JUSYONG / JUSYOUNG, Peter

The Prescott Courier, Prescott, Arizona Tuesday, November 26, 1935 Resident of Yavapai 46 Years Is Called An old-timer of Yavapai county, Peter Jusyong, 81 years of age, died Monday at the Yavapai county hospital following a heart attack. He was entered as a patient from Cottonwood about ten days ago. A native of Denmark, where birth occurred August 30, 1854, the son of Peter and Mary Schanson Jusyong, he came to Arizona in 1882 and two years later became a naturalized citizen of the United States in Apache county. Jusyong was a shoemaker by occupation and followed that trade first in Holbrook a year and a half, then in Winslow for five years. The rest of the time, more than 46 years, he had resided in the Verde Valley. On July 1, 1933, he began drawing a $ 15 monthly old age pension, which was increased to $ 20 the first of July 1934, and to $ 25 last July 1. He was pensioner No. 76 in the county, and the forty-fourth to have died. Jusyong was a widower and had no relatives, he said. When he entered the hospital he asked that friends, Jack Falk and Charles C. Stemmer, of Cottonwood be notified in case of emergency. The body is at the Scott and McMillan mortuary in Jerome. -------------------- The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona Prescott, Nov. 26. - Peter Jusyong, 81 years old, pioneer resident of Yavapai county, died yesterday in the Yavapai county hospital where he had been a patient for the past 10 days. A native of Denmark, he came to Arizona in 1882 and two years later was a naturatized citizen in Apache county. He had followed the trade of shoemaker in Holbrook and Winslow before coming to Yavapai county to settle at Cottonwood. Funeral arrangements will be announced later from the Scott – McMillan mortuary in Jerome. -------------------- Note: Burial is at the Cottonwood Cemetery in Cottonwood, Az., but no headstone has been located to show his exact place of burial