Birth: 31 Dec 1840 Schuyler, IL
Died: 24 Feb 1913 Kingman, Mohave, AZ
Entered Pioneer Home Feb 19, 1911 at age 70
Left facility - no date recorded
David Hollaway was the sixth of nine children born to David Holloway and Nancy Ann Phillips.
Very little is known about his life. In 1850 and 1860 he appears on the Illinois census living with his parents and siblings. In 1870 he was living in Gilroy, Santa Clara, California, working as a saloon
keeper. By 1882 he shows up on voter registration rolls in Prescott, Arizona. In 1886 he was living in Mineral Park, Mohave County. In 1900 through 1910, he was working as a blacksmith in Kingman, AZ. He never married.
He went into the Arizona Pioneer home in 1911, but did not stay. There is no record of when he left.
He died alone in a room in Kingman.
Obituary
Last Monday Daniel W. Holloway was found dead in his bed at the Kingman house, death evidently having come to him during sleep early Sunday morning. Mr. Holloway had been feeling badly the past several years, heart trouble being he cause of his illness. Late Saturday night he went to bed and the roomers close by heard him coughing, but when he failed to arise late Sunday afternoon some one looked into the room and saw him lying apparently asleep in bed, they failed to make a further examination. Monday morning he was still in the same position and the matter was reported to Coroner Smith, who immediately made an examination, finding that life had been extinct for many hours.
The body was taken in charge by the Elks, of which order he was a life member. The funeral was held from the Elks hall Tuesday afternoon under the auspices of the order. Judge
Krook made a feeling address over the bier of the departed brother and
after the regular ritualistic service the lodge members and many old
time friends followed the remains to the grave, where the ritualistic
service was completed.
Daniel W. Holloway was born in Illinois about
seventy-four years ago and came to the Pacific coast, settling with his
parents near Gilroy, California. Later
he went to Nevada and in the early seventies removed to this county,
settling at Mineral Park, then the scene of the striking of rich silver
ore. Later he went to Hackberry and Tombstone and other mining camps, finally making his home in this county. A
year or more ago he became an inmate of the Pioneer Home at Prescott,
but the management and the altitude both caused him to take a furlough. He gradually failed after returning to Kingman, his death resulting as above stated. He was one of the most honorable of men, honest to a fault, an ardent friend and a good citizen. Among the old timers his death will be sincerely regretted. He leaves relatives in California, but their addresses have not been found.
Mohave County Miner (Mineral Park, AZ. 1 Mar 1913, Page 2
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