Arizona republican., 1909-06-07
DEATH OF J. ". FRAKES
 YESTERDAY MORNING
An Old and Highly Esteemed Citizen Passes Away After Brief Illness.

An Old and Highly Esteemed Citizen
 Passes Away After Brief Illness.
 John Wesley Frakes died yesterday morning about o'clock at his home on East Washington stree. between Fifth and Sixth. He lacked just one month of being S2 years old and death was due solely to the infirma- ties of advanced age. He suffered an attack of pneumonia last winter and though apparently making a good recovery, his general health was nev- CT as good as before and he suffered occasional attacks of heart weakness. Three or four nights ago he had one of these sinking spells but got better in a short time Sunday morning shortly before 3 o'clock he called to his son Carl, who was sleeping a short distance away. The latter re- sponded instantly but his father died less than a minute later, his heart suddenly failing to perform it's func- tions.
 The funeral will be held this after noon at o'clock in the parlors of George F. Merryman, the Odd Eel lows service being employed. Mem bers of the Odd Fellows and Rebekah lodges are requested to attend as a mark of courtesy though the lodges are not officially called out. Inter ment will be in Greenwood cemetery.
 In the passing of J. w. Brakes there is laid to rest another of the typical pioneers of the west, not of the present day class of rushing builders and captains of industry, but the actual pioneers who laid the foundations on which the men and genius of wealth have reared what western people believe is the finest civilization the world has seen. He was practically a pioneer from the cradle to the grave, having spent his entire life on the frontier, following that somewhat imaginary and ever changing line from what is known now in the west as the middle east, until such a thing as frontier be- came utterly eliminated from the American map.
 J. w. Brakes was born in Fort Finley, Ohio in 1927, when Ohio was yet somewhat of a wilderness. In the early fifties, while yet young man, he went to California, crossing the plains with a wagon train, a method of travel then far more hazardous even than the long trip around by the isthmus. He first settled in the vicinity of Sutter Creek, where he has a brother now living, and for some years engaged in placer mining. The Reese river mining excitement near Austin, Nevada. drew him to that interior land of adventure in 1863, the troublous days when even the life of the nation itself hung in the balance He lived there and in the adjoining counties in Nevada until 1880, when the news of the won derful mineral development in the vicinity of Globe, Arizona, brought him to Arizona and to the town of Globe. He was engaged in various occupations there, but chiefly in the livery business until 1880. when he moved to Phoenix and went into the livery business He continued in that line of industry until a few years ago when failing strength and ad-
 vancing years necessitated his final retirement.
 In the course of his career he ex- perienced the various fortunes of the NcSltIH JlOiitCl' pAOSpNiiNJ H''AA "N@'-- gency alternating, but always he was of optimistic faith and strong cour- age. an esteemed citizen, of warm ! impulses and decided personality. He | has always lived in a country where sentiment has been closely divided polictially but he has maintained an
 unshaken faith in republican policies
 and he has cast his influence in the ,vsz1 interest of that party. He has served
 it faithfully in the rank and file, al ways as a partisan worker but sell
 dom or never seeking official pre- ferment But through it all he has
 recognized personal merit in his deal ing with men as a thing apart from | political, religious or other prejudice and his estimate of men and interest
 in them. rested on their personality
 Whatever may have been his local surroundings in earlier life, his twen- ty-nine years in Arizona established | warm friendships in every community
 where he was known, irrespective of partisanship on any question.
 The passing of a human life is al- ways an occasion for regret and so- Der reflection but in the case of one who has reached the end of his al
 lotted span. discharging well the ob- | ligations imposed in a long career and falls asleep with but little Of
 physical suffering. the poignacy or
 sorrow is much relieved, for even those who are most bereaved.
 The dead man is survived by his wife and two children. The elder Carl Frakes, has always lived with
 his parents, and a daughter, Mrs. T.
 H. Reed. resides in Paris, Kern coun- | ty, California.
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