RACHOVITCH - See Raickovich

RADAMACHER, JOHN "LONG JOHN" – Snowslide - Died Mar 10, 1884 - Age 34 Years - Long John was killed in a gigantic snowslide near Gladstone

RADEMACHER, RADMACHER - See Radamacher

lRADONICH, STEVE – Crushed to Death in Mine Accident - Son of Andria Radonich - Died July 29, 1906 - Age 48 Years

RAICKOVICH, MARKO S. - Flu - Son of Savo Raickovich;  Relative of Milos Raickovich- March 1888 - Oct 20, 1918 - Age 30 Years - Marko died of flu at the Silverton hospital, one of more than forty persons who died during that week

RAICKOVICH, NICK (ROICINIC, NIKOLA) - Husband of Mary; Son of Steve Raickovich - Died April 23, 1919 - Age 35 Years

RALSTON, SETH - Died Dec 13, 1904 - Age 45 Years

RAMBO, WILLIAM E. - Blasting Accident - Civil War Veteran - Husband of Sarah; Brother of Benjamin Rambo- Died Aug 7, 1886 - Age 46 Years

RAMES, GEORGE - 1883 – 1887

RANCE, LEONARD H. – Son of Sarah Rance - Apr 1870 - Oct 17, 1890 - Age 20 Years – Accidentally Shot

RANDEL - See Randall

RANDICH, JOE - Son of Gregory and Mary Randich- July 13, 1890 - April 18, 1934

RAPP, BEN – Flu - Oct 14, 1882 - Nov 5, 1918 - All that was known of him was that he was born in San Francisco, California

RAVELLO - See Revello

RAYBAL - See Roybal

RAYNALDO, JOSEPH or RINO, JOE - 1891 - Dec 6, 1937

READ - Also See Reed, Reid

READ, GEORGIANA "ANNA" ISBELL - (Mrs. Arthur M. Read); Sister of I.H. Isbell - 1848 - Aug 10, 1884 - None knew her but to love her.

READER, ROBERT L. - Son of Gober Reader - Died Sept 4, 1906 - Age 35 Years - Robert, a miner, died of blood poisoning

REANY, MARY - (Also Known as Mary Woolcot) - Died Sept 21, 1889 - Age 26 Years - Mary, a Blair Street prostitute, died of liquor and abuse

RECTOR, A.A. - Scalded - (Mrs. Henry Brockman Rector); Mother of Jimmy Rector - 1840 - Aug 25, 1895 - Mrs. Rector, proprietor of the Capitol Hotel, died on a Sunday morning from the effects of a severe (and unexplained) scalding by hot water

RECTOR, HENRY BROCKMAN "OLD MAN RECTOR" - Husband of A.A. Rector; Father of Jimmy Rector - 1832 - Dec 10, 1900 - Patient, plodding, "Old Man Rector" passed on to his long account from the Alamo Hotel at 2:00 a.m. About four years before his death, Henry became a Christian

REDAMACHER - See Radamacher

REDWARD, CHARLES - Buried near Mineral Point - Died May 26, 1896 - Charley dropped dead about a mile above the San Juan Chief Mill

REECE - See Reese

REED - Also See Read, Reid

REED, JOHN - Died Sept 7, 1902 - Age 35 Years - John, a "Cousin Jack" miner from Cornwall, died in the early hours of a Sunday morning after being ill with acute lobar pneumonia four  days; alcohol was also a contributing factor.

REED, RICHARD – Murdered - Died July 3, 1876 - An 1882, newspaper recalled that Richard was killed at Howardsville by George "Arkansaw" Johnson, a packer

REED, RUBY – Suicide by Shot In Head - Prostitute - Oct 4, 1868 - Oct 11, 1897

REESE, DEMPSEY - Son of Dempsey and Ann Ratliff Reese; Brother of Tom Reese - Sept 11, 1835 - Nov 13, 1890 - Dempsey Reese, one of Silverton's original founders, died at 2:00 p.m. on a Thursday of pneumonia and inflammation of the stomach

REESE, WILLIAM A. - 1859 - Feb 3, 1904

REGALIA, LUIGI (LOUIS) – Suicide by Shot in Head - Oct 6, 1848 - Nov 2, 1890 - A 45 Smith and Wesson was in his right hand and a small mirror in the left.  The bullet entered just over the right ear and came out the center of his forehead near the hairline.  His skull was fractured in numerous  places.

REID - Also spelled Read, Reed

REID, ALVA - Scarlet Fever - Son of Coleman C. and Myrtle Johnston Reid - Jan 17, 1901 - Jan 20, 1902 - Age 1 Year 3 Days.  Little Alva came down with scarlet fever on his first birthday and died three days later

REID, STEPHEN - 1882 - Dec 4, 1931

REILLY - Also see Riley

REILLY, JAMES - Son of Michael and Agnes Hopkins Reilly; Brother of Lawrence and Thomas Reilly; Grandson of Lawrence and Mary Ann Reilly - Died Dec 29, 1912

REILLY, MICHAEL - Husband of Agnes Hopkins; Father of James, Lawrence,  Tom and William Reilly; Son of Lawrence and Mary Ann Reilly - 1821 - March 27, 1905

REMORA, FRANK – Flu - Died Feb 16, 1919 - Age 20 Years - Due to another outbreak of flu in town, the emergency hospital was again set up.  Frank, a miner at the Sunnyside, died there after being sick four days

RENDON, MARTINA "GRANDMA RENDON" - Mother of Mrs. Frank Jaramillo - Died Jan 15, 1927 - Age 65 Years

RENEHAN, MICHAEL - (also spelled Renehen, Renyhan)

No Marker - Died May 6, 1896 - Age 45 Years - Michael, an old time San Juaner, passed to the "eternal camping ground"

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