#099 WVRd Series Traditional Cache
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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. Be Prepared- No Services, No Cell.
MOSHER FAMILY In the 1880s, Roland Mosher (1850– 1924) homesteaded where John Hunt’s ranch is now located. Neighbor Bill Shook, brandishing a gun, chased off men claim-jumping Mosher’s mine. Later, they worked the Antelope Mine together. Ida Burnett (1863–1926) taught at the Camp Hualapai School beginning in 1879. In 1885, Ida and Roland married in Prescott, where he served as Yavapai County recorder, and she was the chief deputy county recorder. (Sharlot Hall Museum.) William Clarence Denny (1826–1918) married Emily Bragg (1830–1903). In 1882, they homesteaded on the north bank of Walnut Creek, west of Fort Hualapai. Their daughter Harriett married George Connell, homesteading south at Camp Wood. In 1893, William and Emily’s son Fred, a Walnut Creek postmaster, married Elizabeth Ainsworth, daughter of George Ainsworth. William and his son Clarence ran cattle and sheep at a number of ranches, including the 7 Up, Denny, and Fort Rock. Ada Ann (Fancher) Heckethorn, a Chino Valley resident, wrote the 1997 book The Toll Road: Prescott to Fort Mojave. James and Anne Fancher, her paternal grandparents, ranched on the Big Sandy west of Walnut Creek in the early 1900s. Their son Charles married Anna Vasquez in 1895 and raised 10 children. Charles and Anna’s son Eph married Ada Nan Connell. The Imus family ran a stage station on the Hardyville Road. In 1887, Rose (Hunt) Imus traveled 40 miles to give birth to her daughter May at the Goodwin (later Young) homestead on the fork of Walnut and Apache Creeks. Arcadia Publication's, Williamson Valley Road
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