Black Oak Cemetery, Canelo, Arizona
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This site is a continually updated listing of burials and memorials at Black Oak.
Many entries have images of stones and some have personal histories and photos.
Use landscape mode on a cellphon and tablet. To submit corrections/comments/additions email Corbin Smith (nibrocla1@me.com) with "Black Oak
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It is said that we each have 3 deaths:
The First when we die,
The Second when we are laid to rest,
And the Third when our name is never spoken again.
Ramsey, Polly L.
b. 1910
d. 1977
Ramsey, Troy L. Jr
b. July 25, 1915
d. October 1, 1988
Rector, Sina (see Heavner, Sina)
Reidhead, Loretta E. Heavner
b. November 15, 1941
d. July 7, 2022
Riggs, John Dorsey
b. 1874
d. 1918
~ son of James Monroe & Elizabeth Druscilla Hudson Riggs?
Riggs, Lula K. (see Duncan, Lula)
Roath, Helen Bresee
b. April 2, 1881 Pennyslvania
d. Nov. 2, 1958 Canelo, Arizona
~ daughter of Dr. John M. & Mary Howell Bresee
~ wife of H. Ward Eason (first husband)
~ wife of Willard Tyler Roath (second husband)
~ mother of John Jack Bresee & Robert Gillford Eason
~ elected Justice of the Peace, Santa Cruz County, in 1914
Roberson, Katherine Scott 'K.K.' Mann
Roest, Guy
Rowley, Jean Flora Fraizer
Ruback, Leonard Marvin
Rue, John Benjamin
Sanders, Gilbert Carl 'Red'
Sanders, Kathryn Mildred Balke
Schenck, Margaret
Schenck, Roy Wayne
Schmitt, Alice Hastings
Schmitt, Robert Mikkelsen
Schock, Leslie Franklin
Schock, Nellie Irene Pike
Schock, Raymond D.
Schock, Raymond Leroy
Schout, David Neil
Schout, Mary Jean Hutchinson
Schrader, Charles 'Chuck'
Schrader, Jill
Schrader, Jon
Scott, Mildred (see Feldmann, Mildred)
Sharples, Mary Elaine 'Layne' Lenzi
Shields, Orville J.
Shimskey, Barbara
Silva, Brett Matthew
Skutt, Frank
Skutt, Lena Dalstrom
Smith, D. Scott
Smith, Rebecca Jo Moss
Smith, Sig Corbin
Speed, Ernest
Speed, Minnie E. Morton
Spencer, Alonzo Franklin 'Jokey' III
Spradlin, Suzan Ann
Stoddard, Della (see McLoy, Della)
Stoddard, Dorothy (see Knipe, Dorothy)
Stoddard, Evan Douglas
Stoddard, Glen Russel
Stoddard, Guy Bradley
Stoddard, Herald Emory
Stoddard, Harry Lyman
Stoddard, Lulu Belle (see Douglas, Lulu Belle Brizzee)
Stoddard, Pauline
Stoddard, Peggy Darlene Moll
Stoddard, Rodney
Swanson, Ben
Swigart, Carrie (see Frazier, Carrie)
Swigart, Rhoda (see McCarty, Rhoda)
Telles, Ethlyn Houston
Telles, Ralph Lawton
Telles, William Lyon 'Bill'
Thomas, Everett Francis
Thomas, Louise Stoddard Knipe 'Winty'
Townsend, Elizabeth Benziger
Townsend, Robert C. N.
Turney, Ida Speed
Turney, Mark Coleman 'Bill'
Valenzuela, Constancia 'Mama'
Valenzuela, Dolores S.
Valenzuela, Jesus 'Papa'
Vensel, A. George
Vensel, Linda Brooks
Vermillion, Iva Anita Varner
Warfield, Totten Kenneth 'T.K.', Jr. DVM
Warfield, Leila Marie Hammel
Watts, Chester
Watts, Ernestine
Wearne, Eva Maxine
Wearne, William Nicholas
White, Van Buren
Wilson, Elizabeth (see Grant, Elizabeth)
Wood, Henry
Wood, Mack Owen
Wood, Myrtle McDaniel
Wood, Warren Henry
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b. March 7, 1916
d. February 7, 1998 Sierra Vista, Arizona
~ wife of Lawrence Shattuck 'Larry' Robbins Jr.
