The Funeral 'Bus' - Mysteries in the Cemetery

Arizona Republic (Phoenix, Arizona) · 19 Jul 1898

We are not sure who this could be, but he certainly is very thorough to think of his own "funeral bus".  Can you solve our mystery?   

 

Old West Jail Food - 1800s

Old West jail food was far from a delicacy.  In some cases it wasn't even nutritious.  Food was often rationed, and consisted of beans, hardtack, and coffee.  Depending on the jail, dried fruit or vegetables may have been served.  If you are willing to try a jail food recipe, here is a basic recipe for hardtack.  Try it with some beans and coffee and see what you think.....

Hardtack

2 cups stone ground flour

1 cup water

Combine the flour and water. Knead until smooth. Sprinkle some flour on a smooth surface and roll the dough flat until it is 1/4 inch thick. Cut biscuits out with a can or free form them, making them about 3-4 inches in diameter. Poke holes into each biscuit with a fork. Place on a floured cookie sheet or in cast iron skillet.  Bake at 400 F for 35-45 minutes.  They will be hard and dry when done.  

Civil War Recruitment

  

Library of Congress

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Both the Union and Confederate armies used creative ways in which to entice volunteers to join their ranks.  Some recruits were offered bounties, and shortened time.  Others were offered free school and land.  They often used funny or enticing slogans in poster form.  Take a look at some of the creative posters from many branches of service involved in the Civil War....

Civil War Recruitment Posters

Benedict Mosier (1833 - 1908) - Soldier and Farmer

PCA Archives

Benedict F. Mosier was born 8 Dec 1833 in Alsace Loraine, France, possibly in is father’s hometown of Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin.  He was the second son of Christian Mosier and Ann Wenger.  

Shortly after Benedict’s birth, the Mosiers sailed from France, arriving in New York City on June 7th, 1834.  From there, they traveled to Holmes County, Ohio, where several more children were born.  According to family lore, they may have been Mennonites; Strasbourg was a center for Protestant sects not particularly welcome in Roman Catholic France. 

The Mosiers were in Iowa by 1858, when Benedict wed Mary Ann List. Soon thereafter, the young couple moved to Tyler Township, Hickory County, Missouri.  There, they had ten children born between 1860 and 1875, six of whom survived to adulthood. The Mosiers were farmers and, apparently, successful ones. 

In the summer of 1861, Mosier enlisted in Company C, 8th Missouri State Militia Cavalry,vii serving in Captain William C. Human’s company.  The mission of the regiment was to prevent Confederate forces from establishing a foothold in southwestern Missouri.  The soldiers went on numerous scouting patrols and engaged in a few skirmishes.  Since Mosier’s duties kept him fairly close to home, he was able to make periodic visits to his family. 

As the Mosier sons grew up, they began to migrate west.  Benedict and Mary Ann accompanied them to Phoenix, Arizona, in 1884.  Their son Sydney died on 30 May 1886 and was buried in City Loosley Cemetery.

Late in life, Mary Ann developed heart problems.  While driving home on December 14, 1897, she apparently suffered a stroke.  A neighbor moving cattle noticed that the horse and buggy had stopped in the road and came to her aid, but attempts to revive Mary Ann failed.  She too was buried in City Loosley Cemetery. 

Benedict Mosier joined the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and, in 1904, applied for a pension based on his Civil War service.  After his wife’s death, he went to live with one of his children in Mendocino, California.  Plagued with eczema in his final years, he ultimately sold his property in Mendocino and returned to Phoenix, where he died on 4 October 1908.  He was buried in the family plot in City Loosley.  - by Donna Carr

  

John Porter (1873 - 1898) - Lieutenant

 Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930

John Singleton Porter was born 23 January 1873 in Blount County, Tennessee to Robert and Maggie Porter.  He had at least two brothers, Samuel and Robert S. Porter, and a sister Jennie. 

