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Armer and Griffin Family History

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Stewart and Tucker Family History

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Wheeler Family History

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Pyle Family History

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Sheppard Family History

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Bixby Family History

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Griffin, John

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Haught Family History

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Holder, Mitch

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Hicks Family History

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Cline Family History

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Seeley Family History

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Holder Family History

Kendrick's grandparents John and Sarah Holder and brother brought Angora goats to Arizona from New Mexico. He started several post offices in New Mexico and Arizona and consequently named several...

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Hicks Family History, Part 2

Roy Hicks continues his family history, now with his parents meeting and marrying, and his childhood growing up on the Hicks Ranch during the Great Depression. He tells more stories of early Globe, of...

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Hicks Family History, Part 1

B.C. Hicks and his wife came to Texas from Tennessee and settled for awhile before moving on to Arizona Territory in an emigrant train. They first stayed in Casa Grande. Then they moved to Gila County...

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Haught Family History, Part 3

Joe Haught tells his family history, starting with his great-great uncle Fred Haught coming to Arizona and then calling the Haught family out to the Tonto Basin. Joe's great grandfather and grandfather...

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Haught Family History, Part 4

Joe Haught continues telling his personal story from the time he graduated from high school and punched cows for his father. He candidly tells of his escapades as a wild young cowboy and of working for...

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Ellison Family History

Following the Civil War, Colonel Jess Ellison moved to Texas. Feeling crowded there, he then drove a huge herd of cattle to the open spaces of the Tonto Basin and Rim Country of Arizona in the mid...

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Bryne Family History

Bill and Dot remember their families' histories of migrating to Arizona before the days of Statehood. Dot's family eventually came to Claypool and retailed lumber. Bill's family came from Texas during...

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Bacon Family History

Pete Bacon, Ed's great grandfather, moved his family to the Roosevelt Lake Basin in the 1880s from parts unknown in search of the opportunity to grow cattle and for the mines. Each subsequent...

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