b. September 12, 1907 Cleveland, Ohio
d. December 19, 1999 Tucson, Arizona
~ husband of Barbara Miller Robbins
~ LCDR USNR, WWII
b. 1944
d. no death date on stone
b. 1948
d. no death date on stone
~ Chief Journalist, US Navy
Roberson, Daniel 'Robe'
b. December 28, 1946
d. April 17, 2014
~ husband of Katherine Scott 'K.K.' Mann Roberson
b. January 14, 1950
d. August 3, 2019
~wife of Daniel 'Robe' Roberson
b. March 19, 1861 Pennsylvania
d. March 27, 1956 Tucson, Arizona
~ daughter of David Eason & Mary Steck
~ wife of Robert A. Rodgers
~ mother of Pauline Rodgers Young & Helen Rodgers Faurot
~ sister of Mal Eason & H. Ward Eason
~ second postmaster of Canille Post Office from 1906 - 1910
b. September 20, 1860 (1861?) Corsica, Pennsylvania
d. November 12, 1947 Tucson, Arizona
~ son of Mark M.D. & Rebecca Corbett Rodgers
~ husband of Anna Eason Rodgers
~ father of Pauline Rodgers Young & Helen Rodgers Faurot
~ 1st Postmaster of Canille Post Office 1904 - 1906
~ early Forest Ranger
~ early homesteader
Roest, Elizabeth M.
b.December 18, 1912
d. June 1971
~ wife of Guy Roest
b. August 2, 1909 Grand Rapids, Michigan
d. January 11, 2010 Elgin, Arizona
~ husband of Elizabeth M. Roest
~ B2 US Navy, WWII
b. November 13, 1922 Nogales, AZ
d. April 10, 1997
~ daughter of James & Carrie Swigart Fraizer
~ sister of Samuel 'Sam' J. Fraizer
b. March 4, 1929 Omaha, Nebraska
d. June 23, 1994 San Diego County, California
~ husband of June Stoddard Ruback
b. June 26, 1848 Longwood, Colorado
d. April 1921 Elgin, Arizona
b. August 5, 1939 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
d. January 22, 1991 Irvine, California
~ husband of Sally Townsend Sabow
~ Col. USMC, Vietnam
b. January 27, 1910 Solomon, Arizona
d. December 11, 1969
~ husband of Kathryn Mildred Balke Sanders
b. April 29, 1919 Clifton, Arizona
d. March 19, 1966 Fairbank, Arizona
~ wife of Gilbert Carl 'Red' Sanders
b. November 22, 1893
d. March 12, 1966
~ wife of Roy Wayne Schenck
b. June 22, 1884 Iowa
d. June 16, 1940 Tucson, Arizona
~ son of Charles & Lettie Gould Schenck
~ husband of Margaret Schenck
~ WWI
b. November 22, 1918 Virginia
d. March 11, 1987
~ wife of Robert Mikkelsen Schmitt
~ memorial stone
b. January 18, 1917
d. October 15, 1992
~ husband of Alice Hastings Schmitt
~ memorial stone
b. January 19, 1919 Los Angeles, California
d. July 20, 1979 Mescal Gap Ranch, Santa Cruz, Arizona
~ son of Raymond Leroy & Nellie Irene Pike Schock
~ husband of Caroline Lucille White Holtz Schock
~ father of Raymond Leslie Schock
b. June 22, 1885 Clarinda, Iowa,
d. October 11, 1943 Tucson, Arizona
~ daughter of Henry & Eva Richards Pike
~ wife of Raymond Leroy Schock
~ mother of Leslie Franklin Schock & Raymond D. Schock
b. August 14, 1908
d. September 8, 1996
~ son of Raymond Leroy & Nellie Irene Pike Schock
b. December 13, 1880 Illinois
d. August 26, 1967
~ husband of Nellie Irene Pike Schock
~ father of Leslie Franklin & Raymond D. Schock
b. January 11, 1952 District of Columbia, USA
d. August 6, 2006 Arizona
~ son of Leslie Franklin & Carrie Lucille White Holtz Schock
~ husband of (divorced from) Shirley Lynn Benz
~ US Army, Vietnam
b. March 7, 1941 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
d. Feb. 15, 1992 Tucson, AZ
~ son of Wagner 'Wag' J.G. & Marie Gibbons Schorr
~ brother of John Edward Schorr
b. April 30, 1944 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
d. March 23, 1985 Denver, Colorado
~ son of Wagner 'Wag' J.G. & Marie Gibbons Schorr
~ brother of Glenn John Schorr
b.December 3, 1913 Honesdale, Pennsylvania
d. October 27, 2010 Tucson, Arizona
~ daughter of Thomas V. & Emma L. LeStrange Gibbons
~ wife of Wagner 'Wag' J.G. Schorr
~ mother of Glenn John & John Edward Schorr
b. August 3, 1911 Baltimore, Maryland
d. December 4, 2001 Tucson, Arizona
~ son of John E. & Catherine Graeber Schorr
~ husband of Marie Kathryn Gibbons Schorr
~ father of Glenn John & John Edward Schorr
b. June 11, 1997
d. March 20, 1998 Illinois
~ son of Mary Jean Hutchinson and Pat Schout
b. November 10, 1959 California
d. March 19, 1998 Illinois
~ daughter of Ned & Kirsten Loft Rasmussen Hutchinson
~ wife of Pat Schout
b. July 7, 1926
d. June 25, 2015 Sierra Vista, Arizona
~ husband of Helen Schrader
~ father of Jill and Jon Schrader
b. March 27, 1926
d. May 27, 1997
~ wife of Charles 'Chuck' Schrader
~ mother of Jill and Jon Schrader
b.
