Oral History
Interviewee: Gayle Hebb (b. 02/27/1923 – d. 12/25/2010)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1439
Duration: 00:15:29
Date: October 2, 2002
Topics Discussed: 1930s Prescott, Crume and Spence families
Westerners Presentation
Title: Historic Jerome
Presenter: Dick Carter
Audio Number: 745B (Side 2)
Duration: 00:34:11
Date of Presentation: January 1, 1970
Oral History
Interviewee: Charles Stephen "Steve" Heller (b. 09/12/1938 – d. xx/xx/xxxx)
Interviewer: Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1543
Duration: 01:01:22
Date: May 22, 2008
Topics Discussed: Heller and Born families, Pine Crest Historic District
Oral History
Interviewee: J. [Jackson] Manford Cartwright (b. 05/15/1866 - d. 04/12/1962)
Interviewer: Charles U. Pickrell
Audio Number: 717
Duration: 01:03:05
Date: November 10, 1961
Aquistion Number: 2021.049
Topics Discussed: Cartwright family; traveling by cover wagon from Coles County, Illnois to California; Cattle Ranching Business and running the Cartwright Ranch in Cave Creek, Arizona.
Oral History
Interviewee: Esther Lee (Cherry) Henderson (b. 03/16/1910 – d. 12/10/2009)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1174-1175
Duration: 01:12:07
Date: May 15, 1997
Topics Discussed: Henderson family history; Camp Verde, Arizona c.1915; Cherry Creek, Arizona c.1915; rodeo at Dewey, Arizona; ranching in Dewey
Oral History
Interviewee: Irene Margret (Arredondo) Casteneda (b. 06/28/1940 – d.01/06/2017)
Interviewer: Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1539
Duration: 01:02:18
Date: January 10, 2008
Topics Discussed: Prescott's Mexican-American history, Prescott schools in the 1940s, mining in Bagdad, Arizona
Westerners Presentation
Title: Women of Yavapai County Ranching: Panel Presentation - Esther Henderson, Joyce White & Betty Aitken
Presenter: Esther (Perry) Henderson & Mary Melcher as Moderator
Audio Number: 752 (Side 1)
Duration: 01:08:16
Date of Presentation: August 1, 1990
Oral History
Interviewee: Dorothy (Crozier) Chafin (b.11/18/1914 – d. 10/26/2006)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 886
Duration: 00:28:22
Date: October 9, 1991
Topics Discussed: William Grounds family 1875-1932, Crozier family history 1875-1932, Dorothy Chafin's civic, political and community life in Prescott
Oral History
Interviewee: Raymond "Ray" Henderson (b. 04/08/1916 – d. 02/06/2010)
Interviewer: Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1214
Duration: 00:59:12
Date: March 25, 1998
Topics Discussed: Director of Prescott High School band and orchestra (1949-1977), music instructor at Prescott Unified School District, Prescott school history
EDITH (MAGNUSSON) GRINER (b. 1887 - d. 1979)
Feb 25, 2011
Edith (Magnusson) Griner, first daughter and third child of James Peter and Marie (Pierson) Magnusson, was born on May 23, 1887, at Sandy, Salt Lake County, Utah. In that same year, her parents came to the Arizona Territory, where her father found employment in the Goldfield Mine, at the base of the Superstition Mountains, east of Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona Territory. The family lived in a tent at the mining camp, and Edith's bed was the top of an old trunk.
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