On 25 September 1888, he was appointed to the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, at the age of 15, the minimum age allowed.  He graduated in 1892, after which he embarked on the last requirement, a two-year cruise.  He served aboard the USS Baltimore and the USS San Francisco.  He returned to Annapolis in April of 1894 to take his final exams.  Following a two-month leave, he was commissioned an ensign on 1 July 1894 and was appointed assistant engineer. 

He was assigned to take additional instruction in marine engineering in Paris, France, on 3 October 1894.  While there, he contracted a respiratory ailment, probably tuberculosis.  Upon his return to the United States in June 1896, he took sick leave and travelled first to Denver in the hope that a warmer climate would aid his recovery.  

 Porter went back east for the funerals of his parents in 1896-1897, which only aggravated his condition. He was in the last stages of consumption when he came to Phoenix in December 1897.  After seeking care from army surgeon Dr. Alex S. Porter, his health improved marginally, but he suffered a relapse and died suddenly on 11 February 1898 at Sisters Hospital. - Donna Carr

The Contents of Lincoln's Pockets after his Assassination

Contents of Lincoln's Pockets

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division 

https://www.loc.gov/item/2011646850/

                                                                                          

The Library of Congress has a wonderful resource page of pictures and articles from the Civil War.  

Click the link below to see.

One of them includes an article of the contents of Lincoln's pockets when he was assassinated.  The contents are both typical and mysterious.......

 Civil War Resources

James Braswell (1832 - 1898) - Civil War Soldier

Confederate Prisoners

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Washington, D.C., USA   //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.15835

James Belton Braswell is believed to have been born 7 September 1835 in South Carolina. He received training as a brickmason and later worked as a building contractor.

During the Civil War, James enlisted initially as a private in Company B, 26th Alabama Infantry (O’Neal’s Regiment), but in August 1862, he and his brother W. D. deserted. They were captured by the Union Army at Camp Davies, Mississippi, on 28 December 1863. Five months later, on 31 May 1864, they took a loyalty oath and enlisted in the U. S. Army. Braswell’s own account was much more colorful.

After a year or two of soldiering, he and a comrade named R. A. Crowley were fighting in Georgia when they deserted for the first time. They were soon captured by their Confederate fellows. The South, being by then desperate for soldiers, did not execute the pair, but confined them to the guardhouse. Braswell and Crowley escaped a second time by knocking a guard down. Recaptured and confined yet again, they made a third attempt to escape, but were foiled. Despairing of keeping the slippery pair in uniform, the commanding officer ordered them to be shot the next morning at sunrise.

As the condemned men sat in the guardhouse that night, Braswell persuaded Crowley to make one last break for it, saying “Let us try one more run. The chances are that we won’t make it wand will most likely get killed, but what of that? We’ll only shorten our years by five hours.”

The pair surprised and killed a guard, fleeing into the night. Before morning they reached a dense swamp and made their way to Sherman’s lines, where they surrendered.

James Braswell married his first wife, Mary Jane DuBose in Indiana in 1863. After the war, Braswell’s skills as a brickmason were undoubtedly in demand as new settlements sprang up out West. By 1870, the Braswells were living in Elk City, Kansas, and were the parents of three children, Sophronia Belle, George Belton, and James Elliot.

Around 1884, the Braswells moved to Arizona, accompanied by James’s old friend Crowley. Their last five children: Claude, John Wesley, Maude Pauline, Audrey and Joseph Franklin, were born in Phoenix. Although Braswell claimed to have been the father of 24 children, only 14 have been documented.

Although Braswell had been an industrious and skillful workman for most of his life, he took up drinking during his last years. When he expired on 13 January 1898, bottles of laudanum and paregoric were found in his pockets. Thinking that he might have committed suicide, Justice Johnstone ordered an inquest. The cause of death was cleared up when Mrs. Braswell testified that he habitually carried them to relieve a persistent ear ache.

