LINCOLN COUNTY, NEW MEXICO

OBITUARIES

Prominent Citizen of Lincoln County Dead. Word has been received of the death of Don Jose Analla, which occurred at his home near the town of Lincoln, in Lincoln county, on March 24, at the age of 66 years.  The deceased was one of the leading citizens of the county, and leaves a large estate to be divided among the members of a large family.  Source: Santa Fe New Mexican, March 30, 1899, Transcribed by C. Anthony Found the Hidden Treasure. Two weeks ago, Jose Analla , reputed to be the richest man in Lincoln county, died near White Oaks.  During his time it was often reported that he had large sums of money buried, and several unsuccessful attempts were made to rob him.  Even when death cama Analla would not reveal to his family where his money was hidden.  He demanded that his body be wrapped in a sheet without a coffin, and that he be buried bare-footed.  His wishes were followed.  The hiding place of his money was not discovered until last week, when a grandson of Analla accidentally dug up a can filled with shining $20 gold pieces.  How much more of the eccentric old man's wealth is buried is not known, but nearly every one in the vicinity has turned treasure seeker and is looking for buried wealth in all likely and unlikely places.  Source: Santa Fe New Mexican, April 18, 1899, Transcribed by C. Anthony Carrizozo Man Lay Dead Two Days Before He Was Discovered The Carrizozo Outlook gives the following account of the recent death of a well known citizen here: T. S. Anderson, a well known railroad man was found dead last Friday evening in his room by Postmaster Reily who was passing and detected an odor.  The body was in a very bad state of decomposition.  Justice of the Peace Massie was immediately summoned and he at once empanelled a jury consisting of the following:  J. A. Ulrey, Wm. Kahler, Jr., J. A. Green, R. E. Herry, W. H. West and Henry Lacey who returned the following report: "We the justice of the peace and jury, who sat upon the inquest held over the body of T. S. Anderson, found dead and reported by Wm. Reily, in the Burrell house, in Carrizozo, New Mexico, on the fourth day of August, find that the deceased came to his death by reason of heart failure. The deceased bad his friends goodbye Tuesday stating that he would leave that night for Salt Lake City, he was last seen in Carrizozo, alive Wednesday morning.  Dr. M. G. Paden, who examined the body carefully, believes the cause was heart failure without question.  Mrs. Anderson and child had left Tuesday noon for Capitan.  It is believed here that he had died Wednesday judging from the decomposed condition of the body.  Burial was held Friday night at the Evergreen cemetery. Mr. Anderson, or "Andy," as he was better known here and had lived here the greater part of the last five years being employed until recently as a freight conductor for the Southwestern.  He was a member of the K. P. lodge, Masons and O. R. C. and was respected by all who knew him. The news came as a terrible blow to his relatives who were immediately notified.  He was married in 1902 to Mrs. Willie Gray and is survived by her and one son.  Mrs. Anderson's mother, Mrs. A. E. Lesnett of Roswell, and sister, Mrs. George Dingwall of Kahler, N. M., arrived early this week.  Source: Alburquerque Morning Journal, August 15, 1911, Transcribed by C. Anthony Andres Brown BROWN--The body of Andres Brown, who died July 6 at his apartments on North Seventh street, will lie in state this afternoon at Crollot funeral parlors from 1 to 3 o'clock. The body will be sent to Tulsa, Okla., for burial. Source:  Albuquerque Journal, July 9, 1922 -Transcribed by C. Anthony. Frank Butler, of this place, was also a victim of influenza.  He died following a short illness, and was buried at the local cemetery last Saturday. Source:Albuquerque Morning Journal, November 11, 1918, Transcribed by C. Anthony Mrs. Ed C. Cooper, niece of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Cooper, of this place died last Tuesday at Ancho.  