The border vidette., 1934-05-19
COCAiSE BURIAL MARkER
PLACED
(Arizona Daily STAR

COchise' monument in Cochise
Stronghold ia b Dragon
mountains yesterday MAY 12)
afternoon during atwo hour pro-
gram in which many prominent
| pioneer ArIzonans took part.
The monument was receutly
com pleted by the Uoited States
forest service end yesterdays
iofmal dedication was sponsored
by the progressive Pioneers Wo
nan's club of Coch,se county as
the feature Of an Old Settlers
picUic.
Cochise was the most famous
OF all the Apache war chiefs and
led his band oi Cniricahua Apa
ches Ia depredatlons against she
white settlers of southern Ari
2oua aud against the Mex
icaus across The border for many
years.
When he d e d in Cochise
Stronghold ia 1874 there was
only one white man who k1ew Of
the location Of his grave. That
man was Captain Jetfords. his
white blood brother" and the
only white man publicly respect
ed BY Cochise in his latter years.
Jeffords related that the body
was placed in grave on a fat
mesa TO north and east of the
mouth of Cochise Stronghold
| and that all indentifying marks
| of the burial were obliterated by
the flying hoofs Of borses ridden
back and forth by 500 Apache
braves. That ia as much as
| Ca ptain Jeffotds would ever tell.
However. it is known that it
was not far from the location OF
the monument dedicated yester
day. The inscription, etched in
a bronze plate, reads as follows:
In this, bis fovori5a stronghold,
| Cochise died in 1874. Greatest
Of Apache warriors, inferred se
cretly by bis followers. the exact
place OF bis burial Ia u1known" :"
The master of ceremonies vas
| Walter Newbefry Of Bistee.
Speakers On tbs program we're
Mrs. Charles Monmon!er Of
Pearce, Woms rs cluo chairman
OF arrangements; Ex- Governor
Geo. W. ?. Hunt, Judge D. l..
Cunningham. Captaia Prouty Of
Ft. Ruachuca. r. E. Soners of
BIsbee. Judge Henry d. Ross,
President Homer Leroy Chantz
OF the University of Arizona, Dr..
Frank G. Lock wood aud John A.
Rockefellow, who has made his
home n Cocbiss Stronghold
since 1883
The dedication address was
made by DR.. Frank G Lockwood
OF the University OF Arizona,
prominent also as an Arizona
historian. Lock wood declared
that the monument is not me
morial to the warrin9 Cochise,
but to fascinating legend III
Arizona history. He cited john
! A. Rockefellow, who moved irso
Cochise Stronghold when Co
chise moved out, as b g i n z
Cochise county's most interest.
ing Citizen since the time of
Cochise.
At the close Of tho dedication
ceremonies a copper chest con
tanning current copies OF Tucson,
Tombstone, Benson, 3 b g
Douglas and Wilcox newspa-
pers, together with copies Of
Rockefai!ow's LEG of an Ariao
na Ttallblazer" and Lock wood
Pioneer Days in Arizona" and
Tucson, the Old Pueblo" was
buried at The foot of the mouu
ment and incssed in concrete TO
De- preserved for q curious genera
ton TO coue.,.
l.. John A. Rocxfellow recalled
much OF the Cochise lore. oi
which he is En- authority, and
later otficiated il ths presen,
alton of tokens from the organi
cation to three distinguished
Arizona pioneers.
| Tee first was given to John F..
Skinner OF Cochise, Ari2., who
has the distinsion of being the
first white child to be bora in
Arizona. Hs was born ia Peach
Springs, Moiave county in 1854.
Another was presented to M rs.
! William Fcurr Of Drasoon, who
is Arlzona's oldest Lying pioneer
woman. Mrs. FOUR, no,oer Of
Mrs. Dave Adams. is the wife of
Uncle Billy FOUR. who cana TO
| Arizona from Missouri in 1861
aud who probably has part!cipat