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Nellie Cashman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Ellen Cashman ( 1845 â“ January 4, 1925), better known as Nellie Cashman, was a native of County Cork, Ireland, who became famous across the United States west as a caretaker and gold prospector. |
 | | Cashman travelled to Victoria, to deliver 500 dollars received in donations, to the nuns of the Sisters of St. Anne, when she heard that a snowstorm had attacked the Cassiar mountains area, stranding and injuring 26 miners, who were also suffering of a disease named Scurvy. |
 | | Nellie still hoped to find gold someday, and she travelled to Baja California, Mexico, soon after her sister's death, on rumors that gold and silver could also be found there. |
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