Mary Jane (Pemberton) Joyce |
| Posted 2016-11-19 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Prescott Evening Courier, Prescott, Arizona Wednesday, September 20, 1933, page 7, column 6 Mrs. Joyce, 89, Passes To Rest Mrs. Mary Jane Joyce, 89, one of the real old-timers of this county, passed to rest today at her home in Mint Valley, the place where she had lived since coming to Arizona from Missouri by wagon train when she was 29 years of age. Not only had Mrs. Joyce ,made her home in the valley, but in the sixty years she resided in Yavapai county, she never once crossed it county lines. Her husband, who was a logger, miner and farmer of the district, preceded her in death by 35 years. Surviving Mrs. Joyce are one brother, Sam Pemberton, living in Mint Valley, a nephew, Walter Cox of the same district, and three nieces, Mrs. Marian Weston and Alice and Lizzie Stringfield. No arrangements had been made today for the funeral. ---------------------------------------- Prescott Evening Courier, Prescott, Arizona Thursday, September 21, 1933, page 3, column 3 Rites Arranged For Mrs. Joyce It was fifty-eight years ago last August 10 that Mrs. Mary Jane Joyce, who died in Mint Valley yesterday, arrived in Prescott by oxen, from Arkansas, it was learned from her brother-in-law, B. H. Bowen, guest of the Arizona Pioneers' Home, who was in the party. He married Mrs. Joyce's sister, Rachel Pemberton, now dead many years. She and Mrs. Joyce were born in Missouri, removed to Arkansas when young girls, and set out in the oxen train from Rogers, Ark., on either April 5 or 6, Mr. Bowen could not remember exactly. He was just a young married man then. Tomorrow afternoon Mrs. Joyce will be laid ay rest in the Citizens' cemetery, following four o'clock services in the Lester Ruffner chapel, Rev. Harry Branton of the North Marina street Methodist church officiating. Appropriately, too, will be her burial in Yavapai soil, because not since her arrival in this county, it was said, had she ever crossed its borders. The wagon train bearing the Bowens and Mrs. Joyce numbered 74 units part of the way, most of them headed for Arizona via the old Fremont trail. On occasion the train had to make its own trail, all the while being on the lookout for hostile Indians. Mr. Bowen was in charge of the train a good part of the way. 'I had been acquainted to some extent with the ways and customs of Indians.' he said, 'and I never allowed any fires or lights at night and consequently we got through without any but minor clashes with the Indians and not a man killed.' Mrs. Joyce's husband preceded her in death some 35 years ago. Surviving are a brother, Sam Pemberton; a nephew, Walter Cox; and three nieces, Mrs. Martin Weston, Misses Alice and Lizzie Stringfield, all of Mint Valley. Mrs. Joyce was 80 years old. See Also: Arizona Gravestone Photo Project |
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