She was buried at White Oaks. Source:Albuquerque Morning Journal, November 11, 1918, Transcribed by C. Anthony Elbi Corona Corona--Elbi Corona died yesterday afternoon at his residence, ?508 North Seventh street, after a short illness. He is survived by two sisters and one brother. The body was taken to Crollott funeral parlors pending funeral arrangements. Source:  Albuquerque Journal, July 9, 1922 -Transcribed by C. Anthony. C. W. Cozzen C. W. Cozzen, 48 years old, judge of the probate court of Lincoln county, died of catarrh of the stomach at his residence on lower Bonito, after a sickness of two weeks on Sunday 19th inst. He was buried by the Farmer's Alliance, sixty members being present at 3 p. m. on the 20th. Judge Cozzen was born in North Carolna. He was educated for a physician in Knoxville college in Tennessee. He moved to Texas, where he practiced medicine for some time and then moved to New Mexico six years ago and located on Bonito creek, where he practiced medicine until he died. He leaves a widow but no children. Source:Albuquerque Morning Democrat, February 24, 1888 - Transcribed by C. Anthony Col. Cronin Dead The sad intelligence of the death of Col. M. Cronin at Lincoln, on the afternoon of Dec. 22, was received by the people of White Oaks with profound sorrow.  Col. Cronin has been identified with the public affairs of southern New Mexico, Lincoln county in particulra, almost from the date of its first settlement up to the time of his death, and leaves behind him a record of honorable service.  The last sad rites were performed by his Lincoln friends on the afternoon of the 24th inst., and the body laid to rest in the Spring ranch cemetery, nine miles below Lincoln. -- White Oaks Eagle. The Albuquerque Daily Citizen, January 2, 1900 J. R. Fisher, of White Oaks, died during the past week of influenza.  His body was shipped to his former home of Memphis, Tex., for burial. Source:Albuquerque Morning Journal, November 11, 1918, Transcribed by C. Anthony Merchant Dies at Carrizozo. Santa Fe, Nov. 28--Maximiano Guebara, merchant at Jicarilla and Ancho, and a native of Magdalena, where he was born 56 years ago, died at Carrizozo after brief illness. Source: Albuquerque Morning Journal, November 29, 1915, Transcribed by C. Anthony Callie Harris Another self-inflicted death is reported from Meek, Lincoln county, when 48-year-old Callie Harris hanged herself with a strap from a tree in the garden of her sister, Mrs. E. E. Spindle. Bad health is given as the cause of the suicide.  Source:  Albuquerque Journal, October 3, 1917-Transcribed by C. Anthony. Died From Heart Failure Mrs. Jeremiah Hochdrasdel , of Nogal, while out driving with a friend, fell out of the buggy and died almost the same moment. Heart failure was the cause of death. Source: Albuquerque Citizen, June 7, 1899 - Transcribed by C. Anthony Mrs. Sybil Hubert CARRIZOZO, N.M. (Staff) - Services for Mrs. Sybil Hubert, 50, a former Monahans resident, who died Saturday in a hospital in Albuquerque, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Nazarene Church in Carrizozo, conducted by the Chapel of Roses Funeral Home. survivors are a daughter Mrs Mildred Ortiz of Albuquerque; a brother, J. W. Boling Monahans; a maternal grandmother, Mrs. Lizzie Smith of Monahans, and a grandson. Source: Monday Jan 26, 1970, Odessa American, Submitted by Janice Rice Dead Man Sits At Throttle of E. P. & S. W. Train Charles Jones Discovered to Have Died as Train Ran From Carrizozo to Ancho, 26 Miles Distant. (Special Dispatch to Morning Journal.) Carrizozo, N. M. Sept. 16.--The eastbound accommodation train on the El Paso & Southwestern railway yesterday ran an unknown number of miles with a dead man at the throttle of its locmotive. The fireman discovered at Ancho, twenty-six miles from this city, the division point, that the engineer was dead. The engineer was Charles Jones, of this city, and he had complained to his friends before going out that he was suffering from acute indigestion. He did not consider it serious, however, and started on his run to Tucumcari. At Ancho, twenty-six miles east of here, his fireman discovered that he was dead. His body was placed upon the westbound accommodation and brought back to Carrizozo, arriving here at 2:30, less than two hours