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Biographies of Scots and Scots Descendants (B)
Bowes,
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By mid-1840 she was at the Mormon colony of
Nauvoo, Illinois. She married a church elder and they journeyed to Salt
Lake City. When her husband decided to build a harem, Eilley divorced him,
married again and soon moved to Carson Valley near the as yet undiscovered
Comstock lode. Again she divorced and began to wash clothes and cook for
miners. In exchange for an unpaid bill she accepted a ten-foot claim which
turned out to be a section of a silver-rich vein. Another of her lodgers,
Sandy Bowers, held an adjacent claim. They married and their joint claim
yielded $50,000 annually. She built a $300,000 mansion ten miles from
Comstock. In the 1860's the claim worked out, Sandy died, and the Queen of
the Comstock left for the California coast and became a fortune teller.
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