Birth: 3 Feb 1850 Albany, New York
Death: 14 Mar 1929 Prescott, Yavapai, AZ
Entered Arizona Pioneers' Home February 22, 1911 at age 62
Lived there eighteen years
From Weekly Journal Miner 1 Mar 1911. Another Pioneer Arrives.
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"Thomas Wixted, for many years a resident of Tombstone, and one of the early arrivals in Arizona, arrived yesterday, and enrolled his name on the Pioneer Home register. Mr. Wixted meets man of his former Hassayampa acquaintances in this city, and was engaged during the day in recalling reminiscences of the era that has long snice passed away. He arrived in the early '60s, and experienced the usual privations incidental to that time."
Wixted regularly registered to vote, affiliated with the Republican party. Other than that there was no mention of him in local papers. His death was listed rather impersonally with a list of names of people who had died in the Home that year. There was no personalized obituary and he was not given a personal headstone. His name is listed on a plaque at the Pioneer Home Cemetery along with those of others who are buried there.
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