The funeral of Miss Katherine G. Dyar will take place this
afternoon at 2 o'clock from Trinity Church.
MRS. MAMIE GILBREATH EDWARDS
June 24, 1898, Arizona Republican
The St. Louis Globe Democrat of Monday last contained
the following pathetic account of the death and funeral
of Mrs. Mamie Gilbreath Edwards, formerly of Fort Whipple,
Az at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri:
The funeral of Mrs. Mamie Gilbreath Edwards, wife of
Lt. Oliver Edwards and daughter of Major Erasmus C.
Gilbreath of the Eleventh infantry occurred at Jefferson
Barracks at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The interment
was in the National Cemetery. The husband and father are
both at Tampa with their regiment.
The regiment went into camp at Mobile and camp life was
monotonous. The chief joys of each, were the letters
that came, laden with love. But the letters stopped,
for the regiment went to sea, sailing for a port unknown
to those who sailed. Then there was grief at the post
for Mrs. Edwards grew worse and her life was despaired.
Then she grew better and when the regiment touched at
Tampa she suddenly grew worse and early Friday morning
she died.
The death and burial of Mrs. Edwards had a peculiar sadness
about it. It was one of those pathetic things of war. Two
months ago, Mrs. Edwards, 20 years old and a bride of a year,
came to the barracks with her husband's regiment. The
regiment was ordered to Mobile with the invasion of Cuba
in immediate prospect. The officers bade their wives
good-bye leaving them in the officers quarters at the
barracks. Mrs. Edwards, a soldier's daughter and a
soldier's wife was brave.
The father and husband were reached by wire at Tampa.
The husband answered. He could not express his grief.
He said he was caring for his father who was recently
injured by accident and was also prostrated by the news
of his daughter's death. They could not come home.
Their country needed them.
Yesterday a white casket banked with flowers stood in
Major Gilbreath's quarters at Jefferson Barracks.
There were only a few present--officers at the post,
their wives and the wives of some of those at the front.
The officers were in uniform. Dr. Johnson of the first
Congregational Church stood beside the coffin. In a
room above the mother and a brother wept.
The pall bearers--Captain J. Knight, Lt. E.M. Supp,
Major Girard, Major Kress, Major Moore and a son of
Captain Mack took the casket and carried it to the
hearse. Carriages were waiting. Mrs. Gilbreath,
her son William and some of her nearest friends
joined the cortege.
CHARLES FARIST
December 10, 1898
Charles Farist who will be well remembered as a resident of
Phoenix a year ago and two years ago this winter, died on
December 3rd at his home in Bridgeport, Conn. His father is
a wealthy steel manufacturer of Bridgeport.
MRS. J.W. FAYMAN (MRS. JOSIE BLACK)
February 28, 1898
Mrs. J.W. Fayman died at the St. Lawrence yesterday morning,
presumably of morphine poisoning. The drug was self administered
in a fit of intoxication. The dead woman was better known in
Phoenix as "Pauline," and for three months had been a singer and
piano player at the Anheuser. She had for a long time been
drinking to excess and on several occasions physicians had been
called to resuscitate her,from the stupor caused by alcohol.
She left the saloon where she was employed soon after midnight
and in company with another woman visited other saloons. At
1 o'clock in the morning she was playing roulette in the
Palace. When she left the table she nodded to her friends.
She has ceased smiling and there was a curious look in her eyes
which was recalled by those who saw it when they learned a little
later that she had taken poison. With head erect and looking
straight before her she walked out of the rear door and directly
to her room. She had threatened to kill herself earlier in the
night and had made the same threat so often before that no
attention was paid to it. She was believed though, to be of
suicidal tendency for not long ago in a period of depression
she tried to shoot herself but was prevented by a bystander
from reaching a revolver which lay in sight.
A little after two o'clock she went into the room of Charles
McKenzie, also a lodger at the St. Lawrence. She told him she was
going to die and swallowed two large doses of a white powder. If
it was morphine either would have been deadly. A physician
was summoned as soon as possible.