after he had left an apparently well man. Mr. Jones, although a comparatively young man, was one of the veteran employes of the road. He leaves a wife and two children, beside other relatives, residents of this city. He was a mason and that organization will have charge of the funeral services. Source:Albuquerque Morning Journal, September 17, 1915, Transcribed by C. Anthony Pioneer of Lincoln County Claimed by Death;  End Sudden Special Correspondence To Morning Journal Capitan, N. M., Aug. 10--Capt. Paul L. Krouse , a pioneer of Lincoln county, died suddenly last Monday at his ranch home at Alto. Capt. Krouse came to Lincoln came to Lincoln county thirty years ago from Texas, having gone to that state from Kentucky in the early days.  He lived at the town of Lincoln for a number of years, but ultimately removed to Eagle Creek and engaged in mining, and had made that place his home for twenty years.  He was about 70 years old at the time of his death. Captain Krouse had been prominent in the commercial and political life of Lincoln county, for a number of years.  He was a stockholder in the Eagle Mining & Improvement Co. and held some individual mining property, as well.  He was elected county commissioner in 1902 and re-elected to the same position in 1904, holding that office for a period of six years.  During a part of that time he was chairman of the board. He was one of the oldest settlers in the county having lived her during the troubling period of the "Lincoln county war," but not taking any part in the disturbances incident to that period.  During all the years of his residence in Lincoln county.  Captain Krouse took an active part in the development of the county's resources and had unbounded faith in their ultimate development.  Source: Albuquerque Morning Journal, August 11, 1913, Transcribed by C. Anthony Vencesado Martinez MARTINEZ--Vencesado Martinez, aged 7 son of Mr. and Mrs. Carpio Martinez, died yesterday morning at their residence, 424 West Santa Fe avenue. Mr. Martinez is employed at the fire department. The body was taken to Crollott's funeral parlors pending funeral arrangements. Source:  Albuquerque Journal, July 9, 1922 -Transcribed by C. Anthony. Miss Carrie Perea, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. Perea, died last Monday at El Paso, Tex.  Miss Perea was in her twenty-seventh year, having been born in Lincoln, N. M., on January 8, 1892.  She was buried at El Paso.  Source: Albuquerque Morning Journal, November 11, 1918, Transcribed by C. Anthony Man Who Saved Smokey Bear Dies Homer C. Pickens -- former head of the state Game and Fish Department, a lifelong conservationist and the man who nursed a fire-singed cub named Smokey Bear back to health -- died Sunday after a brief illness. He was 91. Born July 5, 1903, in Hopkins County, Texas, Pickens came to New Mexico in 1927. He told reporters in later years that he arrived by train in Albuquerque with $5 in his pocket, looking for his half brother, Albert, whom he hadn't seen in 10 years. He soon found his brother, who was working for the U.S. Geological Survey (forerunner of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), and the two worked together trapping wolves near Tapacitos for $30 a month. After four years of working for the federal agency, Pickens moved over to the state Game and Fish Department in predatory animal control in 1931. He worked as a district game warden in Silver City, Las Vegas, N.M., and Albuquerque. In 1940, he was named assistant director of Game and Fish -- and was holding that position 10 years later when he adopted a 4-pound bear cub, found during a forest fire in the Lincoln National Forest near Capitan. The cub -- first named "Hot Foot Teddy" -- became the U.S. Forest Service's real-life mascot, Smokey Bear, replacing the cartoon fire-prevention symbol that had been around since 1944. Pickens, who'd nursed the cub back to health in his back yard in Tesuque, flew with Smokey to Washington, D.C., and, amid great public fanfare, turned the bear over to the National Zoo (where Smokey lived until his death in 1976). In 1953, Pickens was named state Game and Fish director -- a