Celeste P. Holmesley
13 Oct 1860 - 1946
bornWashington County, Arkansas, USA
diedArizona, USA
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BiographyArrived in Tempe in 1876. Came to Arizona in 1875 from Arkansas with her parents and five brothers and sisters. The family spent a year in Prescott, then came to Tempe in November 1876. They homesteaded southeast of Tempe in 1877.
Married to Thompson Walker, but later divorced from him by an act of the first Territorial Legislature.
Owned the land next to her sister, Alice Kathryn Holmesley on Rural Rd. Also bought the land on the southwest corner of Rural and Apache.
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Old Settlers Collection, THM
Federal census, 1880, 1900
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
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