Mable Gallagher

Hayden Hill Cemetery
Hayden Hill Cemetery, 1909. Courtesy of Dallas & Joyce Snider

In the annals of Lassen County history, not much happens on this particular date. It was on December 31, 1903, that Hayden Hill resident Mable Gallagher passed away from pneumonia at the age of 30.  She is one of the few known internments in the Hayden Hill Cemetery. We don’t know much about Mable. Yet, she holds a unique distinction in Lassen County. She is the only person to have their occupation listed as “the sporting life” on her death certificate.

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