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March 19, 2014 www.DesertMessenger.com 23 GRAVES FROM PAGE 21 208-290-5102 Honey Do Lists? Builder with 35 years experience in satisfied customers! High quality workmanship Small to Large Projects Call Rich! not a licensed contractor Across from McDonald's • Quartzsite NEED CASH? Jim Buys STERLING SILVER! All Silver Coins, .999 Bars, Sterling Silverware, etc. 1240 W. Main Street VFW Post 769 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS 120 S. Palo Verde, Quartzsite, AZ, 928-927-7697 Comrades Meeting 1st Saturday 9am VFW Riders meeting 1st Saturday of the month at 2PM Mens Auxiliary Meeting: 1st Tuesday 6pm Ladies Auxiliary Meeting: 1st Tuesday 6:30pm, Senior Center House Committee meeting: CHECK CALENDAR This is a smoking establishment • Members & Guests Only for Alcohol Service MARCH 22: Fundraiser Dinner for Salome Junior Class. The Junior Class will be cooking and serving the meal. 4:00pm - 6:30pm or until the food is gone. Friday Night FISH FRY 4-7 p.m. Saturday Nights 5pm -? MUSIC by Romance & Rythym ACTIVITIES FOR CORPORAL BEN SCOTT POST 769 AND LADIES AUXILIARY 769 IRONWOOD OUTPOST, LLC 225 North Central Quartzsite, AZ 85359-4750 Office: 928-927-8543 Fax: 928-550-7020 Email: ironwoodoutpost@yahoo.com Conveniently located in the Horizon Community Bank parking lot Ironwood Outpost, LLC offers a variety of services including: PRIVATE MAIL BOX Individual mail box (includes forwarding for annual box holders) MAIL PICKUP Full time residents with keys-we will pick up and forward your mail. NOTARY There are two notaries on staff to service our walk-in customers. UPS/FEDEX We ship UPS/FedEx & allow your packages to be delivered to our address. OFFICE SERVICES Copies, fax (incoming and outgoing), email retrieval, etc. COME VISIT US. WE WILL DO ALL WE CAN TO MAKE YOUR STAY IN QUARTZSITE THIS SEASON HASSLE FREE! Grave at Cullings Well The Wenden Cemetery offers a colorful history of the community it served. It seems that Wenden was a town that once a family settled there, they stayed. Buried in the cemetery are the families of pioneer farmers, cattle ranchers, teachers, and merchants. On the Salome Road, about 5.2 miles southeast of Highway 60 is a cemetery with a monument created from glistening white quartz topped with a metal silhouette of a covered wagon. The marker is etched with the following: "In remembrance of the pioneers who gave their lives to the development of the West," In 1849, a party of pioneers halted their wagons at a nearby watering hole where they en- countered a group of hostile Indians. To the last child, the pioneers met their death at this place. Several months later, gold seekers on their way to California came upon their remains and buried them on a nearby knoll. Another cemetery in the Salome area is the Harquahala Cemetery. In 1762 a party of Spanish prospec- tors found minerals in an area they called Harquahala (running water high up). Their stay was short-lived as unfriendly Indians put an end to their exploration. Forty years later a rich vein called the Golden Eagle was discovered nearby and Harqua- hala sprang to life again as a boom- town. When the ore body played out the town of Harquahala and its cemetery were left behind. The hardships of the early gold miners, fortune hunters, pioneers, soldiers, and emigrants were great—Indian attacks, starvation, wild animals, dehydration, and harsh weather took many lives on the trails blazed across La Paz County. Those that succumbed to the hardships were laid to their fi nal resting place in shallow, unmarked graves, which were covered with rocks in an effort to pre- vent coyotes and other wild animals from disturbing the remains. Southeast of Wenden, near the historic Culling's Well (see Volume I, In The Shadow of Saguaros for a his- tory on Charles C. Culling's Guid- ing Light to Water), are a number of well-tended graves. Even in this remote place, loving hands have cared for the graves with freshly painted markers and dried fl owers. When walking out upon the desert, should you come across a group of carefully laid rocks, please be reminded that in this place may be the remains of someone's loved one who was buried along their path while in search of adventure, fortune, or a dream. Let them dream and rest in peace. DEADLINE IS WED MAR 26 for April 2 nd edition Desert Messenger Email: editor@DesertMessenger.com Phone: 928-916-4235 www.DesertMessenger.com

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