Annie Smith, Albert Bork, Bessie Bork, John Walls, Amy Nelson, Henry Maus


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Anna "Annie" Smith (b.1886 - d. unknown) was born in February 1886 in Arizona. She was the daughter of William H. Smith, born in Michigan in November 1849, and Elizabeth Smith, born in California in August, 1859.

The 1910 US Census lists Anna as a bookeeper for a butcher in Prescott, Arizona. She married Harry B. Kohl in March 1911 in Prescott. Her husband worked for the Sante Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway.

Date of death and burial location are unknown.

Sources:US Census 1900, 1910, 1940; Weekly journal-miner 3-8-1911.

Albert W. Bork (b. 1868 - d.1921) was born in Minnesota in 1868. His parents (names unknown) were both born in Germany, dates of their births are unknown.

He married Bessie E. Hatz and was a druggist at the Corbin and Bork drugstore in Prescott, Arizona. Albert died of cancer on March 13,1921 in Prescott and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery there.

Sources: Arizona Marriages 1865-1949; US Census 1920; Arizona Deaths 1870-1951; findagrave.com.

Bessie E. (Hatz) Bork (b.1879 - d.1935) was born on June 8,1879 in Arizona. Her father, Daniel Hatz, was born Switzerland. Her mother, Catherine Shamberger, was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Dates of their birth are unknown.

She married Albert W. Bork on November 22, 1905 in Prescott, Arizona and had six children. Bessie was a librarian. She died on July 4, 1935 in Prescott and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery there.

Sources: US Census 1920; Arizona Deaths 1870-1951; Arizona Marriages 1865-1949.

Dr. John Rogers Walls (b.1867 - d.1942) was born in Bradford, Ontario Canada on December 10,1867. His parents, names unknown, were both born in Canada.

He married Alza Walls in 1898 in Canada and that year they immigrated to the United States. They were living in Prescott, Arizona for the 1900 US Census.They had one daughter, Helen. Alza died in 1904 and is buried in Canada. Dr. Walls then married Sarah Charlotte McCarvey in Prescott on September 8, 1904.

In 1917, Dr. Walls was appointed by Governor Campbell as the Superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane in Phoenix. He was appointed the Superintendent of the County Board of Health in 1926 and was the City Health Officer in Winslow in 1927.

Dr. Walls died on November 27,1942 in Springerville, Arizona. Burial in Springerville Cemetery, Springerville, Arizona.

Sources: 1900 US Census, Yavapai, Arizona; findagrave.com; The Winslow Mail 6-1-1917, 4-30-1926; The Coconino Sun 6-17-1927.

Amy J. (Nelson) Fagerberg (b.1879 - d.1965) was born April 25, 1879 in Ontario, Canada. She was the daughter of William Nelson, born in Scotland in April, 1846, and Eliza Spinks, born in Canada in April, 1857.

She came to Prescott, Arizona with her family in 1896. Amy married Oscar Dixon Fagerberg in Prescott, Arizona on December 20, 1905 and they had three children. She became a cultural and civic leader in Prescott. Amy died on September 27, 1965 in Prescott and is buried there at the Mountain View Cemetery.

Sources: US Census1900; Western States Marriage Records; findagrave.com.

Henry Martin Maus (b.1874 - d.1939) was born in Illinois in 1874, parents unknown. He was an undertaker in Phoenix, Arizona. He died in 1939 and is buried in Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery in Phoenix.

Sources:findagrave.com; Arizona, Maricopa County Voting Records 1876-1932.

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