 George Ulmer Collins, 1835-1904 Farmer and rancher Buried in Masons’ Cemetery, Block 20, Lot 1, Grave 1 (Generic image created using Bing AI) At the time of his death, George U. Collins was a prosperous cattleman and farmer, as well as a member of the Arizona Territorial Legislature.
Born March 1835 in the state of Maine, George was the oldest child of Thomas R. Collins and Lucy W. Ulmer. The 1850 federal census of Liberty, Waldo County, Maine, records the Collinses as farmers. By 1860, young George was living in East Boston, Massachusetts, and his occupation was listed as "ship’s carpenter." Perhaps George took advantage of his proximity to sailing ships to do some traveling. At any rate, 1870 found him living in Santa Cruz, California, living with Mary Fenderson, whom he had met and married there in 1861. George was working as a tollgate keeper in 1870, and his estimated worth was $2000—not bad for the times! Evidently, George used some of his funds to move to Arizona in 1875 and purchase land. By 1880, he and his family were living on a farm in Township 1N2E, three and a half miles southwest of the original Phoenix townsite and not far from the Salt River. Collins was an early user of irrigation water, which he used to grow alfalfa. As the little settlement of Phoenix grew, George became a prosperous farmer and rancher. George’s wife Mary died unexpectedly on October 29, 1890. One of her sons was bringing an armload of firewood to the house when he saw her fall, but he was unable to revive her. She was buried in a Phoenix cemetery, most probably in what is now the Pioneer & Military Memorial Park. Two of her grandchildren were buried in City Loosley Cemetery--possibly near her--a few years later. George continued working on the family farm. Rather than relying on gravity to fill his irrigation ditches, he began digging a well in 1900. Although he struck water at 29 feet, he continued digging to assure a good source of water throughout the dry season. In 1901, he installed a 60-hp pump to bring the water to the surface, thereby making his property the best watered in the area. As an influential early settler, George joined the Masonic Order, the Knights Templar and the B.P.O.E. He was also active in local politics, being elected to the Arizona Territorial Legislature in 1903. Shortly before Christmas in 1903, George came down with a cough which turned into pneumonia. He died on January 1, 1904, and was buried in the Masons cemetery. There is no grave marker. When George’s will was entered into probate, his adult sons were chagrined to learn that he had left half of his estate to the Knights Templar, of which he had been a long-time member. The other half was to be divided between his two sons. They argued that their father had been unduly influenced by one of his Masonic brethren, who might stand to benefit in some way. However, the court ruled that the will was valid, since George’s bequest was to the Order itself and not to any particular individual. © 2024 by Donna L. Carr. Last revised 30 June 2024. 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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 Samuel Calvin McElhaney, 1861-1905 Sarah Ella Hill McElhaney, 1872-1911 Pioneer Ranchers The McElhaneys are buried in City Loosley Cemetery, Block 4, Lots 2 & 3 (Photo copied from the McElhaney grave marker) Samuel Calvin McElhaney was born 9 October 1861 in Alabama. As a young man, he drove a herd of cattle and horses from Texas to Phoenix and settled near the Salt River, with its assured supply of water.
