b"Harold. While a deputy, he pursued Jim (Fleming)downtown, Prescott. Munds was in Phoenix when the Parker with a posse after Parker shot his way out of jail atfires swept Prescott so he had a railroad engineer take Prescott and killed assistant district attorney Lee Norris.him there immediately in a steam engine.Munds and his posse tracked Parker to Bill Williams Mountain and to Cameron and the Little Colorado River. Moving ForwardJohnny and Frances Munds bought the home of Bucky Appointed County Assessor and Pauline ONeill on the northwest corner of Mt. The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors appointedVernon and Sheldon streets in Prescott in 1902. Pauline John Munds assessor to fill the term of an assessor whoONeill had moved to Phoenix after her husband was had resigned in December of 1897. After two years as akilled. Johnny Munds served two terms as Yavapai deputy, Johnny turned in his badge to Sheriff Ruffner andCounty Sheriff.took up the new position on March 1, 1898, a few days after Jim Parker, the outlaw Munds had tracked north aFrances started concerning herself with winning the year earlier, was hung from a scaffold on the Plaza.women of Arizona Territory the vote. She joined with Pauline ONeill in founding the suffrage organization It was the year the Spanish American War began andthat 15 years later, on the dawn of statehood, would Prescott Mayor Bucky ONeill resigned his office to headsee the battle won and women given full voting rights. up Company A of the famed Arizona Rough Riders.Frances Munds became known for her humorous ONeil was killed in Cuba on July 1, 1898. approach to the battle for womens voting rights, anapproach that helped her tremendously in changing the Elected Sheriff face of Arizona politics forever. The next January, Johnny Minds ran for Sheriff of Yavapai County. It was 1899, and Frances, the women in her familyThe 15-year struggle was long and frustrating. The and the women in Yavapai County were unable to vote forSenate would pass a suffrage bill and it would die in Johnny. It was only six months after Johnny became sheriffthe House. The House would pass one and it would be that a double murder was committed at the old Campkilled by the Senate. When both houses of the legislature Verde Sutlers Store on July 1, 1899. passed a suffrage bill, it would be killed by the governor. Three governors vetoed suffrage legislation after the Store partners Mack Rodgers and Clint Wingfield wereSenate and House had agreed.gunned down in cold blood. The killer didnt even try to rob the place after the killings but just rode off into theFirst Woman In Arizona Senatenight. A rider was sent into Prescott to notify Munds, whoShortly after winning the long, often discouraging battle was a friend of the men as well as the sheriff. Munds rodefor women of her state, Frances Munds was nominated out for Camp Verde and was there by the next morning. by the Democratic Party as a candidate for the second state legislature as State Senator. The partys nomination He immediately organized a posse, which included histhen was tantamount to election in 1914. She won the brother-in-law Dolph Willard and two of the Wingfieldelection handily, helped heavily by the womens vote, and brothers. They tracked the killer up to Payson where theybecame the first State Senator in Arizona history and the found out he went by the name Charlie Bishop. Thensecond in the history of the United States.they tracked him into the Rim country and all the way to the Arizona-New Mexico border. Munds then tookFrances Munds was well known and respected in the a stage into Albuquerque where he learned that Charlielegislature. In case there was any doubt, she further Bishop, alias Black Jack Ketchum, had been shot in theendeared herself by refusing a preachers request arm and captured during an attempted train robbery into introduce a resolution that would have banned New Mexico and was in custody. smoking in the legislative chambers. Tradition has it that she refused the preachers request on the grounds Munds tried to get Bishop to take back to Prescott tothat it would force the legislators out into the lobby to stand trial for the killings of Rodgers and Wingfieldsmoke, and would in no way improve their morals or but failed. Train robbery was a capital offense in Newtheir dispositions. Needless to say, that move further Mexico and Bishop had a date with the gallows there.endeared her to her peers in the legislature and the men Munds took the train to Santa Fe where Ketchum wasshowed her every courtesy.being held and had a talk with him. Munds then went back to Prescott. NewHer one and only term in the State Senate Mexico authorities convicted Ketchumwas enough for Fannie. She did not run of the train robbery and hung him onagain and since her battle for women's April 26, 1901. suffrage was also over, she gave up the political arena for civic work in Prescott.Johnny had been occupied with other incidents in the meantime includingClemenceau Yearsthe deadly collapse of the WalnutJohnny Munds went to work as a special Grove Dam and the fire that destroyeddeputy for the United Verde Extension in Clemenceau in 1918 and Frances joined him there, only a few blocks from herAndy & Tina Incardonamothers home in Cottonwood. Mary Willard died in the spring of 1921. In 1915623-258-0207she had her husband Joels remains moved from Dolan springs to the Cottonwood cemetery. Mary was buried7100 E. Cave Creek Rd., Ste. 135beside Joel. Cave Creek, AZ 85331The Munds returned to their Prescott home afterTuesday - Friday 9:00 to 6:00Johnnys ended years of employment in Clemenceau. Frances Willard Munds died in her home on DecemberSaturday 10:00 to 5:0016, 1948, and Johnny Munds died at the CommunityCaveCreekFarrierSupply@gmail.comHospital in Prescott on March 2, 1952. They both led very colorful lives contributing to the history of Arizonacavecreeksaddlery_andyand Yavapai County. They had given their all to their country and their territory. ArizonaRealCountry.com August 2019 21"