James Braswell is buried in Porter Cemetery.  Come visit us, and learn more about this soldier at the PMMP! - adapted by a story from Sue Wilcox

The Young Volunteer - Life as a Soldier in the Civil War, 1865

Click to See and Read the Document from the Library of Congress

Read about the experience of a soldier during 

the hard times of the Civil War.........

James Broomell (1837 - 1896) - Soldier for a Cause

James Broomell - Porter Cemetery - PCA Files

James Henry Broomell was born August 2, 1837. The location of his birth was probably Upper Oxford Township in Chester County, PA. 

On the 1840 Census, James Broomell was listed as 12 years old along with his grandmother Lydia Broomell, father John Broomell, and mother Sarah Broomell, along with the following siblings: George, Latitia, Elizabeth, Seneca, and Samuel. 


At some point in 1860, he became a school teacher, and then later became soldier.  The 124th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was organized to meet the threat of the Confederate invasion of Maryland in August 1862. The length of service for the volunteers was to be 9 months. James Henry Broomell enlisted on August 6, 1862, at Oxford, PA. He was assigned the rank of Corporal in Company C and was mustered in on August 11, 1862. 

Corp. Broomell’s Regiment was ordered to Washington D.C. on August 12 and they went into camp at Fort Albany, two miles south-east of the Capital. The 124th was next ordered to Rockville, MD, on September 7. It was ordered to march to meet the enemy the afternoon of the 9th. Then, on September 17, it was in the thick of the fight in the infamous Miller’s corn field during the Battle of Antietam. This battle was the “bloodiest” day of fighting in the entire Civil War; in fact the “bloodiest” day in United States history. The 124th lost 50 men in killed and wounded that day. Total casualties were some 23,000 soldiers.


By December 10, the 124th Pennsylvania was camped in the neighborhood of Harper’s Ferry. It was ordered forward by a forced march in bad weather to participate in the looming battle at Fredericksburg, VA. By the time it arrived, the fighting was over.  

The next major assignment of Corp. Broomell’s Regiment was the Chancellorsville campaign. It formed a line of battle on the afternoon of April 30, 1863. The fight with the Confederate army began the next morning. The Union troops were gradually forced into a strictly defensive situation and all hostile action ceased by May 6. The 9-month term of service for this Regiment ended on May 9 and it was returned to Harrisburg, PA, where Broomell was mustered out on May 17.


One month later, the governor of Pennsylvania was informed that Confederate General Robert E. Lee was again intent on invading the North. Governor Curtin issued a proclamation on June
12 asking for men to volunteer into “emergency” militia regiments. President Lincoln also called for 100,000 men from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, and West Virginia to serve for 6 months or as long as necessary during the emergency. Broomell again answered the call to serve and enrolled June 15, 1863, at Oxford, PA. He was mustered in on June 19 at Harrisburg as a Private in Company A of the 29th Pennsylvania Militia Infantry and immediately promoted to Sergeant. 

This regiment was organized by June 23 and immediately put to work building fortifications around Harrisburg. It experienced some combat when a mounted Confederate force raided some nearby Pennsylvania towns and threatened Harrisburg. Private Broomell’s regiment did not engage in fighting in the Gettysburg area. The main purpose of these “emergency” militia regiments was to guard railroads, bridges and fords over major rivers and to protect Federal property in Pennsylvania. Private Broomell was mustered out of service on August 1, 1863, at Harrisburg, PA. His soldiering days were over.


For more information on the life of James Broomell, and to see him in Porter Cemetery, come to the Pioneer Military and Memorial Park when it opens! - adapted from a story by Jan Huber

Civil War Food

Civil War Hard Tack
Hartford, Conn. : The War Photograph & Exhibition Co., No. 21 Linden Place, [1863 February]
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

The rations for the Civil War consisted of shelf stable products that were sometimes cherished or despised out on the field.  Here is a blogpost from the Library of Congress illustrating what the food was like for our soldier heroes........

