Henry Falconer Gaddis |
| Posted 2016-11-27 by Stephen D. Gaddis |
| Arizona Daily Sun--Oct. 9, 1958 HENRY F. GADDIS, CAMP VERDE PIONEER, IS DEAD AT 90. Henry F. Gaddis, who first came to Yavapai County in 1875 by ox team, died this morning at the Arizona Pioneers' Home here, where he had been bedfast for the past nine months. He was 90 years of age. The well known pioneer, who entered the Pioneers' Home shortly over a year ago, had suffered a fractured hip and related illness during the past year. Born dec. 11, 1867, in Pomona, Kans., he made the trek west with his parents, Michael Kelly Gaddis and Dorcas Jane (Nantz) Gaddis, at the age of seven, starting out from Missouri in August of 1875 and arriving in the Camp Verde area about three months later. Growing to manhood in that locale, he followed the occupation of cattleman, working for the Joe and Dan Marr ranching operation in the Verde Valley before beginning 25 years of service as a cowboy with the mountain herds of the Babbit Brothers Cattle Company. For eight years, he owned and operated his own ranch near the San Francisco Peaks. Retiring in 1925, he resided in both Cottonwood and Phoenix with a sister, Mrs. Nora Bradley. Survivors, besides Mrs. Bradley, Ramona, Calif., are another sister, Mrs. Dora Dickison, Romona, three nephews, C. K. Dickison, Sedona, Silver Gaddis, Sedona, and William H. Gaddis, Flagstaff. Funeral services will be conducted at the Hampton Funeral Home Chapel Thursday, Oct. 9, at 3 p.m. by the Rev. Roy H. Boldt, pastor of the local First Baptist Church. Interment will be in the family plot of the Middle Verde Cemetery, near Camp Verde, this Saturday, Oct. 11, at 2 p.m. Gaddis will be laid by his pioneer parents. |
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