Robert Meadeor |
| Posted 2023-02-13 by Pat R |
| Prescott Evening Courier (Prescott, Arizona) Tuesday, May 23, 1933, p. 1 and 2 BOB MEADEOR IS CALLED TO REST Was Resident of County for 50 Years and Served Under Two Sheriffs as Deputy and Jailor Robert W. (Bob) Meadeor, who came to Prescott fifty years ago on the fifteenth of this month, died at eight-twenty o'clock last night in the Dial hotel, where he had made his home for the last three years. He was seventy-nine years old last August 17. The body has been taken to the Lester Ruffner Funeral Home where it is being held pending definite funeral arrangements. Mr. Meadeor had been in failing health for three or four years but had lived a frugal, careful life and had funds to carry him through his declining years without having to call for help from anyone. Last year he underwent treatment at Mercy hospital for some time on account of pneumonia, followed by a period of convalescence of several months in the Miller Valley residence of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Well. He was one of the most likeable characters and numbered scores of persons as his friends. He likewise was very well known to most of the old timers of Yavapai county and in his last years spent a good deal of his time sunning on the plaza and talking over old times with friends who would come in from the mining camps and ranches for short visits in Prescott. Springfield, Mo., was his birthplace. He was the son of Samuel Meadeor, who died in 1880, and Mary Frances Sadler Meadeor, who died two years before her husband, who was a farmer. On May 15, 1883, he arrived in Prescott, making the trip from the middlewest as far as Ash Fork by train and from Ash Fork to Prescott by stage because in those days the Ash Fork-Phoenix railroad line had not been built. Four years before coming to this city he worked in a lead mine near Joplin, Mo., and after arriving here continued to engage in mining activities for a number of years. Between 1893 and 1900 he was a deputy sheriff and jailor under former Sheriff James Lowry and Sheriff George C. Ruffner. In 1880, at Granby, Mo., Mr. Meadeor became affiliated with the Masonic lodge, but transferred his membership later to Prescott. He was a Protestant, therefore, by faith, and a Democrat in politics. Mining not only was his means of livelihood for many years but continued until his death to be his hobby. He was perhaps one of the oldest subscribers to the Courier in point of years. He began with the Prescott Weekly Courier under John Marion and Colonel Rogers in 1885 and to the Evening Courier when it became a daily in 1920. His brothers and sisters are dead. Up until last October he did not know where some nieces and nephews might be but one of his nieces, Mrs. E. C. Pierce, of Azusa, Calif., came to Prescott and looked him up. He was most pleasantly surprised and told all his friends about the experience. Mrs. John Dial, manager of the hotel where he stayed, last night telegraphed Mrs. Pierce about her uncle's death. Mr. Meador never was married. [source: Newspapers.com] find a grave memorial #168619057 |
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