Thanksgiving Food for the Civil War Soldiers

Post War Cartoon - 1865

"Give me your hand, comrade! 
We have each lost a leg for a good cause; 
but, thank God, we never lost heart."
Harper's weekly, v. IX, no. 434 (1865 April 22), p. 256.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Two Union soldiers shaking hands after the war.  A unification message, and a depiction of the sacrifices our military made......

Male and Female Brains - A 1893 Perspective

Arizona Republican.  (Dec 2, 1893).  Male and Female Brains.  Phoenix, AZ

A......uh......very limiting 1893 perspective........

Frances Musser (1868 - 1898) - Loss of a Wonderful Nurse

Mary Thompson Hospital
Library of Congress
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00189985514

Frances E. Musser, the cousin of the south side representative of The Republican, C. M. Zander, came to Phoenix shortly after graduating from the Women's and Children's Hospital of Chicago in 1893.  The hospital was created by Mary Thompson, who was one of the first female physicians in Chicago.  

This hospital would later train female physicians and nurses, since the formal education of women in medicine was extremely limited.  Frances took advantage of this training, and had become known as one of their stellar nurse graduates in Chicago.  

Sadly her health failed her.  Suffering from cirrhosis of the liver, she went to Omaha to improve her health, and continued with her nursing practice.  When her physician recommended that she leave because of the winters, she came to Phoenix.  Despite efforts by a fellow classmate, Julia E Hay, and her cousin, she died from her illness, and is buried in Porter Cemetery.  Sadly, the only relative who could attend her funeral was her cousin due to the distance.  

Mysteries of the Cemetery - Where is Jane?

Dr. Scott Helm, PCA Archives

A little bird told us that Dr. Scott Helm's first wife, Norma Jackson, is buried next to him in Porter Cemetery.  However, his second wife, Jane Beeler, is not.  Do you know where Jane went?

Norma Jackson Helm, PCA Archives

Espic Cigarettes - Vintage Medicine 1887

I wonder if this was an early inhaler......

Dr. Carl Wormser (1856 - 1905) - A Trip for Naught

Dr. Wormser - Photo from Pioneers' Cemetery Association

Dr. Carl P. Wormser was born August 21, 1856, in Nijverdal, Overijssel, the Netherlands. He was the son of Hendrik Wormser and M. Arends. He arrived in the United States September 9, 1874, whereupon he became a resident of Michigan. Although two of his half-brothers entered the ministry of the Dutch Reformed Church, Carl Wormser attended Columbia College’s School of Medicine, graduating with the class of 1878-1879. Following graduation he returned to Michigan, where he married Helena Hoedemaker on March 8, 1881. Dr. Wormser then returned to New York to practice medicine.

Around 1883 he removed to Orange City, Iowa, and set up practice. There was a significant Dutch community in Orange City and other members of the Wormser family had come to the area several years prior to his arrival. Dr. Wormser’s practice proved prosperous and he invested some of the proceeds in real estate.

Dr. Wormser was an avid fisherman and, like a true Dutchman, enjoyed being near water. In 1892, he and three other businessmen from Orange City pooled their resources to purchase a summer cottage on Miller’s Bay, where they and their families could vacation.

According to a local newspaper, by 1903 Dr. Wormser was suffering from Bright’s disease. Having disposed of his real estate holdings in Iowa, he hired a private rail car and left for Phoenix on November 25, 1903, in hopes that a warmer climate might prolong his life. The rental of the private rail car alone cost $1195. Because his condition was so grave, he was accompanied by his wife, his three daughters, and two of his colleagues, Dr. De Lespinasse and Professor Soulen. Unfortunately, the trip was for naught as Wormser died in Phoenix of asthma on December 24th. He was buried in Rosedale Cemetery.

His widow and daughters moved on to California, where Mrs. Helena Wormser died May 28, 1904. Her remains were returned to Phoenix for burial next to her husband. -PG

How to Become a Nurse - 1898

Click the Link and See the Reference and Book

A guide to becoming a nurse, written in 1898.....

