*ARIZONA PIONEER*
1864 Arizona Territorial Census
3rd Judicial District
Edward Clower, age 36, born in New Jersey, married, laborer
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TROUBLE WITH THE HUALAPAIS
On the night of the 30th of March a cabin at the Willows, on the Mojave road, in which Edward Clower, formerly of Prescott, was sleeping, was totally destroyed by fire, and Clower lost his life; his body being burnt to a crisp. The story goes that Clower had lost his horses and been engaged for a day or two in hunting them, assisted by a Hualapai Indian. On the night in question, the night of the eclipse of the moon, when Clower retired to sleep in the cabin, the Indian was permitted to sleep there also, and it is supposed that he first murdered Clower and then started the fire. This suspicion is strengthened by the evidence that all the arms and provisions had been moved from the cabin, and no traces of the Indian being found. Two men encamped near the cabin, thining the Indians had gathered in numbers, were afraid to venture there until daylight, and they started next day for Hardyville. After a day or two they, with Mr. Milton Hadley, of Prescott, whom they met at the Cottonwoods, and who had been living with Mr. Clower and was returning from a hunting excursion, met the trains of Messrs Miller and Bowers and returned with them. Hualapais hovered around their camp at night, but none came near until Tuesday following the fire, when Wauba-Yuma, the chief of the Hualapais, presented himself, bearing a paper certifying to the treaty some time since made with him by Mr. Hardy. After consultation, it being the judgement of the party that the Hualapais meant to make war, and that the killing of Clower and the burning of his cabin was the commencement of hostilities, they determined to kill Wauba-Yuma, and he was at once shot.
While it is doubtless that the action of the Hualapais , or some of them, have of late been strange, and the fate of Clowere is greatly to be deplored, and must be avenged, we think the conclusion that the tribe wish to wage war with the whites is premature, and that the killing of Wauba-Yuma will prove an unprofitable step. If, after an appeal to him for the delivery of the supposed murderer and incendiary, he had not been given up, it might have been well to make an example and to have taken Waubu-Yuma as an hostage, and, perhaps, to have executed him, but to kill him in cold blood, before he had time to make an explanation, or to prove his innocence and readiness to aid in bringing the culprit to justice, was a harsh, and we fear, a most imprudent measure. It will exasperate the Hualapais, and probably lead to an interruption of travel upon our only practicable road (in the absence of water on the La Paz road) to the Colorado.
While we have no love for Indians of any kind, and favor the most severe punishment of all who prov unfriendly, we cannot think it justifiable to unnecessarily provoke the hostility of any.
The Arizona Miner page 2
Prescott April 25, 1866 (Fort Whipple, Arizona)
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Arizona Territory and the early days of statehood was a rough and wild expanse with few towns spread over a vast territory full of dangers. Whether from accidents, illness, animal attacks, or murder, it wasn't uncommon for someone to die far from a town or cemetery. Sometimes they were taken by friends to the nearest town for burial, military members were taken to the nearest fort. But in most cases, people were buried where they died. Often, nothing but a name and the barest of information was known for the deceased, and next of in couldn't be found. Sometimes word of mouth passed the information to local officials and/or newspapers, and the story was printed in the territory newspapers.
Families of those who came to Arizona Territory might never learn what happened to their loved ones. Those men and women, and children were lost to their families, their descendants and to history. They deserve to be found and remembered, as well as anyone buried in a proper cemetery. Whenever I come across a "lost one" as I do my own genealogical research, read old newspapers, hear stories, etc., I will create memorials for them and list them as "burial unknown", until a better option is available.
1864 Arizona Territorial Census
3rd Judicial District
Edward Clower, age 36, born in New Jersey, married, laborer
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TROUBLE WITH THE HUALAPAIS
On the night of the 30th of March a cabin at the Willows, on the Mojave road, in which Edward Clower, formerly of Prescott, was sleeping, was totally destroyed by fire, and Clower lost his life; his body being burnt to a crisp. The story goes that Clower had lost his horses and been engaged for a day or two in hunting them, assisted by a Hualapai Indian. On the night in question, the night of the eclipse of the moon, when Clower retired to sleep in the cabin, the Indian was permitted to sleep there also, and it is supposed that he first murdered Clower and then started the fire. This suspicion is strengthened by the evidence that all the arms and provisions had been moved from the cabin, and no traces of the Indian being found. Two men encamped near the cabin, thining the Indians had gathered in numbers, were afraid to venture there until daylight, and they started next day for Hardyville. After a day or two they, with Mr. Milton Hadley, of Prescott, whom they met at the Cottonwoods, and who had been living with Mr. Clower and was returning from a hunting excursion, met the trains of Messrs Miller and Bowers and returned with them. Hualapais hovered around their camp at night, but none came near until Tuesday following the fire, when Wauba-Yuma, the chief of the Hualapais, presented himself, bearing a paper certifying to the treaty some time since made with him by Mr. Hardy. After consultation, it being the judgement of the party that the Hualapais meant to make war, and that the killing of Clower and the burning of his cabin was the commencement of hostilities, they determined to kill Wauba-Yuma, and he was at once shot.