d. July 2, 2017
~ daughter of Charles 'Chuck' and Helen Schrader
b.
d. June 30, 2012
~ son of Charles 'Chuck' and Helen Schrader
b. June 19, 1922 La Grange, Illinois
d. Nov. 12, 1981 Boston, Massachusetts
~ wife of John David Warfield III (first marriage)
~ wife of Philip Price Sharples (second marriage)
~ mother of Joan Phoebe & Winston Scott Warfield
b December 28, 1915 Patagonia, Arizona
d. October 13, 1930 Bisbee, Arizona
~ son of John Clyde & Melissa Jane 'Janie' Teague Shields
b. November 2, 1955
d. October 22, 2019
b. September 4, 1960 Patagonia, Arizona
d. September 4, 1960 Patagonia, Arizona
~ infant son of Daniel & Sharon Spencer Silva
~ (no headstone)
b. June 25, 1859, Michigan
d. February 25, 1950 Prescott, Arizona
~ son of Andrew & Amy Hays Skutt
~ husband of Lena Dalstrom Skutt
b. July 12, 1859 Minnesota
d. September 18, 1928 Rain Valley, Arizona
~ daughter of H. J. & Ellen Carlsen Dalstrom
~ wife of Frank Skutt
b. December 31 1953
d. February 16, 2001
~ husband of Rebecca Jo Moss Smith
b. October 25, 1958
~ living
~ daughter of Austin E. and Marka Collie Moss
~ wife of D. Scott Smith
b. June 13, 1943 Tucson, Arizona
~ living
~ great-grandson of Robert A. and Anna Eason Rodgers
~ son of Justin Gardner and Virginia Eason Young Smith
~ husband of Paul Gerard Desany
b. December 5, 1914 Nogales, Arizona
d. March 14, 1990 Boise, Idaho
~ granddaughter of Robert & Anna Eason Rodgers
~ daughter of Arthur Benjamin & Pauline Rodgers Young
~ wife of Justin Gardner Smith
~ mother of Sig Corbin, Scott Gardner, & Craig Eason Smith
~ sister of Sig Rodgers Young
b. July 24, 1962 Arizona
d. May 22, 2016 Tucson, Arizona
~ daughter of William 'Bill' & Jane Kuhn Ambrose
~ wife of David Soza
b. July 30 1855 Madisonville, Kentucky
d. March 8, 1941 Elgin, Arizona
~ son of Robert B. & Laura Summers Speed
~ husband of Minnie E. Morton Speed
b. 1860 Kentucky
d. 1914
~ daughter of William & Sarah Morton
~ wife of Ernest Speed
b. June 26, 1937 Tucson, Arizona
d. January 10, 1997 Elgin, Arizona
~ son of Alonzo Franklin II 'Slim' & Dora May Lowe Spencer
~ husband of Dawne Schofield Spencer
b. December 5, 1911 Belgium
d. February 10, 1997 Sierra Vista, Arizona
~ daughter of Alphonse Jerome Seynaeve & Maria Louise Lommens
~ wife of Frank Spore (widowed 1962)
~ mother of Patricia 'Pat' May DeShano Basinger
b. 1963
d. 1991
b. October 18, 1910 Sonoita, Arizona
d. August 4, 2002 Tucson, Arizona
~ daughter of Irvin & Maude 'Daisy' Jacobs Douglas
~ wife of Emory Arthur Stoddard
~ mother of Herald Emory, Rodney, June, Alice, Verna, Nolan 'Pete', & Arthur Stoddard
~ sister of Grace Mary, Volney Marx, & Irvin, Jr. 'Dick' Douglas
b. May 19, 1903 Bisbee, Arizona
d. September 1981 Santa Cruz County, Arizona
~ son of Harry Lyman & Lulu Belle Brizzee Stoddard (Douglas)
~ husband of Ann Olive Douglas Stoddard
~ father of Herald Emory, Rodney, June, Alice, Verna, Nolan 'Pete' & Arthur Stoddard
b. June 8, 1958 Douglas, Arizona
d. May 11, 1986 Borrego Springs Desert, California
~ son of Rodney and Peggy Darlene Moll Stoddard
b. Apri 13, 1955 Douglas, Arizona
d. January 3, 2019 Spokane, Washington
~ son of Rodney and Peggy Darlene Moll Stoddard
b. December 6, 1957 National City, California
d. April 17, 2010 Winter Haven, California
~ son of Rodney and Peggy Darlene Moll Stoddard
b. August 1, 1929 Elgin, Arizona