Dr. Scott Helm (1862 - 1897) - First Surgeon-General of AZ

Dr. Scott Helm
Arizona Memory Project

A native of Kentucky, Dr. Helm was a graduate of Princeton College, Rush Medical College in Chicago and Heidelberg University in Germany. He was undoubtedly one of the best educated and respected physicians in Arizona. In 1891, he joined the National Guard of Arizona.  



He was appointed surgeon-general, serving in that post for six years. During that time, he tirelessly promoted Arizona in medical journals as an ideal destination for sufferers of tuberculosis, arthritis and other ailments. He was also an active member of several fraternal organizations.

In 1889, he met Miss Norma Jackson, a Southern belle who had come to Arizona for her health. They were married 12 February 1890. Unfortunately, even his expert ministrations could not cure Norma, for she died on 30 April 1891 at the age of 28.

In July 1891, Dr. Helm was accused by two other physicians of having performed an abortion on Alice White, granddaughter of Ira Stroud of Phoenix. The case went to trial and, in March 1892, Dr. Helm was acquitted of any wrongdoing. Later in 1892, Dr. Helm married Miss Jane Beeler.

Helm loved horses, but he told friends that he would probably meet his death in a horse-related accident. His premonition came true on 8 October 1897. He was at the train station in downtown Phoenix when his fractious horse, Montrose, reared and fell, throwing Dr. Helm to the pavement. Dr. Helm died two hours later of intracranial bleeding. An impressive obelisk of polished red granite marks his grave, which is on the walking tour of Porter Cemetery. - Donna Carr

Thank You First Responders!

Nurse
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print


Behind the Epitaph would like to extend our sincerest thanks for all of the first responders in our world.  Thank you for your time and sacrifice.  Words can not express our appreciation.  

Our next posts will be highlighting the first responders of yesteryear in our cemetery.   These include doctors, nurses, police, and military, just to name a few.  They also experienced great illnesses, dangers, and wars, and were an essential part of development of this state.  

Wedding Fashion - 1800s

Wedding and Attendants Fashion
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
https://lccn.loc.gov/2004672388

If you were a female teacher, your marriage would immediately terminate your contract in the 1800s........

Wedding Fashion
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.), 26 Feb. 1893. 
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.
 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020558/1893-02-26/ed-1/seq-8/

McGuffey's Spelling Book - 1896

Click Here to Read the Book and See the Reference

I'm expecting you all to be done with Lesson 7 by next Friday.         

There will be a test................

Public School Law of Arizona - 1901

Click Here to Read the Text and See the Reference

An interesting read...

We can see that some things have changed, and some have remained the same..,...

Tracing and Sketching - Lessons in Geography, 1897

Click Here to Read the Lesson and See the Reference

A lesson that Mary Florence Card Mann may have taught in school...

Artwork of Mary Florence Card Mann

Arizona, Wills and Probate Records, 1803-1995
Ancestry.com

Our resident, Mary Florence Card Mann was reported to be an exceptional artist.  This is a list of paintings that were sold off from her estate.  If you see any of these, signed by Florence, let us know.  We are curious to see if they are still around.  

Mary Florence Card Mann (1841 - 1897) - Educator

Florence Mann often taught business methods
 to her students.  Here is a poster highlighting the
 different business methods of the time. 
Click to read a larger form.

Mary Florence was born about 1841 in Oswego, New York. She was the fourth of five children born to Daniel and Jane C. Shapley Card, farmers.


Mary Florence (she went by Florence most of her adult life) entered the Oswego Normal and Training School in her late teens, graduating in 1863 with a teaching degree. By 1867, she was earning $500 a year as a schoolteacher in Cuba, New York. Sometime in the 1870s, she married Henry D. Mann, a physician and surgeon. The young couple moved to Tiffin, Ohio, where Henry attended Heidelberg College. Later, he did his residency at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor before graduating from the Medical College in Albany, New York. He practiced for a short time in Ohio and Illinois before settling in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Florence continued to teach for a few years after marrying, but she is listed as a housewife on the 1880 federal census of Terre Haute. At some point thereafter, she and Henry separated but did not divorce.

