Sheahan family
also: Martha_Sheshan (episode title)
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Groom Mine eminent domain seizureevent · 4Groom Mineplace · 3Las Vegasplace · 2Groom Mine mill bombingevent · 1U.S. federal governmentorganization · 1January 6 Capitol attackevent · 1Pioche, Nevadaplace · 1Henderson, Nevadaplace · 1
Claims (6)
Sheahan founded
Groom Mine guest_asserted
“He watered his horses, stayed, opened up all these different claims, and went back to town. That is how we got Groomvine. And it's basically been on our family ever since.…”
▶ @Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government @ 4:18
U.S. federal government carried_out_attack
Sheahan guest_asserted
“Well, they just shot at everything. They didn't care. Yeah, when I was two years old, my brother and I were playing outside, and they came over with their jets, and they were shooting…”
▶ @Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government @ 17:27
U.S. Air Force paid
Sheahan guest_asserted
“So what they did is they just paid us and gave us two weekends, sunup to sundown, 50 people on site to get our stuff.…”
▶ @Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government @ 1:15:23
Atomic Energy Commission spied_on
Sheahan guest_asserted
“They actually had my parents wear film badges to monitor the radiation. But they weren't monitoring it to help them. They were monitoring it for their science project.…”
▶ @Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government @ 16:31
Sheahan exposed
David Waltershide guest_asserted
“We were actually able to get rid of him because he was caught lying. He lied to me, you know, when they said, oh, they were going to go through Congress.…”
▶ @Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government @ 1:12:02
U.S. federal government framed
Sheahan guest_asserted
“And they planned on doing all this stuff and blaming it on us. And it made perfect sense to me. Like what stuff was he talking about? Killing people, shooting people that came out to defend our property. It was a giant setup.…”
▶ @Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government @ 1:06:51
Mentions (24)
▶ 3:16
Okay, it all started with my great-grandfather, who was an Irish immigrant. And he was working in Peelch, Nevada in 1889. And some guy came in. Excuse me. I've really had a bad cold. Some guy came in with the highest grade of silver he had …
▶ 4:18
He watered his horses, stayed, opened up all these different claims, and went back to town. That is how we got Groomvine. And it's basically been on our family ever since. There were original patents that they acquired, which are actually b…
▶ 5:19
Is it your great-grandfather? Yes. Okay. He acquired the mine to include perpetual ownership of it through patents. Yes. Forever. Forever. And the word forever is in the patents. Okay. Keep going. And so...…
▶ 6:38
And he said that they were going to town to get her tooth fixed, but they actually went to town and got married. And the Irish way was when the oldest son married, he was in charge. And so the mind became his. Now, he still had five younger…
▶ 8:53
And it could work like him, my dad, and my dad's brother could actually run it by themselves. They didn't need anybody else. It was brand spanking new, very expensive, I might add. And when the government came in, he had paid the mill off. …
▶ 13:34
necessarily at the time. So go ahead. That's correct. It became a war zone. And everybody left, except for my grandfather, my family. They just refused to leave. My dad was in World War II. They took him out of...…
▶ 17:01
So tell me how many people were present around that time period. How many of your family members were living there? My grandfather and grandmother, my uncle, my mom, and my dad. Now, they had had a bunch of miners out there. My mom used to …
▶ 17:27
And they did affidavits and stuff, and it was like, well, we thought maybe we could leave or get killed, so we left. So they were recruiting at the workers? Well, they just shot at everything. They didn't care. Yeah, when I was two years ol…
▶ 19:45
Well, they actually had monitoring station up on our property. My family was very patriotic, and they helped them. They allowed them to have their radiation monitoring sites. The mine at that time had electricity throughout the whole mine, …
▶ 22:29
He was all angry, and he wanted to know why they had not been able to evict those miners out of there. They had done everything. Nuked them, shot at them, bombed them, and they're still there. And so you're talking about a time frame. You s…
▶ 30:00
Little thing they had going on. They needed some people there. To do that on. But by 1954. They had accomplished that goal. And they wanted us gone. But they don't want to pay for it. You know. My family was so patriotic. And they would hav…
▶ 31:26
We didn't run off. We tried to stand our ground. But, you know, that didn't work out so well. Well, I guess it did because here we are. So now we've got 1954, 1955. And they bombed the mill that was used to process the ore out of the mine. …
▶ 31:56
My grandfather made $80,000, I believe, the last year that the mill had operated. And that was in, you know, I don't know, 1951 money or 50. I'm not sure exactly the time, but he made a tremendous amount of money. And like I said, he owed n…
▶ 38:25
My family lived in Henderson and my grandfather lived in Las Vegas. You couldn't live there. Once they blew up the mill, you couldn't make a living anymore. And so everybody went to Vegas, but we still went out there all the time. Okay. You…
▶ 43:07
They had to, of course, give us back our 400 acres. That's why the actual withdrawal turned out to be 89,600 acres. They wanted 90,000, but they didn't get our 400. And it became part of the law for that, for the taking. They had to guarant…
▶ 46:30
entering your property with the armed guard, you were then allowed back onto it at that point? Yeah, they, in fact, we were always allowed onto it. But what happened was after that, they started making us go, well, we had to give them notif…
▶ 54:35
He pulls me over. He doesn't even let me get to the guard shack. I mean, he pulls me over on public road. What year was this, Martha? Yeah, he tells me, you know, to do this and do that, get me your ID and that. I said, I've already been cl…
▶ 58:06
that they're going to take the property. And if we agree to this $5.2 million settlement, when my mother, who was 86 years old at the time, when she died, we could bury her next to my dad out at the mine, because that's where my dad is. And…
▶ 1:02:47
We wound up with a jury of their peers, three retired federal court judges, district court judges. And there was nothing we could do about that either. We are, to my knowledge, the only family in the history of this nation to have that happ…
▶ 1:04:03
For any reason. Absolutely. And for no reason. They don't need one. All they need is to want your stuff. And I will tell you, unequivocally, we were supposed to be the January 6th people before they were. But we didn't go there. We had peop…
▶ 1:13:32
Right. And by the way, we also buried my mother out there. I just want everybody to know that. This is what you do as an American. No matter who tells you you can't, you just do it anyway because it's the right thing to do. And nobody said …
▶ 1:14:59
plywood and stuff and they actually boarded our cabin up and this is after we were gone i i already they'd already seized the property see we found out a lot of things afterwards but like we they hired us to go take our own stuff out of the…
▶ 1:15:23
hiring a company. They said it would take them six months. And then they had to put all of our 130 years worth of stuff in warehouses and that for a year. This is the federal law. So what they did is they just paid us and gave us two weeken…
▶ 1:34:47
We were 100% free. We controlled everything. They, by law, could not come onto our property without us saying so. And when we were there, other than the goons that came on and the bomb droppers and stuff, but when you were dealing with the …