Globe Cemetery | Globe, Arizona | Seeking Out the Graves of Pioneers

With Halloween on our minds, an old video creeps out of the vault to offer some spooky seasonal atmosphere. Today we visit the historic old Globe Cemetery & cover what this location is like as well as visit some of the notable "residents".
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We were recently in Globe, Arizona filming the old Indian ruins of Besh-Ba-Gowah for a video. As we were nearing the end of our visit, we asked the employee at the desk of the Visitor Center for recommendations of other historic sites in the area. One location she suggested was the Historic Globe Cemetery. Having seen an advertisement earlier with photos of notable burials, this sounded perfect for a rare cool and cloudy Arizona day!
Cemeteries can certainly be deemed strange places to go for tourism, however, they also can be quiet, peaceful and in cases like these, they hold a lot of history. Due to this cemetery, I've learned a lot more about the history of the Globe-Miami area and a few figures how shaped its past.
The first known burial is that of Thomas B. Hammond in 1876. His grave simply says "murdered by Apaches". The story goes that he and his brother set off to prospect silver and gold that had been found in the area. While away on a trip with a group, Thomas's camp was raided by Apache and he was murdered. Doc Hammond, Thomas's brother, claimed his brother's body and buried him in the hillside that became Globe Cemetery,
Al Sieber is another buried in the Globe Cemetery. A civil war veteran, Sieber served as Chief of Scouts for the US Army during the Apache Wars of the late 1800s. He was highly regarded by many and even had tied to Josephine Earp. After a number of Yuma-Apaches escaped a reservation, he escorted Wyatt Earp's soon to be common law wife to a ranch house where her and her party would be safe.
Other areas of interest include the graves of several Buffalo Soldiers, a memorial to early Chinese residents of Globe, Judge Aaron Hackney (a frontier newspaperman who founded Globe's famed Arizona Silver Belt paper), Robert S Knowles (a fellow scout for Al Sieber) and the Sheriffs John Henry "Rimrock Henry" Thompson and Glenn Reynolds.
There is no shortage of stories one can find at Globe Cemetery. Expect to spend a decent amount of time if you want to explore more than the marked historic locations. There are roads winding through the cemetery, however they are not paved and can be quite bumpy. If you are a history buff and this is your kind of thing, Globe Cemetery is a goldmine of a location.
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