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Tony Johns & Sharlot Hall at Tuzigoot

SHARLOT MABRIDTH HALL (b. October 27, 1870, d. April 9, 1943) moved from Lincoln County, Kansas to Arizona in 1882. She moved twelve miles southeast of Prescott, Arizona at Lynx Creek, with her father, James Knox Hall, her mother, Adeline Susannah Hall, and her brother, Edward "Ted" V. Hall.

Sharlot became a poet, a writer, a journalist, an associate editor of "Out West" magazine, and served as Arizona's Territorial Historian from 1909-1912. In addition, she became the first steward and curator of the Arizona Governor's Mansion in Prescott, which she eventually turned into a Museum beginning in 1928. Today, she is the namesake of the Sharlot Hall Museum.

ANTHONY ARTHUR "TONY" JOHNS  (b.June 10, 1864 - d. May 24, 1944) was a prominent Yavapai County civic leader and pioneer who had statewide influence.  Born in Cornwall, England, he emigrated to America and settled in Yavapai County where he first worked as a miner.  Eventually, he held many civic positions.  He built the Silver King Highway, and also the first paved highway between Tucson and Nogales.  He was elected to the Arizona State Legislature in 1914, becoming Speaker of the House in 1916.  He moved up to the State Senate in 1918.  He belonged to several fraternal organizations, including the Masons and the Elks.  He died in Prescott on May 24, 1944.