Globe Cemetery | Globe, Arizona | Seeking Out the Graves of Pioneers
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- With Halloween on our minds, an old video creeps out of the vault to offer some spooky seasonal atmosphere. Today we visit the historic old Globe Cemetery & cover what this location is like as well as visit some of the notable "residents".
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We were recently in Globe, Arizona filming the old Indian ruins of Besh-Ba-Gowah for a video. As we were nearing the end of our visit, we asked the employee at the desk of the Visitor Center for recommendations of other historic sites in the area. One location she suggested was the Historic Globe Cemetery. Having seen an advertisement earlier with photos of notable burials, this sounded perfect for a rare cool and cloudy Arizona day!
Cemeteries can certainly be deemed strange places to go for tourism, however, they also can be quiet, peaceful and in cases like these, they hold a lot of history. Due to this cemetery, I've learned a lot more about the history of the Globe-Miami area and a few figures how shaped its past.
The first known burial is that of Thomas B. Hammond in 1876. His grave simply says "murdered by Apaches". The story goes that he and his brother set off to prospect silver and gold that had been found in the area. While away on a trip with a group, Thomas's camp was raided by Apache and he was murdered. Doc Hammond, Thomas's brother, claimed his brother's body and buried him in the hillside that became Globe Cemetery,
Al Sieber is another buried in the Globe Cemetery. A civil war veteran, Sieber served as Chief of Scouts for the US Army during the Apache Wars of the late 1800s. He was highly regarded by many and even had tied to Josephine Earp. After a number of Yuma-Apaches escaped a reservation, he escorted Wyatt Earp's soon to be common law wife to a ranch house where her and her party would be safe.
Other areas of interest include the graves of several Buffalo Soldiers, a memorial to early Chinese residents of Globe, Judge Aaron Hackney (a frontier newspaperman who founded Globe's famed Arizona Silver Belt paper), Robert S Knowles (a fellow scout for Al Sieber) and the Sheriffs John Henry "Rimrock Henry" Thompson and Glenn Reynolds.
There is no shortage of stories one can find at Globe Cemetery. Expect to spend a decent amount of time if you want to explore more than the marked historic locations. There are roads winding through the cemetery, however they are not paved and can be quite bumpy. If you are a history buff and this is your kind of thing, Globe Cemetery is a goldmine of a location.
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I'm from globe az. It's cool that you have released this video.
I grew-up there and have family and friends buried there, too👍 Awesome video
Thank you so much! It's a beautiful place & the town of Globe is one we keep meaning to go back and explore. 😊
@@CactusAtlas I know all of the best spots, that's where I became one of the fastest runners in the entire Army. I ran everywhere, on foot to get anywhere, I had to go👍;True story. Pat Tillman even knew who I was and he went to Airborne school with my bestfriend from basic-training. I was supposed to watch them graduate from Airborne school at Fort Benning, where we went to basic. I got into trouble and got stuck on the military base in Fort Rucker, AL., for drinking, underage. So, I never actually met him, but I was in Baghdad, Iraq with his childhood bestfriend, a medic named SPC. Anderson; he taught us Combat Lifesaver Course. I have so many stories, you wouldn't believe it. I even bench pressed 300lbs in Saddam's palace and got it on a few of my TH-cam videos 👍
My great-grandfather is buried there but has no gravestone. He was born in 1882 and died in 1918 when my grandmother was an infant. George Powell was a prominent leader of the mining union and died in a mining accident. My goal is to get him a headstone. His widow was given money to put up a stone but she never did it. Thank you for the tour!
Globe has the most amazing cemetery tours in April. The Copper Cities Community Players take on the characters of some of those buried there. It's amazing!
Sounds amazing! We will have to make it a point to take a tour.
Interesting cemetery tour. Haven't really thought about the historical value of older cemeteries in our travels. But this one was actually pretty thought provoking. Interesting to think how quickly the average person is forgotten in the grand scheme of things. Thanks for taking us along!
