William Eggbert, whose critical illness has been mentioned from
time to time within the past week, died yesterday morning at
2:45. Mr. Eggbert has been in rather poor health for some time,
suffering with Bright's disease. Just two weeks ago he was up
and about in his bicycle and shoe repairing store. He disposed
of this business and proposed to devote his time to poultry on
his home place in Goldman's addition. But a few days after
selling out, the disease took a more acute form and it was
apparent that there was no hope though he lingered for nearly
a week.
The funeral will be this afternoon at 2 from the home of the
deceased. The services will be conducted by Rev. R.L. Creal
of the Baptist church and the interment will be in Double Butte
Cemetery.
MRS. JULIA GILBERT ELDER
January 12, 1909
Mrs. Julia Gilbert Elder died last evening at 5 o'clock at the
home of her son, W.G. Elder on East Jefferson Street. The end
came after an illness which confined her to her bed only three
days. She was well advanced in years having passed her seventy
first birthday November 2nd. She was a native of Michigan but
went to California in 1854 where she lived until coming to
Phoenix about three years ago. Many years previous to coming
here were spent in Oakland where she is widely known and
universally respected. She is survived by another son, R.C.
Elder, a resident of San Francisco. The funeral will be held
at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday in G.F. Merryman's parlors and will
be public though the interment will be made privately in
Greenwood Cemetery.
J.B. ENGLISH
May 9, 1909
J.B. English, of the Cartwright district, died suddenly at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. L.A. Nichols, early Saturday morning.
He was seemingly in his usual health until a few moments before
he passed away. Death is supposed to have been caused by
apoplexy. The funeral arrangements have not been made yet,
a cable message being sent to his son who lives in Cuba.
RAY ENSIGN
July 19, 1901
An Associated Press dispatch printed by the Republican a week
ago this morning told of the wrecking of a train on the C.B.
& Q. near Plano and the killing of two men and the injury of
a couple of race horses.
One of the victims of the accident was Ray Ensign, brother of
Phil C. Ensign and quite well known here. He was employed for
some time in his brother's stables here. Previous to that he
had worked at Morristown for two years. He was 28 years of age.
Phil C. Ensign is now visiting at Nevada, Mo. and the accident
occured on the day of his arrival there.
Ensign leaves a mother, two brothers, John and Lilburn and one
sister, Mrs. William Yelton of Bagdad township to mourn his
loss. Until about two weeks ago Ensign drove a cab for Charles
Janes, leaving to go with the Taylor string of horses. He was
with the same horses last year.
LOUISE M. ERHARDT
August 5, 1909
The death angel knocked at the door of the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Erhardt just out of the city limits on the Yuma
Road yesterday morning and took Miss Louise M. Erhardt to the
great beyond.
For five or six years Miss Erhardt had fought against
tuberculosis in Cincinnati, Ohio. She came to Phoenix last
November with her parents in the hope that the climate might
save her but the fortress of her health had been attacked too
many times and her life ended at 8:30 yesterday morning.
Miss Louise M. Erhardt was 24 years of age. She was for some
time office manager for the Beech Hill Distillery Company in
Cincinnati, which position she held for five years until it
became impossible for her to work longer. Her many friends
both in Phoenix and her former home will remember her as a
girl of sterling qualities. The funeral will be held at the
Erhardt home on the Yuma Road a short distance out from
Phoenix at 3:30 pm, Rev. Imbach officiating. Burial will
be at Greenwood Cemetery.
CHARLES ESCALENTE
June 8, 1909
A strange spectacle and the most largely attended of its sort
in years took place today at the Yuma Indian Reservation when
the body of Charles Escalante, the Indian policeman who was
stabbed by Mexicans at his post of duty three weeks ago and
died at noon, was cremated with the full rites and ceremonials
of the Yumas.
In accordance with his own wish and approval of the Indian
agent, Escalente, who was a man of powerful physique was
operated upon at a local hospital on Friday, the surgeons
agreeing that he had one change in a thousand for recovery.
Following his death at the hospital, Indian bearers carried the
body in a procession through the streets of Yuma and across the
bridge, an escort of the mourning women of the tribe swelling
the ranks.
The ceremonies were viewed by a large number of spectators.
MRS. MARIA ESPINSOSA
October 29, 1909
Attorney B.E. Marks returned yesterday from Florence where he
has been attending court. He went there on civil business but
on account of the scarcity of lawyers in attendance, Mr.
Marks was appointed by the court to defend two criminal cases.
The most important was that of Jose Lopez, who last August
murdered Mrs. Maria Espinsosa by blowing her head off with a
shot gun.
The defense ews a formal matter and there was never a hope for
Lopez so that he was probably not surprised when the jury
brought in a verdict of guilty and condemned him to be hanged.
The date of the execution was fixed yesterday by Judge Kent.
Lopez had formerly lived with the woman who, with her children,
the eldest eleven, lived six miles south of Florence. Lopez had
been sent to the penitentiary and on his release he called at
her house and asked her to be his mistress again. She refused
to do so. This refusal was frequently repeated and late one
night Lopez went to her house and delivered an ultimatum. Again
the woman refused and he fired at her face.
Lopez rode back to his own place, where he was found asleep
under a tree the next morning. He professed to have no
recollection of the events of the night. The indignation of
the community was great and no doubt there would have been a
lynching if Sheriff McGee had not taken the prisoner for
safety to the half finished penitentiary.
The sentiment was still so strong when the case was called
that three panels were exhausted before a jury was secured
and the jury was finally made up of men from the most distant
parts of the country. Attorney Marks dwelt upon the probably
circumstance that the murderer was drunk at the time of the
killing in as much as he remembered nothing about it and that
therefore malice could not have figured. That contention
probably had some weight with the jury, for it remained out
two hours and a half while the impatient throng in the court
room could not see what was keeping it.
MRS. LORENA ELLISON ETTER
January 7, 1909
Lorena Ellison Etter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B.R. Ellison was
born in Georgetown, Texas, January 18, 1884. She departed this
life December 30, 1908. She was married to Robert Etter,
September 1902. To Mr. and Mrs. Etter were born two children:
Bertram who is now five and Hugh, who is two. Mrs. Etter's
father and mother and two brothers reside in Fredonia, Texas
while a sister and two brothers have their homes in Phoenix.
The funeral will be held on Saturday, Jan. 2 at 10am in the
First Presbyterian Church. As was expected, it was largely
attended. The church was al but filled with those who had
known Mrs. Etter during life, and to whom her taking out of
the world had come as a severe shock. A specially selected
choir rendered a number of beautiful selections, among which
were the favorites of the deceased.
