Statewide County AZ Archives Obituaries.....Barrett, W.A. 1901
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Elizabeth Burns burns@asu.edu and D. Joshua Taylor http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00006.html#0001358 July 4, 2005, 6:22 pm

Arizona Republican-September 6, 1901
Major J.H. McClintock received a letter yesterday from 
the father of W.A. Barrett, residing in Salem, Mass. 
announcing that his son had died in Havana, Cuba on the 
7th of August.   The dead man was about 27 years of age 
and was quite well known in Phoenix.  He was a clerk in 
the quartermaster's department at Matanzas and other 
Cuban points during the Spanish American War and contracted 
pulmonary trouble. He came here last year for his health 
and stayed several months, forming many close acquaintances 
as he was sociable and of a pleasing disposition.  When he 
left he was apparently cured of disease.  He returned to his 
post in Cuba, being transferred to the Havana office.  Some 
time ago he wrote to Major McClintock asking him for an 
endorsement to General Wood for a position in the adjutant 
general's department.  It was forwarded but it seems that 
the young man had died of hemorrhage previous to the arrival 
of the letter which was forwarded to Salem, Mass. and 
through the acknowledgement of which Major McClintock 
learned of his untimely death.

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