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Butte View Cemetery
Florence, Pinal County, Arizona

GPS: 33.02342, -111.4057

Adamsville Rd
Florence, AZ 85132

Contributed by Edith Sherwood, Apr 16, 2005. [sherwood2ak@yahoo.com] Total records = 11.

To reach cemetery take Highway 79B, which is the main street of Florence and turn west on Adamsville Road. It is one mile from Main Street to the east edge of Butte View Cemetery.

There is no fence or sign for the Butte View Cemetery. Three stones are surrounded by a white board fence and are visible on the north side of Adamsville Road.

Because of flooding there are large gullies and some of the graves may have washed out. Some stones have been vandalized and the area has been used for a trash dump. A plea to the town of Florence to improve and preserve the area has been made. Butte View Cemetery in general is in great disrepair.

Part of the area to the north of the cemetery area was incorporated into existing farm land while part of the Butte View Cemetery, an adjoining parcel of land, has since, in part, been incorporated into the A.O.U.W. cemetery area.

Dr. Bertram Snyder started restoration of the area cemeteries in 1973, taking pictures, and identifying some unmarked graves. A scrapbook of his work can be found in the Pinal County Historical Society Museum in Florence. 715 S. Main Street, Florence, AZ 85232.

I completed this transcription by reading the cemetery and research on Apr 10, 2005.

- Edith Sherwood

* Names taken from museum information

Bates, Theo W., d. 11 Apr 1897, 53 y., 1 m., 3 days, Sacred to the memory of my husband Theo W. Bates, Stone is near that of Stillman/Whittemore marker
Pendleton, Frederick C., b. 8 Feb 1869, d. 9 Oct 1905, of Montreal, Can, Husband of Gertrude A. Pendleton
Stewart, Infant, d. 25 Feb 1912 son of D. & F. B Stewart, Headstone not believed to be currently in original location, "Old Adamsville" list has this under Butte View Cemetery
Stillman, Mary A., b. 19 Nov 1830, d. 10 Feb 1894. Butte View section, wife of I. T. Whittemore
Truman,Margaret R., b. 1 Aug 1900, d. 30 Nov 1900, Marker in brushy area, difficult to see. Butte View Section (May have been daughter of a military doctor)
White, Nicholas, d. 29 Apr 1907, 75 y., 6 m., Masonic emblem, Butte View section
Whitlow, Charles Allen, d. Nov 30, 1898, age 30yr *
Whitlow, Charles, b. 11 Dec 1826, in Green County KY, d. 23 Mar 1886 *
Whitlow, Charley, b. Jun 16, 1871, d. Jan 26, 1930 *
Whitlow, Dorcas, b. Nov 27, 1870, d. Nov 29, 1949 (Note Dorcas E. Phy md. Franklin P. Morrell on Apr 1, 1887, She md. Charles A. Whitlow on Mar 28, 1898, She md. Charley Whitlow on Apr 5, 1900. She was a niece of Joe Phy who was involved in the famous shooting in Florence) *
Whittemore, I. T. Rev., b. 12 Jul 1824, On the west side of Mary A. Stillman's stone in the (He died and is buried in CA. PCHS)