Ella Peck
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D.F. Mitchell, Prescott, Arizona Unknown po0507p.jpg PO-0507 B&W 1700-0507-0000 po0507p Photo Card Print 5x7 Historic Photographs November 1877 Reproduction requires permission. Digital images property of SHM Library & ArchivesDescription
Ella Serena (Alexander) Peck (b.unknown - d.1887) was born in Illinois. She frequently went by the name Serena.
Her parents were Thomas Matthew Alexander, born in Indiana in 1822, and Catharine Scott Alexander, born in Illinois in 1828. Her father came to Prescott, Arizona in September, 1864 and was an early pioneer. He served as a Prescott postmaster and owned a cattle ranch in Sycamore Canyon, Arizona.
Serena married Edward G. Peck on October 16, 1873 in Prescott. He also was an early pioneer. In General Crook's campaign against the Apaches her husband was a government scout. He was the discoverer of the Peck Mine in the Bradshaw Mountains in the early 1870s.
Handwriting on back of photograph reads: "Mrs. Ella S. Peck, nee' Alexander-November, 1877. Died 1887."
Ella died in October, 1887 in Alameda County, California.
Burial in San Lorenzo Pioneer Memorial Park in San Lorenzo, California.
Sources: US Western States Marriage Index; findagrave.com.
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