MADERS,
Nora Ann
(Maiden Name: McWhorter)
Prescott Evening Courier, Prescott, Arizona
Monday, January 11, 1960, page 2, column 3
Early Yavapai County Pioneer, Nora Ann Maders, Dies Here
An 86-year-old county pioneer, born in a covered wagon en route here,
died Friday night at the Pioneer Home.
She was Nor Ann Maders, daughter of the late Elbert S. McWhorter and
Matilda Watson McWhorter, natives of Kentucky.
The wagon train was headed for Arizona Territory from St. Louis. Mrs.
Mader, who died eight days before her 87th birthday, was born in
Howard County, Kan. Jan. 16, 1873. The family arrived in the Crown
King area in 1873, and Mrs. Maders lived in Yavapai County the rest of
her life.
She was the widow of James Maders, who died in 1974.
She leaves nine sons: Bill, Mayer; Robert, Phoenix; Roy, Tucson;
Dudley, Ashfork; Elbert, Humboldt; Henry, Globe; Eugene, Prescott;
Horace, Tucson; and Fields, Humboldt; and three daughters: Mrs. Rose
Merwin, Prescott; Mrs. Hazel Richards, La Mesa, Calif.; and Mrs.
Jessie Higgins, Humboldt; 20 grandchildren, and 28 great-
grandchildren.
She will lie in state at the Ruffner Funeral Home tonight from 6 to 9
p.m. (rest of line unreadable.)
Services will be conducted by Dr. Charles Franklin Parker tomorrow at
2 p.m. at the funeral home. Burial will be in the family plot at
Mountain View Cemetery.