Find A Grave - Arizona

Bremen, Barry b. June 30, 1947 d. June 30, 2011
Folk Figure. He was a marketing executive best known in the sports and entertainment world as "The Great Imposter". From 1979 to 1986, he crashed and appeared in countless professional sports and entertainment events. Some of his most memorable stunts included getting onto the floor during pre-game warm ups for the 1979 NBA All-Star game wearing a Kansas City Kings uniform, wearing a Seattle Mariners uniform at the 1979 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, wearing a Houston Rockets uniform at...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Mount Sinai Cemetery, Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Bryan, Jimmy b. January 28, 1926 d. June 19, 1960
Professional Auto Racer. A member of the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, he was inducted in 2001, 41 years after his fatal crash at the Langhorne Speedway in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. He earned his nickname "Cowboy" while busting broncos before ha began his racing career. He could, and did, drive almost anything with wheels, winning three AAA-USAC national titles, the Indianapolis 500 in 1958, and was one of the best dirt track drivers ever. He captured his first national championship...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Cameron, Ralph Henry b. October 21, 1863 d. February 12, 1953
US Senator. Elected as a Senator from Arizona to the United States Senate, serving from 1921 to 1927. (Bio by: David Conway)
Grand Canyon Pioneer Cemetery, Grand Canyon, Coconino County, Arizona, USA
Campbell, John Goulder b. June 25, 1827 d. December 22, 1903
US Congressman. He immigrated to the United States in 1841 and settled in New York where he attended public schools. He moved to California in 1849 and to Arizona in 1863. He was in the mercantile business and raised cattle. He engaged in local politics and was a member of the Territorial house of representatives and served as the Yavapai county supervisor from 1868 to 1874. He was elected to the US Congress in 1879 and 1871 as a Democrat. After his second term in Congress he returned to his...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Mountain View Cemetery, Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
Campbell, Thomas Edward b. January 18, 1878 d. March 1, 1944
Arizona Governor (1917, 1919-1923). On November 7, 1916, he was elected the first native son Governor of the state of Arizona. The Arizona Supreme Court reversed the election declaring in December of 1917 that it was won by Governor George W. P. Hunt in a recount. At the end of World War I, he worked with Herbert Hoover in the United States Food Administration. He was elected Governor in 1918 and reelected in 1920. After he left office in 1923, he served on several commissions and boards. (Bio by: Thomas Fisher)
Mountain View Cemetery, Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
Carroll, Helena b. November 13, 1928 d. March 31, 2013
Actress. Born in Glasgow to parents of Irish descent, her father was acclaimed playwright Paul Vincent Carroll ("Shadow and Substance", 1937), her mother was a dress designer. Influenced by her father's profession, she took to the stage. She received private schooling and began her stage career locally (for which included appearing in some of her father's works) during the 1950, prior launching her career in the United States. She marked her Broadway debut with her origination of the character...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Casey, Al (Alvin Wayne) b. October 26, 1936 d. September 17, 2006
Musician. He was already a veteran guitarist on the music scene at age seventeen as a member of ‘The Sunset Riders' and as a session man playing on the first Viv records for producer Lee Hazlewood. Known as an all around performer, he played on dozens of sessions, from country to rock, square dance to jazz. Through the 1950s to early 1960s, he wrote or co-wrote songs for Duane Eddy to include "Ramrod", "Forty Miles of Bad Road" and the album "The Twang Heard Round The World". His other hits...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Phoenix Memorial Park and Mortuary, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Claiborne, Billy b. October 21, 1860 d. November 14, 1882
Outlaw. It is unknown whether he was a native Arizonan or if he moved there from New Mexico as so many other of his kind had done. After the death of William Bonney he began to demand that he be called "Billy the Kid." Some reports claimed that he killed three men for laughing at his demand, but newspaper reports only account for him shooting one man who is not identified. He was arrested for shooting a man named James Hickey, but he was acquitted when it was proven that Hickey was armed and it...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Boothill Graveyard, Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Clanton, Billy (William Harrison) b. 1862 d. October 26, 1881
American Folk Figure. Billy Clanton was a reluctant combatant in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. When becoming knowledgeable about the intentions of his older brother Ike to foster a confrontation with city lawmen, he attempted to calm him then persuade him to leave town. Unsuccessful, he would stay and participate in the gunfight while witnessing his brother fleeing from the scene after starting the altercation before dying in a hail of bullets. The number of...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
Boothill Graveyard, Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Clanton, Ike b. 1847 d. June, 1887
Infamous Arizona cattle rustler and cause of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Isaac "Ike" Clanton was a member of the "Cowboy" faction in Tombstone and an enemy of the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday. The morning of the gunfight Ike, drunk and angry, went around, saying he was going to kill the Earps. His big mouth and hollow threats led to the gunfight, which resulted in the death of his brother Billy. Ike's cowardice most likely saved his life that day. He tried, unsuccessfully, to have the...[Read More] (Bio by: James Crawley)
