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Ida Elizabeth Sawyer

In 1865, Father Bernard Donnelly, pastor of Immaculate Conception Church at 11th and Broadway, wrote to the motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, near St. Louis, requesting the Superior send some sisters to open a convent school for girls. Father Donnelly promised the Sisters that a school built in 1859 from bricks […]

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Homestead description

A one room Adobe house built on the bank of the seasonally flowing Polecat creek was home for eleven years Bert and Louise Huntzinger pioneered a unique life style in the Southern Wilds of Cochise County, Arizona. Homestead ammmenadees included a corrugated tin roofed lean-to kitchen cum children’s sleeping area, a rustic corral with attendant

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