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William S. (Billy) Walker

Posted 2017-02-14 by Judy Wight Branson
Prescott Morning Courier, Prescott, Arizona Territory
Thursday, November 11, 1907, page 4, column 1

William Walker, aged 57 years, died at the county hospital yesterday.
He had been in the hospital for more than a year.

He was an oldtimer in this section and was by occupation a cook. He
was familiarly known as 'Billy Walker,' and has been employed in
mining camps and hotels as cook all over this section. He was a man
of genial and kindly disposition.

Transcriber's note: Mr. Walker is buried in the Citizens Cemetery in
Prescott, Arizona.

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Weekly Arizona Journal-Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory
Wednesday, November 27, 1907, page 3, column 4

(From Thursday's Daily)

After a lingering illness of over two years, William S. Walker died in
the hospital yesterday morning, at 3 o'clock. The immediate cause of
death was neurasthenia.

Deceased was aged about 57 years and a native of Bedford, England. H
had been a resident of this territory for a number of years, and up to
the time that his health commenced to fail was an industrious and
enterprising citizen.

He was admitted to the hospital, November 19, 1906, and gradually grew
worse until the end came.

Deceased leaves no immediate relatives in this section.

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