Arizona Pioneer & Cemetery Research Project
OATMAN Pioneer Cemetery
OATMAN, AZ
Mohave County, Arizona
From Oatman,  find the road that follows the Tram Towers, heading E.-N.E. past the Tom Reed Mine, leading to the Black Eagle Mine. At present the cemetery is on posted, gated, Private Property - DO NOT TRESPASS. Trespassing is a Felony in AZ.
Latitude N35 1 12.38, Longitude W114 22 34.35, (WGS84) (Elevation 2,748)
Burials =		61				7/21/2014
MKR	SURNAME	FIRST NAME	MIDDLE NAME	BIRTH DATE	DEATH DATE	COMMENTS/INSCRIPTION
	ANGUS	Don			Oct. 9, 1915	DC: Receipt for coffin sent to Oatman (Librarian)
	ARAGUJO	Edward		May. 18, 1929	Oct. 30, 1929	DC: 5M 12D, COD: Broncho pneumonia, F. Ramon Aragujo, M. Amanda Geofrey, No undertaker.
	BARMONTS	Frank		Sep. 1918	Oct.  2, 1918	DC: 2M, COD: Influenza, F. John Barmonts, M. B. Cassities
	BELLES	Frank		Oct. 7, 1868	Nov. 2, 1916	DC: Miner, Married, Spanish, COD: General septicemia, secondary to boils on body lasted 4 days.
	BENDING	Baby Boy		Mar. 13, 1922	Mar. 13, 1922	COD: Stillborn, R. Foster Bending, M. Bernadette Callette, Undertaker "None had".
	BERMONTES	John		1885	Nov. 8, 1918	DC: Miner, Married, COD: Influenza Pneumonia
	BOYLEFT	Baby Boy		Aug. 27 1922	Aug. 27, 1922	DC:  Stillborn, F Henry Boyleft, M. Clara Athason.
	BRUCE	Joe		1873	Feb. 28, 1916	DC: Miner, Single, COD: Pneumonia.
	BUSH	Louis	A.	Unknown	Dec. 26, 1917	DC: Married, COD: Acute Peritonitis.
	CARROLL	Harrison	Margaret	Nov. 30, 1916	Nov. 20, 1918	DC: 1Y 11M 21D, COD: Broncho-pneumonia, F. James Carroll, M L. Harrison.
	CARTER	Charles	Noble	Jun. 25, 1919	Jul. 1, 1923	DC: 4Y 6D, COD: Acute Ileo Colitis, F. S.J. Cartere, M. Lillie Aerea, Note on DC: In absence of undertaker, Buried by J. Mackie, Health Officer.
	COOPER	Clair		Sep. 8, 1901	Jun. 11, 1916	DC: Male, 14Y 9M 3D, COD: Burned over 3/4 surface of body, F. J.J. Cooper, M. Reilly.
Y	DRABEK	Anne H.	Williamson	Oct. 15, 1885	Sep. 26, 1914	DC: 28Y 11M 11D, Wife of L.J. Drabek, COD: Acute diffuse nephritis with contrib. Pregnancy.
Y	DRABEK	Chauncey	Clyde	Dec. 7, 1911	Nov. 2, 1912	DC: Infant son, 10M 25D, COD: No cause given, F. L.J. Drabek, M. Anna Williamson.
	EDSALL	Baby Boy		Oct. 26, 1922	Oct. 27, 1922	DC: COD: Premature, F. A. Edsall, M. Florence Dallenger, No undertaker.
	ELKINS	George	Oswald	Feb. 24, 1870	Nov. 16, 1918	DC: Merchant, COD: Pneumonia
	FARROW	Male Baby		Apr. 14, 1918	Apr. 15, 1918	DC: Asphyxia neonatorum, F. F.B Farrow, M. Mabel Marden.
	FAVERA	Pete		Feb. 18, 1896	Nov. 15, 1918	DC: 22Y 7M 27D, Single, Miner, COD: Influenza.
	FLORES	Angelita		Dec. 19, 1924	Jan. 30, 1927	DC 2Y 11D, COD: Peritonitis, F. Ernesto Flores, M. Marie Jesus Flores, No undertaker.
Y	FLORES	Maria	Jesus	1884	Mar. 6, 1929	DC: Married, Mother of Angelita and Romona Flores, who predeceased her, COD: Broncho pneumonia, No undertaker.
	FLORES	Ramona		Feb. 27, 1929	Mar. 1, 1929	DC: 3D, COD: Asphyxiation due mostly likely to central hemorrhage, F. Ernesto Flores, M. Jaria Jesus Flores, No undertaker.
