Today something inexplicable led me clear out to the #Nevada #Utah #Stateline nearly 80 miles northwest of Cedar City, UT, to a historic place called #EagleValley aka #SpringValley near the historic and lawless mining camp of #Pioche, Nevada which had the reputation as one of the most wildest towns in the territory in the late 19th century. Low and behold we stumbled onto an old cemetery which it turns out contains some of my direct ancestors who are buried there. This incident sparked a family history search when I got home and discovered the fact that my great-great grandfather, Joe Millet, was selling goods to locals In Pioche around the late 1860s. One of the graves I saw in this unmaintained cemetery was his daughter, Aldura Artemisia Millett who died at the young age of 12 of Typhoid Fever. It was quite a surreal experience accidentally stumbling on my ancestors in the Nevada desert like this. It's disheartening that vandals have shot up and defaced some of the gravestones so I couldn't make out all of the names but it was as if some unforeseen force led me out this way today and it's now opening up new mysteries as to our family's ties to this historic region in the #OldWest! Joseph mentions some of the robberies that unfolded around #Pioche that were committed against merchants, etc... This is all a case of the past coming to haunt my present life. This happens to me quite a bit...