In 1890, Florence came to Phoenix and was hired to teach in the Phoenix school system. Based on newspaper articles, she became well known as an educator. Besides teaching in the elementary schools, she often provided professional council and training at the Maricopa County Teachers’ Institutes, where she excelled in mechanical and industrial drawing.

She even persuaded the Phoenix school board to open a free night school for children over the age of 10 who were unable to attend day classes because of family obligations.

In 1893 Florence was appointed to the Maricopa Advisory Committee on Textbooks and School Law. Her duties included selecting the textbooks to be used throughout the district.

After retiring from teaching, she opened an art studio in Phoenix. A gifted artist, she painted many scenes of animals and the “wild and untamed west” in oils and watercolors. And she continued to volunteer at the night school she had started.

Florence died unexpectedly around 8 PM on March 22, 1897, while on her way home from seeing her students at the night school. Passersby heard her cry out in the alley beside the Ford Hotel on Washington Street and 2nd Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona, but she was gone before medical help arrived. Her doctor opined that she had died of an apoplexy—probably a cerebral hemorrhage caused by a burst aneurysm—as there were no signs of any trauma. She was 56 years old.

Mysteries of the Cemetery - Marron Child

Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.), 17 April 1898. 
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020558/1898-04-17/ed-1/seq-5/

Julio Marron was married to Clara Woolsey, the daughter of King Woolsey, a territorial Arizona politician.  We recently found this article about his son while doing research, and added him to our burial book.

  Julio Marron and King Woolsey are also at the PMMP.
If anyone knows the name of this child, please let us know.

School in 1900

Tempe Arizona Normal School
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C. USA
https://lccn.loc.gov/2007661425

• Most schools were one-room schoolhouses in rural areas
• Students were usually between five to twenty five years old
• The most common methods of teaching were memorization and repetition
• Very few students advanced beyond grade school
• Only 11% enrolled in high school
• Most Americans at the end of 1910 had only completed grade eight

- paraphrased from Encyclopeida.com

Anne Perley (1865 - 1932) - Educator

Pioneers' Cemetery Association Archives

Anne Morrison Perley was born January 28, 1865, in Henry County, Illinois, to Peleg Stone Perley and Nancy Eliza Morrison. Anne had three siblings: Bruce, Grace and Harriet (known as Polly).
Anne came from a family of teachers. Her grandfather, Nathaniel Perley, had been an educator for over 30 years, and her father Peleg was a teacher prior to becoming a lawyer and practicing law in Henry, Illinois.

Peleg Perley was the postmaster of Henry, Illinois, in the early 1880s. In 1883, he employed Anne as a postal clerk. She was attending Washington University’s College of Fine Arts in St. Louis in 1887.  The Perley family moved to Arizona where Peleg continued his legal career in a milder climate. Anne travelled to Tombstone to fill the position of assistant principal at Tombstone High School in January, 1892. It was a temporary appointment, and she returned to Phoenix at the end of the school year in June. Having acquired some administrative experience, she was then hired as the assistant principal for the old Central School at 201 North Central Avenue in Phoenix.

Anne remained in Phoenix, teaching, until after the death of her parents--her father in 1898 and her mother in 1900. Thereafter, she went to teach in Bisbee, returning to Phoenix in 1903. A few years later, Anne departed Arizona for New York and accepted an offer to teach in Puerto Rico. She arrived there in September 1909 aboard the Steamship Coamo. The 1910 federal census recorded her as a schoolteacher living in Pueblo Norte, Aibonito.

It is not known how long Anne remained in Puerto Rico teaching. However, by 1920 she was back in Brooklyn, New York, and working as a translator for an export business. Presumably, she was by then fluent in Spanish.

Anne was still living in Brooklyn in 1930 when she fell ill and was sent to a private sanitarium in Stamford, Connecticut. She died there on May 23, 1932. Her sister Grace arranged for her cremains to be returned to Arizona where she was buried in her parents’ cemetery plot in Porter Cemetery.

