California Obituaries
Napa County Deaths

Charles R. Rice

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          Killing of Charles R. Rice�Rice was a blacksmith at the Redington 
Quicksilver Mine, and worked in a shop at Knoxville. On the day of the shooting, 
June 3, 1879, Jacob Fuquar came into the shop with a mule which he desired shod. 
After the work was done he refused to pay for it, whereupon Rice said that the 
mule should not leave the shop until the work was paid for. Fuquar then became 
abusive, and Rice drove him from the shop. He went to a house near by and 
procured a revolver, and going back to the shop, shot Rice through the heart. 

Source: [Lyman L. Palmer], History of Napa and Lake Counties, California (San 
Francisco: Slocum, Bowen & Co., 1881), page 156.