 Louise Cora Clough Dunn, 1840-1896 Miner’s Wife Buried in City Loosley Cemetery, Section 11, Grave 7 (Photo courtesy of her descendants) Louise Cora Clough was born in Maine around 1840. When she was a young girl, she appears to have been known as Caroline. The family eventually moved to Douglas County, Kansas, where her father, the Rev. Mace Richard Clough, was a Methodist circuit preacher and farmer. Judging from the birthplaces of their children, the move took place between 1850 and 1857. At the time, Douglas County was at the epicenter of “Bleeding Kansas," with settlements sharply divided between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions.
Louise married William B. Walling on November 22, 1857, in Lawrence, Kansas. Like herself, Walling was a New Englander, born January 31, 1835, in Vermont. Walling seems to have been in the lumber industry, so it was only natural that, around 1859, the couple would leave treeless, windswept Kansas for the mining towns of Colorado. The Wallings settled near Central City, Colorado, where William built a sawmill. Over the following years, he and Louise had several children: an unnamed child who died at birth around 1858, Frederick A. (1859-1946), Herbert Benjamin (1864-1947), Edward (~1867-), Addie (~1868-), May (1870-1953), and Elmer Ellsworth (1871-1965). After a dispute with his business partner which culminated in a shooting in self-defense, Walling moved his sawmill to Caribou, Colorado, and branched out into cattle-raising and real estate sales. He constructed a small steamboat and, on the Fourth of July, 1872, launched it at a popular amusement park built on a small lake south of Central City. Residents appreciated the novelty and lined up to buy tickets for excursions. But all was not well with the Walling marriage. They divorced on June 16, 1875, and Louise married John Casper Dunn in Denver just thirteen days later, on June 29, 1875. Dunn was a miner and a Union veteran of the Civil War. The year 1880 found the Dunns living in Denver, where Louise’s youngest child, Elmer Ellsworth, had adopted the Dunn surname. None of Louise’s other children, who had continued to use the Walling surname, were in the household. The Dunns may have moved to Phoenix, Arizona, after Louise developed pulmonary tuberculosis. The family was living near Five Points when she died quite suddenly on September 9, 1896. She had reportedly eaten a hearty supper and was washing dishes afterward when stricken with a hemorrhage from which she died a few minutes later. Louise was buried in Loosley Cemetery, Section 11, Grave 7. © 2022 by Donna L. Carr. Last revised 16 November 2022. If you would like assistance researching our interred, you can find more information on our website. You can contact us at [email protected] at any time. Thank you for your interest to preserve the history of Arizona's pioneers!
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 Sophia Augusta Wall Ames, 1861-1892 Baptist Minister’s Wife Buried in Masons Cemetery, Block 9, Lot 3, Grave 5 (Grave marker photo courtesy of the Pioneers’ Cemetery Association, Inc.) Sophia Augusta Wall was born on June 24, 1861, in De Ruyter, Madison County, New York. Her parents were William Frederick Wall and Mary Jane Coon, farmers.
On June 22, 1886, she married a divinity student, John Fremont Ames, in a double ceremony with her sister Zella, who married Fred Hendee. The newlyweds honeymooned at Niagara Falls, after which John accepted a call to work as an assistant pastor in Genoa, New York. The Ameses’ first child, Francis, was born there on April 19, 1887. Ames was ordained to the Baptist ministry on December 9, 1887. He then decided to study theology at Rochester Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in June 1890. Having indicated that he wanted to serve a congregation that really needed him, even though it couldn’t afford to pay him a salary commensurate with his education, Ames accepted a call to a church in Madison, South Dakota. While in South Dakota, the Ameses had a little daughter, Mary Lorena, born on August 2, 1891. Unfortunately, Sophie developed an intractable cough and was shortly diagnosed with tuberculosis. In hopes of improving Sophie’s health, the family moved in 1892 to Milton, Tennessee, where they rented a house from relatives. However, Tennessee did not suit them. The rainy weather aggravated Sophie’s cough, and John disliked the racial segregation which forbade him to preach to whites and blacks at the same gathering. Ames was then offered the pastorate of a Baptist Church in Phoenix. It seemed an attractive offer as the dry