LaPaz County Arizona
Obits
Death on the Road.—Our little town was
somewhat startled this morning by the announcement that a man by the
name of Joseph A. Denny had died in the incoming stage from Cala., and
that the corpse was lying at the stage office. The Coroner, Dr. W. D.
Day, made an investigation of the facts concerning his death, as
detailed by the driver and passengers and concluded it was not such a
case as to require an inquest, consequently the body and such effects
as he had with him are turned over to the Public Administrator, C. F.
Cate, Esq. On his person were found $30.25 in money, letters of
introduction from Livingston & Co. San Francisco, to C. P. Head
& Co., J. M. Bassett, Los Angeles,, to J. G. Campbell and one
to S C. Miller, all recommending him as a business man, coming to
Arizona to seek his fortune. From the driver and passengers, it is
ascertained that he had the appearance of a man who had been drinking,
but that he drank nothing on the way between here and Ehrenberg, but
was the subject of convulsions all the way, and when the driver
procured liquor for him, in the hope that it would benefit him, it was
found that he could not make it stay on his stomach. We also learn that
he ate nothing after leaving Dos Palmas. The other passengers tried to
induce him to stop off and rest and recuperate at several stations, but
he insisted that he must come on. After leaving Wickenburg yesterday
morning he became worse and was entirely delirious, imagining that
there was a woman after him with a gun, and that there were tarantulas
in the stage.
This continued until they reached
Antelope hill, late in the afternoon, when as he was about going
into another convulsion he said "this is the last one, I shall die
before this one is over," and sure enough, when about half way up the
mountain he expired. The driver concluded it was best to bring the
remains to town, and this afternoon they were decently buried by Public
Administrater Cate, in the city cemetery Rev. A. M. Campbell
officiating at the funeral. From the best information obtainable, it is
evident that the deceased, Joseph A. Denny, was formerly a member of
the firm of Denny Bros., Callaghan's Ranch, Siskiyou county,
Cal.; that some four years ago he formed a co-partnership with Robert
Stevenson of San Francisco, to operate in stocks, in which business
they failed ; and that afterwards be returned to Siskiyou and went into
business with James H.Vogan, at Etna Mills, in Scott's Valley, Letters
on his person, from bis brother, A. H. Denny, of Denny &
French, Etna, show that he had started for Southern California, and
probably further south.
Source: Date: 1877-07-20; Paper:
Weekly Journal Miner
DEATH OF AN OLD CITIZEN.
Evermont BIedsoe commonly known as
Hank Bledsoe died yesterday morning at the Sister's Hospital of
pneumonia. Mr. Bledsoe, we believe was born at Ottawa, Saline County
Missouri, and was at the time of his death about 48 years of ago.
He came to Arizona several years since, as a wagon-master for the
freighter Stanfield who figured conspicuously in this section and
finally faded. The deceased has been in the employ of our
saw-mill men. A. O. Noyes, Geo. W. Curtis and others for the larger
part of the time during the last seven years, Bledsoe was honest, a
hard worker, capable of conducting any ordinary business and had many
warm friends all over the country who will be pained to learn of his
death. The subject of the above sketch was sick but a few days, having
we believe came in here two weeks with his team from Ehrenberg.
Source: Date: 1879-01-17; Paper:
Weekly Journal Miner
Conrad Davis, said to be a mining man
well knovvn in Arizona, is reported to have died on the desert,
recently, west of Ehrenberg.
Source: Date: 1893-06-14; Paper:
Weekly Journal Miner