Unclaimed and Unknown: The Strange Case of George Woods and His Three Names

BingAI/Val Prompt

In January of 1892, the body of a man known as George Woods, though he also went by the names Wiley and Willis, was discovered lifeless in a room at the Pioneer Hotel. A laborer for the Arizona Canal Company, little was known about him beyond the strange fact that he had three names, each found among his personal belongings. His funeral was a lonely affair, paid for with his remaining wages, and not a single mourner attended. Who was this enigmatic figure now resting in Loosley Cemetery?

-Val "Shadow Archives"

Library on Congress Sanborn Map 1889

(Pioneer Hotel, formally known as Phoenix Hotel)

The Arizona Republic, January 29, 1892