Isolated Grave, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
Clanton (Clanton), Phin (Phineas) b. 1843 d. January 5, 1905
Folk Figure. He was the second son born to Newman Haynes "Old Man" Clanton and his wife Mariah. He was to move around with his family in his formative years, moving to Illinois when he was six, to Texas when he was eight, and to Arizona when he was twenty in 1865. In 1866, the family moved to San Buena Ventura, California, but Mariah died on the way. By 1869, Phin was living in Lone Pine, California with his oldest brother, John Wesley, and he now had a wife named Nancy. In 1873 he moves back...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Globe Cemetery, Globe, Gila County, Arizona, USA
GPS coordinates: 33.3947716, -110.7943420 (hddd.dddd)
Cochise, Chief. Nino b. February 6, 1874 d. December 23, 1984
Grandson of Cochise, Son of Tahza, Nephew of Geronimo. Leader of the Apache Indians for 87 years. At age 92, missing 1 leg and having to have help into the saddle, he won a role to play his fabled Grandfather in a 1967 episode of the television series, "High Chaparral." Nino died at 110 years of age in Arizona. (Bio by: MB)
Tombstone Cemetery (Old), Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Conlan, John 'Jocko' b. December 6, 1899 d. April 16, 1989
Hall of Fame Baseball Umpire. The son of a Chicago policeman, the 5-foot-7, 160-pound outfielder quit baseball in 1933 after having nine solid seasons in Triple-A at Rochester, Newark, Toledo and Montreal without ever getting a chance to play in the big leagues. But the White Sox, with whom had been a batboy in his youth, needed help after injuries to outfielders Mule Haas and Evar Swanson and signed Conlan as a fill-in in mid-1934. The left-handed batter hit .249 with 11 doubles in 63 games...[Read More] (Bio by: Ron Coons)
Cause of death: Heart failure
Green Acres Memorial Park, Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Plot: Love Section, Lot 39
Cook, Nathan E. b. October 10, 1885 d. September 10, 1992
US Military Figure. The lastPhilippine-American War Survivor. He enlisted in the United States Navy at Kansas City, Missouri on April 9, 1901. He was assigned as a cabin boy on the USS Pensacola. He served his country for forty-four years and retired from the Navy in 1947 as a Lieutenant Commander. During his service, he saw action in the Boxer Rebellion in China, the Philippine Insurrection, clashes along the US-Mexican border. He commanded a sub chaser in World War I which sank two German U-...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Cooley, Corydon Eliphalet b. April 2, 1836 d. March 19, 1915
Western Frontiersman and Folk Figure. He came to the White Mountains in the early 1860s after serving two years as a Lieutenant in the 2nd New Mexico Infantry Regiment. He came as a prospector and was one of the first white men to extensively explore the mineral wealth of the region. He loved and respected the Apache people and married two daughters of Pedro, an Apache band chief in the Forestdale area. He and his wives established a ranch in the area that is now the city of Show Low. Martha...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Fort Apache Cemetery, Navajo County, Arizona, USA
Cory, Kate T. b. February 8, 1861 d. June 12, 1958
Photographer. Kate Cory did what no one had done before or since, she lived in the Hopi Villages on the Arizona mesas, achieving an intimacy and trust with the people there that make her pictures unique. Working in isolation, she developed her negatives in a primitive darkroom, using rainwater. She is considered the West's most famous artists. Her paintings can be found today in the Sharlot Hall Museum,and the Smithsonian Institution. (Bio by: Laurie)
Arizona Pioneers Home Cemetery, Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
Cox, Robert b. May 12, 1896 d. September 8, 1974
Actor. He was one the last surviving members of Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops who appeared in many films of the 1920s and 1930s.
Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Plot: Section 57S, Block 12, Lot 4, Space 4
Crabbe, Buster b. February 2, 1908 d. April 23, 1983
Olympic Athlete, Actor. He was an Olympic swimmer who won a Gold Medal in the 400 meter freestyle in the 1932 games at Los Angeles. He was also an accomplished actor who starred in Tarzan and "Flash Gordon" and many other movies.
Green Acres Memorial Park, Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Plot: Heritage Gardens vault, not accessible to public view
Criger, Lou (Louis) b. February 3, 1872 d. May 14, 1934
Major League Baseball Player. Whenever pitching great Cy Young was on the mound, this catcher generally was behind the plate. The pair hooked up with the Cleveland Spiders (1896 to 1898), the St. Louis Cardinals (1899 to 1900) and the Boston Americans/Red Sox (1901 to 1908). So Criger caught most of Young's record 511 victories and, of course, many of his record 316 losses. Boston traded him on December 12, 1908 to the St. Louis Browns for catcher Ed "Tubby" Spencer. Then he went to the New...[Read More] (Bio by: Ron Coons)
Evergreen Memorial Park, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA
Cruz, Florentino d. March 1, 1882 (circa)
Western Outlaw. Cruz was a half-blood who was involved with cattle rustling, stage robberies, and other illegal activities with the likes of Ike Clanton, Curly Bill Brocius, Pete Spence, Frank Stillwell, and other enemies of the Earp brothers in Tombstone, AZ. On March 18, 1882, Cruz, Pete Spence, a gambler named Freis, Frank Stillwell, and another half-blood called "Indian Charley" were gathered in an alley behind one of Tombstone's pool halls. Morgan Earp was playing pool with his back to a...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Boothill Graveyard, Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Plot: Row 1

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