Deputy Sheriff William Phineas Brown served with the Pinal County Sheriff's Office in the copper-mining town of Ray, Arizona, where he was killed in the line of duty on August 19, 1914. At the time of his death, William Brown was a 32-year-old white male, remembered in later memorials as a hardworking lawman and family man who left behind a widow and a seven-year-old daughter.
Ray was a tense place in 1914. It was a company mining town in Pinal County, a center of copper production where
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