No problem! 😃 We've each been to numerous cemeteries in our lifetimes (anywhere from a nearby standard one to old historical ones in New England) but for some reason the difference in memorials and lack of historical markers really stuck out at this place as we climbed the hill. Probably not everyone's cup of tea 😅 but we had fun and learned a lot about the people afterwards when editing the video too! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the video. I scouted that cemetery a1bout ten years ago with my partner Millie Clarke, 2014, looking for the graves of her parents and grandparents. Her grandfather was the Superintendent of the Smelter and the mine in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Her father ran the local Woolworth store in the 1930's and 40's and her mother Mildred Hoar was born in Tombstone, AZ in 1906. We look for hours and finally found all four graves together with concrete slabs over the sites with readable markers.
It's a lot of ground to cover if you're in search of specific people. That said, there's just something about it that makes the wandering worthwhile. ☺️
Every year, our scout troop would put up flags
Very interesting cemetery
The hillside really made it kind of atmospheric (lol) and made for a great chance to look around at the surrounding area. It's also so easy to forget that Arizona isn't that old of a state.
Thank you for sharing this video 👍❤️
Absolutely! Thank you for watching! ☺️
Many of mine early pioneers family members of the Globe / Miami Arizona area-Resting In Peace. Thanks for sharing 😇
Anytime! ☺️
My Dad works at the mine in Miami.👍
Interesting that they have signage pointing out the graves of interest. That's a great idea.
I like how you've included pictures of people corresponding to the gravesite.
Great video 😃
Thank you very much! Glad you liked it. We sort of went there on a whim while in the area and knew very little at the time about some of the more historical people. We found it really interesting to research them afterwards and see what they looked like and what made them notable. Would be really cool if some of that information was on the signage there as well. Thanks again for watching and the comment. 😊
Also born (1947) and raised in Globe, AZ (GHS Class of '65)... in my estimation, Globe City USA (as my Navy buddies dubbed her) was the "Village it took" to raise generations of us Globe'ites who now live far and wide away from the place we grew up... My parents... my brother and sister-in-law... my two Grandmothers and my great grandmother are all buried in this cemetery...
Thanks for the tour! Cemeteries are such fascinating locations because of all the history they hold!
Agree! A little digging and investigation and it's surprising the history one finds! 😃
Great Grandparents there ❤️
Fascinating visit. The Gila Valley has many Mormon Battalion members. It's either Pima or Thatcher that has the Congressional Medal of Honor Winner for the Indian Wars. Up on the White Mt. Apache Reservation the grave of an early lady school teacher to the Apache children is still honored with flowers. Kindness remembered.
we used to explore the hell out of that cemetery back in the 80s when i lived there in Globe .
I can see how one could make many trips and spend a great deal of time there while still missing so much. It's a fantastic place to explore.
@@CactusAtlas I miss living there. I grew up there until 91. Lived on Bailey Street. You should visit the Nob Hill Grocery store. If it’s still standing there. Little ol store with a little old lady that runs it I think if she’s still there. Tell her Dustin says hi lol
We honestly need to get back to that area. It's been far too long and still so many areas left to explore.
Look up the history of Sheriff Glenn Reynolds! Wild story! And Al sieber, Chief of Scouts is anotherhistoric person of great interest! Arizona has so much more than the Tombstone stories!
How interesting! Great that they have signs and information. It really is huge. So glad you found this place and took time to look around it.
The signs were incredibly helpful as big as the place is!
another fun family trip :P I guess they all can't be scenic hikes.
What? You did not think that was scenic? Come on! There were some beautiful views from up there! 😂. Sometimes we like to throw in a bit of pioneer history. Plus it’s the Halloween season and wanted something a bit on the darker side. Or, Amy and I are weird and enjoy cemeteries. Probably that last one lol....
@@CactusAtlas you’re right I guess any view that is above ground is beautiful! As far as the rest...you said it not me 🤣🤣🤣
What a great idea close to Halloween it was very interesting-and I love that you shared the photographs of the people in those historic graves! I hope you guys have a great Halloween and stay safe!
Thanks so much! Yeah... the video is a bit old but figured Halloween might make for a good fit. 😅 A lot of other more timely videos pushed it back and then well... 2020 happened and it felt kind of weird to publish it. 🤔 Have a great weekend and Halloween yourself. Probably just staying in and carving those pumpkins we bought and meant to carve earlier and maybe roasting some seeds if I have the patience for cleaning the guts off. Hahaha.
