Thank you to the Pioneers' Cemetery Association, Inc. for a fun evening "Dining Among the Dead," yesterday evening. Music by Arizona's Official Balladeer Dolan Ellis, the dancing of Ballet Folklorico de Tolleson, a nice assortment of items for the fundraising auction, and reenactors who portrayed early residents of Phoenix interred there made for an enjoyable event. We met a man eaten by a bear, the last man shot in a northern AZ range war, a Territorial Governor, a Phoenix mayor, a sheriff, the "Lost" Dutchman (note: the MINE was lost; HE was NOT lost), a madam, and one of her employees - but no one representing any of the Civil War veterans interred there. Technically the Territorial Governor was a veteran, with a CSA (Confederate States of America) plaque on his grave, but there are several Union veterans buried there as well. Hopefully someone will rectify that situation next year. In the meantime, though, the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War contingent in attendance, Margaret Warner Wood Detached Tent #1, had a fun time.
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August 2018
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