Sunnyside Cemetery

                         R 19E, T 24S Section 16.
   West side of Huachuca Mountains, near the ghost town of Sunnyside. The
 dimensions of the cemetary are approximately 60 feet wide by 50 feet deep.
  There are 10 visible gravesites. There could be more but we only saw 11
    markers. It appears that the interments began in the back row of the
 cemetary, probably so that subsequent burials would not require disturbing
   previous burial sites in order to move further back into the cemetary
 plots. Nine of the gravesites have identical markers placed by the Carroon
 Mortuary of Nogales Az. There is one fairly ornate iron cross with no name
   and one very simple wooden marker for ISIS J wired to the top of what
   appears to be a shovel or broom handle. The markers from left to right
    starting in the back row are John Reichart, Tom Duncan, Jacob Bisel,
  Vincent Langford, Albert Gatrell and Diana Eley Gatrell. The second row
    from left to right begins with the wooden marker, then Lucy Herrick
   Langford, Ida Moore and John Merritt whose marker is the only one with
 dates, 1862 - 1945. John's site also has a stone marker lying flat on the
 ground indicating his name and Feb 1862 - Apr 1945. The left side of third
row contains only the unmarked iron cross. Access to the cemetary is by a 6
foot opening flanked by tall posts which appear to have been split from the
 same tree trunk. Apparently there was a cross piece of some type spanning
the gateway, possibly a sign, which has been removed. The opening begins 11
  feet from the left front boundary of the cemetary. All of the gravesites
   are outlined by small baseball or softball sized rocks, and there are
 several more rocks of the same size strewn around the cemetary. Maybe some
other markers have been removed and the rocks kicked around (speculation on
    my part), the eleven markers described here are all that are readily
    discernable. If my idea of the order of burial is correct, then John
 Merritt was probably the last interment, in 1945. There was enough room at
 the end of the second row for other burials, but the iron cross is in the
             third row, but could have been placed at any time.

 

  Name                     Birth      Death      Comments

  Bisel, Jacob                 1860       1901   Native of Pennsylvania
  Duncan, Tom                                    Native of Nova Scotia
  Gattrell, Albert T           1844              Native of Ohio
  Gattrell, Diana Eley         1865       1925   Native of Alabama
  Langford, Lucy               1868       1921   Native of Wisconsin
  Langford, Vincent            1894              Native of Arizona
  Merritt, John            Feb 1862   Mar 1945   Native of Texas
  Moore, Ida
  Riechart, John D             1836       1909   Native of Germany

  

                           Entered on 2/12/2001

         Transcribed by Robert Sterling Jr and Robert Sterling III