The following is a quote from an oral history recorded by Ann Harvey.  The interview with Alice M. Byrne was recorded in 1984. 

“This year the Firemen dedicated a flagpole at the Firemen’s Cemetery. The Forest Service and the Firemen got together, grubbed the brush and cleaned up the Firemen’s Cemetery and erected a flagpole.

It gives us courage to try and get things done for the other cemeteries, because when everyone eventually dies off, there will be nobody to take care of the cemeteries. You see sagebrush growing up and nobody doing anything about it. Those plots in the cemeteries are privately owned, so it just cuts off any help you might get from the County.

We don’t have a cemetery district here. It takes an example set by the Firemen to show what can be done with cooperation. It would be wonderful if we could have the fences restored and brush grubbed out.”

A fire hazard reduction grant from the Nevada Division of Forestry was dedicated in remembrance of Alice M. Byrne, in thanks for Alice’s passionate, humorous and informational living history regarding the cemetery.

The Comstock Cemetery Foundation held a small dedication ceremony to acknowledge this event.  A plaque was presented to the descendants of Alice M. Byrne. Music and refreshments will accompanied the dedication.

The general public attended, many in period dress.

Alice is survived by children: John Phillip, Frank William, Mary Ruth Barnard, Elizabeth Lee Natalie, Patricia Ann Seymour, and Alice Margaret Le Bard.