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Jesus Maria Rolles
Contributed byElizabeth Burns

Arizona Republican Newspaper, September 24, 1904

Nogales: During a drunken row yesterday morning at a very early hour, Jesus Maria Rolles, a Mexican was murdered by a fellow companion and several hours afterward his body was found in an arroyo just north of the city limits. Sheriff Turner is in possession of sufficient facts as to place the horrible at the hands of a well known Mexican in this vicinity but will not diclose the name until after the arrest has been made. Judge Ashley impaneled a jury today but postponed the inquest until tomorrow at which time it is expected the sheriff will have made the arrest of the murderer.

 

H. B. Smith
Contributed by Elizabeth Burns

Arizona Republican Newspaper, March 27, 1903

Yesterday O.C. Parker of the Tucson Undertaking Parlors received a dispatch to prepare for the reception of an interment of the remains of H.B. Smith who died at Columbus Ohio yesterday, where he had gone for medical treatment. The deceased was for a long time a resident of Nogales and was one of the early pioneers of Tucson, having come here in the sixties. Mr. Smith was the father of Marcus D. Smith and brothers who are conducting the Cananea Herald and Mrs. W.P. Field. He was an old soldier, a member of the G.A.R., also of the Independant Order of Odd Fellows.

 

John Streit
Contributed by Kathy Stinson, January 14, 2014

The Arizonian, August 18, 1859 (Santa Cruz County AZ Archives Obituaries)

Office Sonora Exploring & Mining Co., Tubs, Feb 10 1859: John Streit, was killed in a rencontre with one Antonio Eilsner, on the 25th of December, 1858. Both persons were in the employment of this company. Streit was a German by birth, aged about 30; he was a cabinet maker by trade and at the time of his death "head carpenter" of the company. His family yet reside in Germany but he is said to have relatives living near San antonio, Texas. His friends can learn the particulars of his death, and his legal representatives can obtain the amount due him, on application to: S.H. Lathrop, Director of the Mines, Tubac.

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