Pinal County, Arizona
Obits
Arizona Weekly Journal-Miner.
Wednesday. Oct. 2, 1889
Levi Buggies, who was a member of the
13th legislature from Pinal County, died suddenly recently.
Date: 1902-04-29; Paper: Prescott
Morning Courier
Judge C. M. Marshall, a pioneer of
Pinal county died at the hospital In Florence last Saturday morning. In
January last, at Kelvin, a gase line lamp exploded while he was trying
to regulate it and he was seriously burned about the head and arms. Be
was brought down to the hospital for treatment and the burns gradually
healed, but the shock to his system could not be counteracted. His mind
gave away and be grew weaker from day to day till death finally came.
Arizona Blade. April 26.
Date: 1911-08-18; Paper: Tucson Daily
Citizen
News from All over Arizona Pinal
Deputy Kills Man at Hayden Picnic
FLORENCE. Aug. 18, — Deputy Sheriff
W. O. Palmer of this county, struck a man with his gun at a picnic at
Harden Sunday and the injured man died Monday. The deputy is held under
a charge or murder and has secured Waller Shute of Globe to defend him
Palmer has been a Pinal county deputy since June 1.
Date: 1912-02-27;
Paper: Tucson Daily Citizen
Terror of Gallows Cause Death Negro
in Pinal County Jail
Succumbing to terror or the gallows,
Charles Weeks, the Negro who shot and killed Ruperto Torres at Oracle
over a game of cards some months ago, died In the Pinal County Jail at
Florence.
When Weeks committed the crime he was
the picture of robust health, but he began to lose flesh at once
through fear, grew morose and nervous, and became constantly worse
until he finally died claiming he was never able for a moment to get
the killing and the fear of his consequences out of his mind.
Date: 1976-09-02;Paper: Dallas
Morning News
109-Year-Old Cowboy Dies in Arizona
Coolidge. Ariz, (AP) — Ariesto
Esquival, registered as the oldest resident of Pinal County, and
possibly the oldest in Arizona, has died in a nursing home, five days
before his 110th birthday. Esquival, who died Sunday was born in
Michoancan, Mexico, and moved to Texas when he was 35. He arrived in
the Coolidge area when he was 73, and left the life of a cowboy to work
in the cotton fields.
In a recent interview, he recalled
the excitement of life as a "vaquero" in Mexico and Texas and said he
was always too busy to learn to write English although he understood it
thoroughly. Esquival said he was too busy for marriage until he met his
wife, Maria, and married her in 1950. She was 40 and he was 84. In
addition to his widow, survivors include, their two children, Rormana
Gurley and Ernesto Esquival, and 15 grandchildren. Rosary was
scheduled Thursday at Cole & Maud Mortuary Chapel,, with Mass
Friday in the St. James Catholic Church.