d. January 20, 1935 Nogales, Arizona
~ son of Emory Arthur & Ann Olive Douglas Stoddard
~ 'A Grand Little Feller'
~ died after being kicked in the head by a horse
b. December 24, 1869 Woodstock, Vermont,
d. May 31, 1941 Tucson, Arizona
~ son of Lyman Brown & Rhoda Mehitable Douglas Stoddard
~ husband of Lulu Belle Brizzee Douglas (first marriage)
~ father of Stanley William, Emory Arthur, Wesley Lyman,
~ & Shirley Henry & Della Bell (McLoy)
b. February 3, 1942 Sonoita, Arizona
d. September 22, 1962 Sonoita, Arizona
~ son of Emory Arthur & Olive Douglas Stoddard
~ died piloting small plane that crashed on neighboring ranch
b. February 12, 1933
d. February 17, 1933
~ daughter of Shirley & Rose Markle Stoddard
b. August 19, 1931 Olathe, Kansas
d. February 1, 2014 Spokane, Washington
~ daughter of Guy W. & Mabel Anderson Moll
~ wife of Rodney Stoddard
~ mother of Evan, Glen, & Guy Stoddard
b. April 13, 1931 Elgin, Arizona
d. July 2, 2014 Tucson, Arizona
~ son of Emory Arthur & Olive Douglas Stoddard
~ husband of Peggy Darlene Moll Stoddard
~ father of Evan, Glen, & Guy Stoddard
~ husband of Wanda Stoddard (second marriage)
~ no stone, ashes scattered on family plot
b. January 5, 1885 Sweden,
d. June 11, 1935 Tucson, Arizona
~ husband of Alice Swanson
b. May 22, 1926 Ray, Arizona
d. July 10, 2003
~ mother of Ralph Lawton & William Lyon 'Bill' Telles
~ wife of Ralph Telles
b. March 25, 1920 Tombstone, Arizona
d. February 4, 2003 Santa Cruz County, Arizona
~ husband of Ethlyn Houston Telles
~ father of Ralph Lawton & William Lyon 'Bill' Telles
~ Cpl. US Army, WWII
b. November 28, 1953 Elgin, Arizona
d. January 24, 1954 Elgin, Arizona
~ son of Ralph & Ethlyn Houston Telles
b. April 8, 1956 (1957?) Elgin, Arizona
d. June 23, 1979 Nogales, Arizona
~ son of Ralph & Ethlyn Houston Telles
b.October 2, 1900 Missouri
d. December 25, 1960 Tucson, Arizona
~ husband of Lucille Thomas
~ son of Wesley & Martha Bayne Thomas
b. December 5, 1910 Washington D.C.
d. September 9, 1951 Tucson, Arizona
~ sister of Frederic Orlando Knipe, Jr.
~ daughter of Frederic Orlando & Dorothy Athalia Stoddard Knipe
b. June 21, 1904
d. February 17, 1989
~ daughter of Adelrick & Elizabeth Benziger
~ wife of Robert C.N.Townsend
~ mother of Sally Townsend Sabow
b. December 17, 1914
d. June 20, 1995
~ husband of Elizabeth Benziger Townsend
~ father of Sally Townsend Sabow
b. July 17, 1879 Kentucky,
d. December 3, 1962
~ daughter of Ernest & Minnie Morton Speed
~ wife of Mark Coleman 'Bill' Turney
b. February 25, 1884 Coleman, Texas
d. September 9, 1951 Pima County, Arizona
~ son of Hansboro Bell 'H.B.' & Mary Jane Wood Turney
~ husband of Ida Speed Turney
b. 1888
d. 1930
~ mother of Dolores S. Valenzuela
~ wife of Jesus Valenzuela
b. 1929
d. 1931
~ daughter of Jesus & Constancia Valenzuela
b. 1886
d. 1966
~ father of Dolores S. Valenzuela
~ husband of Constancia Valenzuela
b. 1890 Kansas
d. March 8, 1970
~ wife of Robert E. Varner
~ mother of Iva Anita Varner Vermillion
b. July 25, 1945
~ living
b. May 5, 1948
~ living
b. September 29, 1912 Douglas, Arizona
d. 1960 Tucson, Arizona
~ wife of Orie Vermillion
~ daughter of Robert E. & Lillian Starfelt Varner
b. July 25, 1924 Chicago, Illinois
d. April 30, 2022 Tucson, Arizona
~ husband of Leila Marie Hammel Warfield
~ father of Totten Kenneth 'T.K.' Warfield, Jr.