@@CactusAtlas That is exactly what we are doing! Have a good one, and congrats once again on your subscriber milestone!!! :-)
Thank you so much! 😊
Good tour and talk man. Thumbs up from a small creator 😅
Much appreciated! Thanks for watching!
I almost cried
my dad passed away here in Globe
I am sorry for your loss. RIP
It is a beautiful and peaceful cemetery. My husband and I want to be laid to rest there. I called and I guess you can’t buy plots ahead of time because of such little land left there.
Well not all hikes are under trees or on designated paths. Talk about a thought provoking vid. Got the feeling someone or both of you are subbed to Caitlin. Think I'm going to do the composting route myself.
Which one of you has 1 or more containers of graveyard dirt?
Caitlin from Ask a Mortician? Glenn would enjoy letting you know that HE found her first. 🤣 It was a good find though. We both really enjoy her channel. And no... no graveyard dirt around here. 😂
Go to the cemetery right outside of downtown Globe. There you’ll find many Buffalo soldiers and other interesting people.
That's this cemetery. 😊 Loads of history in there.
Wow, that is massive! I can see why you all had to split up.
Yeah. We a saw a poster advertising it at another location we went to but had NO idea how large it was. 😂
When you see a headstone that says something about the Arizona Territory legislature, remember Sharlot Hall of Prescott fame, Poet Laureate of Arizona, who, as the official state historian and then just Arizona activists, had a running campaign to mark the graves of Arizona pioneers.
We're both big fans of what she did for Arizona. We have a video on her and her museum, as well as another one VERY shortly in the future. 😉
There is a guy buried there infact you walked past his grave, that was part of the ok corral, Phin Clanton, one of the Clanton brothers & his wife Rachel, who owned a goat farm up on the sleeping beauty mine there on the 60 in Globe, his partners name was Spencer, it was said that Phin died from exposure to the cold after his wagon rolled off of the Sleeping Beauty Mountain & wasn’t found before he passed from the cold weather
We missed a lot there. We need to go back and explore more as our visit was an unplanned trip. 👍
@@CactusAtlas Globe is full of so much history, If you haven’t done it yet, a tour through the old jail, is quite the experience as well, I lived in Globe for many years & just moved to Wickenburg from there 8 years ago, Wickenburg is also an amazing little town to explore with loads of history
@@CactusAtlas I have a lot of family including my parents buried there, they are in the lower section though
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Greatly appreciate you recognizing the town of Globe and one of the most historical cemeteries, but you missed the Black American soldiers known as “Buffalo Soldiers buried there. They have as much if not more historical significance as the law officers and politicians buried there.
We know. At the time we went to Globe, the cemetery was not a planned visit, therefore we had no maps and limited time to explore & film. It was not until later while editing that we learned where the locations of the historical markers we didn't see were in addition to a separate section that was not visible to us at the time we were there. We mention this in our accompanying blog article.
He is buried here
Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry for your loss. It's really a gorgeous cemetery on the hillside and one we enjoyed exploring. I can't even imagine putting up flags across that property. That must be quite the sight.
Ed Tewskeskey is buried there
Pioneer? My Grandfather was born in Arizona before it was a state. His family were pioneers. His generation laid the foundation for the twin sister towns. But, I stumbled onto something that goes back even further than those pioneers. Only a few know about.
Very cool to have that history in the family!
@@CactusAtlas He's a ramnant of the Spanish exploration coming up from Mexico. My other Grandfather on my Dad's side as well. My Dad's Father was a watchmaker and jewler.
My Father because a watchmaker as well. But when he came to America, he became a mechanic, being knowledgeable about the metric system during foreign vehicle trade started, he instantly because big in being a mechanic. He liked the body and paint side of vehicles that he would find higher pay. He worked with both McSpadden Ford and Cobre Valley Motors and was one of the best in Gila County.
All the while still fixing watches and clocks for friends and family.
@@victororo462 thank you for sharing some of your unique family history as it pertains to Globe Ariz. ! Any idea where the term Cobre Valley comes from?
@@roderichroby6236 I'll take copper for $400 Alex.. 😊
I meant Ed Tewksbury
We've been meaning to head back and film the places we missed. 👍
Nobody knows who I am now 😂
Lawlessness.!
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