Mrs. Lena Garrett, wife of B.E. Garrett, died last
night at 8:30 o'clock at the home of her father,
J.P. Rhodes, No. 334 North Fourth Avenue, after a
long illness of an affection of the lungs. The
funeral will be held at 10 o'clock Friday morning
at the parlors of Easterling and Whitney.
Mrs. Garrett was 28 years old and her girlhood was
spent in Phoenix coming here with the fmaily in 1889.
After her marriage to Mr. Garrett her home was in
Indianapolis, Indiana until she returned here a few
months ago on account of ill health. Her husband
joined her here a week or two ago and beside him she
leaves two little boys aged seven and four. The other
relatives here are her father and her brother W.E.
Rhodes and his family. Another brother, Albert is in
Tucson and her sister Mrs. J.R. Payne, lives in Cananea.
Mrs. Garrett was well known in Phoenix though in late
years she has lived elsewhere the greater part of the
time, and tehre are may whose sympathy will go out to
the mourning relatives.
DR. GENTRY
January 22, 1905
Dr. Gentry died Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock of a
liver affection after a long illness. He was a
son-in-law of the late Dr. Girard, having read
medicine under him many years ago. Dr. Gentry
came to Arizona about three months ago from
Missouri accompanied by his wife, a son of
eighteen ad a daughter of sixteen and who are
now here. The dead man was fifty years old and
was a member of the Masonic order which society
wil have charge of his funeral today, following
a religious service to be conducted at 2:30
o'clock at the parlors of Easterling and Whitney.
ELIZA GEORGE
Arizona Republican Newspaper
May 31, 1905
Eliza Le Gette George died last evening about 8 o'clock at
the home of her son Henry George, No. 366 North Second Avenue.
She was 64 years old and her death resulted from paralysis with
which she was stricken about four months ago. The funeral will
be held this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at the family residence.
Rev. E.A. Penick will officiate.
Mrs. George was a native of South Carolina, moving west at an
early age. She was married in Texas to Captain W.L. George,
the family later removing to Missouri where they lived for
many years. Eighteen years ago Captain George and family came
to Phoenix which has been their home ever since. Captain
George who was one of the most honored and respected men in
the community died about nine years ago, his wife since then
living with their children.
There are three surviving children, Henry, L., William L.
and Dick. They first two reside here each having a family
of his own. Dick, who was here a short time ago, is now in
southern Mexico in railroad work with Superintendent Naugle
of the N.M. and A. During her residence of many years in this
valley, Mrs. Eliza George has made many friends both here and
in Tempe.
JOHN GLORS
Arizona Republican Newspaper
April 10, 1905
A fatal accident happened at the Old Dominion Mine on Wednesday
afternoon, the victim being John Glors, an Italian miner who
has worked for the company off and on for the past four years.
Glors was one of the twelve miners who were being lowered in
the south compartment of the old shaft there being six men on
each deck of the cage. Glors was on the lower deck and
unobserved by the top lander and against the rules, he had
taken an empty five gallon oil can with him to carry water
for the machine drills operated on the eleventh level where
he worked. It is supposed that Glors was holding onto the
bar above his head with one hand and carrying his lunch
bucket in the other with the large can between his knees
and that the can slipped, caught in the timbers and then
struck Glors, throwing him against the timbers of the shaft.
The body of the unfortunate man was forced between the
descending cage and the wall of the compartment though a
space scarcely four inches wide and deposited on the upper deck.
MRS. SARAH GOLDWATER
Arizona Republican Newspaper
May 27, 1905
Barry Goldwater received a telegram last night from his
brother, Morris who is in San Francisco, announcing the
death of their mother, Mrs. Sarah Goldwater in San Francisco
at 5:30 last evening. Word was received a few days ago that
she was very ill of pneumonia and Morris Goldwater of Prescott
left at once for her bedside. Barry will leave on this morning's
Santa Fe for San Francisco. Mrs. Goldwater has lived in San
Francisco for a great many years, that having been the family
home during the early when her late husband, M. Goldwater was
engaged in merchandising in Arizona. She was therefore never
a resident of Arizona, though well known by a great number of
Arizona people. She was over eighty years old and is survived
by three daughters and three sons, the latter being well known
here. Morris, the oldest, is mayor of Prescott, Barry, a
leading Phoenix merchant, and Henry a San Francisco merchant,
though formerly interested with his brothers in Phoenix and
Prescott stores.