On January 10, 1889, McElhaney was among those who incorporated as the Fairmount Water Storage Company for the purpose of selling water for irrigation and mining purposes in Maricopa County. Another shareholder was Reuben Hill, soon to become his father-in-law. Sam married Sarah Ella Hill, daughter of Reuben Hill and Mary Perry, on April 10, 1889. The newlyweds moved to Holbrook where they enjoyed a few years of success before a severe drought forced ranchers to leave the high country. The McElhaneys then drove their stock back down to the Salt River Valley and established a farm in the old Fowler district just south of Glendale where Sam built a house for his growing family. Son Randolph Hill Mc Elhaney was born in 15 July 1890. He was soon followed by a daughter, Nina Inez, born 24 January 1892. Sam McElhaney and George Keefer were obviously good friends seeing as how Sam named his second son, born in 1894, Louis Keefer McElhaney. That child died in January 1897. More children followed. Daughter Pearl was born 21 November 1898. Another son, Coyt Ruben, was born about 1901. Byron Samuel McElhaney was born 7 April 1903. From an early age, Randolph was his father’s right-hand man. On November 28, 1905, while loading some fat hogs into a wagon to be taken to market, Sam severely jammed his thumb, causing him agonizing pain. Although he repeatedly assured his son that he was hurt in no place but the thumb, the pain was so unbearable that he fainted twice while attempting to walk the short distance to the house. He was dead, presumably of shock, by the time the doctor arrived. Following the funeral at First Baptist Church, Sam McElhaney, aged 43, was buried in Loosley Cemetery. This left Sam’s widow Ella and son Randolph to manage their farm. Ella’s last child, Samuel Jr., was born posthumously in 1906. When she died on 18 March 1911, she too was buried in the family plot in Loosley. Both Randolph and Samuel Jr. went on to establish large ranches of their own in the 1930s. Randolph settled in Chino Valley and Samuel founded the McElhaney Cattle Company of Wellton, Arizona, which remained under family control until 2010. © 2013 by Debe Branning and Donna Carr. Last revised October 12, 2015. 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!  Higinio Bernal, 1845-1912 Farmer Buried in City/Loosley Cemetery, Block 19 (Generic image created using Bing AI) Higinio was born around 1845 in Ures, Sonora, Mexico. He was one of several children born to Tiburcio Bernal and his wife. Higinio had an older sister, Trinidad, born 1843, as well as a younger brother named José Maria, born 1853, also in Sonora.
The Bernals seem to have been farmers throughout their lives. Both of the Bernal brothers were living in San Bernardino County, California, in 1872, as that is where Higinio married Juana Ruberto Albañez. According to the 1900 federal census, she was the mother of ten children total, of whom the oldest six may have been born in California. Around 1877, Higinio and Juana moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where they had four more children. These younger children are the ones who appear in the Bernal household on the 1900 census. A retired farmer, Higinio was living at 800 South 5th Avenue in Phoenix when he passed away on April 22, 1912. He had been paralyzed and bedridden for some time prior. He was buried in City/Loosley Cemetery, Block 19. There is no grave marker. His widow Juana died in 1933 and was buried in St. Francis Cemetery. © 2023 by Donna L. Carr. Last updated March 24, 2023. 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!  Thomas A. Cochrane, about 1836-1894 Prospector Buried in City Loosley Cemetery, Block 16, Lot 7, North 1/3 (Stock image of prospector courtesy of Broderbund Clip Art) Thomas Augustus Cochrane was born in Canada around 1836 to parents who had immigrated to Canada from England. In about 1838, his widowed mother brought Thomas and his older sister Mary Ann to Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois.
According to his obituary, Cochrane went to California in 1849 when he was only 13 years old. He spent the rest of his life as a prospector and mining consultant. He never married. City directories, census returns and voter registrations record his travels throughout California and Arizona. In 1864, he was a miner, living in San Francisco. By 1870, he was a miner in Tuolumne, California. He had moved to Pinal County, Arizona, by 1880. Cochrane registered to vote in Maricopa County, Arizona, in 1886, although he continued to have business dealings in Globe. By this time, he was well regarded as a mining man. In June, 1890, Cochrane and his business partner Frank Kirkland were selling shares in a mining corporation with gold mines located near Harqua Hala. One of the mines, the Golden Eagle, had been ‘jumped’ by M. H. Horn, and the partners along with Columbus Gray had to get an injunction to make Horn leave. Cochrane returned from a trip East in August 1890, after which he was planning to go to Baker City, Oregon, to superintend operations at a new mine there. He was said to be a