Tucson Daily Citizen
February 15, 1946Mesa, Feb 15, (AP) - Mary Annetta Pomeroy, 84 died Wednesday in a loca hospital. Native of Pinto, U., she move here in 1881. She is survived by six daughters, three brothers and one sister.
Arizona Republic
December 12, 1971MESA � Services for Mrs. Mettie E. Morris, 79, who died Thursday in the Golden Mesa Extended Care Home, will be at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Larry J. Melcher Mortuary, 43 S. Stapley. Burial will be in Memory Lawn Memorial Gardens in Phoenix.
Mrs. Morris was born in Chihuahua, Mexico and came to Mesa in 1907. She had lived at the Extended Care Home the past four years.
Survivors include three brothers, John of San Diego and Lorenz and William, both of Mesa, and two sisters, Mrs. Josephine Dugan of Coolidge and Mrs. Leona Gilbert of Willcox.
The Arizona Republican
December 21, 1905J. H. Pomeroy passed away yesterday morning at 7:30 at his home in Mesa after an illness of several weeks. He had been a sufferer for years with rheumatism and other complications internally, causing loss of sleep and considerable distress, but it was not until six months ago that he began to look upon his symptons as serious and the necessity of attention to them. He began treatments under first one physician and then another, sought relief at the coast, in the mountains, and finally getting worse, he went to Agua Caliente and remained there for three weeks. He was there during the recent rain, which was against him, and he came home much weaker than when he went away, although he was loud in his praise of the treatment accorded himself and wife by the proprietor there. Soon after returning he took to bed and has hardly been outside of the house since. He suffered terribly from sciatic nerve trouble up to within a few days of his death.
A wife could not be more faithful than Mrs. Pomeroy, who has been with him almost every hour night and day during his illness and is now almost prostrated with grief. He was attended through his illness by Drs. Hawley and Jones, and he has been the very best of nursing. His many friends in Mesa have been kindness itself and have done everything possible for his relief. His funeral will be held in the tabernacle today, December 20, at 11 a.m. Bishop J. M. Horne will preside at this service, but the funeral and burial will be under the I. O. O. F. of Mesa, of which Mr. Pomeroy was a charter member. He was als a member of the K. of P. and the W. O. W.
Mr. Pomeroy was one of the most prominent men on the south side, having come to Mesa from Idaho in 1877, and had been city clerk of Mesa for twenty years and justice of the peace of the Mesa precinct for fourteen years. In 1894 he was elected to represent the county in the legislature and served his term with credit both to himself and to his constituents.
Mr. Pomeroy was born in 1853 in Salt Lake City, fifty two years ago next February. He leaves a widow and six children to mourn his loss. Mr. Pomeroy was a friend of everybody and was one of the best men in southern Arizona. He has represented the I. O. O. F. in the grand lodge year after year and was one of the trustees of the grand lodge. He was a kind and loving father and a friend that would always be found the same. Although he expressed no particular religous conviction, his creed was to do unto others as he would have them do unto him. His family has the symparhy of the entire community.
The Arizona Republican
December 15, 1898
Rita, the daughter of John Pomeroy, died last night of pneuminia. The fune
ral will be held at the tabernacle tomorrow at 10 o'clock
The Arizona Republic
March 3, 1907
Haskell Pomeroy, died yesterday morning with brights disease at the ho
me of his mother, Mrs. J. H. Pomeroy, on East Main, at the age of 15 years and three months. The funeral will be held from the family residence this afternoon at 2 o'clock conducted by Bishop J. E. Horne, after which interment will be made in Mesa cemetery.
For some time the health of the young man has been failing and for the last several weeks his case was considered beyond medical assistance. His fathe J. H. Pomeroy, who was one of the better known men on the south side died a little over a year ago. The deceased leaves a mother, one sister and a brother.
Portrait and Biographical Record of Arizona
Chapman Publishing Co. Chicago 1901The first house built at Mesa was erected of adobe by William M. Newell and thus it is an obvious fact that he has been witness of the entire development of this section of the Salt River valley. Not only has he witnessed it, but has himself aided in the great work of transformation whereby the desert has become a garden spot. Since February 22, 1900, he has been acting in the capacity of postmaster of Mesa, and is a justly popular official. For several years he was a justice of the peace, and for a long period has been connected with the board of education of Mesa, at the present time being the treasurer of that body. In matters relating to national politics, he is a Republican, and in fraternal circles is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World. It is a fact worth of note that years ago he was the only Republican voter in Mesa.
