The Lindberg Family

John and Mary Lindberg are laid to rest here. John immigrated from Sweden and died at age 47 in 1880 from suicide. John and Mary’s nine-year-old daughter discovered her father’s body through the window of their house. The Owyhee Avalanche reported he “severed an artery, tapping it at the wrist and laying himself down on a bed deliberately ending his days by the slow process of bleeding to death.” The newspaper said Lindberg was addicted to drinking and at times subject to fits of melancholy.

His wife, Mary, and their two daughters continued living in Silver City and Delamar until Mary passed in 1916 from complications of a stroke at age 78. She was from Norway, immigrated to Quebec Canada, and met her husband in Minnesota. Her two daughters lived nearby and she had six grandchildren at the time of her passing. Mary’s obituary expressed how this woman, who had immense hardships but loved and lived in the area for 43 years, was respected stating:  “Our little city and its hospitable people ever held a warm corner in her heart. It was here the best days of her life were spent and it was her desire that beneath the shadow of majestic Florida Mountain by the side of her husband, should be the eternal abiding place of all that was mortal of her. It was a fitting close of such a good and pure life that a light mantle of God’s pure snow covered the casket as it was lowered to its last resting place.”