While it is doubtless that the action of the Hualapais , or some of them, have of late been strange, and the fate of Clowere is greatly to be deplored, and must be avenged, we think the conclusion that the tribe wish to wage war with the whites is premature, and that the killing of Wauba-Yuma will prove an unprofitable step. If, after an appeal to him for the delivery of the supposed murderer and incendiary, he had not been given up, it might have been well to make an example and to have taken Waubu-Yuma as an hostage, and, perhaps, to have executed him, but to kill him in cold blood, before he had time to make an explanation, or to prove his innocence and readiness to aid in bringing the culprit to justice, was a harsh, and we fear, a most imprudent measure. It will exasperate the Hualapais, and probably lead to an interruption of travel upon our only practicable road (in the absence of water on the La Paz road) to the Colorado.
While we have no love for Indians of any kind, and favor the most severe punishment of all who prov unfriendly, we cannot think it justifiable to unnecessarily provoke the hostility of any.
The Arizona Miner page 2
Prescott April 25, 1866 (Fort Whipple, Arizona)
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Arizona Territory and the early days of statehood was a rough and wild expanse with few towns spread over a vast territory full of dangers. Whether from accidents, illness, animal attacks, or murder, it wasn't uncommon for someone to die far from a town or cemetery. Sometimes they were taken by friends to the nearest town for burial, military members were taken to the nearest fort. But in most cases, people were buried where they died. Often, nothing but a name and the barest of information was known for the deceased, and next of in couldn't be found. Sometimes word of mouth passed the information to local officials and/or newspapers, and the story was printed in the territory newspapers.
Families of those who came to Arizona Territory might never learn what happened to their loved ones. Those men and women, and children were lost to their families, their descendants and to history. They deserve to be found and remembered, as well as anyone buried in a proper cemetery. Whenever I come across a "lost one" as I do my own genealogical research, read old newspapers, hear stories, etc., I will create memorials for them and list them as "burial unknown", until a better option is available.
*ARIZONA PIONEER*
1864 Arizona Territorial Census
3rd Judicial District
Edward Clower, age 36, born in New Jersey, married, laborer
--------------------------------------------------
TROUBLE WITH THE HUALAPAIS
On the night of the 30th of March a cabin at the Willows, on the Mojave road, in which Edward Clower, formerly of Prescott, was sleeping, was totally destroyed by fire, and Clower lost his life; his body being burnt to a crisp. The story goes that Clower had lost his horses and been engaged for a day or two in hunting them, assisted by a Hualapai Indian. On the night in question, the night of the eclipse of the moon, when Clower retired to sleep in the cabin, the Indian was permitted to sleep there also, and it is supposed that he first murdered Clower and then started the fire. This suspicion is strengthened by the evidence that all the arms and provisions had been moved from the cabin, and no traces of the Indian being found. Two men encamped near the cabin, thining the Indians had gathered in numbers, were afraid to venture there until daylight, and they started next day for Hardyville. After a day or two they, with Mr. Milton Hadley, of Prescott, whom they met at the Cottonwoods, and who had been living with Mr. Clower and was returning from a hunting excursion, met the trains of Messrs Miller and Bowers and returned with them. Hualapais hovered around their camp at night, but none came near until Tuesday following the fire, when Wauba-Yuma, the chief of the Hualapais, presented himself, bearing a paper certifying to the treaty some time since made with him by Mr. Hardy. After consultation, it being the judgement of the party that the Hualapais meant to make war, and that the killing of Clower and the burning of his cabin was the commencement of hostilities, they determined to kill Wauba-Yuma, and he was at once shot.
While it is doubtless that the action of the Hualapais , or some of them, have of late been strange, and the fate of Clowere is greatly to be deplored, and must be avenged, we think the conclusion that the tribe wish to wage war with the whites is premature, and that the killing of Wauba-Yuma will prove an unprofitable step. If, after an appeal to him for the delivery of the supposed murderer and incendiary, he had not been given up, it might have been well to make an example and to have taken Waubu-Yuma as an hostage, and, perhaps, to have executed him, but to kill him in cold blood, before he had time to make an explanation, or to prove his innocence and readiness to aid in bringing the culprit to justice, was a harsh, and we fear, a most imprudent measure. It will exasperate the Hualapais, and probably lead to an interruption of travel upon our only practicable road (in the absence of water on the La Paz road) to the Colorado.