climate of Arizona was said to be salubrious for invalids. So the Ameses moved once more. On July 31, 1892, Reverend Ames was in his buggy on his way to church in downtown Phoenix when he overtook and passed a steam threshing engine. When the driver blew his whistle twice, the unexpected noise so frightened the reverend’s horse that it took off in a mad run. As the buggy careened around a corner, Dr. Ames either tried to jump or was thrown from the buggy. He suffered head trauma and his left leg was broken. He was carried into Frakes’ Livery, where Drs. Hughes and Dameron stabilized him. However, they were not optimistic about his chances for recovery. Since Sophie herself was too ill and distraught to nurse her husband, Rev. Ames was attended by others. He died on August 12, almost two weeks after his accident. Already an invalid, Sophie was prostrated by her husband’s death. She could not bear light or sound; throughout the hot summer evenings she sat on the porch with a wet cloth over her face. Though cared for by her sister-in-law, Fannie Card Wall, Sophia declared in October 1892 she was ready to join her husband. She lingered until November before passing away. The Ameses were buried in the Masons Cemetery. The orphaned Ames children were raised by George and Fannie Wall in Woodbury County, Iowa. © 2025 by Donna L. Carr. Last revised 4 February 2025. If you would like assistance researching our interred, you can find more information on our website. You can contact us at [email protected] at any time. Thank you for your interest to preserve the history of Arizona's pioneers!  Nicholas A. Connick, 1838-1898 Merchant and Accountant Buried in the ex-Confederate plot in Porter Cemetery (Image generated using Bing AI) Nicholas A. Connick is believed to have been of Irish descent, but he was born about 1837 in Pennsylvania. However, he didn’t remain there. Unlike the majority of immigrant Irish who settled in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and the industrial northwest, Connick was living in Texas at the outbreak of the Civil War.
He seems to have had a fairly good education since, on August 26, 1861, he enlisted as a sergeant in Capt. Charles Mason’s Company D, Cook’s Battalion, 1st Texas Heavy Artillery. By October, 1861, he was with the Pelican Battery at Galveston, defending the Texas coast from ships of the Union Navy. Connick’s military service was short, however, as he was discharged on November 22, 1861, after being promoted to the rank of major. Thereafter, he served the Confederate cause as chief clerk in a Houston commissary. A Confederate coupon from 1864, worth two dollars in groceries, bears his signature, written in a fair hand. On April 27, 1862, Connick married Nathalia F. Gaye in Christ Church, Houston, Texas. The 1880 federal census found Nicholas Connick living in the newly-formed county of Somervell, Texas, and working as a bookkeeper. By this time, he was a widower. Sometime before 1891, Connick arrived in Phoenix, Arizona, where he opened a saloon near the train depot. The Great Flood of 1891 forced the relocation of the establishment to higher ground. Early in January, 1891, Connick joined a newly formed group of ex-Confederates. Twenty-three local men attended its first meeting. Ivy Cox was elected president and Connick became the secretary. Thomas Greenhaw and Dr. Oscar Mahoney formed a committee to look into permanent organization. The group’s goal was to promote good fellowship and assist old comrades in distress. Perhaps competition drove Connick out of the saloon business, as the 1892 city directory of Phoenix listed him as an accountant. In addition to being proficient with figures, he was regarded as being a sociable, cultured man and a brilliant conversationalist, with vivid memories of the Civil War. On November 18, 1898, Connick died of typhoid at the county hospital in Phoenix. Although his death certificate suggests that he was to be buried in the county cemetery, his old comrades arranged to have him interred as a veteran in Porter Cemetery. No grave marker survives. © 2026 by Donna L. Carr. Last revised 27 March 2026. If you would like assistance researching our interred, you can find more information on our website. You can contact us at [email protected] at any time. Thank you for your interest to preserve the history of Arizona's pioneers!  Henry Sayers, about 1832 – 1879 A “Sporting” Character Buried in City-Loosley Cemetery, Block 17, Lot 20 (Grave marker photo courtesy of Tom Yount) Known as “Dublin” or “Dublin Tricks," Sayers was a colorful and savvy part of the gritty fabric of pioneer life.
