Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1896 — A Lonely Old Man Dies. [ARTICLE]

A Lonely Old Man Dies.

It is reported that Reavis, the "Hermit of the Superstition Mountains,” is dead. His body was found by the roadside, five miles from his cabin. Reavis was a peculiar character, and for a quarter of a century had lived alone in the mountains, with no companion save his rifle and dogs. Indians had a dread of his unerring aim, and Apaches considered the old man a spirit that could not be killed. He left his wife and children, who lived near the old mission at Los Angeles, some thirty years ago. Those who knew him then said that, in a fit of anger, Reavis walked through the side of his residence that was planked up and down, and from that date he wns never seen by his family. When the Silver King mine was being worked the old man used to supply the camp with vegetables, carrying the same with a train of burros. Twice a year be came to Florence for supplies. Ills home was a stone cabin and his bed a pile of deer o4fe bear skins. He farmed about five acres of land In the mountain dell.—Phoenix (Arizona) Gazette.