While we have no love for Indians of any kind, and favor the most severe punishment of all who prov unfriendly, we cannot think it justifiable to unnecessarily provoke the hostility of any.
The Arizona Miner page 2
Prescott April 25, 1866 (Fort Whipple, Arizona)
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Arizona Territory and the early days of statehood was a rough and wild expanse with few towns spread over a vast territory full of dangers. Whether from accidents, illness, animal attacks, or murder, it wasn't uncommon for someone to die far from a town or cemetery. Sometimes they were taken by friends to the nearest town for burial, military members were taken to the nearest fort. But in most cases, people were buried where they died. Often, nothing but a name and the barest of information was known for the deceased, and next of in couldn't be found. Sometimes word of mouth passed the information to local officials and/or newspapers, and the story was printed in the territory newspapers.
Families of those who came to Arizona Territory might never learn what happened to their loved ones. Those men and women, and children were lost to their families, their descendants and to history. They deserve to be found and remembered, as well as anyone buried in a proper cemetery. Whenever I come across a "lost one" as I do my own genealogical research, read old newspapers, hear stories, etc., I will create memorials for them and list them as "burial unknown", until a better option is available.
1864 Arizona Territorial Census
3rd Judicial District
Edward Clower, age 36, born in New Jersey, married, laborer
--------------------------------------------------
TROUBLE WITH THE HUALAPAIS
On the night of the 30th of March a cabin at the Willows, on the Mojave road, in which Edward Clower, formerly of Prescott, was sleeping, was totally destroyed by fire, and Clower lost his life; his body being burnt to a crisp. The story goes that Clower had lost his horses and been engaged for a day or two in hunting them, assisted by a Hualapai Indian. On the night in question, the night of the eclipse of the moon, when Clower retired to sleep in the cabin, the Indian was permitted to sleep there also, and it is supposed that he first murdered Clower and then started the fire. This suspicion is strengthened by the evidence that all the arms and provisions had been moved from the cabin, and no traces of the Indian being found. Two men encamped near the cabin, thining the Indians had gathered in numbers, were afraid to venture there until daylight, and they started next day for Hardyville. After a day or two they, with Mr. Milton Hadley, of Prescott, whom they met at the Cottonwoods, and who had been living with Mr. Clower and was returning from a hunting excursion, met the trains of Messrs Miller and Bowers and returned with them. Hualapais hovered around their camp at night, but none came near until Tuesday following the fire, when Wauba-Yuma, the chief of the Hualapais, presented himself, bearing a paper certifying to the treaty some time since made with him by Mr. Hardy. After consultation, it being the judgement of the party that the Hualapais meant to make war, and that the killing of Clower and the burning of his cabin was the commencement of hostilities, they determined to kill Wauba-Yuma, and he was at once shot.
While it is doubtless that the action of the Hualapais , or some of them, have of late been strange, and the fate of Clowere is greatly to be deplored, and must be avenged, we think the conclusion that the tribe wish to wage war with the whites is premature, and that the killing of Wauba-Yuma will prove an unprofitable step. If, after an appeal to him for the delivery of the supposed murderer and incendiary, he had not been given up, it might have been well to make an example and to have taken Waubu-Yuma as an hostage, and, perhaps, to have executed him, but to kill him in cold blood, before he had time to make an explanation, or to prove his innocence and readiness to aid in bringing the culprit to justice, was a harsh, and we fear, a most imprudent measure. It will exasperate the Hualapais, and probably lead to an interruption of travel upon our only practicable road (in the absence of water on the La Paz road) to the Colorado.
While we have no love for Indians of any kind, and favor the most severe punishment of all who prov unfriendly, we cannot think it justifiable to unnecessarily provoke the hostility of any.
The Arizona Miner page 2
Prescott April 25, 1866 (Fort Whipple, Arizona)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Arizona Territory and the early days of statehood was a rough and wild expanse with few towns spread over a vast territory full of dangers. Whether from accidents, illness, animal attacks, or murder, it wasn't uncommon for someone to die far from a town or cemetery. Sometimes they were taken by friends to the nearest town for burial, military members were taken to the nearest fort. But in most cases, people were buried where they died. Often, nothing but a name and the barest of information was known for the deceased, and next of in couldn't be found. Sometimes word of mouth passed the information to local officials and/or newspapers, and the story was printed in the territory newspapers.
Families of those who came to Arizona Territory might never learn what happened to their loved ones. Those men and women, and children were lost to their families, their descendants and to history. They deserve to be found and remembered, as well as anyone buried in a proper cemetery. Whenever I come across a "lost one" as I do my own genealogical research, read old newspapers, hear stories, etc., I will create memorials for them and list them as "burial unknown", until a better option is available.
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