Slaughter Family Cemetary

Historical marker location:

Springerville, Arizona

( Marker is on East Maricopa Drive, ½ mile west of Gutierrez Street, on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2002

Before becoming a US territory in 1848, Arizona was part of Mexico. The Mexican government established the region as part of the state of Sonora, but it later became its own separate territory.