Lafayette Philander Nash (aft. 1841 - 1914)

Born after 19 Nov 1841 in Bethlehem, Richland, Ohio, United States

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Died 17 Mar 1914 before age 72 in Miami, Gila, Arizona, United States

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Biography

Layfayette was born after 1841. He was the son of Samuel Nash and Mary Early. He passed away in 1914.(see extensive obituary below)

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35076407/lafayette-p-nash

- includes extensive obit - "Born on November 17, 1841, Lafayette P. Nash lived a most eventful life. His birthplace is Delaware, Ohio, and he made his home there until he was fourteen years of age. He was the youngest of a family of ten and his mother died when he was seven days old. At the age of fourteen years he ran away from home and went to Missouri where he enlisted in the regiment in which one of his elder brothers, George Nash, the father of Mrs. Henry Thompson of Globe, was a captain. His father, who was a farmer in Ohio, died while the war was in progress. Upon his return from the war, Mr. Nash served for a year on Mississippi river steamboats. At the end of that time doctors told him that he would die in less than a year unless he went west. He had been suffering from malaria and weighed less than 100 pounds. Come to Arizona Coming west the pioneer crossed from White Pine, Nevada to Ehrenburg, Arizona. The he worked for the Goldwaters, now big merchants at Phoenix, as a freighter from Wilmington, Calif. To Prescott, Ariz. After eight years as a freighter he went to Signal, then a booming mining town in Mohave county. He was in the teaming business there and it was in Signal that he fell in love with and married Miss Mary Birdsall in 1878. Mrs. Nash died at Phoenix in 1901. Upon departing from Signal the Nash family went to Strawberry valley, now in this county, and engaged in cattle raising for eight years. Then Mr. Nash moved to Fort Apache for a year after which he located in Phoenix where he remained until 1897 when he joined the rush for the Klondyke. A year in the far north was enough for the pioneer and he returned to Arizona and engaged in mining in different parts of the state. Was Jailor Here In 1900 he went to Cananea where he worked for the Cananea Consolidated Copper Mining company for La Brea and finally for the Greene Gold & Silver Mining company at Chihuahua. Returning to Globe in 1908, Mr. Nash was jailer under Sheriff Henry Thompson for four years. Four years ago yesterday he was appointed justice of the peace at Miami and he served in that capacity up to the time of his death. A year ago – on March 18 – Judge Nash’s son, Bert, was killed at Goldfield, Nevada. The news of the tragedy came as a great shock to the aged judge and he began to fail in health shortly afterwards. His decline was steady and for some time before his death he was confined to his bed."

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