Birth: 1 May 1834 Ireland
Death: 16 Aug 1917 Prescott, Yavapai, AZ
Entered Pioneer Home Feb 20, 1911 at age 77
Lived there 6 years and 6 months
"William Flannigan, one of the most deserving of the pioneer residents, and ranking among the first who came to Arizona, was yesterday admitted to the Pioneer Home in this city making the fifth Hassayamper who has entered his name on the roll of honor from this section. Mr. Flannigan bears a unique station in his class of citizenship, arriving in Arizona nearly fifty years ago, or antedating the Walker party. He knew Pauline Weaver, one of the first white men in Arizona, was at Fort Mohave on the Colorado river shortly after it was established, has been at every military post on duty with the government rendered splendid service in subduing the Indians, and performed the perilous task in the sixties of carrying the U.S. mail on horseback,, and sometimes on foot, through the country when it was infested with the murderous Apaches. He is going into the octogenarian class in age.
His career has been a truly wonderful one, and a sad chapter in the long run of years he has been a resident was when a blast rendered useless his left arm. In all the years he has been in Arizona, four of them only have been spent in Pima county."
Newspapers.com. Weekly Journal-Miner (Prescott, Arizona) 22 Feb 1911. "Another Pioneer is Admitted to Home". Wed. Page 8
https://www.newspapers.com/image/42314713/?terms=Another%20Pioneer%20Arrives&match=1
His career has been a truly wonderful one, and a sad chapter in the long run of years he has been a resident was when a blast rendered useless his left arm. In all the years he has been in Arizona, four of them only have been spent in Pima county."
Newspapers.com. Weekly Journal-Miner (Prescott, Arizona) 22 Feb 1911. "Another Pioneer is Admitted to Home". Wed. Page 8
https://www.newspapers.com/image/42314713/?terms=Another%20Pioneer%20Arrives&match=1
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