The nativity of William M. Newell occurred February 27, 1850, in Wapello county, Iowa. His parents, William M. and Jemima (Foster) Newell were natives if Indiana and were early settlers of Wapello county, whither they went in 1845. Reared on the farm and educated in the common schools of the district, our subject was well prepared for the battles of life by the time that he had arrived at his majority. Though a mere lad when the the Civil war had come to a close, he was deeply patriotic, and ere the struggle was over volunteered his services to the defense of the Stars and Stripes. One of the youngest members of Company K, Forty-seventh Iowa Infantry, which was enlisted for one hundred days, he served, all told, about six months, being staioned chiefly at the Helena (Ark.) garrison. After he had been honorably discharged he returned to his Iowa home, and subsequently attended Birmingham College in Van Buren county. In 1873 he went to Utah, where he taught school for a short time, and then engaged in mining. In 1878 he came to Mesa, and now is the owner of a well cultivated farm of forty acres, not far from this place. His public duties have occupied a large share of his time, and he has made it a point of honor to neglect no detail of his official work, however pressing his privateaffairs might happen to be. His strict attention to the interests of the piblic largely accounts for his undoubted popularity.
The marriage of Mr. Newell and Miss Irene Pomeroy, who was born in Utah, was solemnized in that state. Four daughter were born to them, namely: Blanche Irene, Lulu Fay, Grace J. and Sibyl. The lady who now bears the name of our subject was formerly Miss Eleanor Brizzee of Mesa. They are the parents of two sons and two daughters, named as follows: Lottie, William M., Jr., Thomas S. and Eleanor M.
OBITUARY:
Will Thomas Service Friday In Alamosa. Funeral services for Will iam "Bill" M. Thomas, 83, will be Friday Jan. 22, from the Alamosa Ward of the L.D.S., Chapel, 2 p.m.
Mr. Thomas, pioneer Valley man died Jan. 19, following a short illness in the St. Joseph's Nursing Home in Del Norte. Mr. Thomas was born in Ephraim Colo., near Manassa the son of William Thomas and Nancy Irvin Thomas. He was reared in Sanford. He was married to Isabel Harrison in Walsenburg in 1937. His first marriage was in 1912 to Marguerite McDonald of Denver. She died in 1936.
He is survived by his wife Isabel of the home in Albuquerque, two sons, John and William Thomas, both of Denver, four grandchildren. One sister Mrs. Blanche Sego, Manassa, and one brother, Harry Thomas Logan, Utah also survive.
Mr. Thomas, a pioneer educator taught school for many years in the San Luis Valley. He also published the Manassa Free Press in Manassa and the Conejos County News in Antonito. Later he co-founded the first radio station in the San Luis Valley, KGIW located in Alamosa. Until his retirement several years ago Mr. Thomas was a partner in the L.B. Walker Radio Co., in Albuquerque, where the family home.
Salt Lake Telegram
May 23, 1905Two thousand Mormons in Colorado and New Mexico are mourning the death of their leader, Albert Ricks Smith, who died at his home in Manassa. His funeral at Manassa was attended by hundreds of people, who flocked in from Sanford, Eastdale, Fox Creek and other Mormon communities.
Albert R. Smith was the president of the San Luis stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints. This gave him absolute authority over all Mormon colonies in Colorado and New Mexico, except a small mission in Denver. He not only directed the financial affairs of the church, but he advised with and to a considerable extent directed the affairs of his people.
President Smith was born in Paragoonah, Utah, April 1, 1862. His father, Silas B. Smith, is one of two surviving cousins of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Albert Smith came to Colorado in 1882 and cast his fortunes with the struggling Mormon colony in the San Luis colony. In 1892 he was called to the presidency, and his subsequent reelections have been unanimous. He was a man of large ideas and great energy, and he worked unceasingly for the material as well as the moral advancement of his people. His death was due directly to nervous collapse, following thirteen years of unceasing effort. He lived to see the dawn of better days for his people, as the resevoir and irrigation projects which he promoted promise to make this the most productive section of the San Luis valley. He was respected by all those who knew him, whether Mormons or Gentiles.
He leaves a wife, who is the daughter of the late Thales H. Haskell, noted as a Mormon missionary to the Indians. His wife, seven children and his brothers surrounded him when he died. He was conscious to the last.