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  • Paradise Cemetery
    Small Town SceneSouthern Arizona
    By Sam Lowe
    September 25, 2013
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    Paradise & Eden: Nice Places to Live but not to Die For

    The idea of going to a better place after departing this world appeals to many, but those planning to get a head start by being interred in Eden or Paradise will run into complications. Both are very small communities in southeastern Arizona and both have cemeteries. But getting buried there is not simply a matter ...
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  • Culture
    By Andrea Aker
    May 2, 2013
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    Mattie Earp Gravesite, Vandals Spark Preservation of Historic Pinal Cemetery

    The historic Pinal Cemetery, ca. 1880 to approximately 1920, served the residents of Pinal and the mill workers from Silver King Mine. Following the mine closure in 1888, Pinal was depopulated but the cemetery was still used by the residents of the new copper camp, Superior.
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  • Dose of HistorySouthern Arizona
    By Andrea Aker
    February 12, 2013
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    Abraham Lincoln’s Bodyguard and Other Civil War Soldiers Buried in Southern Arizona

    While far removed from the thick of the Civil War, some fighting and territorial conquests extended here to present-day Arizona, including the war's westernmost battle. Sierra Vista-based Paranormal Intuitive Investigations recently stumbled across an interesting relic from this time during an historical investigation at the Pearce Cemetery
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