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    1. [CAMARIPO] Yosemite Miwok Burials -Part 3 -
    2. Harriet Sturk
    3. Part -3- 38# May Dick, Yosemite MAY DICK, The mother of SALLY ANN DICK CASTAGNETTO, was a full blooded Yosemite Indian. Her husband was INDIAN DICK, who worked providing wood for many of the early settlers in Yosemite Valley. He was one of the first woodcutters to use a power saw in this area, thereby out- doing all of his rivals in that business. #39 Grand Mother of LUCY TELLES SUSIE SAM, LUCY TELLES' grandmother, was a Yosemite Indian, born in Yosemite Valley. Her husband was CAPTAIN SAM. Old CAPTAIN SAM was employed by Camp Curry and the Sentinel Hotel to supply them with fish. Many of the early Indians were well versed in heir abilities to catch trout. but they would not reveal the methods that made them so successful. LUCY TELLES' grandmother died in the month of August about 1904 #40 LUCY Died 1920, Part Yosemite LUCY BROWN or INDIAN LUCY said to be nearly 120 at the time of her death was one of the last of the original Indians who had been found in Yosemite Valley at the time of its discovery by white men in 1851. She was the oldest of six generations of the BROWN family, many of whom have lived most of their lives in Yosemite. Her husband was BILL BROWN. She was the cousin of MARIA LEBRADO who was the last survivor of the original Yosemites. The date of LUCY'S death has been recorded in several document to have been 1924. 41# BILL BROWN died 1899, YOSEMITE BILL BROWN OR MONO TOM BROWN was the husband of INDIAN LUCY, father of JOHNNY, and grandfather of CHRIS BROWN. He was one of the first Indians to be buried in the Yosemite Cemetery, -continued-

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