A letter was received here yesterday from Professor J.N. Wollam
at Los Angeles saying that his little 6 year old daughter had
died. The little girl had been in good health until she was
two years old. At that time a trouble developed in the hip.
Professor Wollam who was then principal of the Phoenix schools
took her to San Francisco and doctors there pronounced the
disease to e tuberculosis. They said there was little hope of
effecting a cure.
CARNEY WRIGHT
May 28, 1897
The body of 9 year old Carney Wright, who died on Wednesday has
been embalmed and is held awaiting the arrival of his
grandfather, Dr. T.W. Horton, who is expected here from
California this morning.
B.F. ZOECKLER
September 9, 1897
Councilman B.F. Zoeckler committed suicide yesterday morning at
his home, 809 West Jefferson Street, by shooting. The tragedy
occurred about 5 o'clock. The only other occupant of the house
was his younger daughter, Lulu. His wife and elder daughter,
Nellie, are in the East visiting relatives.
A pistol shot, awakened his daughter about daylight. She was
not certain whether a shot had actually been fired or whether
she had dreamed it. At any rate it did not occur to her that a
shot had been fired within the house. A few minutes later , the
telephone rang. H.A. McGee, employed at Zoeckler's Meat Market,
was inquiring for Mr. Zoeckler. His daughter replied that he
had gone downtown. Her reply was based on the circumstance that
it was after the time he usually started to his place of
business. McGee replied that he had not yet arrived. Thinking
that he might have overslept she went into his room adjoining
her own to awaken him. He lay on the floor on his back, dressed
as usual. In the early morning light his terrified daughter saw
blood on the floor. Zoeckler's head lay two feet from the wall
which was splattered with blood as he fell. There was blood
on his right sleeve near the hollow of his arm. A pistol lay
near his feet.
Miss Zoeckler telephoned to the market that her father was dead,
had been killed. McGee caused Justice Kincaid to be notified
and he impaneled a jury : P.T. Hurley, Charles A. Rodig, C.D.
Dorris, W.H. Black, Louis Dugas, Edward Eisle and S.C. Wynkoop.
Dr. Wyle examined the wound. The ball, 38 caliber from a
Harrington and Richardson revolver had entered the right
side of the head about an inch above the ear and slightly
back of a perpendicular line drawn from the top of the ear.
It entered the brain, a part of which oozed out and soiled
the hair. All things considered, a verdict was rendered that
Zoeckler had shot himself.
At the same time no satisfactory motive for suicide has been
discovered. His daughter had not seen him since Tuesday morning
when he left at the usual hour for his place of business. He was
cheerful then. The men at the shop say there was nothing in his
manner to denote despondency. Though Zoeckler himself owned a
great deal of money, more than he possessed in his own name,
so far as is known his affairs were not in desperate condition.
He as known to be an honest man and his credit was good and relief
from embarrassment was always within reach.
It is probably that when he lay down on Tuesday night he had no
thought of suicide.
A telegram was sent to his daughter Nellie at Wheeling West
Virginia yesterday morning. Her mother is visiting friends in
Pennsylvania. On receipt of a reply Miss Lulu Zoeckler decided
to send the body to Wheeling for burial. It was removed to the
Phoenix Undertaking Company rooms for embalming and will be
forwarded tonight. Funeral services will be held at the
undertakers room at 5:30 this afternoon. They will be conducted
by the Woodman of the World.
B.F. Zoeckler was 51 years old and a native of West Virginia.
He came to Phoenix from Montana about seven years ago. He was
associated in business with John a. Lutgerding until early
this year when he went into business on his own account.
Last spring he took an active part in politics for the first
time and was elected to the city council from the third ward.
He was a member of the Woodman of the World and the Red Men.
He carried an insurance policy on his life for $2000 in the
former and was also insured in the Mutual Life. He was at
one time a member of the AOUW but did not affiliate with the
order after coming to Phoenix. He was a good husband, a
good father and a good neighbor. His death is mourned not
only by his wife and two daughters, but by multitudes of
acquaintances in the valley.
