"Bisbee Daily Review" July 15, 1917
Entire District Will Pay Tribute Today to Memory of O.P. McRae
Testifying to the high regard in which Orson P. McRae was held and mourning with his friends and relatives on the occasion of his funeral, the entire Warren District, today at noon, will participate in the last services to be held over his body. The ceremony will be held in the Post Office plaza and the body will lie in state under a canopy on the porch of the Phelps-Dodge Mercantile Company's
store building.
Bisbee combines its feelings of sincerest regret in its last offering to the name and spirit of McRae. The Warren District recognizes that the faithful employee of the C. & A. Company died no less in the nation's cause than will those who perish on the battlefield of France or on the great white ways between this country and the scenes of carnage abroad. It will be one of great demonstration of
loyalty of the people of this community and the feeling with which they hold the memory of the man who while doing his duty to his home and country, was shot down and murdered.
Workmen and Citizens To Attend Services
O.P. McRae was thirty-three years old. He had been a permanent resident of Bisbee and the Warren District for the past fifteen years, having been born and raised in Cochise county, in the little town of St. David on the San Pedro river. Always a good citizen, looking to the upbuilding of the community, the county, state and country, McRae enjoyed an enviable reputation for honesty, sobriety,
consistence, faithfulness and loyalty. His last act was proof of his fitness to receive the highest honors that the people of the Warren District can bestow.
Besides his widow, McRae is survived by three children and by several brothers and sisters, most of whom live in Bisbee.
All members of the Workmen's Loyalty League and the Citizen's Protective League will participate in the funeral. All are expected to wear a white hankerchief around their right arm and carry an American flag in the march to the cemetery at Lowell, where the body will be interred in Evergreen.
Cleon T. Knapp to Deliver Address
Powell Cosby, of the local church of Latter Day Saints, will conduct the funeral services, which will start promptly at 12 o'clock
Cleon T. Knapp will deliver the funeral address. The C. & A. band will play during the march. Honorary pall bearers have been chosen from the Citizen's Protective League, the Workmen's Loyalty League, the Moose Lodge, the C. & A. officials, Copper Queen officials, county and city officials and business men of the Warren District.
The active pall bearers will be Jack Fisher, Tom Murphy and T.B. Bank, three fellow workmen from the C. & A. company and Miles W. Merrill, president of the Workmen's Loyalty League, James Henderson, president of the Citizen's Protective League and Charles W. Allen, president of the Warren District Commercial Club.
The operating mines of the District will be closed during the funeral.
"Bisbee DailyReview" July 13, 1917
Murdered Man Was One of the Best Known and Best Liked Employes of the C. & A. Company-Had Resided Here Many Years
O.P. McRae, who was killed yesterday in Jiggerville by James Brew, a striking I.W.W., was a native of Cochise county, a long time resident of the Warren district and one of the best known young men in this region of the state. McRae was 33 years old, having been born in St. David, the San Pedro valley. He came to reside permanently in Bisbee 15 years ago. For the past 10 years he has been employed by the Calumet & Arizona company and has enjoyed the utmost confidence of his employers and his men.
He leaves a widow and three children. In addition he leaves four brothers, Parley T. of Bisbee, N.C. of St. David, Milton of Thatcher, John K. of Bisbee, and J.A., who resides some place in Missouri. Two sisters also survive him, Mrs. Jo Goodman of St. David and Mrs. J.S. McGuire of Bisbee. No funeral arrangements have been made public yet.
"Bisbee Daily Review" August 7, 1917
WANT McRAE'S GUN
The man who borrowed O.P. McRae's gun on the morning of July 12 is requested to bring the weapon to the headquarters of the Loyalty league in the dispensary building as soon as possible. Members of the McRae family are very desirous of securing the firearm.
"Bisbee Daily Review" July 17, 1917
HERE FOR FUNERAL
Among those who came to Bisbee to attend the funeral of Orson P. McRae, held Sunday in this city, were Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Dana, of Mesa, Mrs. Dana being a sister of Mrs. McRae, and Mr. and Mrs. Spillsburg of El Paso, who is also a sister of Mrs. McRae.
"Bisbee Daily Review" - HONOR MEMORY OF MAN SLAIN IN 1917 DRIVE - Citizens of Warren District Erect Memorial to Orson McRae - In the memory of Orson P. McRae, killed in 1917 while protecting, in the Warren mining district, the properties that were producing the war materials needed at the fighting front in France, a handsome monument has been erected in the Moose plot in the Evergreen cemetery. The cost of the monument was defrayed by popular subscription, each citizen contributing twenty-five cents, and no one being permitted to contribute more than that amount.
Appreciation of McRae's devotion to duty was evident, for there was hardly a loyal citizen in the district who did not add his name to the list of those doing him honor.
The memorial is of handsome, but simple design, and is built of light and dark gray granite. It bears the inscriptions: "Orson P. McRae 1884-1917," and "Erected by the Citizens of the Warren District".
~~ Articles provided by: Q.E.P.D.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~∼Deputy Sheriff Orson McRae
Cochise County Sheriff's Department
Arizona
End of Watch: Thursday, July 12, 1917
Age: 33
Tour of Duty: 1 day
Badge Number: Not available
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Thursday, July 12, 1917
Weapon Used: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect Info: Shot and killed by other deputies
Deputy McRae was shot and killed while rounding up striking miners. He had been sworn in as a deputy on July 11th. On the morning of the deportation, he joined a posse of five deputies who were assigned to pick up striking miners from rooming houses. Deputy McRae was unarmed when he forced his way into Jim Brew's room, who had warned he would shoot. After shooting the deputy, the other posse members returned fire and killed Brew.
Deputy McRae was survived by his wife and four children.
Entire District Will Pay Tribute Today to Memory of O.P. McRae
Testifying to the high regard in which Orson P. McRae was held and mourning with his friends and relatives on the occasion of his funeral, the entire Warren District, today at noon, will participate in the last services to be held over his body. The ceremony will be held in the Post Office plaza and the body will lie in state under a canopy on the porch of the Phelps-Dodge Mercantile Company's
store building.
Bisbee combines its feelings of sincerest regret in its last offering to the name and spirit of McRae. The Warren District recognizes that the faithful employee of the C. & A. Company died no less in the nation's cause than will those who perish on the battlefield of France or on the great white ways between this country and the scenes of carnage abroad. It will be one of great demonstration of
loyalty of the people of this community and the feeling with which they hold the memory of the man who while doing his duty to his home and country, was shot down and murdered.
Workmen and Citizens To Attend Services
O.P. McRae was thirty-three years old. He had been a permanent resident of Bisbee and the Warren District for the past fifteen years, having been born and raised in Cochise county, in the little town of St. David on the San Pedro river. Always a good citizen, looking to the upbuilding of the community, the county, state and country, McRae enjoyed an enviable reputation for honesty, sobriety,
consistence, faithfulness and loyalty. His last act was proof of his fitness to receive the highest honors that the people of the Warren District can bestow.
Besides his widow, McRae is survived by three children and by several brothers and sisters, most of whom live in Bisbee.
All members of the Workmen's Loyalty League and the Citizen's Protective League will participate in the funeral. All are expected to wear a white hankerchief around their right arm and carry an American flag in the march to the cemetery at Lowell, where the body will be interred in Evergreen.
Cleon T. Knapp to Deliver Address
Powell Cosby, of the local church of Latter Day Saints, will conduct the funeral services, which will start promptly at 12 o'clock
Cleon T. Knapp will deliver the funeral address. The C. & A. band will play during the march. Honorary pall bearers have been chosen from the Citizen's Protective League, the Workmen's Loyalty League, the Moose Lodge, the C. & A. officials, Copper Queen officials, county and city officials and business men of the Warren District.
The active pall bearers will be Jack Fisher, Tom Murphy and T.B. Bank, three fellow workmen from the C. & A. company and Miles W. Merrill, president of the Workmen's Loyalty League, James Henderson, president of the Citizen's Protective League and Charles W. Allen, president of the Warren District Commercial Club.
The operating mines of the District will be closed during the funeral.
"Bisbee DailyReview" July 13, 1917
Murdered Man Was One of the Best Known and Best Liked Employes of the C. & A. Company-Had Resided Here Many Years
O.P. McRae, who was killed yesterday in Jiggerville by James Brew, a striking I.W.W., was a native of Cochise county, a long time resident of the Warren district and one of the best known young men in this region of the state. McRae was 33 years old, having been born in St. David, the San Pedro valley. He came to reside permanently in Bisbee 15 years ago. For the past 10 years he has been employed by the Calumet & Arizona company and has enjoyed the utmost confidence of his employers and his men.
He leaves a widow and three children. In addition he leaves four brothers, Parley T. of Bisbee, N.C. of St. David, Milton of Thatcher, John K. of Bisbee, and J.A., who resides some place in Missouri. Two sisters also survive him, Mrs. Jo Goodman of St. David and Mrs. J.S. McGuire of Bisbee. No funeral arrangements have been made public yet.
"Bisbee Daily Review" August 7, 1917
WANT McRAE'S GUN
The man who borrowed O.P. McRae's gun on the morning of July 12 is requested to bring the weapon to the headquarters of the Loyalty league in the dispensary building as soon as possible. Members of the McRae family are very desirous of securing the firearm.
"Bisbee Daily Review" July 17, 1917
HERE FOR FUNERAL
Among those who came to Bisbee to attend the funeral of Orson P. McRae, held Sunday in this city, were Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Dana, of Mesa, Mrs. Dana being a sister of Mrs. McRae, and Mr. and Mrs. Spillsburg of El Paso, who is also a sister of Mrs. McRae.
"Bisbee Daily Review" - HONOR MEMORY OF MAN SLAIN IN 1917 DRIVE - Citizens of Warren District Erect Memorial to Orson McRae - In the memory of Orson P. McRae, killed in 1917 while protecting, in the Warren mining district, the properties that were producing the war materials needed at the fighting front in France, a handsome monument has been erected in the Moose plot in the Evergreen cemetery. The cost of the monument was defrayed by popular subscription, each citizen contributing twenty-five cents, and no one being permitted to contribute more than that amount.
Appreciation of McRae's devotion to duty was evident, for there was hardly a loyal citizen in the district who did not add his name to the list of those doing him honor.
The memorial is of handsome, but simple design, and is built of light and dark gray granite. It bears the inscriptions: "Orson P. McRae 1884-1917," and "Erected by the Citizens of the Warren District".
~~ Articles provided by: Q.E.P.D.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~∼Deputy Sheriff Orson McRae
Cochise County Sheriff's Department
Arizona
End of Watch: Thursday, July 12, 1917
Age: 33
Tour of Duty: 1 day
Badge Number: Not available
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Thursday, July 12, 1917
Weapon Used: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect Info: Shot and killed by other deputies
Deputy McRae was shot and killed while rounding up striking miners. He had been sworn in as a deputy on July 11th. On the morning of the deportation, he joined a posse of five deputies who were assigned to pick up striking miners from rooming houses. Deputy McRae was unarmed when he forced his way into Jim Brew's room, who had warned he would shoot. After shooting the deputy, the other posse members returned fire and killed Brew.
Deputy McRae was survived by his wife and four children.
"Bisbee Daily Review" July 15, 1917
Entire District Will Pay Tribute Today to Memory of O.P. McRae
Testifying to the high regard in which Orson P. McRae was held and mourning with his friends and relatives on the occasion of his funeral, the entire Warren District, today at noon, will participate in the last services to be held over his body. The ceremony will be held in the Post Office plaza and the body will lie in state under a canopy on the porch of the Phelps-Dodge Mercantile Company's
store building.
Bisbee combines its feelings of sincerest regret in its last offering to the name and spirit of McRae. The Warren District recognizes that the faithful employee of the C. & A. Company died no less in the nation's cause than will those who perish on the battlefield of France or on the great white ways between this country and the scenes of carnage abroad. It will be one of great demonstration of
loyalty of the people of this community and the feeling with which they hold the memory of the man who while doing his duty to his home and country, was shot down and murdered.
Workmen and Citizens To Attend Services
O.P. McRae was thirty-three years old. He had been a permanent resident of Bisbee and the Warren District for the past fifteen years, having been born and raised in Cochise county, in the little town of St. David on the San Pedro river. Always a good citizen, looking to the upbuilding of the community, the county, state and country, McRae enjoyed an enviable reputation for honesty, sobriety,
consistence, faithfulness and loyalty. His last act was proof of his fitness to receive the highest honors that the people of the Warren District can bestow.
Besides his widow, McRae is survived by three children and by several brothers and sisters, most of whom live in Bisbee.
All members of the Workmen's Loyalty League and the Citizen's Protective League will participate in the funeral. All are expected to wear a white hankerchief around their right arm and carry an American flag in the march to the cemetery at Lowell, where the body will be interred in Evergreen.
Cleon T. Knapp to Deliver Address
Powell Cosby, of the local church of Latter Day Saints, will conduct the funeral services, which will start promptly at 12 o'clock
Cleon T. Knapp will deliver the funeral address. The C. & A. band will play during the march. Honorary pall bearers have been chosen from the Citizen's Protective League, the Workmen's Loyalty League, the Moose Lodge, the C. & A. officials, Copper Queen officials, county and city officials and business men of the Warren District.
The active pall bearers will be Jack Fisher, Tom Murphy and T.B. Bank, three fellow workmen from the C. & A. company and Miles W. Merrill, president of the Workmen's Loyalty League, James Henderson, president of the Citizen's Protective League and Charles W. Allen, president of the Warren District Commercial Club.
The operating mines of the District will be closed during the funeral.
"Bisbee DailyReview" July 13, 1917
Murdered Man Was One of the Best Known and Best Liked Employes of the C. & A. Company-Had Resided Here Many Years
O.P. McRae, who was killed yesterday in Jiggerville by James Brew, a striking I.W.W., was a native of Cochise county, a long time resident of the Warren district and one of the best known young men in this region of the state. McRae was 33 years old, having been born in St. David, the San Pedro valley. He came to reside permanently in Bisbee 15 years ago. For the past 10 years he has been employed by the Calumet & Arizona company and has enjoyed the utmost confidence of his employers and his men.
He leaves a widow and three children. In addition he leaves four brothers, Parley T. of Bisbee, N.C. of St. David, Milton of Thatcher, John K. of Bisbee, and J.A., who resides some place in Missouri. Two sisters also survive him, Mrs. Jo Goodman of St. David and Mrs. J.S. McGuire of Bisbee. No funeral arrangements have been made public yet.
"Bisbee Daily Review" August 7, 1917
WANT McRAE'S GUN
The man who borrowed O.P. McRae's gun on the morning of July 12 is requested to bring the weapon to the headquarters of the Loyalty league in the dispensary building as soon as possible. Members of the McRae family are very desirous of securing the firearm.
"Bisbee Daily Review" July 17, 1917
HERE FOR FUNERAL
Among those who came to Bisbee to attend the funeral of Orson P. McRae, held Sunday in this city, were Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Dana, of Mesa, Mrs. Dana being a sister of Mrs. McRae, and Mr. and Mrs. Spillsburg of El Paso, who is also a sister of Mrs. McRae.
"Bisbee Daily Review" - HONOR MEMORY OF MAN SLAIN IN 1917 DRIVE - Citizens of Warren District Erect Memorial to Orson McRae - In the memory of Orson P. McRae, killed in 1917 while protecting, in the Warren mining district, the properties that were producing the war materials needed at the fighting front in France, a handsome monument has been erected in the Moose plot in the Evergreen cemetery. The cost of the monument was defrayed by popular subscription, each citizen contributing twenty-five cents, and no one being permitted to contribute more than that amount.
Appreciation of McRae's devotion to duty was evident, for there was hardly a loyal citizen in the district who did not add his name to the list of those doing him honor.
The memorial is of handsome, but simple design, and is built of light and dark gray granite. It bears the inscriptions: "Orson P. McRae 1884-1917," and "Erected by the Citizens of the Warren District".
~~ Articles provided by: Q.E.P.D.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~∼Deputy Sheriff Orson McRae
Cochise County Sheriff's Department
Arizona
End of Watch: Thursday, July 12, 1917
Age: 33
Tour of Duty: 1 day
Badge Number: Not available
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Thursday, July 12, 1917
Weapon Used: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect Info: Shot and killed by other deputies
Deputy McRae was shot and killed while rounding up striking miners. He had been sworn in as a deputy on July 11th. On the morning of the deportation, he joined a posse of five deputies who were assigned to pick up striking miners from rooming houses. Deputy McRae was unarmed when he forced his way into Jim Brew's room, who had warned he would shoot. After shooting the deputy, the other posse members returned fire and killed Brew.
Deputy McRae was survived by his wife and four children.
Entire District Will Pay Tribute Today to Memory of O.P. McRae
Testifying to the high regard in which Orson P. McRae was held and mourning with his friends and relatives on the occasion of his funeral, the entire Warren District, today at noon, will participate in the last services to be held over his body. The ceremony will be held in the Post Office plaza and the body will lie in state under a canopy on the porch of the Phelps-Dodge Mercantile Company's
store building.
Bisbee combines its feelings of sincerest regret in its last offering to the name and spirit of McRae. The Warren District recognizes that the faithful employee of the C. & A. Company died no less in the nation's cause than will those who perish on the battlefield of France or on the great white ways between this country and the scenes of carnage abroad. It will be one of great demonstration of
loyalty of the people of this community and the feeling with which they hold the memory of the man who while doing his duty to his home and country, was shot down and murdered.
Workmen and Citizens To Attend Services
O.P. McRae was thirty-three years old. He had been a permanent resident of Bisbee and the Warren District for the past fifteen years, having been born and raised in Cochise county, in the little town of St. David on the San Pedro river. Always a good citizen, looking to the upbuilding of the community, the county, state and country, McRae enjoyed an enviable reputation for honesty, sobriety,
consistence, faithfulness and loyalty. His last act was proof of his fitness to receive the highest honors that the people of the Warren District can bestow.
