Statewide County AZ Archives Obituaries.....Adams, J.A. 1902
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Arizona Republican-June 1, 1902
J.A. Adams
June 1, 1902
Arizona Republican Newspaper

J.A. Adams, a former resident of Arizona and a grandson of 
old "John Brown, whose soul goes marching on" wandered away 
from his camp on the Colorado desert on May 19 and perished 
for want of water says the Yuma Sentinel.  The story of his 
disappearance is graphically told by Charley Fay, one of the 
party as follows:

"We went out on the desert prospecting for gold.  An Indian 
whom we had employed to show us where to find water on the 
desert caught his foot in the stirrup while mounting his 
horse and fell on his back.  The horse started to run, 
dragging the Indian by one foot.  As the ground was covered 
with jagged rocks, the Indian would have been killed had not 
Adams urn up and taken the horse by the pit.  The animal, 
wild with fright, reared and plunged.  Adams was twice 
thrown upon the rocks, and once the horses hoofs hit him, 
but he still gripped the bit until Mr. Lamere and I 
succeeded in releasing the Indian.

"After the danger was over Adams sat down upon a rock and 
began laughing and when asked if he was hurt, he replied, 
"Oh, ho; I'm only a little tired but I guess you'll have to 
help me set this arm."  We then started for Yuma, Adams 
riding some twenty five miles that afternoon and never 
once complaining, though we could see by his drawn features 
that he was suffering intense pain."

"At dusk we camped for the night and within an hour the 
injured man was delirious and raving like a maniac.  
Some time during the night he left the camp.  As soon 
as we discovered that he had gone we made every effort 
to find him, but could not do much until daylight, when 
we found his tracks in the sand.  We followed the tracks 
all that day and until about 9 o'clock the next day, 
when we came to a hard rocky place at the foot of some 
rock hills.  Here we lost the trail and try as we might 
we could not find it again.

"For three days we searched the hills but not a trace of 
the man could we discover though we well knew that 
somewhere within a radius of twenty or thirty miles lay 
the body of one of the bravest men that ever lost his 
life in that great death trap--the Colorado desert."

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