Maximo Alvarez

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Maximo Alvarez

Birth
Oviedo, Provincia de Asturias, Asturias, Spain
Death
30 Dec 1919 (aged 31)
Miami, Gila County, Arizona, USA
Burial
Globe, Gila County, Arizona, USA Add to Map
Plot
Pauper Section per Mortuary records
Memorial ID
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WWI Registration card dated Jun 5, 1918 in Miami, Gila, Arizona states his birth place, year, where he worked in Miami Arizona at a Copper Mine. the card states his birth place is Llamuca, Obrido, Spain. My research could not verify this place. Findagrave volunteer Victoria Lambert states his birth place is, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain.

THERE IS NO HEADSTONE

Maximo and Maria Married 8 Jan 1916 In Sonora, Pinal, Arizona.

The Maximo Alvarez Funeral Is to be Held New Year's Day

The coroners jury empaneled in investigate the death of Maximo Alvarez, a Spaniard, at the No. 5 shaft of the Miami mine yesterday morning returned a verdict last night finding that Alvarez came to his death by falling from the new head-frame being erected at that place by the Wisconsin Bridge company and that the accident was unavoidable. The funeral services will be held from the Catholic church in Miami at 2 P.m. tomorrow. Father Barrette officiating. The remains will be interred in the Globe cemetery.
copied from the Miami Daily Silver Belt 12-31-1919

Miami Arizona Tuesday Dec. 30, 1919 Daily Silver Belt Pg.1

M. ALVAREZ KILLED BY A 40 FT. FALL

Workman tumbles from a scaffold at the new Gallows frame erected at the Miami Mine.

Alvarez was clinging to the cable when cable was struck by iron beam -- Fellow Workman Escaped..

Maximo Alvarez was instantly killed at 9:30 this morning when he fell 40 feet from a scaffold at the new gallows frame being erected at the Miami mine by the Wisconsin Bridge company of North Milwaukee. Alvarez was working on a scaffold. In company with R. Wright at the time of the accident. According to the story told by fellow workmen on the job, a large --- beam was being hoisted into place which suddenly assumed a vertical position, striking the iron cable to which Wright and Alvarez were clinging and causing Alvarez to release his hold on the cable and topple over backwards. He struck his head on an iron beam lying on the ground, crushing the skull and resulting in instant death. Wright maintained his hold on the cable and did not fall. The remains of Alvarez were brought to the undertaking parlors and a coroners jury is holding an in inquest this evening.
Mr. Alvarez leaves a wife and one child, the family residing in Red Springs Canyon in this city.

Miami Arizona Tuesday Dec. 30, 1919 Daily Silver Belt Pg.1
WWI Registration card dated Jun 5, 1918 in Miami, Gila, Arizona states his birth place, year, where he worked in Miami Arizona at a Copper Mine. the card states his birth place is Llamuca, Obrido, Spain. My research could not verify this place. Findagrave volunteer Victoria Lambert states his birth place is, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain.

THERE IS NO HEADSTONE

Maximo and Maria Married 8 Jan 1916 In Sonora, Pinal, Arizona.

The Maximo Alvarez Funeral Is to be Held New Year's Day

The coroners jury empaneled in investigate the death of Maximo Alvarez, a Spaniard, at the No. 5 shaft of the Miami mine yesterday morning returned a verdict last night finding that Alvarez came to his death by falling from the new head-frame being erected at that place by the Wisconsin Bridge company and that the accident was unavoidable. The funeral services will be held from the Catholic church in Miami at 2 P.m. tomorrow. Father Barrette officiating. The remains will be interred in the Globe cemetery.
copied from the Miami Daily Silver Belt 12-31-1919

Miami Arizona Tuesday Dec. 30, 1919 Daily Silver Belt Pg.1

M. ALVAREZ KILLED BY A 40 FT. FALL

Workman tumbles from a scaffold at the new Gallows frame erected at the Miami Mine.

Alvarez was clinging to the cable when cable was struck by iron beam -- Fellow Workman Escaped..

Maximo Alvarez was instantly killed at 9:30 this morning when he fell 40 feet from a scaffold at the new gallows frame being erected at the Miami mine by the Wisconsin Bridge company of North Milwaukee. Alvarez was working on a scaffold. In company with R. Wright at the time of the accident. According to the story told by fellow workmen on the job, a large --- beam was being hoisted into place which suddenly assumed a vertical position, striking the iron cable to which Wright and Alvarez were clinging and causing Alvarez to release his hold on the cable and topple over backwards. He struck his head on an iron beam lying on the ground, crushing the skull and resulting in instant death. Wright maintained his hold on the cable and did not fall. The remains of Alvarez were brought to the undertaking parlors and a coroners jury is holding an in inquest this evening.
Mr. Alvarez leaves a wife and one child, the family residing in Red Springs Canyon in this city.

Miami Arizona Tuesday Dec. 30, 1919 Daily Silver Belt Pg.1

Gravesite Details

there is no headstone