~ nephew of Mary Katharine Hutchinson
b. March 1, 1949
d. March 16, 2022
~ son of Totten Kenneth, Sr. & Leila Marie Hammel Warfield
b. November 9, 1925 Oak Park, Illinois
d. August 3, 2020 Tucson, Arizona
~ wife of Totten Kenneth Warfield, Sr.
~ mother of Totten Kenneth 'T.K.' Warfield, Jr.
b. April 16, 1926 Magoffin County, Kentucky
d. September 5, 2001 Tucson, Arizona
~ husband of Ernestine Watts
~ US Navy WWII
b. September 2, 1931
d. November 18, 1997
~ wife of Chester Watts
b. October 6, 1932
d. February 11, 2016
~ wife of William Nicholas Wearne
b. November 11, 1926
d. April 26, 2005
~ husband of Eva Maxine Wearne
b. July 15, 1902
d. June 1977
~ wife of Van Buren White
b. January 14, 1903
d. August 1969
~ husband of Lucille White
b. October 1, 1930 New York
d. July 30, 2019 Arizona
~ son of John R. & Edith Rabe Whiteside
~ husband of Rosemary Ashburn Whiteside
b. February 2, 1932 Arizona
d. November 27, 2018 Tucson, Arizona
~ daughter of Marshall & Helen Ellicott Ashburn
~ wife of John R. Whiteside
b. May 10, 1868 Chapel Hill, Missouri
d. June 2, 1951 Nogales, Arizona
~ son of William Dudley & Melvina A. Bledsoe Williamson
~ husband of Rose Mayer Williamson
~ father of Merna Margaret Williamson Brown
~ early homesteader
b. June 6, 1879 Goff, Kansas
d. June 4, 1944 San Rafael Valley, Arizona
~ daughter of F.S.& Margaret Cobb Mayer
~ wife of Jonse W. 'Jack' Williamson
~ mother of Merna Margaret Williamson Brown
b. May 31, 1920 Nogales, Arizona
d. February 22, 2001 Anchorage, Alaska
~ daughter of James W. & Virginia Parker Hathaway
~ sister of F. Marion Hathaway McClellan & Howard Hathaway
Wing, Donna L.
b. October 22, 1954
d. January 22, 2018
b. March 6, 1871
d. June 16, 1962
~ husband of Myrtle McDaniel Wood
~ father of Mac Owen & Warren H. Wood
b. April 1, 1954
d. November 22, 1998
b. September 4, 1925
d. August 2, 2004
~ son of Henry & Myrtle McDaniel Wood
~ husband of Edna May Williamson Wood
b. Aug. 17, 1894 Texas
d. July 26, 1982
~ wife of Henry Wood
~ mother of Mac Owen & Warren Henry Wood
b. July 19, 1921 Nogales, Arizona
d. August 26, 1943 Idaho
~ son of Henry & Myrtle McDaniel Wood
~ husband of Maxine Brown Wood
~ Sgt. 411th Bomb Sq. A.C.
b. March 4, 1958 Long Island City, New York
d. April 23, 2015 Tulsa, Oklahoma
~ wife of James Wood (first husband)
~ wife of Robert Morris, Jr. (second husband)
b. March 20, 1887 Brookville, Pennsylvania
d. March 28, 1975 Tucson, Arizona
~ daughter of Robert & Anna Eason Rodgers
~ wife of Arthur Benjamin Young (divorced)
~ mother of Virginia Eason Young Smith & Sig Rodgers Young
~ sister of Helen Rodgers Faurot
b. April 23, 1913 Los Angeles, California
d. June 3, 1982 Tucson, Arizona
~ Col. US Air Force, WWII, Korea, Vietnam
~ son of Arthur Benjamin & Pauline Rodgers Young
~ father of Viki Sue Young Portrey
~ brother of Virginia Eason Young Smith
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