Arsemos Richmond Burkdoll |
| Posted 2014-09-30 by Pat R |
| Prescott Evening Courier (Prescott AZ) Saturday, July 30, 1932, p 1 & 2 Yavapai Miner Placed In Rest By Sharlot M. Hall A group of neighbors and friends gathered in the little cemetery at Walnut Grove yesterday afternoon to pay their last respects to "Father" Burckhdal, who died after a lingering illness at the home of his son. Father Burckhdal had lived to the ripe age of eighty years and one month. He was born in Indiana in its pioneer days and becoming an orphan at an early age was taken into the home of a Dunkard family. As he came to boyhood he worked his way westward into Iowa and succeeded in preparing himself for college and in completing his course with honors. He made his home for a time in Minnesota, then in Colorado, and in 1896 he came to Arizona with a placer gold dredging venture below Walnut Grove. From Arizona he went to Louisiana, and after many years came back to Arizona and Walnut Grove in search of health. He did not rally, owing in part to his age, and his death came as a release from pain and weakness. He leaves a widow, herself past eighty years old, and a son and daughter-in-law to mourn his passing. Father Burckhdal was well known to the older generation of residents in Walnut Grove and his dredging venture was one of the earliest experiments of its kind in Yavapai county. Much sympathy was expressed for the wife and family and many beautiful flowers were brought by neighbors and friends. The simple service was rendered by friends and the grave was covered with the lovely floral offerings. Father Burckhdal sleeps in one of the most beautiful country graveyards in Yavapai county and in good company of some of Arizona's finest pioneer settlers. Like them he leaves a memory too inspiring to be forgotten--and the record of his eighty years is part of the story of the building of the west. See Also: Find A Grave |
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