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In July 1874, a teenager was fatally injured in an accident in the Valley. His comrade accidentally shot him. After several weeks of agony and suffering, he died and was buried in the newly designated Yosemite Cemetery. Within a short span of years, the marker on his grave was damaged by winds and snow, and then it disappeared completely. His name and the circumstances of his accident were soon forgotten, and the grave, covered with grass and debris became almost unrecognizable. Only one attribute related to this burial place remained clearly inscribed in the collective memory of the inhabitants of the Valley: "A boy" was buried in that grave.
After several improvements and cleanups of the cemetery in the 1930s, and then again in more recent years, only this attribute, "A Boy", was kept on the marker of the nicely restored grave. And now, in the year 2024, we finally learned with certainty the boy's name and what exactly happened to him. Note that drowning, as some earlier popular speculations claimed, was not the cause of the boy's death. If you are interested in reading the whole story, please visit my secure Amazon-cloud webpage
-Harv
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