Henry “Harry” Sayers was born in Ireland around 1832. He would have been a teen or young adult when the Irish Potato Famine devastated that country and he emigrated. He was working as a plumber in New York in 1858, when he enlisted in Company E, 5th United States Infantry. In 1860, he was stationed in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His first enlistment concluded when he was discharged at Los Piños, New Mexico Territory, in 1863. Evidently Sayers reenlisted, as the 1870 federal census records him as a regular Army soldier, part of a large garrison stationed at Fort Bowie, Apache Pass, Pima County, Arizona Territory. The pay might not have been much, but the Army provided companionship with other Irish-born soldiers, some adventure, and a steady livelihood. After his Army years, Sayers settled in Phoenix, where he became known as a "sporting" character and amateur pugilist. In 1873, he placed an ad in a local newspaper offering to fight any man in the Arizona Territory in a prize match under London Prize Ring rules, with $1,000 wagered on each side. His military service had enabled him to become a naturalized citizen, for he registered to vote in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona Territory, on October 14, 1876. By 1878, he had established a feed, exchange, and sales stable adjacent to a local flour mill. Next door to the stable was his bar, advertising the “best liquor and cigars." Following Harry Sayers’ death on June 28, 1879, his estate was administered by R. P. Hilands, who arranged to liquidate his estate. Originally buried in the Old Phoenix Cemetery, Sayers’ remains were relocated to City-Loosley Cemetery when the new cemetery was established in 1884. Unlike many early Phoenix residents, Sayers had a grave marker that was moved with him. During PMMP's 2025 preservation event, his headstone was found in Loosley with its top portion broken off and lying face-up on the ground. After careful probing, preservation volunteers discovered the base about a foot underground. It was brought back to the surface for restoration work. The maker's mark confirmed that the marble headstone had been made in Tucson, adding another historic layer to this pioneer’s enduring story in Arizona. Watch the accompanying video to see this restoration: https://youtu.be/LT0atA4YVFY © 2025 by Val Wilson. Last revised 30 June 2025. If you would like assistance researching our interred, you can find more information on our website. You can contact us at [email protected] at any time. Thank you for your interest to preserve the history of Arizona's pioneers!  Sgt. James C. Traynor, about 1840 – 1882 U. S. Soldier Buried in City/Loosley Cemetery, exact location unknown (Generic image created with Bing AI) James C. Traynor was a native of County Monaghan, Ireland. He came to the United States as a lad, possibly during the great potato famine. Traynor being a fairly common Irish name, it has not been possible to identify him in early records.
In about 1862, Traynor joined the Union Army, as many Irish immigrants did, and remained a soldier for the rest of his life. When he was 38 years old, Traynor may have been stationed at Fort Randall, Dakota Territory, as a soldier born in Ireland and approximately of that name and age is listed on the federal census of 1880. In 1882, Traynor was a sergeant with Company E, 1st U. S. Infantry. Having been recalled from their post in Clifton, Arizona, his unit was passing through the Salt River Valley on the way to its new assignment at Fort McDowell. On the evening of December 3rd, Traynor assayed to climb aboard a moving wagon at the Salt River crossing near Phoenix. He put his foot upon the brake and grasped the wagon bow in order to swing up to the seat, but the bow was broken and could not support his weight. Traynor fell under the heavily loaded wagon's wheels and was killed instantly. Following the tragedy, Company E bivouacked that night in downtown Phoenix. Traynor’s body was laid out in a tent next to the Phoenix City Cemetery, located between Jackson and Madison and 5th and 7th Avenues. At 3 PM the following afternoon, an Episcopal clergyman conducted the funeral and Traynor was interred with full military honors and a farewell volley fired by his fellow soldiers. Company E then continued on to Fort McDowell. Barely two years later, the first Phoenix City Cemetery was decommissioned and families were asked to remove the remains of their loved ones and have them reburied in the new cemeteries on the outskirts of town, at 14th Avenue between Jackson and Madison. Although no written records have been found, it is likely that Traynor’s body was one of those moved—perhaps to a common grave. His subsequent resting place is therefore unknown, but his military service is hereby commemorated. © 2025 by Donna L. Carr. Last revised 11 March 2026. If you would like assistance researching our interred, you can find more information on our website. You can contact us at [email protected] at any time. Thank you for your interest to preserve the history of Arizona's pioneers!  Patrick Hamilton, 1843-1888 Newspaper editor Buried in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, exact location unknown (Obituary from the Arizona Daily Star, December 23, 1888) Patrick Hamilton was born in January, 1843, in County Cork, Ireland. According to his newspaper obituary, he and his parents arrived in New York in 1846, at the beginning of the Irish Potato Famine. He received a liberal education in New York schools.