Colonel C.H. Gray
August 31, 1905
Arizona Republican Newspaper
Colonel C.H. Gray died at six o'clock yesterday morning
at his home south of the city. The Republican had announced
that he would hardly survive the night. The cause of death
was cancer of the stomach of which he had suffered for a long
time. For months his death had been regarded as inevitable
and for days it had been considered imminent.
For days before his death he had frequently asked the day of
the month. The inquiry was made so often that his friends
wondered until it occurred to them that his birthday was
approaching. He survived the anniversary of his birth by
a single day.
Colonel Gray was born in Gadsden County Florida on August
29, 1833. He came to the coast by way of Panama when a
very young man and engaged in mining in California. He
remained there until the outbreak of the Civil War when
he returned to the south and joined the confederacy. He
served through an enlistment of three years and entered
upon another in which he served until near the close of the
war.
In 1865 he was married to Miss Mary Norris in Arkansas where
he had lived after leaving Florida and before his journey to
the coast. His wife is a sister of Mr. F.C. Norris, former
chairman of the Board of Supervisors of this county. Soon
after his marriage he started west again, this time overland.
He settled in the Salt River Valley on the land where he
died. His wife was the first white woman in the valley.
There was no Phoenix then and no thought of one for that
was in 1869.
Though he devoted himself extensively to farming he was always
extensively engaged in the mining business, sometimes
extensively. He was one of the early owners of the famous
Harqua Hala Mine, which he, Frank Kirkland and A.G. Hubbard
bought for about $40,000. He and Kirkland afterward sold
their interest to Hubbard and a subsequent partner, George
Bowers, to an English syndicate for $1,000,000. It is now
the sole possession of Hubbard again. For some years Colonel
Gray had been operating the Arica Mine on the California
side of the Colorado River.
Colonel Gray was a warm hearted but outspoken man, so that
he had some enemies as well as many friends. In the latter
years he had paid little attention to anything but his
mining interests. He had some years ago extensive real
estate interests in the valley. Beside his beautiful home
south of the city he owned a section of land on the south
side of the river near Tempe. He disposed of all that and
later of all of the home place except ten acres of land
adjacent to his residence.
The funeral of Colonel Gray will take place at nine o'clock
this morning the direction of the Masonic order.
MRS. GREENE
August 12 ,1905
John H. Pomeroy returned yesterday from Prescott where
he went on the excursion a week ago, remaining to take
advantage of the more bracing climate of the hills. Mr.
Pomeroy was one of a party of four who discovered the body
of Mrs. Greene, who committed suicide a mile and a half
from Prescott by shooting last week. The finding of the
body was a remarkable piece of night work and must be
attributable in part to accident.
Mr. Pomeroy was stopping at the same lodging house where
Mrs. Green and her husband resided. He met her daily and
she always seemed cheerful. No motive for her self
destruction has been suggested. It is evident that until
after noon of the day she did not intend to kill herself
at that time for some time after twelve o'clock she had
purchased some thread and other articles needed by her in
some fancy work on which she was engaged.
She was missed in the evening and it was learned that she
had gone in a northerly direction. About the same time
her husband noticed that his revolver was missing. Though
his wife had made no threat of suicide he had a fear that
that was what had happened. It was at first thought that
she had gone to the park and a search without result was
made for her in that locality. It was abandoned at
nightfall land there was a hope that she still might
return unharmed.
A search was made in her apartments for some word that she
might have left but nothing was found until about 10 o'clock
when some one turning the leaves of a writing pad found in
one of the middle leaves a note directed to her friend, Mrs.
Mathews, also living at the lodging house. It was as
follows: "Clean up Jack (her five year old boy) and burn
all his clothes. Don't let him know; don't let him see me.
I'm tired and going now. Nobody to blame."
It was on the discovery of this note that an active search
was begun. It had been ascertained that she had gone in a
northerly direction. It was also learned that a week
before in the company of Mrs. Mathews she had visited an
Indian camp in that direction. As she was familiar with
the country it was surmised that she would naturally have
gone that way. The party followed a northerly course,
zigzagging over a wide area and at last E.N. Jenkins of
this city, one of the party, found the body about
midnight in the shadow of a small oak tree. The woman
had spread out before her a newspaper and placed herself
in such a position that when she should shoot herself in
the breast she would fall forward on it. It was in that
position she lay.
