Josh Wilson and Charles Brown were the local undertakers and furniture dealers, located in Virginia City.  They had a cemetery located within the Silver Terrace Cemeteries. They also used a section across from Wilson and Brown, called, as is the entire site, Silver Terrace. 

Wilson and Brown, at one time, maintained a vault for the use of its customers.   

In 1877 the local paper reported that their cemetery, “contained many graves surrounded with iron fence and handsome stone walls.  Some of the lots have handsome flights of cut stone steps leading up to them, they being on terraces.  This cemetery covers a great deal of ground and is  well laid out, but much work must yet be done on it to put it in perfect order.”   

Some things have not changed. Today, Wilson and Brown is one of the most poorly maintained and protected sites in the Silver Terrace cemeteries.  

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