Daughter of JAMES HENRY JAQUA and MARIA LOUISA KELLEY.
The Gold Hill Daily News, January 31, 1867
JAQUA -- In Dayton, Jan. 30, to the wife of J.H. Jaqua, a daughter.
Wife of JOSEPH RAYCRAFT JR., married December 12, 1892, at Dayton, Lyon County, Nevada, by Father O'Donnell, Rector of St. Patrick's Church at Gold Hill (marriage certificate, attached).
Mother of three children with Joseph: Francis Lorin Raycraft, George Edward Raycraft and James H. Raycraft.
Following her marriage to JOSEPH RAYCRAFT JR., Nellie moved to Carson City, where Joseph and his younger brother, James Andrew, owned and operated the successful Silver State Livery Stable, a large stage line in Churchill County and a prosperous real estate business. The brothers also owned valuable mining interests in the State.
Joseph Jr. died on June 28, 1907, in his home at Carson City from a stroke secondary to locomotor ataxia, a symptom of syphilitic myelopathy. He was buried in the Raycraft family plots in the Genoa Cemetery.
Following Joseph's death, Ellen continued living in Douglas and Lyon County, but by 1910, she was living in San Diego, California, with her mother, children, and second husband, SILAS NIHELL, whom she married in 1910 (1910 U.S. Census).
Following her mother's death in 1911 at San Diego, Ellen returned briefly to Dayton with her children to bury her mother in the Dayton Cemetery, and then continued on to San Francisco, where she remained until her death in 1944, at the age of seventy-six (1930-1940 U.S. Census). Her marriage to Silas was brief and ended in divorce, and by 1920, Ellen returned to her married name Raycraft (1920 U.S. Census). She never remarried and supported herself in her later years as a seamstress and home decorator.
The Nevada State Journal, January 18, 1944
FORMER CARSON RESIDENT DIES
"Mrs. Nellie Raycraft, formerly of this city, but for twenty or more years residing in San Francisco, died Wednesday night according to word received here.
Her husband and his brother at one time owned and operated a livery stable here.
She is survived by two sons, George and James, and two granddaughters, Norma and Sally Jane Raycraft, both of San Francisco.
The body will be accompanied to Carson City for services and interment."
The Reno Evening Gazette, January 18, 1944
FUNERAL SATURDAY FOR MRS. RAYCRAFT
"Funeral services will be held in Carson Saturday for Mrs. Nellie Jakeway [Jaqua] Raycraft, who died in San Francisco Wednesday. Mass will be said at St. Theresa Catholic Church with Mcgr. H.J.M. Wientjes officiating. Burial will be in the family plot in the Dayton cemetery."
The Gold Hill Daily News, January 31, 1867
JAQUA -- In Dayton, Jan. 30, to the wife of J.H. Jaqua, a daughter.
Wife of JOSEPH RAYCRAFT JR., married December 12, 1892, at Dayton, Lyon County, Nevada, by Father O'Donnell, Rector of St. Patrick's Church at Gold Hill (marriage certificate, attached).
Mother of three children with Joseph: Francis Lorin Raycraft, George Edward Raycraft and James H. Raycraft.
Following her marriage to JOSEPH RAYCRAFT JR., Nellie moved to Carson City, where Joseph and his younger brother, James Andrew, owned and operated the successful Silver State Livery Stable, a large stage line in Churchill County and a prosperous real estate business. The brothers also owned valuable mining interests in the State.
Joseph Jr. died on June 28, 1907, in his home at Carson City from a stroke secondary to locomotor ataxia, a symptom of syphilitic myelopathy. He was buried in the Raycraft family plots in the Genoa Cemetery.
Following Joseph's death, Ellen continued living in Douglas and Lyon County, but by 1910, she was living in San Diego, California, with her mother, children, and second husband, SILAS NIHELL, whom she married in 1910 (1910 U.S. Census).
Following her mother's death in 1911 at San Diego, Ellen returned briefly to Dayton with her children to bury her mother in the Dayton Cemetery, and then continued on to San Francisco, where she remained until her death in 1944, at the age of seventy-six (1930-1940 U.S. Census). Her marriage to Silas was brief and ended in divorce, and by 1920, Ellen returned to her married name Raycraft (1920 U.S. Census). She never remarried and supported herself in her later years as a seamstress and home decorator.
The Nevada State Journal, January 18, 1944
FORMER CARSON RESIDENT DIES
"Mrs. Nellie Raycraft, formerly of this city, but for twenty or more years residing in San Francisco, died Wednesday night according to word received here.
Her husband and his brother at one time owned and operated a livery stable here.
She is survived by two sons, George and James, and two granddaughters, Norma and Sally Jane Raycraft, both of San Francisco.
The body will be accompanied to Carson City for services and interment."
The Reno Evening Gazette, January 18, 1944
FUNERAL SATURDAY FOR MRS. RAYCRAFT
"Funeral services will be held in Carson Saturday for Mrs. Nellie Jakeway [Jaqua] Raycraft, who died in San Francisco Wednesday. Mass will be said at St. Theresa Catholic Church with Mcgr. H.J.M. Wientjes officiating. Burial will be in the family plot in the Dayton cemetery."