The apartments of the dead woman consist of two small rooms. In one
was an open piano and a dresser, the latter littered with
photographs of friends and policy tickets for "Pauline" was
also a gambler in a small way. Wrapped in one policy ticket
was a quantity of morphone for a deadly dose. The body was
removed to the rooms of the Phoenix undertaking Company whether
or not a post mortem examination would be made.
"Pauline" had seen better days. She was born of a good family
in George and was well educated. She was about 40 years od.
Several years ago she married J.W. Fayman, an employee of the
Southern Pacific at Los Angeles and was separated form him
two years ago while living at Truckee where he was agent for
the company. The cause of separation was an escapade in
which a prominent Nevada capitalist figured.
The dead woman was a most accomplished musician and while living
in Los Angeles she was the best known and most skillful
teacher of music in the city. After her separation from her
husband she resided for some time with her brother, James S.
Fielder, a well known lawyer of Silver City, NM. Less than a
year ago she went from Silver City to Tucson and for the
first time prostituted her musical accomplishments by engaging
in saloon singing.
She was a good hearted woman. Her most glaring fault was her
indulgence in strong drink, which she probably regarded
as the only refuge this side of the grade from unhappy memories.
March 1, 1898
The inquest regarding the death of Mrs. J.W. Fayman, whose body was
found in her room at the St. Lawrence on Sunday was concluded
before justice Johnstone yesterday. The verdict of the jury was
that death resulted from an overdose of morphine taken with
suicidal intent. There was only one circumstance introduced in
the testimony that was not included in the Republicans account
of the tragedy yesterday morning and that in the end served to
throw no light on the motive. One witness said that the day
before Mrs. Fayman's death a telegram was delivered to her.
She opened and read it. Her face flushed and she bit her lip
in her vexation or agitation. Tearing the telegram into small
bits she threw them on the floor and said, "Let it stay where
it is." The witness didn't know to what the telegram related.
It was learned that it was a Western Union message and an
attempt was made to get a copy of it. The manager said that
under the rules he could not furnish it, but he said it contained
nothing that could produce a depression of spirits. It merely
related to music.
The fluid in a wine glass found in the dead woman's room had
been analyzed by Ernest Ford who said that it was nothing but
water with a trace of absinthe.
One of Mrs. Fayman's peculiarities was disclosed which intended
that she actually courted death. When suffering from intoxication
she always had a physician sent for and in order to made the need
of his services more urgent had frequently drunk large quantities
of absinthe and had lately nearly died form resultant
heart trouble.
At the time a physician was sent for on Sunday morning there were
no symptoms of morphine poisoning which are always marked. There
was a supposition that the white powder she had taken was baking
powder and had not been taken from the package of morphine which
was afterward found in her room. This supposition was so strong
that she was left by her friends to meet death alone.
The funeral will take place today.
March 3, 1898
The funeral of Mrs. J.W. Fayman took place yesterday afternoon
from the rooms of the Phoenix Undertaking Company. Her friends
have her a decent and even an expensive burial and many of them
followed her remains to the grave.
Further evidence, if any were wanting, that she was in earnest
when she said she was going to die was found among her effects
after the conclusion of the inquest. Upon the back of a panel
photograph which had been broken in two parts she had written:
"Don't bury me in a pauper's grave and don't telegraph my
brother at Silver City."
From the amount of morphine she was seen to take, together
with what was found in her pocket afterward it was surmised
that some druggist was selling the poison in wholesale
quantities. It has been discovered though that she did not
get it at a drug store but in a barber shop, where she
picked up a bottle almost filled with the drug. It is not
considered good professional taste to make sedatives a part
of the stock of a barber shop, where the operation of shaving
is supposed to be performed painlessly.
March 4, 1898
According to the Los Angeles Times Mrs. J.W. Fayman who died here
last Sunday morning is believed to have been known there by the
name of Mrs. Josie Black. When the Associated Press dispatch
was received at the times office conveying news of Mrs.
Fayman's death, a messenger was sent to 223-l/1 Boyd Street,
the address found on an envelope in Mrs. Fayman's room. He was
told that no one of that name had lived there, though last
summer apartments at that number had been occupied by a woman
named Mrs. Josie Black, a concert hall singer who afterward
went to Phoenix.
