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Marshall Moker

Posted 2018-05-23 by Judy Wight Branson
Prescott Journal Miner, Prescott, Arizona
Wednesday, September 3, 1919, page 3, column 7

Pioneer Colored Resident Goes To Reward

Marshall Moker, one of the pioneer colored residents of Prescott,
passed away early yesterday morning, aged 63. His death was caused
by locomotor taxia.

For 19 years he had been a resident of Prescott, coming here from
the east. He was born in 1856 at Charleston, West Virginia,

Surviving him are a married daughter, now living at Berkley,
California, and a brother of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Moker was a prominent Mason. He was a member of a Nebraska lodge,
and of him, W. D. Alexander, a brother Mason of Prescott, writes
this Masonic verse:

The common gavel teaches man
The vice of life to discard,
To live upon a higher plane
And well his charter guard.
If Masons thus the gavel use,
To shape their lives before they die,
The Master then will not refuse
Admission to the Lodge on High.

The short Masonic service will be pronounced over the body at the
late residence at 3 o'clock this afternoon.

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

See Also: Arizona Gravestone Photo Project




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