Mysteries of the Cemetery - Flower Vandals

Flower Vandals
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.), 14 April 1895. 
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020558/1895-04-14/ed-1/seq-1/

University of Arizona - 1891

Click Here to Read the Article and See the Reference

Here is an article about the early years of the University of Arizona, which includes some of the courses of study.......

Professor Dayton Reed (1841 - 1895) - Educator

Pioneers' Cemetery Association

Dayton Reed was born on 22 Dec 1841 in Millbrook, Wayne County, Ohio. He was one of seven children born to James and Mary Ann Reed. 

Dayton became a teacher and moved to Belleville, Ohio where he was a high school principal from 1866 to 1873.  During that time, his sister Eliza Douglass came to live with him bringing her son Beach.  Her marriage to William Douglass had ended in divorce. 

Dayton married Sarah Ordway on December 27, 1871 in Richland, Ohio.  That marriage seems to have ended with each one going their own way.  Sarah was living with her widowed father in Belleville, Ohio in 1880. 

Dayton moved to Los Angeles, California around 1873 where he continued to teach for 12 years.  He then moved to Arizona where he became principal for the Phoenix Public Schools in 1885.  He resigned that position in 1887 to enter into the more lucrative real estate and banking business in Phoenix.   

On June 28, 1890, Dayton became the third principal of the Arizona Territorial Normal School (Arizona State University) where he taught language, mathematics and pedagogy.During his short ten month tenure as principal, he supervised improving the appearance of the campus by having fencing, trees and plumbing installed.  His salary was $200 a month.

Dayton was forced to resign his position because he was suffering from consumption.  A long-time member of the Masons, he was elevated to Grand Master of the Phoenix lodge prior to his death.  He died July 12, 1894 and is buried in the Masons Cemetery of Phoenix Military and Memorial Park. 

Dayton’s sister, Eliza Douglass, died February 3, 1895 of cancer and is buried next to her brother.

Stock Brands - 1891

Brands
Click Here to Read the Article and See the Reference

Just in case you lose your farm animals........

Our homesteader, Rebecca Davenport, most likely had horses and cattle on her homestead.  This is a list of some of the brands established by owners at the time.  There are actually pages of these in many newspapers.  I guess there were more stray cows than one would think.  

Rebecca Reid Davenport (1820 - 1907) - Homesteader - Enterprising Women

Gila River
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

Rebecca Reid Davenport was born October 1820 in Indiana.  Rebecca was married to Bailey McNess Davenport most likely in Missouri around 1840.  She was the mother of 10 children.

The family remained in Missouri until 1854, when they moved to California. The family prospered while in California, but sadly Bailey died on July 17, 1875 in Los Angeles County.  Rebecca administered the estate, and Bailey was buried with a beautiful headstone in the Santa Ana Cemetery.

Rebecca left California for Arizona around 1880.  Her son Jacob was married by then and working in Phoenix.  She would travel back and forth to California where her other children still lived.  In 1892, Rebecca began homesteading 158 acres in the area of what is now Citrus Valley Road and W. Sisson in Gila Bend.  Rebecca wrote in the homestead application that she first lived in a tent before the house was built a year later.  She would have been 74 years old.

Rebecca described her house as being built of lumber and having three rooms.  Another house was added along with a well, two corrals and a dairy room.  She indicated that 80 acres had been cleared and were in use.  Her sons Jacob and Thomas were living with her and working the land.  Some of those outbuildings can still be seen on the property.

Rebecca was living alone by 1899 according to her homestead application, and in 1900 she was granted a land patent.  She went to California for a short time and was living with daughter Martha Ivory.  

Rebecca returned to Phoenix where she transferred ownership of her property to son Charles prior to her death.

Rebecca is buried in the City Loosely Cemetery surrounded by her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Fashion of the 1890s

"Men's Fashion 1890's"
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C.

http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.45062/

"Women's Fashion 1890s"
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C.

https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.45006

One of our last blog posts was about a tragic death of a young woman named Lunice Teel.  She worked at the Boston Store.  These would have been some fashions that may have been sold there during this time.....

