Parkinsons

Marker #1 - Charles and Matilda Callaway
Charles C. Callaway

b: 1860 - Missouri

d: 1963 - Prescott, Arizona
Matilda Wingfield

b: 1874

d: before 1904

Marker #1
In 1882, 22-year-old Charles traveled from Missouri to Camp Verde, riding the Santa Fe to its end at Williams, the stage to Prescott, and a buckboard to Camp Verde. From there he walked to Strawberry where he joined his friends, the Lowthians. He arrived 11-22-1882. He worked in the valley, bought cattle, helped build the Old Strawberry School, and built this home in 1888. He married Matilda Wingfield and they had two daughters. They moved to Camp Verde in the mid 1890s. Charles died at age 103.

Marker #2 (no photograph)
It is not known when the Huffer family moved into Strawberry. It is known that he taught in the Clear Creek school in the 1870s and built a school on Beaver Creek in 1882. Strawberry natives Edith Peach (b: 1885) and Tuffy Peach (b: 1894) both identify this barn as being built by Huffer. They say there was also a big log cabin and two smoke-houses. The first available list of students attending the Old Strawberry School (1890-91) included five Huffer children. It is thought that the family moved to Tonto Basin around 1895. The next available list of students (1899-1900) does not list them.