Hi Diana - Is there any way of knowing more about this person? He probably came for the Comstock Lode - similar to the Gold Rush in California in 1848. Silver was discovered near Virginia City in 1859. Virginia city is now a "ghost town" with many of the original buildings still standing - quite a tourist point. American writer Mark Twain was once the editor of the local newspaper there. I have a Lauchlin in the family - and hoping this person might be related. Regards Barbara McLean Murrieta, CA >From: DIANA HENRY <dianahhenry@btinternet.com> >Date: 2007/07/06 Fri AM 07:45:12 CDT >To: "sct-wigtownshire@roots" <Sct-Wigtownshire@rootsweb.com> >Subject: [WIG LIST] 1889 M'LACHLAN >One of two more entries for 1889 have turned up > >>From Wigtown Free Press 7th February, 1889 > >DEATHS >M'LACHLAN, William - D7/1/1889 - At Virginia City, Nevada, U.S.A., on the 7th ult., William M'Lachlan, aged 49 years. > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Barbara McLean Murrieta, California