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William Edward Bancroft

Birth
Galena, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, USA
Death
20 Dec 1928 (aged 75–76)
Wickenburg, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Burial
Aguila, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA Add to Map
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Known as "Temperance Bill", Bill was a water prospector, or well driller, and freight carrier. On the 1880 Census, he had been living in Signal, Mojave Co. AZ. At the time of his death, he had been living in the Wickenburg Area, Maricopa Co. AZ for 40 years. Bill never married.
Information from the death certificate indicates that Bill died in Aguila and is assumed he is buried at Eagle Eye Cemetery, the headstone has not been located.

Some of the above information courtesy of Ann Dickinson
Known as "Temperance Bill", Bill was a water prospector, or well driller, and freight carrier. On the 1880 Census, he had been living in Signal, Mojave Co. AZ. At the time of his death, he had been living in the Wickenburg Area, Maricopa Co. AZ for 40 years. Bill never married.
Information from the death certificate indicates that Bill died in Aguila and is assumed he is buried at Eagle Eye Cemetery, the headstone has not been located.

Some of the above information courtesy of Ann Dickinson