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Stewart McAninch in Nevada: Part II: 1891 to 1899 |
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Stewart McAninch in Nevada, 1883 to 1899, and then Stewart McAnish in Oregon |
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Reference: “Stewart McAninch in Nevada: Part I: Through the 1891 Marriage” article |
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(McAninch Family History Newsletter, MFHN v.XVII n.1, January 2009, pg. 2009-01) |
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Stewart McAninch first appears on the scene in the summer of 1883, when he purchases a house |
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and lot on Main St. in Bristol, Lincoln County, Nevada [Note 17, see Part I article]. Bristol is a |
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mining district town (elevation 7000 feet) northwest of Pioche in Lincoln County, Nevada; Bristol |
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[Notes 18, 19, Part I] [Note 25] was the central supply and regional support town for a large number |
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of mining districts north and north-west of Pioche (county seat of Lincoln County) [Note 5, Part I]. |
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Almost eight years later, Stewart McAninch (age 40) and Victoria L. Tucker (age 25) were married |
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on 25 April 1891, by George F. Talbot, District Judge, and the marriage was recorded a month later |
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in Nye County, Nevada (Belmont was still the county seat, until 1905) [see Notes 20, 21, in Part I]. |
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Two of Victoria’s siblings also married in the local area, but nothing more is known about them. |
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On 29 March 1883, Victoria’s older sister, Mary C. Tucker (age 20), married George D. Haggerty, |
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at Bristol, Lincoln County [26.a.], and later, on 2 Sept. 1897, her younger brother, Robert L. Tucker |
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(age 30), married Kate Smith at Delamar, Lincoln County [26.b.]. |
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If George and Mary (Tucker) Haggerty were living at Bristol between 1883 and 1891, could Mary |
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have been responsible for introducing Stewart McAninch and her younger sister Victoria Tucker? |
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Living in Bristol since 1883, Stewart McAninch was clearly associated with the ‘mining business’ |
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of the area, although we have no record of his exact occupation (miner?, prospector?, merchant?). |
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During the next five years after the marriage, Stewart bought and sold some mining claims in |
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the Groom Mining District [27] and in the Silver King Mining District [28]. Both of these two |
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mining claim transactions are recorded in the Mining Deeds (not in the Real Estate Deeds), and |
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both transactions are with members of the Wheatley family (was there a Wheatley company?). |
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On 27 April 1892, Stewart bought a quarter-share of the five Wheatley mines in the Silver King |
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Mining District for $800 (five mines: Ida, Iron, Highbridge, Saser [sic], and Schiller mines) [29]. |
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Almost four years later, on 14 January 1896, Stewart sold his part (again, a quarter share) in two |
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other mines (Groom Mining District, not Silver King) to William Wheatley, for only $100 [30]. |
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On 14 June 1893, Stewart and Victoria L. (Tucker) McAninch had their first son, John S. |
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There is only one known record of this birth, a brief mention in the Pioche newspaper [31] -- |
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“Born. / At White River, Nev., June 14th, 1893, to the wife of Stewart McAnish [sic], a son.” |
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McAninch Family History NL v.XV n.2 / April 2009 / Copyright Frank McAninch / page 2009-10 |