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Reno Evening Gazette
Reno Evening Gazette
Contributed by Eileen Gillette

Description: Veteran Dies At Hawthorne (Doe)

Date: July 2 1931

Hawthorne, July 2, (Special) Isaac Hartlett DOE, aged eighty-three, died at the residence of Mrs. ANDREW on Tuesday evening after a long illness.
The deceased was born in Waterboro, ME, March 25, 1848 and at the age of thorteen enlisted in the Northern Army as a drummer boy and served throughout the Civil War with the Fourteenth Maine regiment of volunteerd. Shortly after the war he moved to Bridgeport, CA where he engaged in farming and in 1875 married Miss Mary CONOVER. The lure of mining called him to Aurora where he engaged in mining for a number of years and claimed that camp as his residence until he moved to Hawthorne nine years ago. While engaged in mining in Aurora he was caught in a cave in, in one of the mines and lost one of his legs.
Besides his wife who resides in Sparks he is survived by a brother who lives in Rockland, Maine. Interment will be held in the Hawthorne Cemetery at 2:30 p.m. Thursday with military funeral under the auspices of the personnel of the HAwthorne Naval Ammunition Depot in recognition of his Civil War service.

Submitted: 07/30/07

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