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Sharlot Hall Museum Photograph Call Number:(CiTn 250pb) An 1870 view of the mining town of Cerbat (Indian for bighorn sheep) which was Mohave County seat from 1871-73. Cerbat was at one time a
mining town within the Cerbat Mountain range that began in the 1860's. When
mining first took place here a camp was built eventually altering into a town
which would have some of the riches veins in all of AZ which supported very deep
shafts. If some of you more daring decide to venture out here be very weary as
shafts here mean deathly falls.
Cerbat was only a small part of the many ghost towns which sit along the Cerbat range with the biggest Chloride Arizona. However nonetheless even though it was a small town it had a post office which was established in 1872 and closed in 1912. The town also held a country seat in 1871 in Mojave County which was eventually lost to another nearby ghost town in 1873 called Mineral Park which we also toured. This may have been due to the fact that Cerbat only boasted around one to two hundred residents which most were miners. The town was very vibrant it had a couple saloons, general store, smelter, mills and even a school. There was three major mines all near one another which two of them I had the opportunity to climb over the shaft to get some photos. This is not something I recommend doing but at least our hard work will allow others to view the dangers rather then experience them. The moneymaker in Cerbat that was the largest of operations was the Golden Gem Mill which the head frame is about all that is left today of Cerbat. The other two mines are Vanderbilt and Esmeralda which debris today is scattered around the entrances. Mine did continue even after the post office closed and townsfolk left the area. We explored a mill below the Golden Gem that had newer machinery in it so it was obvious that some mining had been done during present time. Today not much remains of the town all the cabins and beautiful buildings built here are all gone. I seen a photo a decade ago of one of the miner cabins today it is gone perhaps hauled out of there by vandals. A few large gears and mine machinery scatter the canyon where Cerbat once thrived. There are water tanks around even an old residence and a for sale sign on the property. The word Cerbat is a Native American word meaning bighorn sheep which are very abundant in the area. This leads me to believe the mutilation we found may have been just that. But when you look at all the facts evidence points that something bigger lurks this isolated region. Further below is an article about a Murder which took place in Cerbat its a rather interesting read. What causes others to black out and go crazy? Maybe living in these mountains for to long may have caused episodes of paranoia or small town drama. Rumor has it the town had a cemetery I never found it I do know of one high up in this mountain range maybe it boasted residents of all the ghost towns in the area. In the canyon is an old wagon road which goes to Prescott AZ. I would eventually visit Prescott to tour some surrounding sites. When bigger towns expanded little gems like this eventually faded right off the maps turning towns like these into Ghost Towns! Copyright By Lord Rick aka AngelOfThyNight Founder Talk Show Host, Author & Producer                                Confession of murderer Michael DeHay of Cerbat, AZ, 1876Written by H.C. Hodge as told by Michael DeHay(edited by Parker Anderson) (On January 14, 1876 Michael DeHay was legally hanged for the murder of his wife in Cerbat, Mohave County, Arizona. Shortly before, the Miner newspaper in Prescott sent reporter H.C. Hodge to Cerbat to interview DeHay and extract a statement from him. DeHay's confession was printed in the Miner on January 21, 1876. It is reprinted, in full, here. - ed) "I, Michael DeHay, being fully aware of my approaching fate, and though recognizing the justice of my sentence, feel impelled to give to the world this, my dying statement, hoping that my fate may prove a warning to others similarly situated as I have been, and praying that the circumstances which have hurried me on to a disgraceful end may be avoided by others so situated. "I was born in Mongoup, Sullivan Co., N.Y., April 10, 1830, and am now 45 years of age. At 18 years of age, I went to Greenwood, McHenry Co., Ill., where my father and family had previously settled. In 1850 I went to California - crossing the plains. For three years I was mining and prospecting in different places there, and then returned to Illinois; afterwards going to Minnesota and thence to Wisconsin, where in 1856 I became acquainted with and married Esther Hemstock, near La Crosse." "In 1857 I returned to California with my family, where I remained for four years, working at mining and at my trade as a carpenter. These dates may not be correct, as I have only my memory to rely on, but they are as near as I can now remember. "In 1861 I removed to Nevada with my family; lived at Aurora in Esmerelda County, about seven years or until 1868, and then removed to White Pine, and the next Spring to Pioche, and thence to Parabnega Valley in Lincoln County, where my family resided, until in August 1875, at which time I was at work in Groom District (60 miles distant from my family), as there was no work nearer my home where I had a ranch. "I was working to get money ahead with which to remove my family to some place where I could educate my children, whom I deeply love. I was one of a Committee to get a school started, and had hired a teacher and made arrangements to remove my family to Hiko (NV). At this time, when I was filled with bright hopes for the future for my children, I was almost crazed to learn that my wife had left my home, taking with her my children, team and wagon and most of my household goods, and had started towards Arizona with a Mr. Suttonfield, an entire stranger to me, and who I learned had camped for a few weeks on my ranch. The man who gave me this information was a Constable, who at the same time served a summons on me in favor of Mr. Wilson, a store keeper, for $51, most of which my wife had obtained in supplies just before leaving for Arizona. "I immediately returned to my desolate home, and the next day started in pursuit. My first and great object in following was to get possession of my dear children. I passed them at Chloride, six miles from Mineral Park, where they had camped. Had I then followed the dictates of my almost crazed brain, I should have then and there stopped and shot both the man and woman who had, as I felt, brought ruin on both myself and children, but my better judgment prevailed and I went on to Mineral Park and laid my case before Mr. Davis, to whom I had been recommended to go for advice. Under his advice, I got out a process and had them brought into Mineral Park, but nothing came of it. "I then got a house for my family to live in, and went to work and got provisions for us to live on. I did all I could to make them comfortable, and tried by every means to induce my wife to live with me as before and was willing to forgive the past. To all my appeals she turned a deaf ear, continually declaring that she never would resume her marital relations with me. "During this time I was informed that she, from time to time, met Suttonfield at his house. This continued pressure upon my mind affected me both by day and night. I was troubled with horrid dreams, and at times was nearly crazed. The night the act was committed, I was completely weighed down with trouble and sorrow, and being suddenly awaked from my troubled sleep saw, or thought I saw, my wife standing over me with a butcher-knife in her hand. She had been sleeping in one room in our only bed with some of the children, and I in an adjoining room on the floor. "When I was thus suddenly awakened, I jumped up, clutching my revolver which was under my head and rushed after her into her room. She jumped into the bed and curled down, and I, in my frenzy, fired at her and drew her out on to the floor. When I saw the blood, and saw what I had done, I was horror-struck and rushed out of the house, determined to take my own life, and with this intent, placed my pistol to my breast and fired twice. I then ran down town and for hours have but a faint recollection of what occurred, except that I went up and down a ladder into a hay-loft. At the time I committed the deed, my brain seemed to be on fire and that my head was the center of fire and maddened frenzy. "During all the time after my arrival at Mineral Park, I had never thought or meditated on the murder of my wife, or to revenge myself on her for her act of desertion, but I had at times meditated on revenge upon Suttonfield, as I felt that he was the cause of all my misery. I had never had any serious difficulty with my wife more than a few hasty words such as are likely to occur between other husbands and wives. "I make this statement with a full knowledge that my end is drawing nigh, and that another day will launch me into eternity, where I shall meet my Maker face to face. I forgive all who have wronged me, as I hope myself to be forgiven by a kind and merciful God."
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