Citizens Cemetery Gravesite Adoption
As an on-going project, our chapter has voted to adopt 2 gravesites which involves keeping them maintained, since there are no county funds to support this and researching the persons buried there.
We visited the cemetery in October, 2006.
Pat Atchison gave us a guided tour of the cemetery and is shown here with Cam Waguespack and Joan Brown.
The first plot is occupied by Eleanor Palmer and her eleven year old son, Gussie Peters Palmer. Eleanor's husband (not Gussie's father) was a mine superintendent. The family lived on Marina Street near what was the Catholic Church. One day Eleanor was cleaning her gun. It discharged and the bullet struck Gussie in the head. He was killed instantly. Eleanor was devastated that she had killed her only child. Three years later, Eleanor and her husband came into town and were staying at a hotel. It was there that she took a fatal dose of poison.
This is the Horne area.
The second plot has several members of the Horne family interred in it. The first burial was Margaret, the first wife of E.J.F. Horne. She was a frail woman who died in 1898, after only five months of marriage. The second occupant was Mamie (the second wife of Mr. Horne). She died as a result of childbirth in 1902. Her infant did not live and is buried with her. The final burial was that of Joseph, the two week old child of Mr. Horne and his third wife. Joseph died in 1910.
This is the Palmer plot.
On May 22, 2008, Bev, Marilyn J. and Beth braved the very windy weather and a few raindrops to tidy up the sites in preparation for Memorial Day.
The local newspaper took a picture of us which appeared on the front page the next day.
This is the certificate we received showing our approval to take care of the Horne family plot
Information courtesy of Pat Atchison, Yavapai Cemetery Assn.