It’s Back! The annual acknowledgement of those interred in the local Corona cemetery is returning Sunday, 29 October 2023, 2:00-4:30pm. (Wear comfortable shoes.)
You are welcome to print out this flyer to share with others or copy it to your computer to send digitally (put your cursor on the flyer, right click, then click “copy image,” and “paste” into your computer to share)
This year the Stroll is sponsored by the Butterfield Trail Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
The exciting theme will feature pioneers who lived in the settlement of Temescal; a Butterfield stage stop from 1858-1861.
This lush, beautiful valley with abundant water, hot springs and tin mines was home to Civil War veterans, miners, farmers, ranchers, homesteaders, and apiarists long before South Riverside (Corona) was founded.
Surprisingly, some of these early pioneers and/or their descendants were laid to rest in Sunnyslope starting in 1892.
For information and possibly to participate: Contact Kathleen Dever (cemstroll[at]aol.com) – see the different possibilities below.
HELP WILL BE NEEDED AS FOLLOWS:
PERFORMERS
TOUR GUIDES
TICKET-TAKERS
GREETERS
REFRESHMENT-HANDLERS
AND MORE!
Scripts from earlier strolls are listed below (alphabetically by deceased person/people surnames)
The Sunnyslope Cemetery Project
The society has succeeded in properly and completely documenting the graves of Sunnyslope Cemetery in Corona. The beautifully bound book was displayed at Corona Family History Seminar on 6 October 2007. A copy is available for reference in the Corona Public Library in the Heritage Room (upstairs).
Questions about this project can be directed to
Len Enlow via email
Requests for information that is in the book should be directed to
The Corona Public Library
On 10 October 2007, Len Enlow presented a copy of the book to the Corona Public Library;
On 19 October 2007, a copy of the finished product was presented to Sunnyslope Cemetery.
Cemetery Strolls
have been conducted at Sunnyslope for a number of years. Presenters have told the stories of those at rest in the cemetery in a first-person format. These have been presented by the Friends of Sunnyslope, which has sponsored the Cemetery Stroll since 2008 (the Corona Historic Preservation Society sponsored the Cemetery Walk in prior years). All stories have been researched by local historians and written in a narrative format for performance. If you have additional information on these Corona residents, please contact Jean Hibben via email, who will forward the correction or addition to the appropriate historian for further communication and/or adjustment. If you have personal information of someone interred in Sunnyslope that you would like to see featured in a future stroll, contact us and we will follow up accordingly. Primary mover and shaker of the stroll: Kathleen Dever; please direct questions to her via email.
To read the information on residents discussed in past Strolls, the following people/topics have scripts.
Jewel Allensworth -2015 script
Dr R D Barber, narrator (2012)
Arthur Cane (abridged for Leona Fink)
Christina Fear (script to be added at later date)
Ida Belle Humble Bainbridge Fraiser
George R. and Mabel A. Freeman, revised
William Lee Peeler and Lizzie Peeler Lloyd
Marcella Francisco Speer Thompson (2008)