Francisco Santa Cruz
August 2, 1905
Arizona Republican Newspaper
Death resulted from rather an unusual cause in East
Tempe night before last. The victim was Francisco
Santa Cruz. He had taken the contract for the erection
of Tom Keefer's new adobe house at the end of Eighth
Street and had worked there as usual on Monday. He
went home in the evening and had been in bed but a
short time when he felt a sting on his right breast.
The family was unable to locate an insect of any kind
but the supposition is that it was a tarantula or
scorpion. This was about 11 o'clock. The man was
soon taken very ill and Dr. Alexander was called
shortly after daylight. By that time the man was
in a very precarious condition and although everything
known to medical science was done for him he died
about 8 o'clock. A peculiar thing about the case
is that after death the right side of the body
became rigid and before the death that side of the
body was paralyzed completely. The body was held
over yesterday and the funeral will take place
sometime today.
MRS. MAUD SEIP
December 26, 1905
Mrs. Maud G. Seip, wife of Samuel N. Seip, died early
this morning at their family residence on North First
Avenue. She had been ill for about a month but her
condition was not considered alarming until about a
week ago when she became worse and continued to sink
until the end.
Mrs. Seip was 34 years old, a woman of most estimable
character, well known in the community, universally
respected and loved by all who knew her. She was
born in Hiawatha, Kansas and came here with her
husband in the early nineties.
No funeral arrangements were made last night and as soon
as completed announcement will be made. Mr. Seip was
almost overcome with his bereavement last night and the
many friends of the family will be shocked at the news
of her death.
MRS. ELLA SHANNON
February 3, 1905
Mrs. Ella Shannon died yesterday morning at 5 o'clock
at the residence of Superintendent C.W. Goodman of
the Indian school. She was the mother of Mrs.
Goodman and was seventy seven years old. She came
here from the east about three years ago. The funeral
will be held at the family residence Saturday afternoon
at 2 o'clock and the body will be sent to Freeport,
Illinois, her former home for interment.
The Funeral
February 7, 1905
Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza Roe Shannon, mother of Mrs.
C.W. Goodman, held at the residence of Superintendent
Goodman at the U.S. Indian School on the afternoon of the
4th were conducted by Rev. Dr. Louis Halsey.
Mrs. Shannon's mother was a daughter of Rev. Dr. William
Steadman, first president of the Theological seminary at
Bradford England and a personal friend of William Carey.
One of Mrs. Shannon's sisters was the wife of Rev. John
S. Beecher, a co-worker of Judson in Burmah. Another
sister is the wife of Rev. Dr. H.C. Mable of Boston,
secretary of the American Baptist Missionary union.
During the last ten years Mrs. Shannon had been a
member of the Ruggles Street Baptist church in Boston
of which Rev. Dr. A.C. Dixon is pastor.
Mrs. Shannon was the daughter of Rev. Charles Hill Roe,
the son of an Episcopal minister. Mr. Roe was pastor,
evangelist, and later, secretary of the Baptist Home
Mission Society of England. He came to America in
1851 and for fourteen years was pastor of the Baptist
church in Belvedere, Ill. He was chaplain during the
Civil War and later was superintendent of educational
work among the freedman. He was one of the founders
of Chicago University.
JACK SHANNON
Arizona Republican Newspaper
May 25, 1905
The body of Jack Shannon who died at the insane asylum on
Monday was shipped last night to the home of his mother at
Montreal Canada. Shannon is the man who was brought to the
insane asylum last Saturday by Sheriff C. Houck of Navajo
County. It will be remembered that Shannon escaped from the
sheriff at the Agua Fria water tank and wandered about the
desert until daylight when he returned to the tank.
He was a morphine or opium fiend and when he returned it was
found that his mouth was discolored with the drug. The sheriff
suspected that some one had given it to him surreptitiously
about the time he started from Winslow for Shannon had been
searched shortly after leaving and there was none in his
possession.
After his death it was found that the drug had been sewed in
his clothing and had naturally been overlooked by the sheriff.
Shannon was a member of the Eagles but that was not known
until shortly before his death. Though he had not belonged
to the order long enough to avail himself of the benefits of
the order, the members took charge of him after his death and
had the body embalmed intending to hold it pending
instructions from Shannon's relatives.
Shannon had lived in the territory for a great many years.
He afterward lived in Mexico and only recently returned to
Arizona. He is said to have been finely educated and until
he came fully under the influence of the drug he had many
friends who did their best to reclaim him.
GEORGE HAMLIN SHAW
Arizona Republican Newspaper
May 15, 1905
George Hamlin Shaw, the eight month old baby of Mr. and Mrs.
Homer Shaw, died yesterday after an illness of about a week.
The nature of the ailment was not precisely known but it is
said to have been an epidemic which is prevalent with children
at this time. The child seemed to be better yesterday morning
and his grandfather, George Hamlin, believing it to be out of
danger, left for the Relief Mine. Shortly before he arrived
there he was overtaken by a messenger who had been sent out
from Glendale informing him of the death of the baby. The
father, Mr. Shaw is at Cananea. The funeral will take place
today from the residence of Mr. Hamlin.
Mrs. F.A. SHAW
Arizona Republican Newspaper
April 13, 1905
Word was received in the city yesterday of the death at
Pasadena yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock of Mrs. Francis
A. Shaw of this city. Mrs. Shaw left here only a few days
before for the coast. She leaves beside her sorrowing
husband, two sons, Francis and Rodney Shaw, aged respectively
twenty one and seventeen. Mr. Shaw and Miss Clara Isaacs
were married near this city March 11, 1879. Mrs. Shaw was
forty seven years of age.
MRS. H.B. SKINNER
December 25, 1905
Mrs. H.B. Skinner died at home east of the Normal
school yesterday morning at 3 o'clock after an illness
of but a few days. She had been suffering from lung
trouble for some years, but the disease was not in
advanced stages. Tuesday she was taken ill with what
the doctors pronounced appendicitis. Complications
set in and her condition became such that it was
impossible to perform an operation for her relief
and she gradually gew weaker until the end came yesterday
morning.
The funeral will be held tomorrow morning from the
Baptist church at 10 o'clock, Rev. J.C. Chapin
officiating. Interment will be made in the Double
Butte Cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Skinner came here a little over three years
ago from the east. She was a native of New York and was
twenty five years old. During her residence here she
has made many friends and was loved by all who knew her.
For some time past Mr. Skinner has been building a neat
little home and it was almost completed, ready for their
occupancy when death took her to the great beyond.