At age 20, he went west to Colorado, where fur trapping had given way to prospecting. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Hamilton claimed to have joined the 3rd Colorado Volunteer Infantry and participated in several engagements. However, no evidence of his actual enlistment has been discovered. Possibly he was employed in some civilian capacity. Hamilton was in Arizona by 1876, and the 1880 federal census records him as a miner in Prescott. He became a member of the Correspondents’ Club and went into the newspaper business, managing the Prescott Democrat before buying The Expositor. Hamilton had hoped to be named Arizona’s territorial secretary, but the legislature appointed him Commissioner of Immigration instead. His duties included compiling a comprehensive list of Arizona’s natural resources with a view toward dispelling the image of Arizona as a vast wasteland and encouraging people to settle there. Hamilton threw himself into the project enthusiastically, moving to Tombstone to report on the silver mining boom there. Having earned a reputation for colorful editorials in his newspaper, the Tombstone Independent, he got crosswise of Samuel Purdy, editor of the rival Tombstone Epitaph. In September 1882, Purdy challenged Hamilton to a duel. Since dueling was illegal in Arizona, the two men crossed the border into Sonora. The entire incident came to naught, however, as they could not come to an agreement about which pistols to use. While in Tombstone, Hamilton made the acquaintance of a widow, Mrs. Frances McBride, and they declared their intention to marry. They finally achieved their objective on September 2, 1886 in San Diego. Between 1881 and 1886, Hamilton travelled extensively throughout Arizona, first writing and then updating his 270-page book, The Natural Resources of Arizona. It was well-received and went through several editions, with over 10,000 copies printed. An inveterate Arizona "booster," Hamilton had excerpts published in Arizona and California newspapers. Like so many others, Hamilton contracted tuberculosis and died in Phoenix on December 20, 1888, of a pulmonary hemorrhage. He was buried in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery. There is no marker. © 2026 by Donna L. Carr. Last revised 27 February 2026. If you would like assistance researching our interred, you can find more information on our website. You can contact us at [email protected] at any time. Thank you for your interest to preserve the history of Arizona's pioneers!  Wayne Davis, 1877-1914 Rodeo Champion and Arizona Ranger Buried in Masons Cemetery, Block 7, Lot 4, Grave 5 (Grave marker photo courtesy of the Pioneers’ Cemetery Association, Inc.) Wayne Davis was born May 1, 1877, in Arlington, Arizona. He was one of seven children born to James Davis and Harriet. The Davises were cattle ranchers, so Wayne and his brother Charles tended stock along the Agua Fria and New Rivers, becoming proficient at riding and roping. At age 17, Wayne won the world championship for steer roping in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He continued to enter roping contests at state fairs, gaining a reputation as an expert horseman.
In January 1900, Davis, his brother Charles, and several others, were out looking for a mine in the Four Peaks Mountains. While stopping to water their horses at a stream, they were ambushed by Indians. As shots were being fired at them, they mounted up and escaped unharmed. There was speculation that the ambush was the work of the Apache Kid, who had escaped from custody in 1889. Wayne Davis was appointed deputy livestock inspector for Maricopa County in December 1900. This appointment led to him becoming a deputy sheriff with Maricopa County. He was tasked with tracking down wanted men or serving legal paperwork for the courts. However, he left the Sheriff’s office in 1906 to become an Arizona Ranger. Assigned to a post near Roosevelt Lake, Arizona, he resigned within the year due to the desolation of the area. He returned to his old job at the sheriff’s office, where he served under Carl Hayden. In May 1909, Davis took part in the capture of Henry Starr. Starr had been associated with the Dalton gang in the late 1880s and was considered a “skillful and dangerous desperado.” Although Wayne Davis was respected as a rodeo cowboy and lawman, his reputation with women was questionable. He married Ella Gordon March 4, 1904, but she divorced him barely a year later. In 1909, he was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with Dorothy “Dolly” Haynes, who was not yet 17. To save the sheriff’s department the embarrassment of arresting him, Davis resigned his position as deputy on December 10, 1909, insisting that he had done no wrong. He did marry Dolly on March 7, 1910, but that marriage didn’t last, either. By 1913, Dolly was the wife of someone else. Davis went back to cattle ranching for a time before becoming a bartender at the Q T Saloon in Phoenix. While living at the Dorris Hotel in downtown Phoenix, Davis became infatuated with Alice Huntsman, a divorcee who also stayed there. She did not return his affections and expressed fear that he might hurt her. On April 6, 1914, Davis lurked outside the hotel, waiting for Alice. He shot her, then turned the gun on himself. Wayne Davis was buried near his parents in Masons Cemetery. Alice died two weeks later and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery. © 2021 by Patricia Gault. Last revised 23 February 2026. If you would like assistance researching our interred, you can find more information on our website. You can contact us at [email protected] at any time. Thank you for your interest to preserve the history of Arizona's pioneers!  Rose Gregory, circa 1852-1898 Benevolent "Madam" Buried in Rosedale Cemetery, Space 99 (Grave marker photo courtesy of the Pioneers’ Cemetery Association, Inc.) Born in England, Rose Gregory and her extended family came to the United States in 1870 aboard the ship Manhattan as part of the Mormon migration to Utah. After the family settled in Salt Lake City, Rose bore a daughter around 1871. Three years later, Rose apparently asked her married sister Mary Ann in California to raise her.
Unmarried women had few options for earning a living in the Wild West. Rose chose to enter the "oldest profession" and began calling herself Minnie Powers, possibly to protect her families’ reputation. In May, 1879, Rose arrived by train to the often rowdy town of Tucson. Soon she was living with two other women who listed their occupation on the 1880 census as "courtesans." Such women typically catered to the desires of wealthier men. Rose moved to Phoenix in 1886, whereupon she opened a "ladies’ boarding house" called The Powers on the southwest corner of Van Buren and Montezuma Streets (1st Street today). Contemporaries described Rose as a beautiful and kindhearted woman who occasionally grubstaked miners and cowboys who were down on their luck. Some of the women she took in undoubtedly plied their trade at her establishment. It soon became apparent that Rose was operating a brothel. Her more respectable neighbors were not pleased. One of her creditors foreclosed on her original property, forcing Rose to move to a site on Adams Street, which she owned with some of her "girls." Now and then, their activities drew the attention of the police, as in 1893 when one of Rose’s girls, Letitia Rice (a.k.a. Tessie Murray), died of burns received when a kerosene lamp ignited her clothing. By 1896, community pressure had forced Rose to move even further south to 720 Railroad Avenue (7th Street and Jackson), where she opened the Villa Road House Saloon. She was 42 by then, and much reduced in circumstances. Her fate was sealed when she began a relationship with her barkeep, William Belcher. Belcher was violently jealous of Rose’s men "friends" and given to drunken outbursts which sometimes landed him in jail. On the morning of September 17, 1898, Belcher obtained a .44-caliber pistol and went to the Villa Road House Saloon, where he found Rose in bed, asleep. He shot her twice, then turned the gun on himself, falling across Rose on the bed. Their bodies were discovered later that day. Rose was buried in the southwest corner of Rosedale Cemetery in a casket lined with copper and adorned with silver plated handles and a plaque that read “At Rest." Though her grave went unmarked for many years, a wrought-iron cross now adorns it. © 2017 by Patricia Gault. Last revised 1 March 2017. If you would like assistance researching our interred, you can find more information on our website. You can contact us at [email protected] at any time. Thank you for your interest to preserve the history of Arizona's pioneers!  Wong Fong, about 1891-1914 Barber Buried in City/Loosley Cemetery, exact location unknown (Photo of Cenotaph courtesy of Donna L. Carr) Late on the night of February 12, 1914, a shadowy figure loitered behind the house at 220 East Madison in Phoenix’s Chinatown. While he waited for the people in the house to retire, he smoked a cigarette, emptied several spent cartridges from his revolver and reloaded.
