#009 WVRd Series Traditional Cache
LKLopez: Using number for a new gc
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The Williamson Valley Road Series is a Friends of Morgan Ranch Nature Park history project. Even numbered caches are on the E side of the Rd & odd on the W for 44 mi. WE RECOMMEND THAT YOU WORK 1 SIDE OF THE ROAD AT A TIME. Please pick up trash so the neighborhood trash-pickers are not drawn to the location.
PEMBERTON FAMILIES In 1875, the Allred, Cox, Pemberton, Roy, Zimmerman, and Stringfield families arrived in Yavapai County from Arkansas in a train of 74 wagons. The families worked their ranches near Mint Wash in the 1930s. Henry and Mary (Pemberton) Joyce homesteaded their Mint Valley place about 1880. Henry died in 1890, and Mary married William Allred Jr. in 1897. When they divorced, she continued to live in Mint Valley, where she was known as “Aunt” Mary Joyce. She stayed on the ranch after selling it to her brother Sam and his wife, Alice (Postle) Pemberton. “Aunt Mary Joyce was short and stout and no one remembers her wearing shoes. She smoked a corncob pipe which she lit with hot coals that she pulled from the fireplace with her tough bare toes. Robert and Nancy Adeline (Pemberton) Stringfield homesteaded Mint Valley in 1884. In 1888, Robert was killed in a wagon accident. Adeline continued to run the ranch. Her daughters Vada, Alice, and Bertha lived next door. Her son Albert struck out on his own. Albert, married his teacher, Hattie Crane, in 1892. Their sons, Lon and Jim, ran the Stringfield Ranch under the L-L brand. When Albert died, he left the ranch to Hattie; she then bequeathed it to her daughters. Robert Postle built a house on the Joyce homestead for his sister Alice and her husband, Samuel Pemberton, in 1899. Postle used hand-hewn logs brought by oxen from Thumb Butte. Lee Murphy remembered the log house, where he voted and registered for the draft with Sam Pemberton and Jim and Lon Stringfield in 1918. Henry and Dora Sharp moved to the home in 1937. Tom and Betty (Sharp) Allmon and family were living in the house when it was struck by lightning and burned down in 1990. Arcadia Publication's, Williamson Valley Road
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