man of great skill and integrity. Early in 1893, T. A. Cochrane made a prospecting trip into the Bradshaw Mountains. In May, he was a member of the coroner’s jury convened to determine the cause of Tessie Murray’s (Letitia Rice’s) death. Just a few days before his death, Cochrane was exhibiting a gold nugget the size of a hen’s egg, which he said was taken from a digging on the Hassayampa River north of Wickenburg. Thomas A. Cochrane died in his room at a Phoenix boarding house on September 18, 1894, of what was almost certainly a heart attack. Captain Calderwood took up a collection for his funeral expenses, which his sister in Illinois reimbursed shortly thereafter. Cochrane was buried in City Loosley Cemetery, Block 16, Lot 7, Space N 1/3. © 2022 by Donna L. Carr. Last revised 18 May 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!  Jerry Neville, about 1848-1900 Mine Owner Buried in Rosedale Cemetery, Block 50, Grave 7 (Photo courtesy of Pioneers’ Cemetery Association, Inc.) Based solely on GAR insignia on his grave marker, it is thought that Jerry Neville is the same person as the Canada-born Jerry Nevill who enlisted in the Union army at Dowagiac, Michigan, on December 22, 1863. Although he swore that he was over 18 years old when he enlisted, the inscription on his grave marker suggests that he might have been younger. For a bounty of $300, he signed up to serve for three years and was assigned to Company D, 6th Michigan Heavy Artillery. He was discharged in New Orleans on August 20, 1865. Thereafter, he seems to have gone into the mining business out West, perhaps logical given that he would have been familiar with gunpowder and explosives.
According to the federal census, Jerry Neville was in Silver City, New Mexico, in 1880. However, he was also registered to vote in Pima County, Arizona. He and his partner, Norman H. Chapin, operated in the southeastern part of the state, where they owned copper mines called "The Pride of the West" and "The Smuggler" near Harshaw, Arizona. On October 3, 1891, Chapin married Maria Barron in Nogales, Arizona. A little over five years later, Neville married Maria’s younger sister, Refugia Barron, recently arrived from Mexico, on May 2, 1897. This made Chapin and Neville brothers-in-law as well as business partners. The Nevilles had a son George, born July 15, 1899, in Los Angeles. Possibly they had a daughter named Ygnacia as well, but she may have died young, as she does not appear in the censuses of 1900 or 1910. By 1899, Jerry Neville had contracted phthisis (tuberculosis) and was no longer able to attend to his mines. The "Pride of the West" was reportedly sold to Gee & Wilfley of Denver for $120,000. Toward the end of 1899, Neville was staying at Washington Camp in Santa Cruz County when he took a turn for the worse and came to Phoenix for medical treatment. He died on January 4, 1900, in Sisters Hospital in Phoenix and was buried in Rosedale Cemetery. His brother-in-law, Norman H. Chapin, came to Phoenix to settle Neville’s business affairs, but only a few short weeks later, he was stricken with pneumonia and died on January 10, 1900. He was buried in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery. The 1900 federal census, conducted later that year, found the widowed sisters, Maria and Refugia, living together in Harshaw. On August 29, 1901, Refugia remarried. Her new husband, Oscar Keefe Franklin, then adopted little George and was named as his legal guardian. There is no evidence that Jerry Neville ever received an invalid pension for his Civil War service or was a patient at the military hospital in Sawtelle, California. Likewise, Refugia and her son George seem not to have applied for survivors pensions. It has been conjectured that they were sufficiently well off not to need such benefits. © 2022 by Donna L. Carr. Last revised 27 February 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!  John McCasey, about 1819-1895 Civil War Vet and Mining Engineer Buried in Porter Cemetery, Block 38, Grave H (Grave marker photo courtesy of the Pioneers’ Cemetery Association, Inc.) John McCasey was born between 1819 and 1825 in Ireland. At some point, he immigrated to the United States and settled in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. He seems to have had a rather good education, enabling him to work as a machinist, mining engineer, and metallurgist throughout his life.