S. D. Sheldon

Elko County Sheriff's Office — Elko, NV

Felonious

End of Watch August 2, 1869

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 6

Incident

Deputy Sheriff S.D. Sheldon succumbed to a gunshot wound sustained six days earlier.

He was shot in the head while collecting the license tax from a saloon in Toano, Nevada.

Deputy Sheldon also served as the Constable for Toano Township.

Toano, also referred to as Toana, became a ghost town in 1906 after traffic from Idaho and the south ceased with the completion of the Oregon Shortline Railroad.

Thank you Jim. Please let me put my name down with you. I can't help but wonder if Deputy S. D. Sheldon had also served in the American Civil War.

Danny Saam, officer California Highway Patrol. May 27th, 2025

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157 years is a long time for a name to go unread. Not today.
Deputy Sheriff Sheldon served with the Elko County Sheriff's Office.
Thank you for your service to the Elko community. Gone but never to be forgotten.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Elko County Sheriff's Office

Location Elko, NV

Platform Identity ecso.elko.nv.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch August 2, 1869

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Deputy Sheriff S. D. Sheldon is one of 17,623 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 54.2% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In NV, 81 of 145 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 55.9% of this state's fallen. That is 1.7 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At Elko County Sheriff's Office, 5 of 7 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 71.4% of this agency's fallen.

Elko County Sheriff's Office

of 7 officers

71.4% Felonious

NV — Statewide

of 145 officers

55.9% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious