Forgot I had posted this newspaper article about H. R. Bushong of Illinois back in July 2012. ----------------- The Weekly Journal-Miner Prescott, Arizona Wednesday Morning, 4 June 1913 Page 2, Column 5 & 6 KILLED BY FALLING FROM WAGON SEAT IKE PATRICK, FOUNDER OF THE TOWN OF CROWN KING, MEETS DEATH IN AN ACCIDENT Telephone advices from Crown King yesterday afternoon, brought the sad news of the accidental death of Ike Patrick, near the old Tiger mine earlier in the day. Brief particulars of this pioneer's untimely end were to the effect that he was thrown from his seat in a freight, and falling into a steep ravine where many big boulders were lying, he struck on his head and death was instantaneous, the skull being crushed in. The accident was due to the approach of a pack train, driven by Lawton Champie, the mules of the freight team becoming frightened, when they started to turn around, which threw the wagon to the side, Mr. Patrick being thrown off the seat with fatal results. H. R. BUSHON was driving the mules for F. E. Blount, an engineer of the government, who is make a survey of all that region of the Bradshaw Mountains. The team was bringing in supplies from Minnehaha Flats, and reaching the spring by the roadside, MR. BUSHON alighted to give the animals water, when the pack train unexpectedly came in sight. Mr. Patrick boarded the wagon at the starting point and was again to locate at Crown King, bringing over his camp equipment from Minnehaha Flats. A coroner's jury was impaneled by Judge Marks, and death from accidental causes was the verdict, and without attacking blame to anyone. There was no better resident of the Bradshaw country who was better known than the deceased. He had been in that section mining for over forty years and enjoyed a splendid name among all. He founded the town of Crown King and assisted materially in bringing the mineral possibilities of that field to the front. The remains were brought to the camp and will be laid away today, many miners volunteering to care for the remains in the absence of an undertaker. The deceased was aged about 72 years and was a native of Maine. The death of Mr. Patrick is the third one of prominent residents of Crown King in the past two months, Ben Bishop and "Bob" Dougherty passing away during that time. ----------------- Researched and Submitted by Gloria Neiger Bushong