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, McCasey enlisted as a private in Company E, 8th Pennsylvania Infantry, on April 18, 1861. He and Cornelia Connolly were married before a priest on June 4, 1861, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. McCasey was soon promoted to the rank of captain in Company K, 110th Pennsylvania Infantry. However, he resigned his commission on July 29, 1861, stating that ill health made him unfit to perform his duties. He returned home to recuperate, where his and Cornelia’s first child, William Francis, was born on August 12 of the following year. McCasey reenlisted briefly on July 1, 1863, in Company B, 41st Pennsylvania Emergency Militia, an ad hoc unit raised to defend the state from the Confederate advance toward Gettysburg. He was discharged on August 3, 1863. Following the Civil War, McCasey found work as a machinist. He and Cornelia, or Lillie as she was called, had eight children, although only four lived to adulthood. The 1880 federal census of Jersey City, New Jersey, lists McCasey as a ‘silver miner’. Shortly after his oldest son turned 21, McCasey moved to Arizona, while his wife Cornelia remained in Pennsylvania to raise the rest of their children. McCasey found work as a mining engineer in the vicinity of the Harqua Hala Mine near Yuma. In 1889, he wrote a detailed description of the ores and other minerals to be found there. In 1891, he discovered a significant onyx deposit north of Cave Creek, Arizona. John McCasey moved to Mesa, Arizona, and set up an assay office there in 1893. After transferring his GAR membership to the John Wren Owen GAR Post, he filed for and received Invalid Pension #865,681. He seems to have lost touch with his friends back East, as his whereabouts were not known until one of his old Army companions tracked him down through the GAR. McCasey died February 23, 1895, having been hospitalized for about three months with pulmonary tuberculosis. He was buried in Porter Cemetery. His widow Cornelia filed for and received a Civil War Widow’s pension, #471,053. She was living in the Bronx, New York City, when she died on June 29, 1919. © 2023 by Donna L. Carr. Last revised 22 December 2023. 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!  Robert E. Lee Brown, 1865-1902 Mining Engineer and Adventurer Buried in Rosedale North, Block 130 (Grave marker and photo courtesy of the Pioneers’ Cemetery Association, Inc.) R. E. L. Brown may be one of the most unique characters in the Pioneer & Military Memorial Park, both for his colorful life--and the speed with which he was forgotten after his demise.
Born May 31, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Laurence and Martha Brown, he trained as a mining engineer, then went out west to locate promising mines. In 1889, Brown was surveying potential mining claims in Washington state. During a violent labor strike in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, in 1892, he started a newspaper called The Barbarian, which took the side of the mine owners versus the unionized miners. This earned him the nickname “Barbarian Brown." Threatened with death during the strike, he caused a cannon to be wheeled into the street outside his office. Much as he enjoyed the furor his newspaper editorials provoked, Brown remained first and foremost a mining engineer. He speculated in mines and was well regarded internationally for his expertise. Seeking new adventures, Brown journeyed to South Africa in hopes of securing some promising claims during a land rush in Witfontein in 1895. Competition was fierce for the best claims, but Brown hit upon a method that could outrun the swiftest horse: a heliograph! He set up heliograph stations by which he could transmit confirmation almost instantaneously to his confederates in the field who were waiting to stake his claims. On July 19, 1895, the day of the land rush, twelve thousand miners were gathered in Doornkop to register their permits. But Brown had devised a plan to ensure that he would be first in line. A fan of American football, he recruited a group of rough men from local bars to form a “flying wedge” to cut through the crowd. The ruse worked; however, the Pretoria government initially refused to honor his claims. Brown sued the Boer government and eventually won a huge judgment, the exact value of which has never been ascertained. Having worn out his welcome in South Africa, the brash engineer returned to North America where, on September 26, 1898, he wed Maud Higgins in Victoria, British Columbia. Brown was in London in 1901 when he apparently contracted tuberculosis. In late 1902, he traveled to Phoenix in a private train car with his wife, his personal physician, and a nurse. Unfortunately, he had left it too late; he died on October 3, 1902, scarcely a week after his arrival. Despite his fame and fortune, his death rated only a few lines in the local newspaper, and he was buried under a simple wooden headboard in Rosedale Cemetery. One can only speculate as to why Brown’s remains were not shipped back East and why a more elaborate headstone was never erected over his grave. © 2020 by Donna L. Carr. Last revised 16 October 2020. 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!  Michael Wormser, 1827-1898 Merchant and Land Baron Originally buried in Loosley Cemetery; moved to Beth Israel 1903 (Image from PCA files. Original in the Pearl and Cecil Newmark Memorial Archives, Arizona Jewish Historical Society) When Michael Wormser died in 1898, he was indisputably the largest landowner in Phoenix, Arizona, with 7435 acres. However impressive his estate, it is debatable whether it brought him much pleasure. Possessed of a dour and argumentative personality, Wormser’s psychological profile hints of a poverty-stricken, insecure childhood.
