I left a few issues unfinished in this story. When John Hyland died in a mine accident in 1915 in Ruth, Nevada, the family brought his body back to Calvary cemetery in Salt Lake City for burial. Ruth is a few miles west of Ely, NV in the mountains near the Utah border. There was a large copper mine there discovered by a Daniel C. McDonald (no relation) in 1903 and it was an underground mine in the years John worked there. After 1915, it became an open pit mine quite similar in design to the Bingham Canyon mine in Utah.
Ellen J raised her family in Ruth in a rented house. All four of her sons eventually worked in the mine, John, the eldest, was a train motorman and Joseph was a machinist but he took time out to serve in the US Navy during both world wars. Both are buried in Ely cemetery.
The town of Ruth was moved a few times due to the expansion of the mine pit and by the 1940 census, Ellen was living in Ely. Younger boys Cyril and Richard were a miner and assayer respectively. Anaconda took over the Ruth mine in the 1940s. Ellen was 91 when she died in 1962 and is buried next to her husband in Calvary cemetery in Salt Lake.