September 10, 1897
The inquisition into the circumstances of the death of B.F. Zoeckler
will be reopened and a sensation will possibly be sprung today.
Upon the motion of the acting district attorney Judge Kibbey,
Justice Kincaid set the verdict of the coroner' jury aside.
Evidence has been discovered that Zoeckler did not commit suicide
but that an unlawful homicide was committed.
Justice Kincaid having allowed the motion impaneled another jury
consisting of nine instead of six members. They were F.L. Warner,
Leo Goldman, W.t. Barr, John Gray, F.C. Norris, George Buxton,
C.W. Stevens, V.L. Clark and E.H. Mowre. The jury again viewed
the body and was adjourned until this morning when evidence
will be heard again and new evidence will be introduced.
The remains have been sent to West Virginia.
Andrew Marshall
Arizona Republican Newspaper
November 9, 1905
J.A. Marshall received a telegram yesterday from his
former home in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, announcing
the death of his father, Mr. Andrew Marshall. Mr.
Marshall, senior was the last survivor of a family of
twelve, he being the seventh son. He was born in Pictou
County, Nova Scotia and lived there all his life. He was
in his eighty third year at the time of his death. Mr.
Marshall was a man of large proportions and splendid
physique and up until the last year he never knew a sick day.
MRS. NORTON MARSHALL
February 19, 1905
Mrs. Norton Marshall passed away at her home on West
Adams Street yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Mrs.
Marshall was born in Lanark, in Ontario Canada in
1831 and has for the last seventeen years been a
resident of this city. She leaves her husband,
Mr. Norton Marshall and five children: Mrs. Nell
MacIntyre, Mrs. J. Wesley Walker of Phoenix, Dr.
Alice M. Givens and Mr. J.C. Marshall of Los
Angeles and Mr.I.N. Marshall, barrister,
Brockville, Canada. The funeral services will
be held at the Presbyterian church Monday
afternoon at 3:00.
B.S. MARTIN
Arizona Republican Newspaper
April 22, 1905
Mr. B.S. Martin of Mesa died Tuesday morning of blood
poisoning. Mr. Martin had not been well for some time,
and was afflicted internally, where blood poisoning set
in and speedily tore him from life. Mr. Martin was a
native of Mississippi, of Calhoun County. He came to
Arizona four years ago with his family and son John Martin
and purchased a home here. He finally sold out and moved
to Mississippi again remaining two years and returned here
last fall. He leaves a wife and son to mourn his loss,
both of whom are residing in Mesa. The funeral was to be
held in the Alma Church Tuesday at 2 p.m. Mr. Martin was
a very excellent man, hardworking and honest.
Fred McCall
August 3, 1905
Arizona Republican Newspaper
The funeral of Fred McCall will be held this morning early
and interment will be made in the Catholic Cemetery. The
members of the Fraternal Order of Eagles to which he
belonged will attend being summoned to meet at the
undertaking parlors of Easterling and Whitney at 7:30 o'clock.
The Funeral
August 4, 1905
The funeral services over the body of Fred McCall took
place yesterday morning. It was attended by the members
of the order of Eagles and by a large number of friends
whom he had made in the course of his four years residence
in Phoenix. The interment was in the Catholic Cemetery.
Mr. McCall was not very well understood even by many who
knew him almost from the time of his arrival in Phoenix.
He was inclined to be reserved so that what was learned
of him was learned from those who knew him at his former
home in Chicago. He was educated for the law and it is
said made a brilliant start in that profession. His health
failed and it became necessary for him to engage in some
other vocation. How he became a bartender is not known
but that is the business he followed in Phoenix. When
he came here he was jovial, without familiarity but soon
after that he was overtaken by misfortune. A little
son who was playing on a passing wagon fell under it
and his skull was crushed. After that McCall was not
the same man. Then his health gradually grew worse
and hardly a day saw him better than he had been the
day before.