Wormser was a Yiddish-speaking Jew born June 27, 1827, in Mittelbronn in the Alsace-Lorraine (now Moselle) region of France. He came to the United States in 1850 to join his cousin Benjamin Block in San Luis Obispo, California. After Block’s livery stable failed, Wormser moved to Arizona and went into business for himself. In 1864, he opened the first general store in Prescott in an adobe building near the corner of Goodwin and Montezuma Streets. In 1873, Wormser acquired a store in Phoenix. However, he lost it in 1876 when the price of grain dropped suddenly and his customers’ outstanding bills became uncollectable. Having acquired some land along the San Francisco Canal, Wormser had to resort to farming. From his unsold store inventory, Wormser advanced seed, tools, and provisions to his Hispanic neighbors along the canal. He also encouraged them to gain legal title to their land. Once they owned the land, it could be used as collateral to buy more supplies from “Don Miguel," as they called him. The general consensus is that Wormser took advantage of his Spanish-speaking neighbors’ ignorance to get hold of their land, as they scarcely understood the contracts they had signed. When they fell behind on their payments and eviction notices were served, they had no legal recourse. In this way, Wormer managed to acquire ownership or control of about 9,000 acres of irrigable farmland along the Salt River in south Phoenix. Wormer widened the San Francisco Canal and experimented with growing sugar beets. As a major landowner, he was elected in November 1880 to a four-year term on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. He used his position to obtain favorable tax breaks on his land. 1892 was the year of the Great Flood on the Salt River. Since Wormser’s irrigation ditches had been washed out, he became a plaintiff in a landmark Arizona water case, Michael Wormser et al. versus the Salt River Valley Canal Company, et al. The case resulted in the Kibbey Decision which established the principle in Arizona that water belonged to the land, and that early users of water had priority over later users. The verdict was a victory for Wormser, as he was one of the ‘early users’. Wormser died on April 25, 1898, and was initially buried in one of the city cemeteries, probably Loosley. Charles Goldman, his executor, eventually valued his estate at $221,396, a considerable sum for 1900. Since Wormser had intended to donate land for a Jewish cemetery, Goldman set aside a parcel at 35th Avenue and Jackson for that purpose. Beth Israel Memorial Cemetery opened in 1903, whereupon Wormser’s body was exhumed and moved there. The cemetery is still active today. © 2024 by Donna L. Carr. Last revised 27 May 2024. 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!  John Proops, 1848-1896 Baker, Miner, Firefighter Originally buried in A.O.U.W. Cemetery; moved to Beth Israel (Image of 1900s firefighter generated with Bing AI) John Proops was born on January 17, 1848, in Bristol, England. After the death of his mother in 1856, his father moved the family to Charles Dickens’ London. Young John was apprenticed to a baker and, in 1867, he shipped out to Adelaide, Australia, as a baker.
