Unknown Grave - Ehrenburg, AZ - Graves of the Unknown on Waymarking.com

Just across the highway from the Colorado River is the sadly neglected Pioneer Cemetery with the remains of many early settlers of the town. Only a few graves are marked at all. This grave is just to the right as you enter the cemetery. Found the following on the Vanishing Arizona website:

By Martha Summerhayes

Born October 21, 1844 - Died May 12, 1926

WINTER IN EHRENBURG

From Jack’s diary (her husband): “Aug. 23rd. Heat awful. Pringle died today” He was the third soldier to succumb. It seemed to me their fate was a hard one. To die, down in a wretched place, to be rolled a blanket and buried on those desert shores, with nothing but a heap of stones to mark their graves.

The next day I asked Jack to walk to the grave-yard with me. He postponed it from day to day, but I insisted upon going. At last, he took me to see it.

There was no enclosure, but the bare, sloping, sandy place was sprinkled with graves, marked by heaps of stones, and in some instance by rude crosses of wood, some of which had been wrenched from their upright position by the fierce sand-storms. There was not a blade of grass, a tree, or a flower. I walked about among these graves, and close beside some of them I saw deep holes and whitened bones. I was quite ignorant or unthinking, and asked what the holes were.

“It is where the coyotes and wolves come in the nights,” said jack.

My heart sickened as I thought of these horrors, and I wonder if Ehrenburg held anything in store for me worse than what I had already seen. We turned away from this unhallowed grave-yard and walked to our quarters. I had never known much about “nerves,” but I began to see specters in the nights, and those ghastly graves with their coyote-holes were ever before me. The place was but a stone’s throw from us, and the uneasy spirits from these desecrated graves began to haunt me. I couldn’t not sit alone on the porch at night, for they peered through the lattice, and mocked at me, and beckoned. Some had no heads, some no arms, but they pointed or nodded towards the grewsome burying-ground: “you’ll be with us soon, you’ll be with us soon.”

Burial Location: Pioneer Cemetery Ehrenburg, AZ Available Times for Viewing: 24/7

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