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WE, THE UNDERSIGNED PERSONS SUMMONED TO
APPEAR BEFORE JOSEPH DONNELY,
EX-OFFICIO CORONER OF THE COUNTY OF NYE, STATE OF NEVADA ON THE 15TH DAY
OF
DECEMBER 1905 TO INQUIRE INTO THE CAUSE OF DEATH OF J.C. CLAYTON AND JOHN
SULLIVAN. HAVING BEEN DULY SWORN ACCORDING TO LAW AND HAVING MADE SUCH
INQUISITION AFTER INSPECTING THE BODIES LYING AT THE UNDERTAKERS IN THE
SAID
TOWN OF RHYOLITE AND HEARING THE TESTIMONY ADDUCED UPON OUR OATHS EACH
AND
ALL DO SAY THAT WE FIND THE DECEASED WAS NAMED J.C. CLAYTON AND JOHN
SULLIVAN
AND THAT SAID CLAYTON WAS ABOUT FORTY YEARS AND THAT JOHN SULLIVAN WAS
AGED
ABOUT THIRTY-TWO YEARS THAT THE SAID DECEASED PERSONS CAME TO THEIR DEATH
BY
GUN SHOT WOUNDS THAT OF CLAYTON BY SHOT STRIKING INTO THE ABDOMEN ON THE
RIGHT SIDE AND PASSING THROUGH THE BODY. THAT THE SAID SHOT WAS FIRED BY
JOHN SULLIVAN THAT CAUSED THE DEATH OF SAID CLAYTON AND THAT JOHN
SULLIVAN
RECEIVED A GUN SHOT WOUND FIRED BY THE DECEASED J.C. CLAYTON PENETRATED
HIS
RIGHT BREAST PASSING THROUGH THE BODY WHICH WAS THE CAUSE OF SAID
SULLIVAN?S
DEATH AND THAT SAID SHOOTING WHICH WAS THE CAUSE OF THE DEATH OF THE SAID
DECEASED PERSONS OCCURRED IN BEVIS (?) AND TURPIN?S SALOON ON MAIN STREET
IN
THE TOWN OF RHYOLITE, COUNTY OF NYE, STATE OF NEVADA ON THE 14TH DAY OF
DECEMBER BETWEEN THE HOURS TEN AND ELEVEN O?CLOCK PM IN THE YEAR
1905.
By: rlm
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My mother's name was Hanora(Nora), was born
in 1902 and emigrated to the US in 1920 or so. Our family went by the
further identifying name of William because of all the Sullivans in the
area. Does any of that register or is there some other identifying
characteristic that you can think of? I'll ask my sister about any
possible
Casey connection because I believe I heard that name from my parents.
You did a great job with the Sullivan Home page. Hope you keep it up. Any
help required?
By: Denis O' Sullivan
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My wifes Sullivan line comes from Bantry, Cork Co. Ireland. Her
Grandfather Robert Sullivan married Gertrude Kitzmiller on the 9th of
June, 1915 in New Castle, Colorado. Has anyone ever submitted to you a
Sullivan line with the Surnames Kitzmiller ? I would also like to
"subscribe sullivan" and be added to your list.
By: Robert L.
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Sun Jun 30 23:35:57 1996
Greek historian DIODORUS SICULUS, V 25-32, on the Celts: Physically the Gauls are terrifying in appearance, with deep-sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for the most part hinting at things and leaving a great deal to be understood. They frequently exaggerate with the aim of extolling themselves and diminishing the status of others. They are boasters and threateners and given to bombastic self-dramatization, and yet they are quick of mind and with good natural abilty for learning. They have also lyric poets whom they call Bards. They sing to the accompaniment of instruments resembling lyres, sometimes a eulogy and sometimes a satire. They have also certain philosophers and theologians who are treated with special honour, whom they call Druids. They further make use of seers, thinking them worthy of high praise.
By: Richard L. S.
