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Stockton Daily Independent
Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
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Stockton Daily Independent
Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
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>>TUESDAY, 10 NOV 1863<<

DIED - in Mokelumne Hill, Nov. 1st, R.H. KEEFE, aged 37 years.