position he held until his retirement in 1958. During his tenure, he was responsible for mass transplanting of antelope, importing mountain sheep into the Sandias and wildlife exchanges (including wild turkey for sage grouse and antelope for elk) with other states. As director, he also pioneered the department's public-relations program and helped establish Clayton Lake and Fenton Lake. A wildlife management program he established in the mid-'50s -- the scientific management of deer herds in the Guadalupe Mountains -- is still in use today. And he worked with Dean Bill O'Donnell of what was then called New Mexico A&M (now New Mexico State University) in setting up the school's first wildlife training program. After his state service, he became a conservation specialist with the then-Atomic Energy Commission in Los Alamos. And during his many years as a conservationist, he gave expert testimony in lawsuits on behalf of the Vermejo Park Ranch and the Baca Land and Cattle Co. in Valle Grande. While with the department, he belonged to and received numerous awards from the Western Association of State Game and Fish Commissioners and the International Association of Game and Fish Commissioners. He won the Nash Conservation Award and Program's certificate of merit in 1953, and was given the Agricultural Achievement Award of the Los Alamos Kiwanis Club in 1966. Pickens was also the author of two books, "Tracks Across New Mexico" and "Modern Techniques of Trapping Coyotes and Bobcats." He was a 32nd Degree Mason, a life member of the Scottish Rite and a member of the Ballut Abyad Shrine of Albuquerque. He was a member of Toastmasters and the Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos, as well as an honorary member of the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. He was preceded in death in 1985 by his wife, Edna Burton Pickens. Survivors include three sons, retired Army Col. Homer C. Pickens Jr. of Augusta, Ga., Jack E. Pickens of Charlotte, N.C., and retired Air Force Lt. Col. Jimmy B. Pickens of Abilene, Texas; a daughter, Betty Ann Pickens Cabber of Albuquerque; a sister, Reba Airington of Sherman, Texas; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in Palm Chapel, Strong-Thorne Mortuary, 1100 Coal SE. Burial will follow in Fairview Memorial Park. Memorial contributions may be made to the Homer C. Pickens Memorial Foundation at NMSU, Rio Grande Historical Collections, P.O. Box 30006, Las Cruces, N.M. 88003. Source:  Albuquerque Journal, February 21, 1995 -Transcribed by C. Anthony. Albert Lucero Sanches SANCHES--Albert Lucero, aged ?7, died last night at his residence on North Fourth street. Mr. Sanches is survived by two sons, Pedro Sanches and Pablo Sanches. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Crollott is in charge. Source:  Albuquerque Journal, July 9, 1922 -Transcribed by C. Anthony. Lincoln County Leader Saturday, April 12, 1890 Last Saturday the bodies of John G. Shannanhouse, and his infant child, were exhumed and the remains taken for final interment to Nogal, there to rest with the lamented Mrs. Sligh; mother-in-law of the one and grand-mother of the other.  The child, Jas. Sligh Shannanhouse, at the age of two months, was buried in White Oaks Cemetery, May 1st, 1887.  The father was laid beside it on the last day of January, 1888.  The coffins were intact, but the boxes were very much decayed --- indeed that holding the casket of the infant had entirely rotted.  Transcribed by K. Torp Joseph A. Shaver, died here early Monday morning.  Mr. Shaver lived at Vaughn and the body was shipped there for burial.  Having come to Carrizozo to assits (assist?) in nursing the family of Dr. Shaver, who were ill with influenza, he was taken ill and died. Source:Albuquerque Morning Journal, November 11, 1918, Transcribed by C. Anthony Died at Lincoln Manuel A. Sisneros, of Lincoln county, died at Lincoln a few days ago as the result of a surgical operation for cancer.  Deceased was aged 31 years.  He was court interperter in Lincoln county.  Source: Santa Fe New Mexican-December 21, 1899, Transcribed by C. Anthony.

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