Sometime around 1870 Waltz filed on a homestead in south Phoenix near the Salt River. Later in life he fell upon hard times and was being looked after by a kindly African-American woman named Julia Thomas.
During the winter of 1891 the river ran its banks, flooding his farm, forcing the old man to seek refuge in a tree. He contracted pneumonia and while on his deathbed told he
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