To request a copy of this photo for your own personal use, please contact our state coordinator. If you are not a family member or the original photographer — please refrain from copying or distributing this photo to other websites.
Thank you for visiting the Arizona Gravestone Photo Project. On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Arizona, we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
Submitted: 6/7/14 • Approved: 6/8/14 • Last Updated: 3/24/18 • R92019-G0-S3
b. June 16, 1931, Clarkdale, Az.
d. Sept. 25, 2011, Flagstaff, Az.
h/o Anne Byrkit
s/o James Ward & Hazel Edna (Meek) Byrkit
Occ: A Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Studies at Northern Arizona University, he taught at NAU (Northern Arizona University) from 1973 to 1996.
Note: Jim researched and wrote extensively about Southwest topics including ancient trails, Spanish and early pioneer explorers, Native American studies, environmental issues in the Verde Valley, and Arizona mining and labor history. He wrote the widely respected "Forging the Copper Collar" in 1982, a comprehensive account of the Bisbee Deportation, and edited "Letters from the Southwest" by Charles Lummis.
US Army - Korea
Enlisted: 1949
Clarkdale's Son
Az. birth certificate /Obituary
Contributed on 6/7/14 by wajthorn
Email This Contributor
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 92019