MOKER, Marshall

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.