Settled by English debtors and convicts in the 1700s, Australia was a wild ‘n' wooly outpost of the British Empire. From Adelaide on the southern coast, Proops walked to Melbourne, stopping to work at sheep and cattle stations along the way. From there, he went to Ballarat, where the discovery of gold had sparked a gold rush similar to the 1849 one in California. Later, Proops returned to Melbourne to work as a journeyman baker. While in Melbourne, Proops met and married Hannah Franks on February 18, 1873. Their daughter Rose was born in 1874. Thereafter, Proops became the chief cook and baker at the Government Orphan Asylum at Randwick, near Sydney, where sons Harry and Charley were born. In 1881, Proops moved his family to San Francisco and then to Tombstone, but misfortune dogged his steps. Only ten days after arriving there, his son Charley died of gastric fever. Proops opened a bakery in Tombstone, but it did not pay enough to support his family. After two years, he gave it up and turned to hauling freight from Kingston to Globe until his team of horses was stolen. Eventually, he found work at the new courthouse in Tombstone. In May 1887, Proops came to Phoenix in the course of delivering a load of furniture for Mr. B. A. Fickas from his house in Tombstone. He found employment first as a porter at the Commercial Hotel and then as the janitor of the city hall and gardener of the adjacent plaza. Proops was said to have borne his previous financial misfortunes with a light heart and cheerful disposition. A sociable fellow, Proops joined the volunteer fire company, the Ancient Order of United Workmen (A.O.U.W.), and the Foresters. It was in the performance of his duty as a firefighter that he contracted his final illness. On Friday, December 29 or 30, 1895, the volunteer company was called to a fire on East Madison Street. Thoroughly drenched by the hoses and going home in the morning cold, Proops took a chill that turned into pneumonia. He succumbed on January 6, 1896. On the day of Proops’s funeral, the fire house lowered its flag to half-mast. His comrades from the fire company, the Foresters, and the Ancient Order of United Workmen turned out to bury him in Phoenix’s A.O.U.W. Cemetery... …And there he remained until his widow Hannah died in 1903. She was one of the first to be buried in the newly-opened Beth Israel (Jewish) Cemetery at 35th Avenue and Van Buren, and their son Harry had his father’s remains moved there as well. © 2024 by Donna L. Carr. Last revised 18 May 2024. 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!  Tobias Seelig, about 1850-1892 Dry Goods Merchant Buried in Pioneer & Military Memorial Park, exact location unknown. (Stock image of men wearing Prince Albert suits, courtesy of MicroSoft clip art) According to his various voter registrations, Tobias Seelig was born in Germany around 1850. The passenger list of the ship Humboldt shows that he arrived at New York’s Castle Garden on August 18, 1865. Except for that, his entire life prior to 1878 is a blank.
Late in 1878, he appears to have opened a dry goods store in Modesto, California. The Mechanics Cash Store carried clothing, boots, and other fancy goods on a cash-only basis. The local newspaper listed some of the items available. By 1880, Tobias’s younger brother Gabriel joined him in the Modesto dry goods store. Perhaps Gabriel took over the management of the Modesto store, for Tobias was in Phoenix by June 1882. He must have been naturalized, because he registered to vote in that year. After a stint as a clerk for the dry goods firm of Rosenthal & Kutner, he opened a cigar store in or near the Capitol Saloon. The cigar store burned down in 1886. The Seeligs were Jewish. Jewish stores were essential to life in early Phoenix, and most were subsidiaries of stores founded in California during the Gold Rush days. Their proprietors could therefore count on financial backing from bankers in San Francisco as well as established sources of supply from the West Coast. Phoenix’s merchants were usually ‘Reform’ Jews with German surnames who kept their religious affiliations low-key and practiced them behind closed doors. A Freemason, Seelig also participated in the Fire Brigade and joined the Knights of Pythias. He was generally well-liked and is said to have dressed stylishly. By 1891, he was even investing in local mining operations. Misfortune caught up with him early in 1892, when the Knights of Pythias charged him with defalcation in his use of their funds. Deeply affected by the charge, Seelig took to drinking and apparently made plans to commit suicide. He told a friend that, when he died, he wanted to be laid out in his Prince Albert suit. On March 8, 1892, he carried out his plan in his rooming house, where he donned his suit and shot himself in the temple. Compounding the tragedy was that his fellow Pythians had already taken up a collection of $600 to cover his debts and restore his good name. Seelig was buried in a Phoenix cemetery. Since he owned some property, it is likely that he was interred somewhere in the Pioneer & Military Memorial Park. There is no marker. © 2022 by Donna Carr. Last revised November 11, 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! |