A commenter at the meeting described Pioneer and Military Memorial Park, known as Pioneer Cemetery, at 13th Avenue and Jefferson in Phoenix as the resting place of many early settlers, including Darrell Duppa and Jacob Waltz, and said the Pioneer Cemetery Association is responsible for preserving the site.

The commenter said the cemeteries are on a prehistoric Hohokam site known as La Via, were established in 1884, and were closed to new burials in 1914. The commenter said Pioneer and Military Memorial Park contains the city
rea's oldest existing seven cemeteries and includes the Victorian Smurthwaite House, which was moved and restored in 1994 and now serves as the Pioneer Cemetery Association
dministrative office.

According to the commenter, the park includes the graves of roughly 3,700 people representing many early Phoenix residents and named several individuals tied to the city's early history: Darrell Duppa, credited with giving Phoenix its name; Jacob Waltz, known as the Lost Dutchman; Mary Fry and two men identified as her ex-husbands, King Woolsey and Frank Fry. The commenter also noted that "several ladies of the evening" have been identified among the burials.

The meeting remarks presented these details as historical description and stewardship information; no formal action, vote or staff directive on the cemetery was recorded in the transcript provided. The account in the meeting attributed responsibility for preservation and restoration of the park to the Pioneer Cemetery Association and described the Smurthwaite House relocation in 1994 from 602 North Seventh Street to its current site and its subsequent restoration.

The remarks were presented during the meeting as background about the site rather than as a proposal or request for immediate agency action.