There were two men while not county employees and/or officials did reside for a time in the original courthouse. The two men, Holden Dick and Vincente Olivas aka Mexican Ben were both being held on separate murder charges and the jail was located in the courthouse. Sometime in the middle of the night on January 24, 1886, a vigilante mob broke into the jail and removed Dick and Ben to a nearby woodshed and they were lynched. They were buried in the Susanville Cemetery, their graves unmarked and Spalding Arnold was probably the last person to know the location of the graves.
Yet, unmarked graves are not the domain of paupers and such. We will visit the grave of William Minckler, County Surveyor, and while there are Susanville street signs that bear his name, his grave has no marker—and he is related to Spalding Arnold!

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