Community News July 1, 2009

Meet RSC's New Manager

Greg Baer, an Arizona native-born in Phoenix, moved to the Globe-Miami area in 1967. He graduated from Globe High School and served in the Armed Forces, to include tours in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Gref says "As a longtime member of the Globe-Miami Community, it Meet RSC's New Manager will be my privilege to be able to serve in my hometown. All the Crew and I at RSC, invite you to our Globe Branch for all of your rental needs. I personally promise to give you a higher standard of service excellence. Have an enjoyable and safe Fourth of July"

My Memories of Living at Aravaipa in My Early Days, by Georgie Wood in Kearny

The Wood family's nearest neighbors on Aravaipa Creek was the Chauncy Buzan family, the widow Ida Kielberg, and the James A. (Jim) Brandenburg family. The Buzan property was where Alexander H. Vail had developed his farm, well before 1900, not far downstream of the "Box", that area of the creek canyon that is narrow and surrounded by high, colorful bluffs. Vail, a bachelor, was murdered shortly after 1900 by some unknown person, or persons, after which his house and he were set on fire. His friend, Chauncy Buzan, had become the devisee of Vail's one hundred-twenty acre property, and the nine children of Chauncy and his wife, Rosa, whose ages in 1920 ranged from about twenty-four years to about six years, were Harry, Fred, Alice, Rosa, Evelin, Joe, Elizabeth, Anita, and Martin. Whenever the Buzans or others traveled upstream to the Buzan property, they traveled through the cleared area in front of the Woods' house before having to cross the creek two more times. The widow, Ida Kielberg, had been born in Denmark, as her husband, Emil Kielberg, had been. Emil Kielberg, Jr., their only living child out of six, had stated that he had been born in 1893 in Schultz, Arizona, which was stated to be the area of the Mammoth mine, but "Arizona Place Names" called it Shultz, named after Frank Shultz who discovered the mine. The 1900 census stated that both Frank Shultz and Emil Kielberg , Sr. were miners of ore.. Emil Kielberg, Sr. had developed his one hundred-sixty acre homestead on Aravaipa Creek before he died previous to 1918. On his son's 1917-1918 Draft Registration Card, his son had stated that he was a farmer who was employed by his mother, and that he claimed exemption from the draft because of support of his mother, wife, and two children. James W. Brandenburg and his wife had come from Arkansas to Aravaipa Creek with their five children well before 1900. The family had first landed, but not homesteaded, very close to the forty acres the Wood family had much later acquired, and Mrs. Brandenburg, called Callie, had planted Arkansas pecans at that site, which accounted for the later, tall and beautiful, pecan trees in that field. The Brandenburgs’ young daughter, May Etta, was married in 1898 in Mammoth to Harry L. Newcomb, and two sons were born to them before May Etta died. Newcomb had homesteaded the forty acres the Wood family later acquired and two graves in the front yard, each surrounded by white rocks and marked by a barrel cactus, were said to be those of a Civil War Veteran and Newcomb's young wife. For a while, Newcomb and his two young sons lived with May Etta’s parents who were farming further down the creek, and the Brandenburgs' oldest son, Jim, had married and had homesteaded two areas of the creek land which totaled one hundred-sixty acres. When the Wood family moved to the creek, Jim, his wife, Bertha, and their children, James A. "Alfred", Ida, and Pearl, were the only Brandenburgs living on the creek. They were living in a large, two level rock house on forty acres that had been homesteaded by a brother to Jim. At some period, there had been a dispute over who had owned the part of the Kielberg property that adjoined Newcomb's property just downstream. A low rock wall had been built, no doubt by Kielberg, to separate the properties. One day, when only young Cliff Wood and his mother were home, and as Cliff was irrigating the garden from the ditch, a man who was staying on the part of the Kielberg property that was across the creek, approached the garden and angrily tore out the ditch gate so he could get the water to flow to the Kielberg property below. Cliff was scared of the man who was mean-looking with his long black mustache and the thirty-two caliber pistol he had in his belt holster. After Cliff ran to the house to tell his mother, she got prepared in case the man came to the house, by having her shotgun nearby, but he didn't leave the field. That man was to do something bad much later.