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Fri Jul 5 11:56:50 1996
Butte, Montana March 22, 1917 That the deceased Joseph E. Sullivan came to his death at the Diamond Mine on the 22nd day of March, 1917 City of Butte, County of Silver Bow, State of Montana. Cause of death, shock from injuries received by falling down a chute from the 9th floor of the 1800 foot level, a distance of about 70 feet. Joseph E. Sullivan aged 38 years, leaving his wife, Mrs. Mary J. Sullivan , and two children, father and mother, two brothers, Edward of Helena and Julian of Spokane; one sister Mrs. W. Sparling of Deming, N.M.; nephew of James and cousin of Alvin Tull of this city, brother in law of George A. Horkan of Forsyth Montana.
By: Daniel J. Sullivan
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Sat Jul 6 21:57:16 1996
John L. Sullivan, The Great John L., age 50, divorces his wife and marries his schoolboy sweet heart, Kate. During his forties the former Boston Strongboy has pawned his diamond belt, acted in vaudeville, failed in the bar business in both Boston and New York, and having reformed his drinking habits, become a popular temperance lecturer in his late forties. In his midİfifties Sullivan will buy a farm in Abington, Massachusetts, and become a kind of gentleman philosopher.
By: Dick Meehan
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Sat Jul 6 22:07:33 1996
There are four Sullivans in my father's 1929 Harvard class (of 952 students altogether).
In 1954 they reached the age of fifty, plus or minus a year or two.
Their bios, self written, are contained in the traditional
Harvard alumni "Class Reports." How did they fare?
Daniel, a surgeon, had abandoned the Democratic Party in 1947. He
was disturbed with the "attempts of Truman and Company to foist
socialized medicine upon the American people" and "at the menace
and danger of communism. I live in hope that these people may take
a more realistic attitude towards the danger of communism in the
United States," he said.
Ten years later, in 1964, surgeon Daniel had divorced and seemed to
be living an upper class life in Nashua, New
Hampshire. His report of that year is a somehwat pompous recitation of
memberships (chief of staff and trustee) and directorships (Indian
Head National Bank).
Francis Sullivan had died in 1926, causes unstated.
John Sullivan was a small newspaper owner in Caldwell, New Jersey. By 1964 he had just joined the Coronary Club.
Paul still lived in Dorchester where he had been born. He was an administrator with the Boston Schools. By 1954 he was finding himself within site of another possible goal - that of principal of an elementary high school. His private life was unspectacular but satisfying, centering around a happy ("and permanent") marriage and a modest American home.
By: Dick Meehan
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Sat Jul 6 22:17:00 1996
The majority of the Irish in Chicago hate Alexander Sullivan, a man as hard as the medieval Sullivan chiefs. but allow themselves nonetheless to be dominated by Sullivan and his friends, a band of five or six hundred unprincipled politicians who are a disgrace to them:"toughs," ward "heelers," gamblers, liquor dealers and thugs, all of whom would leave him tomorrow if he was "thrun down" as a politician..." (according to John Devoy, Chicago political spokesman)
Alexander Sullivan, Chicago lawyer from the society described by Finley Peter Dunne and Maggie of the Streets has a colorful if criminal past that includes two probable politically inspired murders, a brilliant and beautiful wife who conspires with her husband in his jury fixings and writes books on art and history, and leadership of the Clan-na-Gael which is variously associated with dynamiting British raiulway stations and running Chicago politics. At age 50, Sullivan is lying low having been suspected of arrranging the murder of the beloved Irish community leader Doctor Patrick Cronin, who had attempted to lead a reform group from under Sullivan's control.
By: Dick Meehan
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Wed Jul 10 13:06:42 1996
Interesting investigation for you: James Vincent Sullivan originally from Boston MA. Moved to Macon Georgia then to Atlanta and Palm Beach. Don't know where now. Suspected in murder of second wife in Atlanta in 1986? and other mishaps. Never convicted. Article in Spy mag. on him in 1991. Atlanta Constitution (newspaper) has a lot of stuff on him. You could have a vote on if people think he's guilty or not.
By: Seamus
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