesite Here are Lisa's notes from the tomb: Sisters Jennie 9, Louise 6, Emma 3 LeBeau & Wilson Turner 3 1864 Died in Wagon of Diptheria Buried c1/4 mile NW of spot 1864 Cloudburst in 1940 washed out 2 skeletons size of 2 older girls - out on flat. Reburied in 1941 at this spot. New 1990 history by Peggy LeBeau Hawthone N.V. Caretakers 1960 - Johnnie Ray Johnson, Fallon N.V. Restoration of 3 LeBeau sisters grave is dedicated to the memory of the hundreds of men & women & children & the thousands of animals that perished on this trail to California in circa 1840 to 1870s while crossing Nevada.

Craig wrote a poem at the gravesite: Young William Turner and sisters LeBeau died quite suddenly a century ago. Still they've achieved in the hundred years since American Dream of a white, picket fence.