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In Northern Nevada during the mid-1800s and into the 20th Century, death took place hourly, from disease, misfortunes, accidents in the mines, and because of murder. The nine cemeteries in Reno and Sparks hold the interred resident's history to the ways of life and death in that era.Tended to by Undertakers Joseph A. Conboie and Silas Ross - the most prominent local and regional morticians - both were kept quite busy ministering to the deceased.Inside the pages of this book learn this history of each graveyard, the famous buried within, and the particulars of old western funeral services.