	GRAVSTAD	Louis		Aug. 22, 1877	Nov. 4, 1918	DC: 41Y 2M 13D, Single, Miner, COD: Influenza.
	GRIZZELL	William	W.	Mar. 19, 1882	Nov. 5, 1918	DC: 36Y 6M 22D, Single COD: Influenza, pneumonia.
	GUERRA	Manuel		Unknown	Nov. 8, 1918	DC: Single, Miner, COD: Broncho pneumonia.
Y	HERNANDEZ	Vincenta	Sebayas	1885	May. 28, 1924	DC:  Married, COD: Labor of childbirth, lack of vitality, NOTE DC: Says Kingman,  but has marker in Oatman Cem.
Y	HIGHTOWER	Edgar	Leonard	Jul. 31, 1918	Jan. 29, 1919	DC: 5M 29D, COD: Suffocation and baby died suddenly while laying in buggy. Evidently drowned in his own vomitas. F. John Thomas Hightower, M. Olive Bassie Golden. Obit in paper stated "the little lad had been ailing for some time and one morning this week was found dead in his baby buggy. Death was supposed to have been caused by strangulation."
	HITTSON	Baby Boy		Jun. 19, 1923	Jun. 19, 1923	DC: 1D, COD: Premature, lowered vitality, F. Wm. E. Hittson, M. Bertiee E. Campbell, No undertaker.
	JOHNSON	Baby Boy		Feb. 1, 1936	Feb. 1, 1936	DC:  COD:  Fetus D.I.A. - toxemic mother, F. Claude Johnson, M. Mabel White, No undertaker
	JOHNSTONE	David	Paul	May. 22, 1924	May. 22, 1924	DC: Stillborn, F. Robt. R. Johnstone, M. Rose Ethel Bending, Bur. By Wm. Mackie Health officer.
	JONES	Baby Boy		Jul. 8, 1922	Jul. 8, 1922	DC: Stillborn, F. Romo Nichols Jones, M. Bertha N. Lamn, No undertaker.
	LANG	Edward		1854	Sep. 21, 1920	DC: Single, Miner, COD: From News Story: Was working in a stope and was coming down from it, when a loose boulder fell and crushed him. He was killed instantly.
	LARSON	Gertude	Browning Boynton	Jul. 27, 1892	Jul. 11, 1916	DC: 23Y 11M 10D, Divorced, COD: Tuberculosis of lungs, was taken ill Sept. 1915, reported to have started with "LaGrippe."
	LEWIS	Albert	Nathen	Feb 20, 1864	Nov. 21, 1921	DC: 57Y 9M 20D, Miner, COD: News Story: Crushed to death by a cave-in, in a stope on the 800 ft. Level of the United Eastern. Lewis was a mucker and had been at work at the mine a considerable time. His back was broken by the slide of ore and death was almost instantaneous. (Internal injuries also.) Funeral under auspicies of Moose Lodge.
	MARTINEZ	Mary		Jun. 10, 1929	Jun. 12, 1929	DC: 2 days old, No doctor, F. Guillermo Martinez, M. Susie Delgado, No undertaker.
	McCULLOCH	Baby Boy		Aug. 17, 1930	Aug. 17, 1930	DC: Stillborn, COD: Five month gestation, detached placenta, F. Peter McCulloch, M. Jancie Harvey, No undertaker.
	MORENO	Jose		Apr. 14, 1927	Jun. 30, 1927	DC: 3M 16D, COD: Broncho pneumonia, F. Jose Moreno, M. Mercedes Lopez, No bur. Pl. but all signatures in Oatman.
	MOWLES	John	Cleveland	Jan. 30 1885	Dec. 13, 1918	DC: 33Y 10M 17D, COD: Influenza, F. John Henry Mowles, M. ?, Salem Virginia, No bur. Pl. all signatures in Oatman.
	NUNEZ	Augustin		Apr. 16, 1889	Oct. 4, 1926	DC: 37Y 5M 19D, Married, Miner, COD: Accident, ran off mountain road in automobile, occipital portion of skull crushed.
Y	OLEXSON	Oscar		Jan. 20, 1884	Nov. 13, 1922	DC: Born in Finland, Miner, Single, COD: Pulmonary TB, Bur. Oatman by Moose Lodge
	OLSON	George		Dec. 21, 1872	Nov. 13, 1918	DC: 45Y 10M 20D, Single, Miner, COD: Broncho pneumonia, influenza.
	PARSONS	Baby Girl		Jun. 16, 1917	Jun. 16, 1917	DC: Lv. Less than one day, COD: Organic heart failure of closing valve, F. Harry Parsons, M. Nellie Deeble, Doctor acted as undertaker. No bur. Pl. all signatures in Oatman.
