Evergreen Cemetery was founded in 1907 and is the final resting place for many notable early Tucsonans. It has been sharing their stories through its Facebook page and the popular Facebook group, Remembering Tucson.
Some of Tucson’s earliest residents can be found resting amid the towering Aleppo pines at Evergreen Mortuary, Cemetery and Crematory on North Oracle Road.
Every few days, she posts a headstone photo of a known Tucson figure to the Evergreen Facebook page, accompanied by a short history of that person, a portrait, if available, and information on where to find the grave if someone ever chose to visit.Fiorelli then shares it with the 56,000 members that make up the Remembering Tucson Facebook group, a forum where residents talk about their memories of the city.
The majority of the information that Fiorelli puts onto Facebook is courtesy of Eileen Grade, Evergreen’s receptionist for the last 25 years.“A teacher had called and asked if any of Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders were buried here,” Grade said. “I did find a couple of them. I wrote down their stories and held on to them.”
Grade picks up her information from a variety of sources; ancestry.com; the Arizona History Museum; books written about the region.
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