Cemeteries of Yavapai County
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Parker Anderson
Parker Anderson is an Arizona native and a recognized historian in Prescott and the surrounding area. He has authored the books Elks Opera House , Cemeteries of Yavapai County , Grand Canyon Pioneer Cemetery , Wicked Prescott , Arizona Gold Gangster Charles P. Stanton , Hidden History of Prescott and Haunted Prescott (with Darlene Wilson), as well as Story of a Hanged Man and The World Beyond . He has also authored a number of Arizona-themed history plays for Blue Rose Theater in Prescott. Darlene Wilson has lived in Arizona for more than twenty-five years years and has been involved in the paranormal world for more than forty-five years as a medium and telepath. She has worked with the police and experienced a ghostly encounter at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. She is the owner and tour guide of A Haunting Experience Tours/Haunted Prescott Tours in Prescott, Arizona, and coauthored Haunted Prescott with Parker Anderson.
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Cemeteries of Yavapai County - Parker Anderson
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INTRODUCTION
The Territory of Arizona was created from part of the land that was ceded from Mexico to the United States at the close of the Mexican War of 1846–1848. For years, what is now Arizona laid quiet and dormant, inhabited mostly by Apache Indians and a few scattered miners.
In 1863, thanks to lobbying by men such as Charles Debrille Poston and others, the Organic Act of 1863 was passed by Congress and signed by Pres. Abraham Lincoln on February 24, 1863, creating the official Territory of Arizona. Pressure to create the Territory was compounded by Confederate attempts to claim the land during the Civil War.
The first governor’s party arrived in the Territory to set up the capital and the first Territorial government. They settled along the banks of Granite Creek and named the new village Prescott in honor of the famed Boston-based historian William Hickling Prescott, who had written extensively on South America and Mexico. In the first governor’s party were Gov. John N. Goodwin, secretary Richard C. McCormick, Henry W. Fleury (who would hold several different offices), and others.
The first Territorial legislature divided Arizona up into four counties, with Yavapai County (named for the Indian tribe) being the largest, reaching to the Utah border to the north. Eventually, the counties of Coconino, Apache, Navajo, and Maricopa broke off from Yavapai County, partly due to Arizona citizens who were increasingly frustrated at having to travel so far to Prescott whenever they had business in the county seat or were called for jury duty. The final borders of Yavapai County were drawn in 1891, as they remain today.
Arizona grew rapidly with mining. In territories such as this, many tales can be told from the early-day cemeteries. Burial grounds were a needed commodity as people began to die in the new territory. All told, there are over 150 cemeteries in Yavapai County alone.
This book does not endeavor to cover all of these burial grounds. Rather, it is our wish to tell the stories of Yavapai County citizens through the most interesting and historical cemeteries. Most were traditionally located on the outskirts of town although, in cases such as Prescott itself, the towns eventually grew around the cemeteries.
With a few exceptions, these cemeteries follow the Christian tradition of having the dead buried facing east, in compliance with Christian teaching that Christ will return from the east, and those buried in Christ should be facing him in the Resurrection. This tradition has become less common in recent years, with Christian beliefs having evolved to teaching that the soul is dispatched to heaven or hell upon dying, rather than on the forthcoming day of Christ’s return.
Unlike many areas of the nation, the oldest cemeteries in Arizona are surprisingly nonsectarian, with very few genuine church cemeteries in the early days. Catholics, Protestants, and Jews were usually buried together in the same graveyard. There was limited racial segregation in some, but not all, pioneer cemeteries.
The cemeteries of Yavapai County are the place to start when the researcher begins looking into Arizona burial grounds, for Yavapai County is truly where Arizona began.
One
CITIZENS CEMETERY
Citizens Cemetery was established on 6.5 acres of land in 1864, the same year Prescott became the Territorial capital of Arizona. At that time, the cemetery was considered to be far from downtown Prescott. The first recorded burial here was that of Joel Woods, a state legislator from Colorado who was probably visiting the new territory. In those days, people were often buried in the area where they passed