JAMES Brunson-was born in 1819 in Alabama and married Harriet Matilda Greer, born in 1826 in Mississippi . They were married somewhere in the deep south and began raising a family before the Civil War . After the end of the war they joined the western migration that peopled the west with families from the confederacy. Jim and his family moved from Texas into the Arizona Territory in the 1880's , settling in Tonto Basin on a homestead of 160 acres near the mouth of Slate Creek. The homestead, known as the Shadeland Ranch and later as the H4 Ranch, was carved out of the wilderness by Jim and his four sons. Jim and Harriet divided the Shadeland Ranch between their sons and moved to Wheatfield's where they lived on a ranch eight miles north of Globe on Pinal Creek. Jim farmed 160 acres, known as the" Old Man Hicks Place" until shortly before his death on Aug 5,1904. Harriet survived her husband, living south of the old County Hospital in a little house until her death on Jan 31, 1913 . They are both buried in the Old Globe Cemetery .Jim and Harriet had nine children, five of whom settled and lived in Tonto Basin.
JAMES Brunson-was born in 1819 in Alabama and married Harriet Matilda Greer, born in 1826 in Mississippi . They were married somewhere in the deep south and began raising a family before the Civil War . After the end of the war they joined the western migration that peopled the west with families from the confederacy. Jim and his family moved from Texas into the Arizona Territory in the 1880's , settling in Tonto Basin on a homestead of 160 acres near the mouth of Slate Creek. The homestead, known as the Shadeland Ranch and later as the H4 Ranch, was carved out of the wilderness by Jim and his four sons. Jim and Harriet divided the Shadeland Ranch between their sons and moved to Wheatfield's where they lived on a ranch eight miles north of Globe on Pinal Creek. Jim farmed 160 acres, known as the" Old Man Hicks Place" until shortly before his death on Aug 5,1904. Harriet survived her husband, living south of the old County Hospital in a little house until her death on Jan 31, 1913 . They are both buried in the Old Globe Cemetery .Jim and Harriet had nine children, five of whom settled and lived in Tonto Basin.
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