Around midnight, he pried open the door to the screened porch and crept inside. A man was sleeping there, bedclothes drawn up to his chin against the nighttime chill. From only a few feet away, the gunman shot the unarmed man in the head, then fled into the darkness. Awakened by the sound of the gunshot, neighbors summoned law officers. They identified the victim as Wong Fong, a 23-year-old barber. The house on Madison was the home of a prosperous Chinaman named Wong Fie, who may have been a relative of the deceased man. At the time of the murder, Wong Fie was not at home. The third occupant of the house was Wong Fie’s twenty-year-old wife, Quock Young. So who had killed Wong Fong, and why? Born in China, Wong Fong had been in the United States for at least six years. While living in Globe, Arizona, he had converted to Christianity and had attended a Lutheran mission school there. His facility with both English and Cantonese was such that he had even been considered for a post at a Lutheran mission school in Shanghai. For the past eleven months, however, he had been living in Wong Fie’s household in Phoenix--long enough for him to have fallen in love with his kinsman’s much younger wife. Presumably, Quock Young returned his affections, for she claimed that she had asked Wong Fie for a divorce. She recounted that Wong Fie, furious at his possible "loss of face," had withdrawn a large sum of cash from the bank and gone to Morenci, ostensibly to consult the marriage broker who had arranged his match with Quock Young. When the coroner’s jury was empaneled the next day, Reverend Frey, a local Lutheran minister, presented a letter which he said he had received from Wong Fong on the very day of his death. It read, “When I am killed, arrest Wong Fie.” But Wong Fie had an alibi; he was visiting a friend at the time that Wong Fong was murdered. Evidence at the crime scene suggested that someone had lain in wait for Wong Fong for at least an hour. On the strength of his alibi, Wong Fie was released from custody. While the newspapers made much of the ill-fated romance, Coroner C. Johnstone had no choice but to rule that Wong Fong had met his death at the hands of an unknown assailant. On March 10th, Wong Fong was buried in the Chinese section of City/Loosley Cemetery. His murderer was never apprehended. Quock Young seems to have reconciled with her husband, for she was seen in Phoenix months later, wearing several gold rings and necklaces. Evidently Wong Fie still held her—and her silence?—in high esteem. © 2017 by Donna Carr. Last revised 25 January 2017. Published on the 112th anniversary of Wong Fong's death. If you would like assistance researching our interred, you can find more information on our website. You can contact us at [email protected] at any time. Thank you for your interest to preserve the history of Arizona's pioneers!  Edward Ohmer Rouzer, 1879-1906 Mary E. Smith Rouzer, 1883-1906 Honeymoon Ends in Tragedy Originally buried in Rosedale Cemetery; moved to Greenwood 1914 (Grave marker photo courtesy of Donna L. Carr) Edward Ohmer Rouzer was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1879. He was the son of Charles Conover Rouzer and Jennie Ellen Morton. Charles was in the hotel business and was for many years the manager of Indianapolis’s exclusive Columbia Club.
In 1901, the Rouzers moved to Bisbee, Arizona, where Charles became the manager of the Copper Queen Hotel. The 44-room hotel boasted Italianate architecture and opulent furnishings suitable for the mining magnates and businessmen that made up its clientele. As the front desk clerk, Rouzer’s son Edward earned an enviable reputation for amiability, courtesy and efficiency. By 1904, Charles Rouzer had returned to Indianapolis, leaving Edward in charge of the Copper Queen. Edward probably met Mary Elizabeth Smith while she was visiting her married sister, Winifred Smith Buxton, in Bisbee. Mary had been born in Phoenix on July 9, 1883. She was the daughter of John Y.T. Smith and his wife Ellen “Nellie” Shaver. Smith owned a flour mill in Phoenix. Mary herself had graduated from Pomona College in California in 1905. The engagement of Mary Smith to Edward Rouzer was announced in January, 1906. Friends and relatives traveled to Los Angeles to see the happy couple united in marriage by Rev. John Fry on April 11, 1906. The Rouzers planned to honeymoon in San Francisco before returning to Bisbee in May. They checked into an upstairs room with a view of the ocean at the Del Monte Hotel in Monterey, California, on April 17th. In the predawn hours of April 18th, an earthquake of 7.9 magnitude struck the west coast of California. A chimney on the Del Monte Hotel toppled onto the room where the Rouzers were sleeping; they were crushed instantly under tons of bricks. No one else in the hotel was injured. Owing to the general confusion following the earthquake, it was a day or so before the Rouzers’ families were notified of their demise. The bodies were returned to Phoenix by train and held at the Easterling & Whitney funeral home until the Rouzers could arrive from Indianapolis and Mary’s mother and brother-in-law from Los Angeles, where they had gone to attend the wedding only a week earlier. Rev. John Fry, the same minister who had officiated at the nuptials, conducted the funeral service on April 25th, and Edward and Mary were buried together in Rosedale Cemetery. Friends of Edward Rouzer, who had pooled their funds to buy the Rouzers a wedding present, used the money for flowers instead. In 1914, the Rouzers’ remains were moved to Greenwood, where Mary’s mother, Mrs. Nellie Smith, had purchased a family plot. © 2026 by Donna L. Carr. Last revised 6 February 2026. If you would like assistance researching our interred, you can find more information on our website. You can contact us at [email protected] at any time. Thank you for your interest to preserve the history of Arizona's pioneers! |