Besides his widow, McRae is survived by three children and by several brothers and sisters, most of whom live in Bisbee.
All members of the Workmen's Loyalty League and the Citizen's Protective League will participate in the funeral. All are expected to wear a white hankerchief around their right arm and carry an American flag in the march to the cemetery at Lowell, where the body will be interred in Evergreen.
Cleon T. Knapp to Deliver Address
Powell Cosby, of the local church of Latter Day Saints, will conduct the funeral services, which will start promptly at 12 o'clock
Cleon T. Knapp will deliver the funeral address. The C. & A. band will play during the march. Honorary pall bearers have been chosen from the Citizen's Protective League, the Workmen's Loyalty League, the Moose Lodge, the C. & A. officials, Copper Queen officials, county and city officials and business men of the Warren District.
The active pall bearers will be Jack Fisher, Tom Murphy and T.B. Bank, three fellow workmen from the C. & A. company and Miles W. Merrill, president of the Workmen's Loyalty League, James Henderson, president of the Citizen's Protective League and Charles W. Allen, president of the Warren District Commercial Club.
The operating mines of the District will be closed during the funeral.
"Bisbee DailyReview" July 13, 1917
Murdered Man Was One of the Best Known and Best Liked Employes of the C. & A. Company-Had Resided Here Many Years
O.P. McRae, who was killed yesterday in Jiggerville by James Brew, a striking I.W.W., was a native of Cochise county, a long time resident of the Warren district and one of the best known young men in this region of the state. McRae was 33 years old, having been born in St. David, the San Pedro valley. He came to reside permanently in Bisbee 15 years ago. For the past 10 years he has been employed by the Calumet & Arizona company and has enjoyed the utmost confidence of his employers and his men.
He leaves a widow and three children. In addition he leaves four brothers, Parley T. of Bisbee, N.C. of St. David, Milton of Thatcher, John K. of Bisbee, and J.A., who resides some place in Missouri. Two sisters also survive him, Mrs. Jo Goodman of St. David and Mrs. J.S. McGuire of Bisbee. No funeral arrangements have been made public yet.
"Bisbee Daily Review" August 7, 1917
WANT McRAE'S GUN
The man who borrowed O.P. McRae's gun on the morning of July 12 is requested to bring the weapon to the headquarters of the Loyalty league in the dispensary building as soon as possible. Members of the McRae family are very desirous of securing the firearm.
"Bisbee Daily Review" July 17, 1917
HERE FOR FUNERAL
Among those who came to Bisbee to attend the funeral of Orson P. McRae, held Sunday in this city, were Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Dana, of Mesa, Mrs. Dana being a sister of Mrs. McRae, and Mr. and Mrs. Spillsburg of El Paso, who is also a sister of Mrs. McRae.
"Bisbee Daily Review" - HONOR MEMORY OF MAN SLAIN IN 1917 DRIVE - Citizens of Warren District Erect Memorial to Orson McRae - In the memory of Orson P. McRae, killed in 1917 while protecting, in the Warren mining district, the properties that were producing the war materials needed at the fighting front in France, a handsome monument has been erected in the Moose plot in the Evergreen cemetery. The cost of the monument was defrayed by popular subscription, each citizen contributing twenty-five cents, and no one being permitted to contribute more than that amount.
Appreciation of McRae's devotion to duty was evident, for there was hardly a loyal citizen in the district who did not add his name to the list of those doing him honor.
The memorial is of handsome, but simple design, and is built of light and dark gray granite. It bears the inscriptions: "Orson P. McRae 1884-1917," and "Erected by the Citizens of the Warren District".
~~ Articles provided by: Q.E.P.D.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~∼Deputy Sheriff Orson McRae
Cochise County Sheriff's Department
Arizona
End of Watch: Thursday, July 12, 1917
Age: 33
Tour of Duty: 1 day
Badge Number: Not available
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Thursday, July 12, 1917
Weapon Used: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect Info: Shot and killed by other deputies
Deputy McRae was shot and killed while rounding up striking miners. He had been sworn in as a deputy on July 11th. On the morning of the deportation, he joined a posse of five deputies who were assigned to pick up striking miners from rooming houses. Deputy McRae was unarmed when he forced his way into Jim Brew's room, who had warned he would shoot. After shooting the deputy, the other posse members returned fire and killed Brew.
Deputy McRae was survived by his wife and four children.
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