Mrs. J.W. Dorris yesterday received a message from Mississippi
conveying the sad news of the death of her brother, Mr. William
Bryant Wilson. Mrs. Dorris was called to Mississippi by the
illness of her brother some weeks ago and left him much improved
in health. A few days after she arrived in Phoenix she received
news of the death of another brother, George Wilson who
contracted malarial fever and died suddenly. Mr. William
Bryant Wilson grew worse after Mrs. Dorris left and yesterday
he passed away. The many friends of Mrs. Dorris and her sister,
Miss Wilson will be pained to learn of their great sorrow.
ELIZA YAPIE
January 20, 1898
The will of Mrs. Elia Yapie was filed in probate court yesterday.
It disposes of property supposed to amount to $30,000 of which
$16,000 in personal property is in this county. The rest
consisting of farm property is in Illinois.
The husband, J.M. Yapie, is made the sole immediate beneficiary.
He is to receive all the earnings of the property during
his lifetime or until he marries again, but in the event of
his death or marriage the property is to go to other heirs
of the testator. The will was made in 1880.
GEORGE W. CAMPBELL
June 12, 1893
Sentinel -- George W. Campbell yesterday shot himself to
death with a rifle at the canal camp near here. He was
a member of the well known firm of contractors, Ames
and Campbell. The shooting was suicidal and appears
to have had its origin in business troubles. The body
has been taken to Florence.
C.F. CATES
January 28, 1893
A sad death occurred yesterday in the rear of a second hand
store on Washington Street opposite the city hall. For
several days an auction has been going on in the adjoining
rooms and the ceaseless "going, going, gone" of the
auctioneer was as true of the soul of the sick man as
of the old clothing. The dying man had drifted into the
second hand store a human castaway and was laid on a cot
in a rear room. He was dying of consumption and it was
plain that the end was near. Dr. Helm was in attendance
though it was plain that medical attention was useless.
The dead man is C.F. Cates, aged 48, and a native of
Newton Center, N.H. and came to Arizona in the early
1870's. He was here at the time of the organization of
Maricopa County and was the first county recorder which
office he filled from 1872-1874. He afterward removed
to Prescott where he acquired considerable property
which was afterward lost. He returned to Phoenix where
he has since resided until yesterday morning.
Among his effects were found $11.25 in cash, a draft for 33
cents upon Montgomery Ward, Chicago and a letter from his
mother in New Hampshire. The letter was pathetic and from
its contents it appeared that the writer had just been able
to locate her son after four years. She was she said at
the time of the writing 73 years of age. She enjoined him
to follow God, the best friend of the sick and penniless.
NATHAN COUSINS
September 5, 1893
Died, Monday, September 4, 1893, of typhoid fever, Nathan A.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Cousins. The deceased was about 16
years of age. The funeral will take place this afternoon
from the family residence at the head of Fourth Avenue under
the direction of W.H. Smith and Company.
MISS HATTIE CRANE
January 23, 1893
A telegram was received by friends in this city yesterday
announcing the death Saturday morning in Pasadena, Cal. of
Miss Hattie Crane. Miss Crane and her sister Mrs. J.M.
Permar will be remembered as winter residents of this
city where they enjoyed a wide circle of friends. Miss
Crane was an estimable young woman of many lovable
qualities and the tidings of her death, though not
unexpected will be received among her friends with
genuine sorrow.
MRS. M. CULLEN
February 1, 1893
Tucson -- Mrs. M. Cullen, an native of Ohio, died in this city
on Sunday, Jan. 29 of cancer, aged 38 years. Mrs. Cullen was
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas White of Florence, Az
and a niece of Judge Charles Silent of Los Angeles. Besides
her sorrowing parents she leaves a husband, brother and
daughter, Mrs. J.V. Paul to mourn her loss. The funeral
took place this morning at 9 o'clock from the Catholic Church.
CONRAD DAVIS
June 9, 1893
Yuma -- John W. Baker, an old prospector from Clifton,
just came in and brings the news that Conrad Davis, a
well known miner from the same place, had perished on
the desert near Mule Springs, California on the old
stage road thirty miles west of Ehrenburg. They
started May 26 to prospect and separated on reaching a
spot showing minerals. At night Davis did not return.
Baker searched for him five days tracing him to the
sand hills where a sand storm had covered his tracks.
They left here May 23. Both are well known miners on
the coast.
GLADYS DAVIS
September 2, 1893
Gladys, the six year old daughter of Mr. J.C. Davis,
proprietor of the Mesa Fruit Store, died yesterday at 11
o'clock under the most distressing circumstances. The
little one had not been well for a day or two but her
ailment appeared so trifling that there seemed not even
a slight cause for alarm. Yesterday morning after Mr.
Davis had gone to his place of business she was suddenly
seized with a violent illness, and in two hours was dead.
Even the character of the disease was a puzzle to the
physicians and consequently no relief could be offered.
The funeral took place yesterday afternoon under the
direction of W.H. Smith and Company.
S.F. DENNIS
July 1, 1893
Late last night two Mexicans came to town and reported that
they had found a dead man's body in a house on Mitchell's
Ranch, seven miles west of Phoenix on the Yuma Road. It was
frightfully decomposed, and looked as if it had lain there
four or five days. Immediately after, other parties came in
and said that the body was that of S.F. Dennis, the foreman
of the ranch and who lived alone in the house in which the
body was found.
Justice Wharton hastily organized a coroner's jury consisting
of George Loring, W.H. Buck, H.M. Hall, William Shepherd,
Thomas Molloy and M.C. McBride and with a physician set out
at 10 o'clock for the ranch. A dead wagon was also taken
along in which to bring the corpse to town. None of the persons
who came in had examined the body sufficiently to ascertain if
it bore marks of violence and, on going to press this morning
the jury had not returned, so that the cause of death of not
known. One man who lives in the vicinity said that the ranch
is infested with rattlesnakes and that it was believed that
the unfortunate man had been bitten and had succumbed to the
poison without any means of relief at hand.
Dennis was last seen alive some time on Monday by a neighbor,
a Mr. Cogden. He spent last Sunday in Phoenix and left for the
ranch early on Monday morning. At that time he was in
excellent health and spirits, and circumstances pointing to
the fact that he must have died that day, it is unlikely that
he died from natural causes.
The dead man was single and was about 25 years of age and of
excellent reputation. He came from Illinois five months ago.
Mitchell, the proprietor of the place owns another large
cattle ranch o the upper Agua Fria.
BESSIE EDGAR
May 3, 1893
Miss Bessie Edgar, who recently died at Tucson of
consumption was the daughter of Mr. James Edgar of
Detroit Michigan. Mr. Edgar is a cousin of Mrs. H.C.
Gooding.
HOLLAND FARISH
May 3, 1893
Information was received in the city late last night that
Holland Farish, the son of Hon. Thomas Farish, was killed
at Vulture early yesterday morning. Mr. Farish, with another
son, was on the way to Phoenix with the body and preparations
are made by Randal & Davis to receive it this morning.
No particulars of the killing could be obtained though it
was reported that the young man had shot himself by accident.
The deceased was about twenty years of age and a promising
youth admired and respected by a large circle of friends.
The sympathies of Arizona and the west throughout which he
is so well and favorably known go out to Mr. Farish in his
deep and sudden sorrow.
