Cochise County, Arizona
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Date: 1901-09-28;
Paper: Tucson Daily
Citizen
Death of J. M.
Castaneda the Benson
Merchant
J.M. Castaneda of
Benson died at St.
Mary's hospital this forenoon at 11:30. Mr. Castaneda was brought to
Tucson last evening and was taken to the St. Mary's hospital last night
in a dying condition.
About two weeks
ago he was taken with
a bad attack of dysentery, but paid no attention to it. The case became
serious and his family decided to bring him to the hospital in Tucson.
Mrs. Castaneda, her daughter and son M.F. Castaneda were here at the
time of his death as was also Henry Castaneda who is a student at the
University.
Dr. Boldo attended
Mr. Castaneda
after his arrival here. The body was taken by the family to Benson on
the 2:30 train where interment will be made.
Mr. Castaneda was
65 years of age and
has been in the Territory for forty years and at Benson twenty years.
He was a proprietor of the Virginia Hotel at Benson and also kept a
large store there. He is widely known all over the Territory and his
loss will be deeply felt by his many friends.
Date: 1921-05-01;
Paper: Tucson Daily
Citizen
Miss Anna
Martinez, daughter of Darla
Martinez, a cattleman who lives 14 miles west of Benson, died Monday,
the 18th after a long illness.
Funeral services
were held here for
her Tuesday afternoon, Rev. Father Collymore of Sacred Heart Church at
Tombstone, conducting the services.
Date: 1891-04-28;
Paper: Tombstone
Epitaph Prospector
The inquest of the
body of Dr.
Fetterman was held last night at the rooms of Chas Granville Johnston
and the verdict was a natural death. No autopsy was held on the body
and no evidence being introduced that he died by foul means no other
verdict could be reached. Why a coroner's inquest was not held at
Benson, where he died puzzles most people, and why an inquest should
have been held here without a post mortem examation being made is
another peculiar proceeding. Without an autopsy the inquest was a farce.
Date: 1904-08-15;
Paper: Prescott
Morning Courier
The body of P.
Delchanty, a prominent
citizen of Benson who died suddenly at that place three weeks ago
was exhumed yesterday
and an autopsy
held by Drs. Caven of
Bisbee, Johnson of Tombstone, and Apwell of Benson. The autopsy was the
result of the sensational talk which had been indulged in at Benson,
intimating and in some instances charging that Delebanty's death was
due to poison administered by Dr. McCorkle, formerly of Benson. Dr.
McCorkle was the attending physician when Delebanty died. A few days
later, he filed a will of Delebanty, which bequeathed to McCorkle's
daughter $10,000. When the will was presented for probate, it was
refused by Judge Goodbody because of its irregularity.
It is claimed that
the will had been
tampered with, and of this fact there seems to be little doubt. those
who have examined the will say that the "ten" thousand
bequeath to Dr.
McCorkle's daughter
had been originally written "two" thousand dollars.
The doctors could
not determine
definitely if poison was present in any of the vital organs, because of
the advanced state of decomposition, and recommended that the vital
organs be sent for an expert analysis, which was done.
American, Douglas,
Aug. 8.
Date: 1905-06-01;
Paper: Tucson Daily
Citizen
Temple's Injuries
Fatal Passed Away
at the Hospital
The remains of
George E. Temple were
taken to Benson this afternoon. Temple died last evening at the
hospital as a result of his injuries sustained Tuesday morning at Bowie
when he was run down by an engine. His injuries necessitated the
amputation of the left leg. He stood the operation well and
seemed on a way to recovery yesterday afternoon.
Early In the
evening however, his
condition took a tragic as sudden turn, for the worse and at 7:30
o'clock he died.
At his bedside at
the hospital were
the mother, a. sister and two brothers. H. J. Temple, superintendent of
the Cananca railroad and C R. Temple, who recently resigned as agent at
Douglas.
Temple was
employed as foreman at the
coal shutes at Bowie. On the day or his Injuries he had gone to the
shutes before, breakfast He was returning home for his
morning meal when he was run down by the engine.
He was 26 years
oil. His remains were
sent to Benson from which place funeral services will be held.
Date: 1920-05-09;
Paper: Tucson Daily
Citizen
Pioneer Resident
of Arizona Dies
Charles F. Moss, a
former Tucsonan, a
resident of Arizona for the past quarter of a century, died at
his home In Benson, Thursday. Moss has been a
resident of Benson
for a number of
years, having large
interests there, including an Ice plant and business property. In
addition to his holdings he gave his attention to the Standard Oil
company, being the local agent.
Interested in
public improvements, he
was a great advocate of road construction.
With him at the
time of his death
were his wife and three children. the funeral services of the well
known pioneer was held in Benson Saturday.
Date: 1894-02-20;
Paper: Tombstone
Epitaph Prospector
Ben Glidden a long
time resident of
Benson died yesterday at that place.
Date: 1912-11-06;
Paper: Tucson Daily
Citizen
Resident of Benson
Dies of Meningitis
Philip L. Wiseman
died at St. Mary's
Hospital Monday, for several years he has been a clerk of the Mansion
House at Benson. He was 23 years old and unmarried. His death was due
to meningitis.
His brother, Louis
J. Wiseman of
Havden, will take charge of the remains and they will be sent to his
former home at Baltimore by the Parker Undertaking Company.
Date: 1915-02-15;
Paper: Tucson Daily
Citizen
W.W. Mangal died
at Benson
J.Weybolt of the
Parker undertaking
establishment, has been in Benson where he went to make arrangements
for sending the remains of W.W. Mangal to Dodge City, Kansas for
interment, Mangal died Friday in Benson.
Date: 1891-08-04;
Paper: Tombstone
Epitaph Prospector
Died in Benson
Aug. 1st the wife of
Charles Shepperd.
Date: January 09,
1895 Paper:
Tombstone Epitaph Prospector
The infant child
of Mr. and Mrs.
David Crockel died at Benson yesterday. the parents have the sympathy
of all in their bereavement.
Date: 1915-05-10;
Paper: Tucson Daily
Citizen
Mrs. Grissinger's
Funeral Was Held
Monday Morning
The funeral of
Mrs. Hazel I.
Grissinger of Benson, was held this morning from Parker's Chapel to
Evergreen Cemetery. The services were conducted by Rev. Henry Van
Valkenburgh, pastor of the Methodist Church. Mrs. Grissinger died at
Benson. She was 23 years of age and is survived by her husband, Walter
H. Grissinger, and three children.
Date: 1894-09-28;
Paper: Tombstone
Epitaph Prospector
Tuesday the infant
son of Mr. and
Mrs. J.F. Beatty of Benson died a short but severe illness and buried
the following day.
Date: 1898-11-24; Paper: Weekly Phoenix Herald
Louis Duval, a tombstone pioneer cattleman, died recently in California
where he had gone in search of better health.
Death of Dr. Matthews
Dr. H. M. Matthews, coroner of Cochise county, died yesterday
about 10 o'clock, of pneumonia, from which he had been suffering
for several days.
Dr. Matthews was a native of Virginia,
where he was born in 1825 He came
to Arizona about 1872, with the army, as a contract surgeon, and was
for some time at Prescott and Mohave afterwards moving to San Carlos.
He came
to Tombstone with the very earliest settlers, in 1879, and has resided
here ever since, having been coroner for two terms. The deceased was a
member of Burnside post, G. A. K. A meeting of that post was held last
night, when a telegram was received from the wife of the
deceased, who lives at St Louis with two children, that she wished the
body sent to that place. An adjourned meeting of the post will be held
to-night, to take action in the matter.
Date: 1886-02-06; Paper: Tombstone Epitaph Prospector