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Prescott Morning Courier 1906-06-12
Jesse N. Smith for 25 years a prominent Mormon of Northern Arizona died at Snowflake a few days ago.

Arizona Weekly Journal Miner 1891-07-08
Joseph C. Kay of Taylor, In the western portion of this county, died in a very peculiar manner a week or ten days since. His bowels became constipated and refused to act for seven or eight days but seemed to give him no trouble, as he was as cheerful and lively as usual. But one afternoon, while in the co-op store at Snowflake he was taken with a severe pain in the chest, which rapidly grew worse in spite of every effort  to alleviate it. In a short time his body and one side of his face began to swell and continued to do so until he burst open along the back bone, fully eighteen inches. After death ensued he burst again clear across the stomach. Those who were present, describe his suffering as something terrible to witness. —St. Johns Herald.

Tucson Daily Citizen
Holbrook Aug. 30 William A Barnes of Springerville, Apache County, died in a hospital here as a result of a gunshot wound in one hip while in camp en route from Springerville to Snowflake.
Barnes was shot accidentally when a companion, Charles Shim, allowed a rifle to fall from their wagon white unloading effects in preparing to make camp.

Date: 1896-07-15; Paper: Arizona Weekly Journal Miner
Mrs. Marshall, a resident of the Verde Valley near Cottonwood, died recently, age 28 years.

Date: 1921-02-05; Paper: Tucson Daily Citizen
First Preacher in Arizona Dies
Rev. James C. Bristow, 87 said to have been the first ordained minister to conduct services for an English -speaking congregation in Arizona, died at his home near Middle Verde last Saturday morning. Mr. bristol, who came to America as as pioneer in the Baptist Church in 1875, held his first service under a clump of cottonwood trees near where his home was located. Sunday morning, October 3, 1875. Ever since that time it has been the custom of his congregation to have 'tree meetings' once a year at the place.
Living descendants of Rev. Bristow are said to number 93. Three hundred persons attended the funeral, coming from all points up and down the Verde River. All schools in the vicinity of Middle Verde were closed during the burial ceremonies which were conducted by Rev. Mr. Gordon, a Baptist minister from Nogales.

Date: 1898-07-28; Paper: Weekly Phoenix Herald
A   SUNDAY   SUICIDE.
Moritz  Rosenberger   Dies  by Own Hand.
Cause for the Act  not  Apparent Though Supposed To Have Been a Love Affair.
About 10 o'clock yesterday morning Moritz Rosenberger committed suicide by shooting himself in the forehead with a 38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver. Though the young man had threatened the night before to take his own life it was thought to be an idle remark and little attention had been paid to It. He was very fond of the gambling table and for the most part was considered lucky in his operations. Lately he had been losing some, but was not In the condition of embarrassment and had he been he need not have suffered, as he had numerous friends to whom he could apply for assistance.
Yesterday morning about 9 o'clock he was seen In the Palace saloon and seemed to be In his usual spirits and asked a friend to take a drink with him. An hour or so later the stage driver on the Black Canyon road brought word to town that he had discovered the body of a dead man lying beside the ditch under a cottonwood tree near the road that runs east and west by the Christy ranch. The body lay about 200 yards west of the junction of this road with the Black Canyon road.
Coroner Johnstone was informed and empaneling the following jury went out to the place where the body lay. R. Grisby, Ernest Ford, S. J. Darby, W. A. Moeur, George Bellis and John Bassett
After viewing the remains they adjourned to meet this morning at 10 o'clock. The body when found was still limp, the dead man lying on his back, his feet close together and across which lay the weapon from which was fired the fatal shot The bullet entered but did not leave the head, thus making but one wound on the surface.
The face was somewhat powder burned and the right hand badly and the left hand slightly burned and he had tied a handkerchief over his eyes to hide the view of the weapon. He had evidently held the barrel of the weapon in his right hand and pulled the trigger with the left hand.
That the young man had fully made up his mind .to commit suicide is further evidenced by the fact that the evening previous he gave the address of his sister to Max, a clerk at the New York store. Max asked him why he gave it to him and if he was going away. He replied that he was going to leave the country. Little was thought about it as Moritz was quite; a traveler and but two or three weeks since had returned from a trip embracing nearly all the cities throughout the north. He had also been trying to secure a long bladed knife the evening before and a knife of that description was found on the body.
The verdict of the coroner's jury aside form the formal opening and closing was as follows:
"After hearing the evidence adduced upon our oath we find and say, that the dead body which we inspected on the Isaacs road one mile north of Phoenix was the body of one Moritz Rosenburg a native of Bavaria, aged about 31 years and that he died July 21th, 1898, about 10 o'clock a. m., and that he came to his death from the effects of a pistol shot having been fired by his own hands with suicidal intent There is still another story to the effect that he was greatly infatuated with a woman who sings in one of the Washington Street Saloons and that of late their relations had not been pleasant as formerly.
This story however is denied by some of his friends and there is  no evidence of it save idle gossip.
Mr. Rosenberger come here from New Orleans about six years ago and most of the time since then he has been employed in the Palace Cigar store where he has made many friends and was uniformally pleasant and agreeable. He was about 31 years of age and a native of Bavaria though he had lived a great part of his life in America. He leaves a mother, two brothers and a married sister, Mrs. Max Schneider, to whom a telegram was sent yesterday asking instructions. A reply was received last night requesting particulars and authorizing the embalming of the body which had been turned over to W. A. Davis. Further Telegraphic instructions are awaited from the relatives who are believed to be quite wealthy.

WESLEY ADAIR (also referred to as John Wesley Adair) a private in Company C of the Mormon Battalion, was born Feb.  18,1820,  in  Pickens County, Alabama. Became a  member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  about 1842. Gathered with the Saints at Nauvoo and acted as one of the minute men there, being driven out with the rest of  the Saints in the  spring of 1846. Arriving at the Missouri  River he responded to the call of the United States and became a member of  the famous Mormon Battalion and suffered the hardships incident to that notable march of infantry. He joined the Saints in Utah in 1848 and moved to Arizona in 1880, living for a  time at Showlow, Navajo County. His life was spent on the frontiers and he was a hard-working man, always full of faith in the Gospel and died May 5, 1903, 83 years old, at  Nutrioso, Apache Co. Arizona.

(Deseret News  May  27, 1903,  page 3.) 

Douglas,Deena Kaye  4-26-1958     3-7-2009    Cremated
A memorial service was held Saturday, March 14, in Springerville, Ariz., for Deena Kaye Douglas.
Douglas, 50, died Saturday, March 7, in Eager, Ariz.
She was born April 26, 1958, to Dean Davies Battishill and Ethel Estelle Hill in Silver City. She was a bank teller and proud to be a real estate agent for five years.
She raised two sons and was married to Ken Douglas for 32 years.
She was preceded in death by her father.
Douglas is survived by her husband of Eager; sons, Matthew Wayne Douglas of Florence, Ariz., and Allen Ray Douglas of Eager; her mother of Albuquerque; brother, Robert Battishill of Garland, Texas; and sisters, Margaret Provencio of Albuquerque and Vickie Dickerson of Artesia.
Donations may be made to any Alzheimer’s research foundation Arrangements were under direction of Burnham Mortuary, Eager.
(Submitted by Virginia Stanbrough)









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