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Virginia City Montana On May 26, 1863, Barney Hughes, Thomas Cover, Henry Rodgers, William Fairweather, Henry Edgar and Bill Sweeney camped along a small stream fringed with alder trees. Fairweather and Edgar went to prospect a place of rimrock. Fairweather dug the dirt, filled a pan and told Edgar to wash the pan in the hope of getting enough gold to buy tobacco. When the first pan turned up $2.40, they knew the gulch had great potential.   Word spread like wildfire. Miners covered the hillsides with tents, brush shelters and crude log cabins. On June 16, the Varina Town Company platted the town. Some, supporters of Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy, intended to name the new town after Jefferson Davis' wife, Varina. But the newly elected miners' court judge, Dr. G. G. Bissell, was an equally stubborn Unionist. When it came time to file the official documents, he submitted the name Virginia instead.

 

Thomas Cox & Oliva A. Thomas Cox Birth:           ~1844 per 1880 US Census - age 36 - born in Illinois                     October 17, 1884 per headstone Mount Moriah Cemetery in Butte Death:         August 23, 1894   per headstone Mount Moriah Cemetery in Butte Burial:         Thomas E. Cox - Mount Moriah Cemetery, Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana                                      Oliva / Olivia A. Birth:           1851 per headstone Virginia City Cemetery                     ~1852 per 1880 US Census - age 28  - born in Illinois                    Death:         1886 per headstone Virginia City Cemetery Burial:         Virginia City Cemetery                      1880 US Federal Census - Virginia City, Madison, Mont  - Thomas 36 (laborer) - Oliva 28 (keeping house)   Children: Walter T. Birth:        ~1873 per 1880 US Census - age 7  - born in Illinois Death:           Burial:      Virginia City Cemetery, Montana 1880 US Federal Census - Virginia City, Madison, Mont  - Walter age 7   Zetta Birth:        ~1877 per 1880 US Census - age 3 - born in Illinois Death:  1880 US Federal Census - Virginia City, Madison, Mont  - Zetta age 3

 

Walter Cox & Pearl Duff Walter Cox Birth:            ~1873 per 1880 US Census - age 7  - born in Illinois Death:           Burial:      Virginia City Cemetery, Montana 1880 US Federal Census - Virginia City, Madison, Mont  - Walter age 7   Perl / Pearl A. Duff Birth:            Death: Marriage:      ~1916   1920 US Federal Census - Madison, Montana - Walter age 48 - Pearl A Cox   Children: E. Laura Cox Birth:             November 5, 1917 (or 1916) at Avalance Gulch at Helena Montana Marriage:      Leroy McClurg on June 13, 1935 in Dillon Montan Death:           Burial:           Virginia City Cemetery, Montana   Florence Cox Birth:            ~1919 Marriage:      Carl W. Dixon Death:   Elizabeth "Doll" Cox Birth:             January 25, 1920 Marriage: #1 Ernest S. "Mutt" Dixon Marriage: #2 Harold "Tuffy" Burgstrom Death:           February 26, 1996 Burial:           Virginia City Cemetery, Montana

 

E. Laura Cox 1917 - E. Laura Cox Birth:             November 5, 1917 (or 1916) at Avalance Gulch at Helena Montana Marriage:      Leroy McClurg on June 13, 1935 in Dillon Montana Death:           Burial:           Virginia City Cemetery, Montana                         Leroy McClurg Birth:       March 25, 1910 in Madison County, Montana Death:     June 9, 1965 in Madison County, Montana Burial:     Virginia City Cemetery                 Married:  E. Laura Cox on June 13, 1935 in Dillon Montana Children:  Geraldine R. born ~1938 1940 US Federal Census - Virginia City, Madison, Montana - Leroy 30, E. Laura 23, Geraldine R. 2

 

Florence Cox 1919 Florence Cox Birth:            ~1919 Death:   Carl W. Dixon Birth:            1914 in Montana Parents:        John F. "Pop" & Ellen Mary Dixon Marriage:     Florence Cox Death:          March 31, 1974 in Gallatin County, Montana 1920 United States Federal Census - Union, Madison, Montana : Carl age 6 1930 United States Federal Census - Union, Madison, Montana : Carl age 16 1940 United States Federal Census - Union, Madison, Montana : Carl 26 (miner) Florence 21    + Norman 5 William 4 Virgil 1     Children: Norman Dixon Birth:             ~1935 1940 United States Federal Census - Union, Madison, Montana : Norman 5   W.R. Bill Dixon Birth:             January 1936 Death:           February 2003 Burial:           Virginia City Cemetery 1940 United States Federal Census - Union, Madison, Montana : William 4 Virgil 1   Virgil Birth:             ~1939 1940 United States Federal Census - Union, Madison, Montana : Virgil 1

 

Elizabeth "Doll" Cox 1920 - 1996   Elizabeth "Doll" Cox Birth:             January 25, 1920 Parents:        Marriage: #1 Ernest S. "Mutt" Dixon Marriage: #2 Harold "Tuffy" Burgstrom Death:           February 26, 1996 Burial:           Virginia City Cemetery, Montana                                            "Burgstrom, Elizabeth C. D., b. 25 Jan 1920, d. 26 Feb 1996, “Gramma Doll”"   Ernest S. "Mutt" Dixon Birth:             September 25, 1916   Parents:        John F. "Pop" & Ellen Mary Dixon Millitary:      Enlisted in the Marines in 1941 and served in World War II in both Europe and the South Pacific Marriage:      Doll Cox Death:           February 28, 1968 at Lewis & Clark County, Montana Burial:           Virginia City Cemetery                                         "Dixon, Ernest S. “Mutt”, b. 25 Sep 1916, d. 28 Feb 1968, MT Sgt US Marine Corps WWII"   Children             1) Jay Dixon     Harold C. "Tuffy" Burgstrom Birth:            January 28, 1918 in Butte Montana Schooled:     Butte and Virginia City where he graduated from high school Millitary:      Enlisted in the Marines in 1941 and served in World War II in both Europe and the South Pacific Marriage:     1) Elizabeth A. (Betty) Barber on July 6, 1946                      2) Doll Dixon in May, 1974                      Montana Standard - May 26, 1974 - Harold Burgstom and Doll Dixon exchanged wedding vows           Occupation: Worked as a miner in the mines around Virginia City and Butte until badly injured in an accident at a mine                      Worked as a printer for the Madisonian newspaper in Virginia City Death:          October 14, 1981 in Virginia City, Montana Burial:          Virginia City Cemetery, Montana                                           "Burgstrom, Harold C. “Tuffy”, b. 1918, d. 1981, Sgt US Marine Corps WWII"

 

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