Thank You First Responders!

Nurse
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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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

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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

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An interesting read...

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

Tracing and Sketching - Lessons in Geography, 1897

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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

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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.