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Phillip Garvey dies working at Sitting Bull Mine, 1883 "Phillip Garvey, age 30 years, while wheeling waste material in a barrel, to the dump of the Sitting Bull Mine, fell over the cliff, about 40 feet high, and broke his neck on the rocks below. Deceased leaves a brother in the Hills and another in New Mexico. The funeral took place yesterday at 2 O'clock, Rev. Father Rosen performing the last sad rites." [Weekly Pioneer Times, Deadwood, SD, 12/4/1913 under "Deadwood 30 years ago"] |