Alfred Shea Addis - Return To America

Return To America

In California, the Addises and the Shorts lived in a house located on Bunker Hill in Los Angeles. His children attended school in the small Los Angeles School House. The women kept house and took in boarders.

When Addis heard of veins of gold and silver in New Mexico and Nevada, he left Los Angeles for the mines, photographing Indian tribes and buying real estate along the way. When he moved to Tucson, Arizona, he became the territorial marshal. His son, then a young man, joined his father in Tucson. A thief who robbed Addis fled to Mexico but was tracked to, Chihuahua, Mexico by Addis and his son. Addis was shot by the thief and died the following day.

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