	PASTRANA	Doloras		1871	Nov. 6, 1918	DC: Male, Married, Miner, COD: Influenza, Tuberculosis, Father of two children who died also, No Undertaker.
	PASTRANA	Natalia		1911	Nov. 29, 1918	DC: 7Y, COD: Pneumonia, F. Doloras Pastrana, M. Francisca Ochoa, Another baby died on year before. No undertaker.
	PASTRANA (PASTRANO)	Baby Girl		Oct. 27, 1917	Nov. 5, 1917	DC: Lv. 9D, COD: Premature birth. Another baby died one year later. F. D. Pastrana, M. Francisca Ochoa.
	PETERSON	Walter		1884	Nov. 8, 1918	DC: No burial indicated, 34Y, COD: Influenza Pnemounia, Miner, F. Unknown, M. Unknown
	PROCTOR	William	J.	Aug. 13, 1889	Nov. 4, 1918	DC: 37Y 2M 21D, Married, Miner, COD: Influenza, No undertaker.
	PROESTEL	Carl	Samuel	May. 29, 1871	Nov. 11, 1918	DC: No burial indicated, 47Y 5M 19D, COD: Influenze Pnemounia F. Julis Proestel, M. Not listed
	QUINONE (QUINONES)	Gregorio		1879	Feb. 14, 1924	DC: Married, Wife: Carmon Quinones, Gold Miner, COD: Accident drilling into a missed hole or loose powder left from a previous blasting following his own round of his previous shaft.
	RAMIREZ	Antonio		Unknown	Nov. 4, 1918	DC: Single, Miner, COD: Influenza, pneumonia, No undertaker.
	ROBINSON	Jack		Apr. 11, 1845	Nov. 16, 1919	DC: 74Y 7M 15D, COD: Hypostatice pneumonia by complications of general debility due to old age. DC states burial in Kingman, but marker is Oatman Cem.
	SCOTT	Edward		Feb. 11, 1912	Feb. 11, 1912	DC: COD: Stillborn, physician in attendance. F. Harry E. Scott, M. Mabel Schrapp, No undertaker.
	SMITH	John	Theodore	Oct. 24, 1840	Sep. 30, 1923	DC: 82Y 11M 6D, Married, Wife Helen Marie Smith, Machinist Tom Reed Mine, COD: Tuberculosis.
	STANLEY	Jaunita		Jan. 21, 1926	Jan. 21, 1926	DC: COD: Stillborn, F. John Stanley, M. Mary Markis, No undertaker.
	SWITHENBANK	Lola	May	Sep. 3, 1925	Sep. 6, 1925	DC: 3D, COD: patent foramen ovale, F. Robert Charles Swithenbank, M. Minnie Alda Gamison.
	VILLERA (VILLELA)	Jesus		1889	Dec. 22, 1926	DC: Married - Marie Melendrez, Miner, COD: Cancer of intestine.
	VILLINEZ	Raymondo Jr.		May. 21, 1942	May. 21, 1942	DC: COD: Premature delivery at 6Mo, cause unknown, F. Raymundo Villinez, M. Rose Martinez, No embalmer or funeral director.
	WANBERG	Mary		1877	Nov. 12 1918	DC: Married, COD: Broncho pneumonia, influenza, No undertaker.
	WESTERMAN	Fred	H.	Feb. 3, 1874	May. 14, 1921	DC: Single, Miner, COD: Injury, contusion of brain and internal injuries, News Story: Fell down Winze in the United Eastern Mine, never regained consciousness, died about a week later.
Y	WHITE	Paul	E.	1873	Nov. 1, 1923	DC: Single, Miner, COD: Having neck broken by a fall down a main Winze in the Big Jim Mine. His fall was due to unknown causes.
	WILSON	Adolph		Feb. 12, 1881	Nov. 12, 1918	DC: 37Y 9M 10D, Miner, COD: Died in Arizona Hotel, Broncho pneumonia, influenza. No undertaker
	WORTH	Clifton		1869	1918	DC: - other sources, 42Y 10M 18D, COD: Broncho-pneymonia, influenza, married, miner
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REFERENCE:
COD:	Cause of death, listed on DC:
DC:	Death Certificate Recorded.
F.	Father
M.	Mother
Contributor: Neal Du Shane
Research: Kathy Block
This cemetery was not visited by APCRP Coordinators. There could be as many as 50 more graves with no markers or headstones in this Pioneer Cemetery. It is reported some graves have been identified with rocks, others have not.
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