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Agnes Elizabeth
King
Birth: unknown, USA
Death: Aug., 1880
Bonanza
Custer County
Idaho, USA |
Richard
King
Birth: unknown
Death: Jul. 14, 1879
Bonanza
Custer County
Idaho, USA |
Robert Hawthorne
Birth: unknown
Death: Aug., 1880
Bonanza
Custer County
Idaho, USA |
Richard King, native of
London England, worked in Real Estate - His wife was
Agnes Elizabeth "Lizzie" King until his death
in 1879.
Richard and Agnes "Lizzie" King came to Bonanza
in 1878. Richard sold real estate and Lizzie opened
the Arcade Saloon and the Yankee Fork Dance Hall. When
Richard was killed in an argument, Lizzie was not allowed
to bury him in the town cemetery, so the owner of the
local hotel, Charles Franklin, who had more than a casual
liking for the "golden beauty," Lizzie, fenced
off a separate plot with room for himself and Lizzie
and Charles. Then Robert Hawthorne came to town and
swept Lizzie off of her pretty feet into marriage. A
week after the wedding, Lizzie and her new husband were
mysteriously killed in her home. Franklin buried them
beside Richard King in the tiny cemetery. Several years
later, Franklin was found dead in his lonely cabin,
clutching Lizzie's photo in a gold locket. He was buried
miles from the graveyard where his love, Lizzie, lay
between her two husbands. Bonanza, now a ghost town,
is located northeast of Boise, and 8 miles north of
Sunbeam.
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Read their story below posted at the gravesite,
and see it in it's original form in the picture
to the right! |
| Lizzie
and Richard King lived in Bonanza where Richard
worked in real estate. A heated argument with
a business partner left Richard dead and Lizzie
alone.
Lizzie and close friend Charles Franklin purchased
this gravesite for Richard and tow more next to
it, presumably for themselves. Soon, Charles and
Lizzie began courting and a wedding seemed eminent.
To everyone's surprise, Lizzie married Robert
Hawthorne a newcomer to Bonanza. Six days later,
both were found shot to death. Soon after, Franklin
left the area for a secluded cabin near Stanley
where, years later, he was discovered dead. Clutched
in his hand was a locket which held the picture
of Lizzie King.
Due to the mysterious circumstances surrounding
the death of Lizzie King, Bonanza residents chose
to bury their loved ones elsewhere, leaving Lizzie
and her husbands alone on Boothill.
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Have 'er? Yes
Have "im? Yes
Married! $2.00 |
According to information
posted from the Yankee Fork Herald dated August 14,
1880, on the Salmon-Challis National Forest Web Page
(50 Hwy 93 South, Salmon, ID 83467, (208) 756-5100)
YANKEE FORK HERALD
BONANZA CITY, IDAHO
1880
August 14, 1880
Robert Hawthorne and Mrs. Lizzie King were married on
the 5th day August at the residence of the latter. E.G.
Carr, J.P. Is the first marriage of Yankee Fork.
http://www.interment.net/data/us/id/custer/boothill/boothill.htm
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