| John Eustice (1845-1889) was born
19 Oct 1845
in
Newton
,
Camborne Parish,
Cornwall
, son
of John Eustis and Grace Temby. He came to
America
before 1870. He married
27
Nov 1870
in
Carbondale
,
Pennsylvania
to Elizabeth Ann Hill who was born
9
Apr 1855
in Lanlivery parish,
Cornwall
,
daughter of John B and Elizabeth (Pike) Hill by whom he had 9 children. The
family lived a few years in
Essex County
,
New
Jersey
, where he likely worked in the sandstone
quarries, and then briefly in
Luzerne County
,
Pennsylvania
. By 1877, he was
mining gold in Black Hawk in
Gilpin County
,
Colorado
and he died there
26 Aug 1889
at age 43. His
wife remarried John Humphreys in 1890 and died two years later on
7 Aug 1892
. Many of the Black Hawk’s historic
buildings have recently been restored as a monument to its Gold Rush era
heyday. |