Daughter of JAMES HENRY JAQUA and MARIA LOUISA KELLEY.
The Gold Hill Daily News, January 31, 1867
JAQUA -- In Dayton, Jan. 30, to the wife of J.H. Jaqua, a daughter.
Wife of JOSEPH RAYCRAFT JR., married December 12, 1892, at Dayton, Lyon County, Nevada, by Father O'Donnell, Rector of St. Patrick's Church at Gold Hill (marriage certificate, attached).
Mother of three children with Joseph: Francis Lorin Raycraft, George Edward Raycraft and James H. Raycraft.
Following her marriage to JOSEPH RAYCRAFT JR., Nellie moved to Carson City, where Joseph and his younger brother, James Andrew, owned and operated the successful Silver State Livery Stable, a large stage line in Churchill County and a prosperous real estate business. The brothers also owned valuable mining interests in the State.
Joseph Jr. died on June 28, 1907, in his home at Carson City from a stroke secondary to locomotor ataxia, a symptom of syphilitic myelopathy. He was buried in the Raycraft family plots in the Genoa Cemetery.
Following Joseph's death, Ellen continued living in Douglas and Lyon County, but by 1910, she was living in San Diego, California, with her mother, children, and second husband, SILAS NIHELL, whom she married in 1910 (1910 U.S. Census).
Following her mother's death in 1911 at San Diego, Ellen returned briefly to Dayton with her children to bury her mother in the Dayton Cemetery, and then continued on to San Francisco, where she remained until her death in 1944, at the age of seventy-six (1930-1940 U.S. Census). Her marriage to Silas was brief and ended in divorce, and by 1920, Ellen returned to her married name Raycraft (1920 U.S. Census). She never remarried and supported herself in her later years as a seamstress and home decorator.
The Nevada State Journal, January 18, 1944
FORMER CARSON RESIDENT DIES
"Mrs. Nellie Raycraft, formerly of this city, but for twenty or more years residing in San Francisco, died Wednesday night according to word received here.
Her husband and his brother at one time owned and operated a livery stable here.
She is survived by two sons, George and James, and two granddaughters, Norma and Sally Jane Raycraft, both of San Francisco.
The body will be accompanied to Carson City for services and interment."
The Reno Evening Gazette, January 18, 1944
FUNERAL SATURDAY FOR MRS. RAYCRAFT
"Funeral services will be held in Carson Saturday for Mrs. Nellie Jakeway [Jaqua] Raycraft, who died in San Francisco Wednesday. Mass will be said at St. Theresa Catholic Church with Mcgr. H.J.M. Wientjes officiating. Burial will be in the family plot in the Dayton cemetery."
The Gold Hill Daily News, January 31, 1867
JAQUA -- In Dayton, Jan. 30, to the wife of J.H. Jaqua, a daughter.
Wife of JOSEPH RAYCRAFT JR., married December 12, 1892, at Dayton, Lyon County, Nevada, by Father O'Donnell, Rector of St. Patrick's Church at Gold Hill (marriage certificate, attached).
Mother of three children with Joseph: Francis Lorin Raycraft, George Edward Raycraft and James H. Raycraft.
Following her marriage to JOSEPH RAYCRAFT JR., Nellie moved to Carson City, where Joseph and his younger brother, James Andrew, owned and operated the successful Silver State Livery Stable, a large stage line in Churchill County and a prosperous real estate business. The brothers also owned valuable mining interests in the State.
Joseph Jr. died on June 28, 1907, in his home at Carson City from a stroke secondary to locomotor ataxia, a symptom of syphilitic myelopathy. He was buried in the Raycraft family plots in the Genoa Cemetery.
Following Joseph's death, Ellen continued living in Douglas and Lyon County, but by 1910, she was living in San Diego, California, with her mother, children, and second husband, SILAS NIHELL, whom she married in 1910 (1910 U.S. Census).
Following her mother's death in 1911 at San Diego, Ellen returned briefly to Dayton with her children to bury her mother in the Dayton Cemetery, and then continued on to San Francisco, where she remained until her death in 1944, at the age of seventy-six (1930-1940 U.S. Census). Her marriage to Silas was brief and ended in divorce, and by 1920, Ellen returned to her married name Raycraft (1920 U.S. Census). She never remarried and supported herself in her later years as a seamstress and home decorator.
The Nevada State Journal, January 18, 1944
FORMER CARSON RESIDENT DIES
"Mrs. Nellie Raycraft, formerly of this city, but for twenty or more years residing in San Francisco, died Wednesday night according to word received here.
Her husband and his brother at one time owned and operated a livery stable here.
She is survived by two sons, George and James, and two granddaughters, Norma and Sally Jane Raycraft, both of San Francisco.
The body will be accompanied to Carson City for services and interment."
The Reno Evening Gazette, January 18, 1944
FUNERAL SATURDAY FOR MRS. RAYCRAFT
"Funeral services will be held in Carson Saturday for Mrs. Nellie Jakeway [Jaqua] Raycraft, who died in San Francisco Wednesday. Mass will be said at St. Theresa Catholic Church with Mcgr. H.J.M. Wientjes officiating. Burial will be in the family plot in the Dayton cemetery."
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