PETER KITCHEN
Arizona Republican Newspaper
August 7, 1895

Peter Kitchen died at 2:30 o'clock this morning after a long 
and eventful life and will be buried tomorrow under the 
auspices of the Arizona Pioneers.

Peter Kitchen was a typical frontiersman.  He was a native 
of Missouri but had lived more than a generation in Arizona. 
He was here before the boundary line was run between the 
United States and Mexico having first come to the country 
in 1853 or 1854.  Eventually he married and made himself a 
home in the "Potrero", a little north of the Mexican border 
and while his herds roamed the hills he stood off the hostile 
Apaches and sent many a red handed cut throat to his long 
home. He was a good citizen, a pioneer in the fullest sense 
of the word.  Bold and courageous, he faced death a thousand 
times and never quailed before mortal man.  He was nearly 76 
years of age, a true blue whose life work has stamped his 
name eternally on the pages of early Arizona.

His funeral will take place from his residence, No. 321 
South Main Street and will continue down main street to 
the cemetery.

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