I regularly trawl the web looking for little snippets of information which may one day be useful for someone somewhere and recently I came across this link

http://www.sharlot. org/roundup/ artifacts/ SHM.shtml

Basically what it says, (it is a long read) is that the Sharlot Museum in Prescott Arizona holds a child's bed suspended in a wagon , there follows the name George Scholey, whether he was the owner or the maker is unclear. The year given is 1873 and the county is Yavapai. I was curious about this not least because of the spelling, the single o suggested that he was a later immigrant than the family who created the huge Schooley clan spread across the United States. If he was a later immigrant then possibly someone in England and someone in America could tie in with him so I lodged a message about it on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scholeyandschooley

Imagine my surprise when a day or two later my own sister e mailed me, she I should explain is researching her late husbands family and he had an ancestor who was a mining engineer and distinguished citizen in the Philipines, Her E mail was to tell me that while scanning the web she had come across an IGI entry relating to a George T Scholey in the Philipines http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/IGI/family_group_record.asp?familyid=321932551&indi_id=100323784472&lds=1&region=1&frompage=99

Not thinking for a moment about the George above I took a look and on close inspection found that he not only hailed from Arizona but from the town of Prescott, the very town which possesses the Sharlot Museum.

I had to investigate further, typing George ~T Scholey into my browser I came up with this link

http://www.sharlot.org/archives/rosegarden/show.pl?woman=EDITH+MARIE+FOSTER+SCHOLEY

The article is mainly about George's wife but this excerpt tells us more about him

So not only was he also a mining engineer in the Philipines but he came
from or at least retired to Prescott Arizona and this record is also
from Sharlot museum, definitely a small world , now I really wanted to know more about the family !

A bit more searching produced this http://www.sharlot.org/archives/rosegarden/show.pl?woman=ELIZABETH+JANE+WELLS+SCHOLEY

The article was predominantly about Elizabeth Scholey nee Wells and she was the mother of the Philipine based mining engineer George T Scholey , the section of her bio relating to her marriage and children reads as follows :

When Elizabeth was sixteen, her father arranged her marriage to George Terril Scholey, a cowboy and hard rock miner, who was twice her age. The wedding took place in Prescott on December 24,1900. "There was never any courting done," Elizabeth remembered in an interview published in the Phoenix Gazette in 1974, "and he never kissed me before we married. My father liked George. Dad gave his consent and that was all there was to it."George took Elizabeth by wagon to his family's ranch on the Aqua Fria River. There the first three children were born: Ila (1901-1912), Edward Donald (1903-1975), and George Thomas (1906-1981).

The Scholeys moved to Mayer where four more children arrived: Gladys Louise McNulty (1909-1984), Laura Marie Armstrong (1913), Lena Bark Franks (1913) and John Albert (1916-1936). In 1928, Elizabeth moved the family to Prescott so that the youngest children could complete high school and they lived in various houses on Pleasant, Mt. Vernon and Groves Streets. As George was a miner, he was seldom at home and Elizabeth raised her seven children on a very limited income and saw that they all received the education that she never had.

So now we had a real life cowboy and hard rock miner to find out more about, It didn’t take long a quick check in cemetery records produced the following in and around a place called Walnut Creek

http://arizonagrave stones.org/ view.php? id=28038

1871-1943 (clearly our cowboy/miner)

(He shares a grave with Ed)

1884-1976

So most of these people had a definite connection with Ed Scholey, the notable exceptions are Thomas H Scholey who arrived in Prescott in 1880 and who has a confusing birth date, was he brother to Ed? Cousin? Or pure coincidence? The other possible exception is the cowboy himself George Terri, his gravestone gives no clues as to his parentage but the dates of birth of him and the others of his era hint at a connection

Now lets look at the life of our colourful businessman Charles K Scholey

This tells us about the Kiwanis Club of Prescott http://myweb.cableone.net/dbarrett/history.html

You will see that he was one of the First Club Directors

All very respectable , well no he ran what an Englishman like me would call a Wild West Saloon

No this doesn't come from someone who disliked the guy it comes from his own daughter in laws biography

http://www.sharlot.org/archives/rosegarden/show.pl?woman=BERTHA+LOUISE+ROSENBLATT+SCHOLEY+BOONE

Now because Charles SON was called CLAIR and he married a woman who liked to be called PETE this might get complicated so I set out below the bio of Bertha, Charles daughter in law in full, this explains things better than I can

Bertha was born on April 30, 1908, in Prescott, Arizona Territory. She was the third of six children born to Paul Gerhardt and Dora Cordelia Leach Rosenblatt. She was of pioneer stock. As a child, her grandmother, Dora Morton, walked behind covered wagons from Kansas to Colorado in the 1860’s where her family engaged in ranching and mining. Bertha's father came west from his birthplace in Greeneville, Tennessee to Prescott in 1892.

Paul, who was hoping for a son after Cordelia (Delia) presented him with two daughters, named her Bertha Louise in honor of his youngest sister who had come to Prescott on a visit from the Rosenblatt family home in Tennessee. Soon, however, the namesake baby was nicknamed "Pete", as was her father. She was "Pete" for the rest of her life.

