Since posting the list of people that moved to Jerome, AZ between 1967-79, many have written me with comments/corrections, which I appreciate. Although these lists are difficult to get completely accurate, the families that once lived here and their children and grandchildren appreciate the effort.
The list of people that were here in 1953, after the mines left Jerome and it became a village, are posted in my book, Home Sweet Jerome: Death and Rebirth of Arizona’s Richest Copper Mining City. The list was amended slightly in the second printing; the third printing will have only a few more corrections. Many of these people continued to live in Jerome until they died. (A few examples would be Ruth Cantrell, Flossie McClellan, John McMillan, the Tamale ladies, Father John).
For sure, Jerome was never a ghost town. It may have looked like it in various neighborhoods, but after 1953, the population never went below 250.
The lists of Jerome residents from 1954 to 1979 will eventually be turned over to the Jerome Historical Society.
Here is the new list. It should be compared to the list of people that moved to Jerome from 1968-1979 (earlier blog). If anyone knows of people that ought to be switched in these lists, please let me know.
Please also add spouse names and or children. This list needs amending,
Sam and Clara Ater
Earl and Betty Bell (when did the kids move here. . .e.g. Patti. . .etc.)
The Blasés ( ? and Edith)
Gene Bollen
Walter and Marcia Brubaker
Leo Buss (Spelling??)
Duke Cannell
Charles and Helen Coppage
Bill and Anna Cram (Janet, Roger, Becky, Phillip) and Uncle Veri
Walter and Gladys Crow
John and Mary Dempsey
Rocky and Cele Driver and daughter Kya
John Duffy
Joan Evans
Frank and Thelma Ferrell
John Figi
Winifred Foster
Paul and wife Gross and daughter Minnie and Dani
Ralph Grummet
Ava and Alfredo Guitterez
Phil and Mary Harris and children Troy and Travis
Joe and Louise Heyer (Antique shop)
Barbara Hogan
Shan and Roger Holt and son David
Ashley (and husband?) Hostetter (Ashley had a gallery on main street)
Mary Johnson
Inez Kelly
Knudsons
Jere Lepley
Harriet LeVerring
George and Rosella Kennedy (had AZ Discoveries)
Ruth Kruse
Peggy Mason and their children Carter and Carietta
Louis and Louise Martinez
Charles and Fran Matheus
John and Kathryn Mathews. John was a painter; and Kathryn a potter
Him and Cheryl McCully and son Brad and daughter Molly
Dick and Esther Meusch (had a bottle shop on lower Main opposite Hotel Jerome)
Mooreheads
John and Deanna O’Donnell
Bob Palm
Russ and Esther Parr and children Karl and Terry
Walter (Shorty) Powell (fine art painter lived in High House)
Lynn Rose and son Skip
Tom Scott: (Scotty’s Rock Shop, Jerome)
Minnie Sewell and son Paul
M.E. “Jim” Shaffer (mgr Central Hotel)
Ernest Beach Smith and wife (?)
Levi and Margaret Smull and grandmother Jennie Richards and aunt Mary Smull
Dorothy Stickles
Milo and Jeanne Stoney and her brother Curley)
Max and Helen (Jane) Troyer
Doc and Nellie Wallace
Hazel Williams
Wil(ton) Tifft (photographer and Wood shop
Tom and Frankie Vincent and sons Henry P., and Ed and daughter Maeve
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Diane ,I believe Scottys Rock Shop was started by Tom Scott. Scotty built some of the fireplaces around the valley .Not sure but I think he did the rock work at The 10 – 12 also.
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Thank you.
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Dear Diane,
In reading through this list I notice you have “Paul Groseta (wife/children?)” included. My husband is Paul Groseta and his great-grandpa Pete Groseta came to Jerome with his parents in the nineteen-teens. I know for certain they were in Jerome by 1917 as I found a receipt book when my dad closed on the Zamar House at 208 5th St for the Croatian Fraternal Union made out to Pete Groseta in June 1917. Paul’s grandmother Katherine Groseta was a Maglich and she also was related to the Blazina family (I believe her mother was a Blazina). Katherine’s parents lived in Jerome. In fact she was born in the house just down from the Ghost City Inn that is painted blue with pink trim. Her family later lived in the house on Verde that was on the home tour a few years back and it was called the “Wingfield House” on the tour however it was the Maglich’s that lived there when Katherine was a girl and my father-in-law has many memories visiting his grandmother there as well as his aunt. Pete Groseta’s family lived first in Middle Verde and then later in Bridgeport where we all live to this day. Paul and I live in his Grandma Katherine and Grandpa Pete’s house. There are two houses here at our ranch headquarters that were actually moved down from Jerome – one of them burned partially in a fire, which led to Paul’s grandparents building the house we currently live in. There very well may be another Paul Groseta, but I have not heard from my husband’s family of him. My husband was not even born in the 60’s and 70’s. Paul’s great-grandpa and grandpa – both named Pete Groseta – worked in the mine. In fact his Grandpa Pete was involved in the final pull of materials when the mine officially closed. If you go to the cemetery on North St one of the first headstones you come across is the twin sisters of Paul’s Grandpa Pete who died in infancy. Our youngest son is also named Pete Groseta. Thank you for being a keeper of the history of Jerome through all her many incarnations- it is so important and a subject very dear to my heart.
Kind regards,
Gretchen Groseta
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The Crow’s were Gladys and Walter, Nancy Norman purchased her houses on Holley from them in the seventies. Kathleen Jarvis
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Thanks Kathleen. I made that change.
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