Mary Lucinda Holmesley
23 Jul 1848 - 7 Sep 1930
bornSpringdale, Arkansas, USA
diedTempe, Arizona, USA
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BiographyCame to Tempe c1876.Came from Arkansas with her family and the Walker family and settled in Prescott, Arizona, in 1876. They decided to move to Phoenix, but met Charles Trumbull Hayden, who persuaded them to move to Hayden's Ferry (Tempe). They homesteaded land in the Tempe area.
In the 1920s, she was known as the oldest resident of Tempe. She always attended the Arizona Republic Pioneer Reunion and the Old Settlers picnic in Tempe. At the 1920 Old Settlers picnic,
she told how she had roped a mature camel just south of Tempe, which had been abandoned
long after the Beale expedition. The camel, which had been brought from Syria, became gentle, but no use could be found for him.
She lived at 818 McAllister Avenue in 1921, '23, -'26, -'28, -'30 See also: Walker, Thompson N.
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BIO-Holmesley
BIO-Walker
Old Settlers Collection, THM
Federal census (Tempe), 1880, 1900, 1910
Tempe CD, 1906-1911, '21, '23, -'26, -'28 , -'30
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
Painter Scrapbook, pp. 74, 79
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