She attended Lincoln School, which at the time had grades one through four only. Then she attended Washington School, which was on the opposite side of town. Everyone walked in those days, and she often reminded her children that not only did the sisters walk to and from school, they even came home for lunch.

Prescott High School was next. She was very active in school participating in Glee Club and varsity basketball among other things. The athletic teams traveled by train so it was a grand adventure for the boys and girls to compete interscholastically over the northern part of the state.

With her older sisters, Pauline and Dora, the girls attracted a lot of attention from the high school boys. The Rosenblatts opened their house for guests and parties. While her sisters played in a band they organized, Pete chose to dance. She was beautiful, full of life, and petite. There were a host of suitors. Among them was a young Barry Goldwater who eventually proposed matrimony. Pete said she turned him down because he seemed to be a playboy who wouldn’t amount to much.

Pete graduated from high school in 1927 and attended the University of Arizona where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi. After three years at the University she left to marry Clair K. Scholey who was also from Prescott. Clair attended the University of Southern California. He was the son of Charles K. Scholey who was born at Walnut Creek, A.T. in 1875. Charles married Carrie Hurtle. Clair was their only child. Pete and Clair continued to live in Prescott after their marriage. Clair was very adventuresome and purchased an airplane. Together they barnstormed around the southwest giving rides for a penny a pound. She said it was not a very good way to make a living, but it was great fun.

Charles Scholey partnered in a renowned watering hole named Scholey and Stephen’s in Prescott located on N. Cortez Street. In addition to libations, billiards, and pool, the bar also offered a bowl of beans to its customers. The beans were rather famous in town, and were referred to as The Scholey Beans. For decades thereafter at family gatherings, Pete provided the delicious beans.

They had two daughters, Claire Kay and Cordelia ("Dee") both of whom were born in Prescott.

Pete and Clair bought a speedboat in partnership with Ralph Hooker, who was an old Prescott friend. This was about the time when Willow Creek Dam was built. Willow Creek filled, and a boat landing was installed at what was humorously called Lackawanna Beach on the western shore of the lake. Powerboat racing had a brief period of popularity in Prescott, cut short probably by lack of water in the lake.

Shortly after the beginning of World War II Pete and Clair moved to Bellflower, California, where they both worked at Douglas Aircraft making the various airplanes needed for the war. They worked different shifts so that one of them was always home with the girls. Pete’s Victory Garden assisted not only her family, but also many within the neighborhood. At the end of the war, the family moved back to Prescott where Clair opened a boat and cabinet building business. He was an exceptional craftsman.

In 1948 Clair died. Pete was left with two daughters, and no means to support them. There were few jobs for women, and in the insurance field they were a rarity. Pete went to work for Mayes and Heap, an insurance agency, as an underwriter. She quickly learned the business to a high degree of proficiency, and followed that career for the rest of her working life.

She married Tom Boone in Prescott. Later they moved to Gold Hill, Oregon, where they purchased a ranch. Tom tended to the ranch, and Pete was quick to return to work as an insurance underwriter for the Singmaster Insurance Company in Medford, Oregon. While in Oregon she was active in the Soroptimist Club. She especially enjoyed the organization’s work with the Ashland Shakespearean Festival.

Pete was always a wonderful and inventive cook. On the ranch she took great pride in preparing meals from the vast vegetable gardens, and their livestock. Her recipes for chile beans and potato salad, etc. were family favorites. She had a passion for reading and enjoyed an extremely broad variety of literature. Growing up with music all around her, she was especially fond of the sounds of the 1920’s and 1930’s.

In the late 1970’s Pete left Oregon and moved to Canyon Lake, California to be near her daughter, Dee Zasio and her family. However, yearning to return to her beloved Arizona, Pete moved back to Prescott in 1980 where she lived in the old Rosenblatt home at 110 Willow Street where she lived until her death three years later. Her ashes are inurned between her mother and father in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Prescott.

She was the first of the five Rosenblatt sisters to die. Her grandmother, Dora Leach Russell Bubar, her mother, Dora Cordelia Rosenblatt Walker, her sisters Dora Virginia Rosenblatt Heap, Louise Caroline Rosenblatt Lynch and Pauline Gerhardt Rosenblatt Tovrea are also commemorated in the Territorial Women’s Memorial Rose Garden.

Donors: Dee Zasio, daughter, and Paul G. Rosenblatt, brother.
September 2005

Still on the subject of Charles K Scholey are you ready for a real life shoot out?, he is only mentioned briefly but it gives a hint of the times

http://n.j.dushane. home.comcast. net/tussock/ tussock4. htm#p16

Finally a word about Ed Scholey

http://www.sharlot.org/archives/history/dayspast/text/2005_09_18.shtml

Legible names on other headstones in Walnut Creek Cemetery were: "E.D. Scholey, 1851-1881, and Roland Scholey, 1878-1881". Mr. Scholey operated a way station at Walnut Creek. An item in the March 14, 1879 edition of the Arizona Miner stated, "Mrs. Ed Scholey, who keeps a very good station at Walnut Creek, is in town. She informs us that her husband, who received, two years ago, a severe paralytic stroke, is very low and is now unable to either walk or talk."

I still don't know who the child's bed belonged too but can't help feeling that it could possibly have been Cowboy George's