MRS. NANCY CURTIS
Arizona Republican Newspaper
July 1903

Mrs. Nancy J. Curtis, aged 85 years died in Tucson 
Tuesday morning after several months illness.  Mrs. 
Curtis was well known in this city, having resided 
here for years, conducting a millinery store.  She 
was familiarly known to nearly everyone in town as 
Grandma Curtis and was of the best old ladies that 
ever lived in any country, being a hard worker, 
kind and charitable and sincerely and deeply 
religious.  Her husband, Grandpa Curtis was a 
veteran of the Black Hawk War and died in Tucson 
about five years ago, shortly after moving there 
from Phoenix.