Lunice Teel (1883 - 1905) - Tragic Death

The Boston Store

Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.), 04 Nov. 1900. 

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020558/1900-11-04/ed-1/seq-6/

Lunice, nicknamed "Linnie", was born in McFall, Gentry County, Missouri, in April 1883 to Thomas Ross Teel and Rebecca Ann Graham.  She was the second of eight children, of whom Chloe, Linnie, Elizabeth ("Lizzie") and Alfred were born in Missouri.  Sometime between 1891 and 1893, the family moved to Phoenix where Edith, Mabel, Sadie and Ross Graham were born. 

It's unclear whether this Teel family was related to the Peter Teel family that migrated from Texas to Arizona in the 1870s, although census records show that some of them had also been in Illinois and Missouri before settling in Texas. 

In Missouri, Thomas R. Teel's family had been farmers  and owned a flour mill.  Later, in Arizona census records, Thomas was listed as a farm laborer and his death certificate describes him as a "miller". 

Lunice E. Teel, just 3 months short of her 22nd birthday, died of pneumonia on January 13, 1905, at her parents' home at 507 North 4th Street, Phoenix, Arizona.  She was buried in Rosedale Cemetery. 

Linnie's obituary noted she was employed at the Boston Store and that she was "an estimable young woman" and "well-known and respected by a large circle of acquaintances". - Story by Sue Wilcox

Saloma Newland (1838 - 1898) - Lady Prospector - Enterprising Women

Globe Mining District
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Saloma E. Larcombe Newland was a female prospector in territorial Arizona. She was born around 1838 in Massachusetts.  It is unknown who her parents were, or if she had any siblings.  Prior to 1880, there are no census records that list her, and what has been discovered comes mostly from newspaper articles. 

She lived in Ohio at some point, as her daughter Flora Larcombe was born on January 14th, 1859 in Steubenville, Ohio. Flora had married Barry Baldwin in 1875 who was a United States Marshal for the Northern District of California. 

Saloma also lived in California on and off for several years as Mrs. S.E. Larcombe, having married a Thomas B. Larcombe, a miner, at some point.  She divorced him in 1870.  In 1864, she worked as a sales agent in Virginia, Nevada Territory for the Florence sewing machine.  In 1866, she worked as the manager of the Western Union Telegraph Office in Santa Barbara, along with another job as operator at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.  She left California in 1877, and came to Arizona to pursue her interest in prospecting. 

She would continue her mining endeavours in Globe while managing a hotel in “Watsonville”, a mining camp near Ramboz peak.  After marrying Thomas Newland in 1878, together, they mined several claims, which included prospecting the Defiance, Pioneer, and Saloma Mines in the area of Globe.  In 1896, Thomas died of  chronic pneumonia at 66 years of age.  Saloma continued mining their prospects, earning her notoriety in the Arizona Republic, and an article written about her in the The San Francisco Call in 1897 called “Arizona’s Lady Prospector”. 

Saloma Larcombe Newland died of cancer December 31, 1898, and is buried in Loosley.  She has no headstone.  For more information on her, come to the Pioneer Military and Memorial Park to learn about this fascinating “lady miner”. 

Spanish Flu - Pandemics - Early 1900s

"Influenza Ward"
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Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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The Spanish Flu was an influenza pandemic that arrived in the United States around 1918.  It was first identified in military personnel, and infected about 500 million people worldwide, with 675,000 deaths occurring in the United States alone.  There were national quarantines, as well as school and business closures.  The strain was H1N1, and had an avian origin.

There is no one in the PMMP listed as having died of the Spanish Flu.  The cemetery had closed about four years prior to the outbreak.  However, in reading this article it is interesting to note that the United States went through some similar events that we are now experiencing at this time.  

Quarantine Lifted
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Mask Order
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