Statewide County AZ Archives Obituaries.....Beaty, Mrs. Martha 1902
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Arizona Republican-August 10, 1902
MRS. MARTHA BEATY
August 10, 1902

Dr. Plath was summoned to the Shirley barber shop, in 
the basement of the Goodman drug Store yesterday afternoon 
about 2 o'clock to attend a woman who was found in a dying 
condition in a bath tub.

When the physician arrived, the woman was already dead, 
and after he had made an examination of the remains, the 
body was turned over to be investigated by a coroner's 
jury, impaneled by Justice Gray.  The jury was composed 
of :H.F. Collins, W.F. Davis, R.H. Geary, A.B. Williams, 
W.T. Gregory and John Havard.  

The inquest was held yesterday afternoon.  The first 
witness called was Mrs. S.J. Conley who resides on 
South Fourth Avenue.  Mrs. Conley stated that Mrs. 
Martha  Beaty was the dead woman's name and that she 
was about 73 years old.

Mrs. Conley stated that she had an engagement to meet Mrs. 
Beaty at the barber shop at 1 o'clock to assist her in 
taking her bath, as she was very old and in feeble 
condition.  It was not until 2 o'clock that Mrs. 
Conley was able to arrive and she went at once to the 
room occupied by Mrs. Beaty.  She entered and was 
horrified to find the woman in the bath tub lying 
on her side and wit her face covered with water.

Another lady was with Mrs. Conley and together they 
lifted the form out and laid it on the floor.  Dr. 
Plath stated that it was his opinion that Mrs. Beaty 
had fainted on account of the hot condition of the 
water and quietly drowned.

Frank Shirley said that Mrs. Beaty had called there 
several times to bathe and she was always attended by 
another woman.  

The jury returned a verdict that the woman came to her
 death from accidental drowning.

Mrs. Beaty had lived in the city for about eight years.  
She originally came here from Eddyville Iowa where she 
is supposed to have relatives living.  She was a widow 
and had no relatives in this city.

She has been living on East Jefferson Street, near the 
street car barns and was for a long time a neighbor of 
Mrs. Conley who also resided in that neighborhood for 
some years.  Mrs. Beaty was very feeble and suffered 
with consumption.  She has property in this city.

Funeral
August 11 ,1902

The funeral of Mrs. Martha Beaty, the aged woman who was 
found dead in a bath tub at Shirley's Barber Shop Saturday 
afternoon, took place yesterday afternoon at the undertaking 
rooms of Mohn and Easterling.  A niece of the dead woman 
who resides at Sausalito Cal., telegraphed to Mayor Talbot 
asking him if her presence was necessary here. He replied 
that the funeral had taken place and there was no necessity 
of her coming here. Interment was in the Rosedale cemetery.

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